Virtual National Health Equity Summit Features Chief Diversity & Equity Officers Roundtable
  • 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
  • Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Affairs and Inside Health Policy
  • June 7 -10, 2021
  • www.HealthEquitySummit.com
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We are seeking strategies for advancing health equity:
  • Practical solutions,
  • Actual case studies of successful local initiatives,
  • New innovative approaches

    • WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- APRIL 7, 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.

    FEATURING SENIOR EQUITY AND DIVERSITY LEADERS BEST PRACTICES ROUNDTABLE

    Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH
    Vice President and Chief Equity Inclusion Officer; Founder, Disparities Solutions Center (DSC), Mass General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    Nicole M.B. Mitchell, MBA, CDP
    Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health System; Former National Manager, Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility, Kia Motors America, Los Angeles, CA
    Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH
    Chief Health Equity Officer, Humana; Former Chair and Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University; Former Director of the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, University of California, San Francisco, Columbus, OH

    Kou B. Thao, MA
    Director, Center for Health Equity & Office of Minority & Multicultural Health, Minnesota Department of Health; Founder and CEO, LIT Consulting, St Paul, MN
    Joy A. Lewis, MSW, MPH
    Senior Vice President, Health Equity, Strategies and Executive Director, Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, American Hospital Association; Former Senior Health Policy Leader, Kaiser Permanente; Washington, DC (Co-moderator)
    Aletha Maybank, MD
    Chief Health Equity Officer, American Medical Association; Former Deputy Commissioner and Founding Director, Center for Health Equity, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Brooklyn, NY (Co-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
    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, US Department of Homeland Security and HHS Office for Civil Rights, 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
    Susan Dentzer
    Senior Policy Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Former Editor in Chief, Health Affairs; Former Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour; Washington, DC
    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

    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
    Erica Lee, PhD
    Regents Professor, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, Director of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; Author, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, Minneapolis, 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
    Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP
    Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections, LLC; Former EVP & Chief of Medical A?airs, UnitedHealth Group; Former SVP, Professional Standards, AMA; Former President, Charles R. Drew, University of Medicine and Science; Former Commissioner of Public Health, District of Columbia, Atlanta, GA

    EMBEDDING HEALTH EQUITY IN PATIENT SAFETY AND CLINICAL QUALITY INITIATIVES BY

    Donald M. Berwick, MD
    President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Newton Centre, MA
    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
    Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD
    Chief Executive Officer, ECRI; Chair, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Lake Forest, IL

    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
    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 (Moderator)

    HEALTH EQUITY FOR NATIVE AMERICANS

    Carrie Billy, JD
    Navajo Nation; President & Chief Executive Officer, American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC); Former Executive Director, White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges & Universities, Alexandria, VA
    Cathy Chavers
    Tribal Chairwoman, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Nett Lake, MN
    Elizabeth A. Fowler
    Comanche Nation; Acting Director, Indian Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

    Melanie Nadeau, MPH, PhD
    Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation; Assistant Director, Assistant Professor, Public Health Program, University of North Dakota; Chair, American Indian Section, North Dakota Public Health Association; Fargo, ND
    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

    Aaron A. Payment, EdD, EdS, MEd, MPA
    Tribal Chairperson, Sault Tribe of the Chippewa Nation, Sault Ste. Marie, MI
    Melissa Walls, PhD
    Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe; Director, Great Lakes Hub, Center for American Indian Health; Associate Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Duluth, MN


    SUPPORTED BY



    AND THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS




    CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS & CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
    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

    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

    MEDIA PARTNERS







    FEATURED FACULTY

    Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD
    Professor, Clinical Internal Medicine; Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis; Principal Investigator, Mexican American Prevalence and Services Survey, Davis, 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
    Michael Bilton, MPP
    System Director, Community Health/Community Benefit, CommonSpirit Health; Former Executive Director, Association for Community Health Improvement, San Francisco, CA
    David S. Cade, JD
    Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA); Former Deputy General Counsel, US Department of Health and Human Services; Former Acting Deputy Director, Medicaid Bureau, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,Washington, DC
    Clayton Chau, MD, PhD
    County Health Office, Orange County; Director, Orange County Health Care Agency; Santa Ana, CA

    Cindy Clemence, CPA, FHFMA
    Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Trinity Health, Livonia, MI
    Rebecca Cooper, MPH
    Policy Associate, National Academy for State Health Policy, Washington, DC
    Donald H. Crane, JD
    President and Chief Executive Officer, America’s Physician Group, Los Angeles, CA
    Jaime Dircksen, MA
    Vice President, Community Health and Well-Being, Trinity Health, Former Managing Deputy Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health, Detroit, MI
    Michael J. Dowling
    Chief Executive Officer, Northwell Health; Former Senior Vice President, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield; New York, NY

    Alicia Fernandez, MD
    General Internist, Zuckerberg San Francisco General; Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine; Director, Latinx Center of Excellence, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    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
    Merrill Friedman
    Senior Director, Disability Policy Engagement, Anthem, Inc., Washington, DC
    Jacqueline Martinez Garcel, MPH
    Chief Executive Officer, Latino Community Foundation; Former Vice President, New York State Health Foundation, Oakland, CA
    Howard Haft, MD, MMM, CPE, FACPE
    Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services, Interim Executive Director, Maryland Primary Care Program, Maryland Department of Health; Former Founder and the Chief Medical Officer, Conmed Healthcare Management, La Plata, MD

    Melinda Hancock, MBA
    Chief Administrative & Financial Officer, VCU Health System; Former Chief Financial Officer, Bon Secours Virginia 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
    Paloma Hernandez, MPH
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Urban Health Plan; Secretary, National Association of Community Health Centers, Bronx, NY
    Darlene Hightower, JD
    Vice President Community Health Equity, Rush University Medical Center; Administrative Law Judge, Chicago Commission on Human Relations, Chicago, IL
    Sherry M. Hirota
    Chief Executive Officer, Asian Health Services, Health Chair, Dellums Commission: Expanded Pathways of Young Men of Color, Oakland, CA

    Matt Holder, MD, MBA, FAADM
    Expert in Developmental Medicine; Chief Executive Officer, Lee Specialty Clinic; President, American Board of Developmental Medicine; Past President Emeritus, American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry, Prospect, KY
    Lisa Iezzoni, MD, MSc
    Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Director, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
    Regina James, MD
    Deputy Medical Director, American Psychiatric Association; Former Director, Clinical & Health Services Research, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Washington, DC
    Thomas L Johnson, JD
    Executive Director, Population Health Alliance, Washington, DC
    Katie Kalvoda
    President and Board Chair, AdvanceOC; Founder, G3 Ventures; Executive Chairman, Maverick Advisors; Newport Beach, CA

    John Maceri
    Chief Executive Officer, The People Concern; Board Chair, Santa Monica Bay, Area Human Relations Council; Advisory Board, Ziman Center for Real Estate Affordable Housing, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
    Rose Maljanian, MBA
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HealthCAWS; Chairman Emeritus, Population Health Alliance, Farmington, CT
    LaShawn McIver, MD, MPH
    Director of the Office of Minority Health, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Former SVP, Government Affairs, Community Integrated Health & Advocacy, American Diabetes Association; Washington, DC
    Barbara Merrill, JD
    Chief Executive Officer, American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR); Former Director of Government Relations, MENTOR Network, Alexandria, VA
    Megan A. Morris, PhD, MPH
    Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, ACCORDS Investigator and Qualitative and Mixed Methods Core Lead and Founder, Director of Learning Collaborative to Address Disability Equity in Healthcare (LEADERs), Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO

    Ari Ne'eman
    Senior Research Associate, PhD Candidate, Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Hieu Nguyen, LCSW, MBA
    Director of Population Health & Equity, Orange County Health Care Agency; Former Manager of Strategic Initiatives, LA Care Health Plan; Costa Mesa, CA
    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
    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
    Danielle Price
    Director, Community Health Engagement, University Hospitals; Former Program Coordinator, Neighborhood Connections, Cleveland, OH

    Eboni Price-Haywood, MD, MPH, FACP
    Medical Director, Ochsner Xavier Institute for Health Equity and Research; Associate Professor, Ochsner Clinical School, University of Queensland; New Orleans, LA
    Trish Riley, MS
    Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy; Former Director, Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, State of Maine, Portland, ME
    Jeffery Roman
    Executive Director, Office on African American Affairs, Milwaukee County; Executive Director, Urban Roots Milwaukee; Equal Opportunity Coordinator, Community Advocates Public Policy Institute; Past Chair, Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission, Milwaukee, WI
    Wendy J. Ross, MD
    Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician, Center for Pediatric Development and Autism Inclusion Resources; Director, Center for Autism & Neurodiversity, Jefferson University Hospitals, Philadelphia, PA
    William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS
    Chief Medical Officer, Humana; Former Director of Evaluation, Innovation Center, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Louisville, KY

    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
    Collin Stultz, MD, PhD
    Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    Maura Sullivan, MPA
    Director of Government Affairs and Program Director Operation House Call, The Arc of Massachusetts, Lexington, MA
    Faisel Syed, MD
    National Director of Primary Care, ChenMed; Former Chief Medical Officer, Tampa Family Health Centers; Tampa, FL
    John Vu, MPH
    Vice President, Strategy for Community Health, Kaiser Permanente; Design Team, Health Anchor Network, Berkeley, CA

    Adrianne Wagner, MHSA, FACHE
    Regional Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety for Employed Groups, Optum Pacific Northwest, Everett, WA
    Roxie C. Wells, MD
    President, Cape Fear Valley Hoke Hospital; Board of Trustees, American Hospital Association, Raeford, NC
    David Zuckerman, MPP
    Executive Director, Healthcare Anchor Network, Washington, DC

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