Virtual National Health Equity Summit Features the Role of Health Care Technology in Advancing Health Equity
  • REGISTRATION FREE
  • Virtual Online Video Event Live and Archived
  • The Leading National Forum on Practical Case Studies and Solutions for Advancing Health Equity
  • Supported by The Commonwealth Fund, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, California Health Care Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and The SCAN Foundation
  • Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Affairs and Inside Health Policy
  • June 7 -10, 2021
  • www.HealthEquitySummit.com
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NEWLY CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
Senior Fellow, Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine; Former President, American Public Health Association, Atlanta, GA

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AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE
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ATTENDEE UPDATE
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FEATURING THE ROLE OF HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY IN ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY BY

Esther Dyson
Investor, Journalist, Author and Philanthropist; Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Author, Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, New York, NY

Marvin O'Quinn, MHA
President and Chief Operating Officer, CommonSpirit Health, Former President, Jackson Health System, San Francisco, CA

Lauren R. Powell, MPA, PhD
Vice President, US Health Equity & Community Wellness, Takeda; President and Chief Executive Officer, The Equitist; Vice President, Head of Health Care Industry, TIME'S UP, Richmond, VA

Ivor Horn, MD, MPH
Director, Health Equity & Product Inclusion, Google; Investing Member, Rising America Fund, Portfolia; Board, Care Academy; Advisory Board, Way to Wellville, Change Healthcare and Onboard Health, San Francisco, CA (Moderator)

WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- MAY 20, 2021: The Virtual National Health Equity Summit, www.HealthEquitySummit.com, will be broadcast on June 7-10, 2021, and archived for 6 months following the live broadcast. There is no cost to attend the summit.

IMPLEMENTING SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS TO ADDRESS HEALTH EQUITIES AND DISPARITIES

Motz Feinberg, MBA
Vice President Supply Chain, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, CA

Dameka Miller, MPA
Vice president, Strategic Sourcing and Value Analysis, Trinity Health; Former Region Director, Premier Inc., Detroit, MI

Shaleta Dunn Vick
SENIOR Director Strategic Programs, Supplier Diversity, Vizient; Former Director, Supplier Diversity & Diverse Talent, ManpowerGroup, Dallas, TX

Régine Honoré Villain, MPH
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Network & Chief Supply Chain Officer, Ochsner Health System; Vice President, Supply Chain Operations, NYU Langone Health, New Orleans, LA

Karen Conway, MSHCD, CMRP
Vice President, Healthcare Value, GHX; Past Chair, Association for Health Care, Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), Colorado Springs, CO (Moderator)

FEATURING BUILDING MEASURABLE FUNDING FOR HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVES INTO HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONAL BUDGETS

Cindy Clemence, CPA, FHFMA
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Trinity Health, Livonia, MI

Melinda S. Hancock, CPA, FHFMA
Chief Administrative & Financial Officer, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA

Scott Hawig, CPA, CMA, MBA
Executive Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer and Treasurer, Froedtert Heath, Milwaukee WI

James G. Lee, FHFMA
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Adventist HealthCare, Gaithersburg, MD

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Financial Management Association (HFMA); Former Vice President, Hospital Finance, Spectrum Health, Chicago, IL (Moderator)

APPLYING AN INSTITUTION'S COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT (CHNA) TO STRENGTHEN HEALTH EQUITY IN THE COMMUNITY

Michael Bilton, MPP
System Director, Community Health/Community Benefit, CommonSpirit Health; Former Executive Director, Association for Community Health Improvement, San Francisco, CA

Jaime Dircksen, MA
Vice President, Community Health and Well-Being, Trinity Health, Former Managing Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health, Detroit, MI

Danielle Price
Director, Community Health Engagement, University Hospitals; Former Program Coordinator, Neighborhood Connections, Cleveland, OH

Marcos Pesquera, MPH
System Vice President, Community Benefit, Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, CHRISTUS Health; Former Executive Director, Center for Health, Equity and Wellness; Senior Director Diversity Programs, Adventist HealthCare, Irving, TX (Moderator)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Raed Al Naser, MD
Critical Care Physician, Sharp Grossmont Hospital; President, San Diego Chapter, National Arab American Medical Association, San Diego, CA

Rich Besser, MD
President Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Chief Health and Medical Editor, ABC News; Former Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York, NY

Juliet K. Choi, JD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum; Former Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Washington, DC

Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare and James F. Fries Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Baltimore, MD

Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI); Former Senior Scientific Officer and Chief of Staff, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Washington, DC

Alphonso B. David, JD
President, Human Rights Campaign; Former Deputy Secretary and Counsel for Civil Rights, New York: Former Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights, New York State Attorney General; Former Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal Defense and Educational Fund, New York, NY

Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Former Editor in Chief, Health Affairs; Former Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour; Washington, DC

Ivor Horn, MD, MPH
Director, Health Equity & Product Inclusion, Google; Investing Member, Rising America Fund, Portfolia; Board, Care Academy; Advisory Board, Way to Wellville, Change Healthcare and Onboard Health, San Francisco, CA

Ashish Jha, MD, MPH
Dean School of Public Health, Brown University; Former KT Li Professor of Global Health, Director, Harvard Global Health Institute, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Providence, RI

Ibram X. Kendi, PhD
National Book Award Winner; Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Founding Director, Center for Antiracist Research, Boston University; Author, How to be an Antiracist and Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Boston, MA

Erica Lee, PhD
Regents Professor, Chair in Immigration History, Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; Author, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, Minneapolis, MN

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Chair, U.S. COVID-19 Equity Task Force; Senior Advisor, White House COVID-19 Response Team; Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and Associate Professor of Medicine, Public Health and Management Yale University, New Haven, CT

Elena V. Rios, MD, MSPH, FACP
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Hispanic Medical Association; President, National Hispanic Health Foundation, Washington, DC

Mark Smith, MD, MBA
Founding President and Former CEO, California Health Care Foundation; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Attending Physician, Positive Health Program for AIDS Care, San Francisco General Hospital, Oakland, CA

Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP
Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections, LLC; Former EVP & Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group; Former SVP, AMA; Former President, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science; Former DC Commissioner of Public Health, Atlanta, GA

Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Former Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Former Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Atlanta, GA


AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE
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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS & CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
By attending the Virtual Health Equity Summit offered by GHC, LLC participants may earn ACHE Qualified Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. Hours pending calculation.

The Summit is pending approval to offer MA PRA Category 1 Credits™

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FEATURED VIDEO
Health Equity: How Can You Help? Mark Smith
Mark Smith, MD, MBA
Founding President & Former CEO, California Health Care Foundation, Former Co-chair, Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN), Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Attending Physician, Positive Health Program for AIDS Care, San Francisco General Hospital, Oakland, CA
(Made on June 23, 2020)

PLANNING COMMITTEE
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare and James F. Fries Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Baltimore, MD

Susan Dentzer
Senior Policy Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Former Editor in Chief, Health Affairs; Former Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour; Washington, DC

Sandra R. Hernández, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, California Health Care Foundation; Former CEO, The San Francisco Foundation, Oakland, CA

Ivor Horn, MD, MPH
Director, Health Equity & Product Inclusion, Google; Investing Member, Rising America Fund, Portfolia; Board, Care Academy; Advisory Board, Way to Wellville, Change Healthcare and Onboard Health, San Francisco, CA

Mary J. Owen, MD
Member, Tlingit Nation; Director, Center of American Indian and Minority Health;Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN

Elena V. Rios, MD, MSPH, FACP
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Hispanic Medical Association; President, National Hispanic Health Foundation, Washington, DC

Mark Smith, MD, MBA
Founding President and Former CEO, California Health Care Foundation; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Attending Physician, Positive Health Program for AIDS Care, San Francisco General Hospital, Oakland, CA

Indu Subaiya, MD, MBA
Co-founder & President, Catalyst @ Health 2.0; Former Senior Advisor, HIMSS; Former CEO and Co-Founder, Health 2.0, Los Angeles, CA

Laurie Zephyrin, MD, MPH, MBA
Vice President for Advancing Health Equity, Commonwealth Fund; Former National Director, Reproductive Health Program; Former Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs, New York, NY
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FEATURED FACULTY
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Alyce S. Adams, PhD
Associate Director, Health Equity and Community Engagement, Stanford Cancer Institute; Vice Chair, AcademyHealth, San Francisco, CA

Regina Barzilay, PhD
Delta Electronics Professor of AI and Health AI, School of Engineering, Co-lead of AI, Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; McArthur Fellow, Cambridge, MA

Mary T. Bassett, MD
FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; Former Commissioner of Health, City of New York, Boston, MA

Donald M. Berwick, MD
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Newton Centre, MA

Gayle Capozzalo, MPH, FACHE
Executive Director, The Equity Collaborative; Former Chair, ACHE Board of Directors; Former EVP and Chief Strategy Officer, Yale New Haven Health, Guilford, CN

Cheryl Clark, MD, ScD
Hospitalist; Director, Health Equity Research & Intervention, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Donald H. Crane, JD
President and Chief Executive Officer, America’s Physician Group, Los Angeles, CA

Yuriko de la Cruz, MPH, CPHQ
Social Determinants of Health Manager, National Association of Community Health Centers, Alexandria, VA

Kristen Eckstrand, MD, PhD
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Western Psychiatric Hospital of UPMC; Co-Founder and Past Co-Director, Program for LGBTQ Health at Vanderbilt, Pittsburg, PA

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD
Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania; Former Special Advisor, OMB (Obama), Philadelphia, PA

Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Financial Management Association (HFMA); Former Vice President, Hospital Finance, Spectrum Health,Chicago, IL

Elizabeth A. Fowler
Comanche Nation; Acting Director, Indian Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

Julian J. Harris, MD, MBA
Partner, Health Care Services and Technology, Deerfield; Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, ConcertoCare; Adjunct Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, New York, NY

Paloma Hernandez, MPH
President and Chief Executive Officer, Urban Health Plan; Secretary, National Association of Community Health Centers, Bronx, NY

Sherry M. Hirota
Chief Executive Officer, Asian Health Services, Health Chair, Dellums Commission: Expanded Pathways of Young Men of Color, Oakland, CA

Wright L. Lassiter, III, MHA
President and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Ford Health System; Former CEO, Alameda Health System, Detroit, MI

Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD
William C. and Nancy F. Richardson Professor in Health Policy and Director, Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Kedar Mate, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); President, IHI Lucian Leape Institute; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Boston, MA

LaShawn McIver, MD, MPH
Director of the Office of Minority Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Former SVP, Government Affairs, American Diabetes Association; Washington, DC

Mary J. Owen, MD
Member, Tlingit Nation; Director, Center of American Indian and Minority Health; Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN

Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH
President, President, Institute for Exceptional Care; Former Vice President, Provider Alignment Solutions, Anthem; Former Chief Innovation Officer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Washington, DC

Rev. Dr. Tyrone Pitts
Co-Chairs, Interfaith and Diversity Workgroup,The Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC); General Secretary Emeritus, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., Washington, DC

Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP
President and CEO, AcademyHealth; Former Endowed Chair in Child Health Policy, University of South Florida; Former Director, Child Policy Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Washington, DC

Ronald M. Wyatt, MD, MHA
VP and Patient Safety Officer, MCIC Vermont; Former Chief Quality Officer, Cook County Health; Former Chief Quality Officer, Hamad Health Care Institute (Qatar); Former Patient Safety Officer and Medical Director, The Joint Commission, Chicago, IL
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