David B. Nash, MD, MBA is the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health where he is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. He is a board certified internist and is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care. He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals, edited 22 books, and is editor-in-chief of four major national journals.

Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings and founder of HICCup.co, for Health Initiative Coordinating Council. HICCup has just launched The Way to Wellville (@WaytoWellville), an open-source, evidence-generating project devoted to defining and testing models for producing community health (not health care) that will return profits to investors and health to the participants. Its motto is "Don't rent your health. Invest in it!"

Aside from that, Dyson spends her time investing in and nurturing start-ups, with a recent focus on health care and aerospace. On the health side, she is an investor in 23andMe (also a director), Applied Proteomics, Crohnology, Eligible API, Genomera, GeriJoy, Health Loop, HealthTap, i2Dx, Keas (also an advisor), Medivo, mEquilibrium, Omada Health, Organized Wisdom, PatientsLikeMe, PatientsKnowBest (UK), Resilient, Sleepio (UK), StartupHealth, Tocagen, Valkee (Finland), VitaPortal (Russia, also an advisor) and Voxiva (also a director).

Don McDaniel is President and CEO of Sage Growth Partners (SGP), a leading health care strategy, technology and go-to-market firm serving the health services, payer, health information technology, medical technology and diagnostic industries. He is a highly-respected strategist, catalyst and health economist, and sought-after speaker, writer, and facilitator. Mr. McDaniel's expertise lies in the areas of strategy, innovation, applied economics, growth and the strategic deployment of information technology.

Prior to his role at SGP, Mr. McDaniel has held executive positions in a number of provider, insurance, BPO and venture organizations, and is also a serial entrepreneur, having driven several start-ups. He's been a member of the professional faculty in health economics and strategy in The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School for the past 17 years.

Rachel leads consumer insight studies on organizational issues and challenges and opportunities facing our clients. Prior to her current role with Sodexo, Dr. Permuth supported the development of programs and solutions for Fortune 500™ companies, leading U.S. Hospitals and higher education institutions. She also served as the Director of the Center of Employee Health and Well-being at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was also Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic and Innovative Programs at NIH. Her PhD is in Public and Community Health from the University of Maryland. She also has a background in mathematics and psychology.

Mark L. Wagar, is President of Heritage Medical Systems, an affiliate of Heritage Provider Network in California, New York, and Arizona whose physicians and staff provide integrated value based care to over 1 million patients. He is an Operating Partner with Enhanced Equity Funds.

Previously he served as the President and CEO of Empire BlueCross BlueShield, New York’s largest health insurer covering nearly 6 million people, and was a Senior Vice President in WellPoint, Inc.

An experienced officer and director in public and private corporations, Mr. Wagar currently serves on the Boards of The New York Academy of Medicine, Trinity Health Partners, WhiteGlove Inc, and TurningPoint, Inc. In 1971 he was a member of the Big Ten Champion basketball team of The Ohio State University.

Christopher T. Olivia, MD leads Continuum Health Alliance, an ambulatory care services company that transforms medical practice to help providers achieve the triple aim: improve patient care, enhance patient access and experience and lower the overall cost of care.

An experienced physician and executive, Dr. Olivia has started and managed health insurance companies, hospitals, healthcare facilities, physician practices, and health information technology companies in both academic and community environments.

Prior to his present position at Continuum, Dr. Olivia was Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and New Venture Development at Highmark/West Penn Allegheny in Pittsburgh where he helped complete the West Penn Allegheny Health System merger with Highmark. Prior to WPAHS, he led the turnaround and growth of the Cooper Health System in Camden, New Jersey as President and CEO. In addition, Dr. Olivia helped conceive and plan its medical school, The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Dr. Olivia earned his M.D. at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia, completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York, and earned his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Olivia was recognized as one of the nation's 50 most powerful physician executives by Modern Healthcare and Modern Physicians magazines.

As Chief Medical Officer for Continuum, Dr. Renzi constructs, implements, and oversees the company's Population Health Management Service, including programs involving patient-centered medical care, information technology and shared savings reimbursement models.

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Renzi is an assistant professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).

He received his bachelor's degree at Lafayette College and earned his doctor of medicine degree at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. After completing his residency in internal medicine at Cooper University Hospital, Dr. Renzi joined Advocare Heights Primary Care, where he now serves as vice president. His clinical interests include adolescent medicine, psychiatry, asthma, and dermatologic procedures. At Advocare Heights Primary Care, Dr. Renzi conducts clinical trials on diabetes, lipid disorders, atrial fibrillation, osteoarthritis, and community-acquired infections.

Stephen Kahane, M.D. has served as President of Enterprise Solutions at athenahealth, Inc. since February 2011. Dr. Kahane's career spans more than 25 years across companies that have delivered health care IT and automation solutions for physician practices, hospitals and integrated delivery networks. Prior to joining athenahealth, Dr. Kahane was Chairman and CEO of publicly-traded AMICAS,an image and information management solutions company. Dr. Kahane's experience also includes roles as CEO of VitalWorks, CEO of Datamedic, and Medical Director and System Development Director of IT at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.

Dr. Kahane holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and an M.D. from Emory University. Dr. Kahane also served as an operating partner at both SV Life Sciences and Bessemer Venture Partners, venture and private equity firms focused on healthcare and technology.

Dr. Bill Winkenwerder is Chairman and CEO of Winkenwerder Strategies, a healthcare advisory and investment firm. Winkenwerder is one of the most influential and recognized leaders in American health care, with experience in medical care, healthcare finance, and health insurance operations. Dr. Winkenwerder is also an expert on federal health policy and programs, and new technologies such as electronic health records.

Most recently Dr. Winkenwerder served as Chief Executive Officer of Highmark Health, a Pennsylvania based diversified insurance and health care enterprise. There he led a transformation to create the third largest integrated health care delivery and financing network in the nation.

From 2001 to 2007, Dr. Winkenwerder served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

Bill Winkenwerder is unique national health care leader, an experienced executive and financial strategist, who deeply understands both the private and public health sectors, and the power of new innovative technologies to transform the industry.

Robert L. Choi is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Collain Healthcare, an LG CNS Company, the exclusive commercialization and innovation partner of LG CNS Healthcare Solutions. His focus includes development and commercialization of next-generation health information technologies and connectivity solutions that address the needs of high-risk, high-cost and high-complexity populations. He also has extensive experience in healthcare provider operations across the continuum of care. He is an active team member of several provider organizations, technology startups and investment groups involved in population health, long term and post acute care and transformative care delivery.

David Levin, MD is a co-founder and partner at Amati Health. He has over 25 years of experience in areas including information systems, clinical operations and enterprise strategic planning for healthcare transformation. From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Levin served as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for the Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS), where he led the Clinical Systems Office. Dr. Levin was previously the founder and CEO of Tres Rios Group, LLC. He continues to focus on the implementation and optimization of clinical information systems for health care providers and emerging trends in healthcare. Dr. Levin is a nationally recognized speaker and has appeared in academic, industry and consumer media. He serves on multiple industry and venture capital advisory boards and non-profit governance boards. Dr. Levin received his MD and his BA from Brown University.

William F. Streck, M.D., serves as the Chief Medical and Health Systems Innovation Officer of the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS). In this role, Dr. Streck's activities focus on emerging models of care, population health management, insurance and risk arrangements, governmental initiatives, clinical integration, and physician relationships. Dr. Streck brings over 30 years of experience as a leader of the Bassett Healthcare Network, academic health center and Columbia University affiliate based in Cooperstown, NY. His career has been characterized by the development of a multi-institutional, geographically dispersed integrated delivery system, physician leadership of a 400 member multi-specialty group, hospital operation, health system design and innovation, insurance partnerships and active roles in governmental health policy.

Stephanie Kovalick, a Senior Vice President and practice leader, value-based care at Sage Growth Partners (SGP), is a leading healthcare authority with extensive workflow, product management and marketing know-how focused on the healthcare payer, provider and health information technology sectors.

Kovalick is a recognized expert and thought leader in the emerging “value-based care” space and has core background and experience in both health plan and provider businesses and workflows. She has deep expertise in the healthcare reimbursement models and revenue cycle, extending into the clinical workflows necessary to maximize efficiencies in a changing healthcare eco system.

Lesli is the Director of Clinical Informatics for Healthcare Strategy & Innovation. She is a clinical measurement advocate with over 18 years of healthcare analytics and business intelligence experience covering for-profit, state, academic and federal healthcare including ambulatory clinic management, comparative effectiveness evaluation, evidence-based medicine, population health and clinical data warehousing. Prior to joining Perficient, Lesli championed activities with Tenet, MD Anderson, The University of Virginia Medical Center, and the US Navy and was the Practice Director for Oracle Healthcare Analytics at Perficient.

Terie is the Oracle healthcare channel development executive at Perficient, where she is responsible for providing healthcare subject matter expertise to the Perficient healthcare and Perficient Oracle national teams while also cultivating and managing the Oracle partner ecosystem. Terie has more than 25 years of IT experience. Prior to joining Perficient, she worked for MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM.

Dr. Udoshi is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Oracle's Health Science Global Business Unit where he leads clinical innovation around enterprise analytics, Advanced Data Visualization, and Clinical Decision Intelligence. Prior to joining Oracle, Dr. Udoshi was the Director of Biomedical Information Sciences at Geisinger Health and was the physician lead for clinical analytics and clinical decision support.

Christobel Selecky is an innovative and accomplished chief executive, entrepreneur, and board member with more than 30 years experience in the health care industry including co-founding and growing a venture backed, market leading population health management company from start-up to $130 million in revenues and leading a $2 billion business unit of a publicly traded managed care organization.

She currently serves on the boards of directors of Teleperformance, a publicly held international business processing outsourcing company, American Specialty Health; and the Memorial Care Innovation Fund, the venture capital arm of Memorial Healthcare Services.

Selecky is a frequent speaker on the topics of population health improvement and disease management, the future of managed health care, privacy issues, and health care technology, and has been invited to testify before Congress on several occasions regarding care coordination for Medicare and Medicaid populations.

Jason Burke is Senior Advisor for Innovation and Advanced Analytics at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health Care System's Center for Innovation, and is a principal at Burke Advisory Group. With a career spanning clinical research, organizational development, and enterprise information technology, Burke's current work focuses on health industry transformation through population health strategies, data sciences, emerging technologies and advanced analytics. His most recent book is Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care (Wiley, 2013). Previously, Burke held strategy and management roles in organizations such as SAS, Microsoft, Quintiles Transnational, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Richard Hodach, MD is the author of Provider-Led Population Health Management. Dr. Hodach, Phytel's Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Clinical Product Strategy, has long been recognized as a leader of population health management strategies. He is responsible for providing strategic direction and clinical expertise for the development of Phytel's solutions. Dr. Hodach is a regular contributor to prestigious peer-review journals such as AJMC, Journal of Population Health Management, hfm, published by the Healthcare Financial Management Association, Group Practice Journal and more. He was instrumental in the CMS Innovation Award of a $20.75 million grant which Phytel, VHA Inc. and TransforMED received from The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). In addition to his leadership position at Phytel, Dr. Hodach also serves on the board of directors of the American College of Medical Quality. Before joining Phytel, he held senior leadership positions at Matria Healthcare and Accordant, and co-founded MED.I.A. Dr. Hodach has a PhD in Pathology and an MD with Board Certification in Neurology and Electrodiagnosis, as well as a Master's Degree in Public Health.

Karen has deep population health expertise gained through a unique combination of private and public sector provider, employer and payer market clients over the past 15 years. In senior roles at leading national care management vendors and benefits firms, Karen developed and implemented total population health management programs for Fortune 500™ employers. Prior to this, Karen did strategic consulting for provider systems and health plans in the US and in Asia for 12 years.

At Phytel since 2010, Karen assists provider and health system clients achieve their strategic and quality objectives with Phytel's population health suite of products and services, particularly related to the patient-centered medical home model and value-based contracts. Karen is also a frequent writer, speaker and trainer on issues related to population health and practice transformation in healthcare.

Chris Coloian is an executive with more than twenty years of healthcare experience. He has led the growth and development of new businesses, leveraging his expertise in strategy, executive management, operations, and product development. Prior to launching Predilytics, he served in executive roles at insurers, providers, and health services companies, including Health Dialog, Cigna Healthcare, and Matria Healthcare (now Alere Health). He graduated from Ohio State University in 1990 with a Master's in Health Administration, and received his Bachelor's degree in Zoology from Miami University in 1988. Mr. Coloian currently serves on the advisory board of the Jefferson University Public Health Program. He is an editor for the Population Health Management Journal.

Charles McDonough is the Director of Operations & Development at Wellspan VNA Home Care, a leader in health system integration and Population Health Management strategy in South-Central Pennsylvania. Charles holds a B.A. in Business Management from Lynchburg College where he played NCAA basketball. He earned his Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration in 2011 from Pennsylvania State University. Charles began his career with a focus in IT, and he has successfully transitioned to an organizational leader with a tenacious and focused approach to operations and growth in the ever-evolving world of healthcare.

In 2011, Charles was published in Health Care IT News regarding maximizing IT resources for rapidly changing business needs. He has also been a regional and national presenter for Cerner, PHA (Pennsylvania Home Care Association), & the National Association for Home Care over the past several years, lending his expertise and innovative methodologies in patient care delivery and revenue cycle management to home care facilities nationwide.

Jason is a Principal in Deloitte Consulting's Healthcare practice, serves as the national leader for Deloitte's Health Plan Technology Strategy and Consumer Transformation practices, and serves as Deloitte's lead technology partner for selected highly innovative national healthcare organizations. Jason also serves on the Editorial Board of Population Health Management journal and the Advisory Board for the newly formed Care Innovations Validation Institute.

Over the last 18 years with the firm, Jason has led numerous efforts for progressive health plans and PBMs on strategy through execution of advanced retail and consumer capabilities, analytics, platform modernizations, M&A post-merger integration, new business ventures, innovation, and IT performance improvement (the business of IT).

He is an alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his BS in Computer Science with honors. Jason resides in West Chester, PA and is the proud and tired father of two boys and two girls.

Melanie Sponholz, MSPT, CCEP, CHC, CHPC, is the Chief Compliance Officer for Home Solutions, one of the largest independent home infusion providers in the country. In her role at Home Solutions, Ms. Sponholz is responsible for the compliance and auditing oversight of the company's specialty pharmacies located throughout the east coast, from Massachusetts to Georgia. Prior to coming to Home Solutions, she served as the Compliance Officer and Director of Professional Development for Fox Rehabilitation, a multi-state provider of home physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Ms. Sponholz enjoys the educational aspect of developing a culture of compliance, and has presented at the National Home Infusion Association 2014 National Conference, as well as the annual education session of the New Jersey Health Care Finance Management Association's Compliance and Ethics Forum. Ms. Sponholz holds a Master of Science in Physical Therapy from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as numerous credentials from the Compliance Certification Board.

Geri Lynn Baumblatt is the Executive Director of Patient Engagement at Emmi Solutions. She regularly speaks at health literacy, shared decision making, and patient experience conferences and panels for organizations like AHRQ, The Institute for Healthcare Advancement, Stanford Medicine X, the Society for Medical Decision Making, the Cleveland Clinic, the Beryl Institute, the Health Sector Advisory Council at Duke, and the Center for Plain Language. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Patient Experience, is a regular contributor to the Association for Patient Experience, and hosts an annual Health Literacy series on Engaging the Patient.

Meenakshi Bewtra, MD, MPH, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Bewtra has also been conducting clinical research for more than 5 years with a focus on IBD, medication safety, patient preferences for risks of therapies in inflammatory bowel disease, and translational research in the mechanism of inflammatory bowel disease and response to therapies. Dr. Bewtra's work has been funded by the NIH, PCORI, private foundations and corporate sponsors. She is currently a member of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America, the American Gastroenterology Association and the American College of Gastroenterology.

Randi Redmond Oster is the award winning author of Questioning Protocol, which helps patients navigate the healthcare system and medical professionals understand the patient perspective. Randi spent the first 18 years of her career in GE working on complex aerospace systems and building profitable financial services businesses. The skills gained in GE empowered her to effectively navigate the healthcare system and find opportunities for process improvements, as she advocated for her chronically ill son in the hospital. Today, she is a Malcolm Baldrige Examiner focusing on healthcare and a leading speaker on healthcare reform, shared decision making and patient engagement.

Lisa is the Advisory Board's chief medical officer and leading expert on physician strategy, serving as a strategic adviser to executives from the nation's largest health systems and medical groups. An author of more than 20 publications, Lisa is also a nationally recognized speaker and industry expert. Her expertise covers a range of topics, including hospital-physician alignment, physician employment strategy, care transformation, clinical integration, enterprise growth strategy, and primary care strategy.

Before joining the Advisory Board, Lisa trained in diagnostic radiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Rice University and received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine with highest honors, graduating first in her class.

David Betts is a Principal in the Strategy & Operations practice of Deloitte Consulting in the Life Sciences & Health Care industry. David focuses on helping our healthcare provider clients attain a competitive advantage through Sustainable Margin improvement with a focus on enhancing the Patient Experience. He leads Deloitte Consulting's Customer Transformation initiatives for the healthcare provider sector, and his work has focused on enhancing core operations in the revenue cycle, driving performance improvement through operating model transformation and growing the business through mergers & acquisitions.

David is the co-author of The Patient Experience: Strategies & Approaches for Providers to Achieve and Maintain a Competitive Advantage and Are You Ready to Be Ready (for Reform)?. He has also been published on the Center for Health Solutions Blog on the topic of Patient Experience improvement.

In addition to providing consulting services to large integrated healthcare delivery systems, academic medical centers, community and surgical hospitals, David leads Deloitte Consulting's thought leadership and eminence development initiatives for the health care provider sector and is a noted speaker having presented at Healthcare Financial Management Association's (HFMA) Annual National Institute, HIMSS2010 (on Patient Experience), Premier, Inc.'s Supply Chain Collaborative Breakthrough Series and numerous regional HFMA Conferences across the country.

Jason is a Principal in Deloitte Consulting's Healthcare practice, serves as the national leader for Deloitte's Health Plan Technology Strategy and Consumer Transformation practices, and serves as Deloitte's lead technology partner for selected highly innovative national healthcare organizations. Jason also serves on the Editorial Board of Population Health Management journal and the Advisory Board for the newly formed Care Innovations Validation Institute.

Over the last 18 years with the firm, Jason has led numerous efforts for progressive health plans and PBMs on strategy through execution of advanced retail and consumer capabilities, analytics, platform modernizations, M&A post-merger integration, new business ventures, innovation, and IT performance improvement (the business of IT).

He is an alumnus of the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his BS in Computer Science with honors. Jason resides in West Chester, PA and is the proud and tired father of two boys and two girls.

David B. Nash, MD, MBA is the Founding Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health where he is the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. He is a board certified internist and is internationally recognized for his work in outcomes management, medical staff development and quality-of-care. He has authored more than 100 articles in major journals, edited 22 books, and is editor-in-chief of four major national journals.

My academic and professional activities are in networks for health as they apply to individuals, organizations, and networks themselves. I have been at the informatics crossroads of individual health, health care, and population health for more than 35 years in my education, work experience, and academic settings. I am an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences in the School of Public Health and Information Sciences at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky. I am now providing strategic leadership for population health informatics for our new Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky for health policy and analytics.

Dr. Steven Spencer received his Bachelors of Art in biology from Brown University in 1998. He then obtained his Doctorate of Medicine from Brown Medical School in 2003. During his time at Brown Medical School, he took some time off to attend Harvard School of Public Health where he obtained his Masters in Public Health. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Temple University Hospital. In 2006, Dr. Spencer joined Internal Medicine Associates of Abington in a role as a board certified primary care physician and hospitalist. In 2010, he assumed the role of the Director of Population Management for Abington Health, which involves helping to coordinate many of the health system's quality improvement programs including the patient centered medical home.

Niñon Lewis, MS, Executive Director, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Ms. Lewis currently leads IHI's Triple Aim for Populations Focus Area, which encompasses innovation, content, and programming in the areas of the Triple Aim, population health, population management, primary care, and community-wide improvement efforts. Over her time at IHI, her work has focused on leading large-scale initiatives on population health and the Triple Aim, including the IHI Triple Aim Improvement Community and the Scotland Early Years Collaborative. In addition, she has lead IHI's New Business Development team, developing large-scale programs and initiatives for the organization. Prior to joining IHI in 2008, Ms. Lewis developed and implemented national direct-to-patient education programs for the health care and food industries, and was the Program Manager of a national initiative launched by the Office of the US Surgeon General in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics to identify community-driven solutions to the nation's childhood obesity crisis. She has a background in program design and development, coalition building, community health and development, and health communication. She is a member of the American Public Health Association and the National Communication Association.

Soma Stout, MD, MS, is Executive Lead for 100 Million Healthier Lives at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which brings together an unprecedented collaboration of change agents to improve population health at scale. She directs the Innovation Fellows Program at Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and is Lead Transformation Adviser at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). Previously, she served as VP for PCMH at CHA, where she led a transformation that achieved breakthrough results in the Triple Aim. In 2012, she was awarded one of ten RWJF Young Leader Awards for her contributions to the health of the nation.

Scott W. Dahl is Director, Business Development for Healthy Communities Institute (HCI) and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to HCI, Scott served as the Vice President for CRM Healthcare leading continuing medical education development; the Director, Clinical Improvement for VHA Inc.; and as Manager, Market Development for Kimberly-Clark Healthcare overseeing international expansion and new product development. Scott earned his Master's degree in Business from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Bill Barberg is the President and founder of Insightformation, Inc., a management consulting and technology company based in Minneapolis, MN. He is a globally-recognized expert in the Collective Impact, the Balanced Scorecard methodology, collaborative strategy implementation, and community health innovation. Bill has consulted with dozens of communities and organizations and has presented many conference keynotes, workshops and Web-conferences on Collective Impact and strategy management, often co-presenting with clients. Several of the world's leading experts have publicly recognized the depth and expertise the he brings to the topics of alignment, measurement and strategy implementation.

Dr. Lipman is the Chief Science and Practice Officer of the American Association of Diabetes Education where she oversees AADE's research efforts, reviews the evidence for and insures currency of their practice documents, and works to increase opportunities for diabetes educator in the ever-evolving world of health care.

She is the Principal Investigator on awards to AADE from AHRQ, the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Foundation Together on Diabetes Program, the Aetna Foundation, and on a cooperative agreement from CDC to work with them on increasing access to, participation in, and sustainability of the National Diabetes Prevention Program.

Steve Savas is a Managing Director and leads Accenture's Clinical and Health Management Services business in North America. The group provides management consulting, analytics, information technology, and business operations services to payers and providers in order to improve health quality and cost-effectiveness. Steve has more than 20 years of related healthcare experience. Prior to Accenture, Steve was a Partner with McKinsey & Company where he led the health analytics practice and was a leader in the broad healthcare IT practice, serving payers, PBMs, providers, life sciences, government, and tech/media vendors. Steve was also the lead industry analyst at Goldman Sachs covering healthcare IT and other health services companies. Previously he co-founded a clinical software company with solutions currently in more than 1,000 U.S. hospitals. Steve has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Columbia University.

Rick Stewart is a Managing Director and leads Accenture's Health Management practice in North America. Rick oversees Accenture's end-to-end portfolio of strategy, management consulting, information technology, digital and business operations services that Accenture provides to its clients in support of improving their clinical outcomes, and reducing wasted medical spend that comes from overuse, misuse and underuse of the medical delivery system. Rick has architected many of Accenture's Health Management methods and points of view, has published multiple white papers, and co-holds a US Patent for a Payer High Performance Capability Assessment. Rick has over 20 years of health care experience, spanning health plan operations and provider care delivery; with emphasis on patient health management. Rick holds a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University.