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June 5-6, 2023 • Boston, MA
June 5-6, 2023 • Boston, MA
June 5-6, 2023 • Boston, MA
2023 Hospital @ Home Leadership Summit Speaker Line-up
Rachelle Alpern, MBA, MHA, Rapid Response Network Manager, UNC Advanced Care at Home
Rachelle has an extensive background in healthcare consulting and policy development. She is part of the UNC Advanced Care at Home leadership team, where she oversees business development and operations of in-home services.
David Brumley, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Fallon Health
David Brumley, M.D., MBA is Fallon Health’s Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. In his role as CMO Dr. Brumley is responsible for ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness of health care services to Fallon members, overseeing all activities and operations within Fallon’s Care Services department, and fostering strong relationships with Fallon’s provider partners.
Michael Chin, MD, Associate Medical Director, MassHealth and Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Michael Chin is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and since July 2021 has been an Associate Medical Director at MassHealth (the Medicaid program for the state of Massachusetts).
Jared Conley, MD, PhD, MPH, Associate Director of MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Jared Conley MD PhD MPH is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He serves as the Associate Director of the MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab, where he leads a team of clinicians and engineers to enhance the quality and affordability of acute healthcare through technology and innovation.
Michael Cotugno, B.S., Pharm., R.Ph., Director of Pharmacy Patient Care Services, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Michael is currently the Director of Pharmacy Patient Care Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Michael received his B.S. in Pharmacy from Northeastern University in 1991. He has worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for 30 years holding positions as a clinical pharmacist, and clinical manager prior to becoming Director.
Jatin K. Dave, Chief Medical Officer, Director, Associate Professor, Office of Clinical Affairs, For Health Consulting at U Mass Chan Medical School
In his dual medical leadership roles, Dr. Dave is the primary clinical liaison between MassHealth (Massachusetts Medicaid) and For Health Consulting at U Mass Chan Medical School, emphasizing the close working relationship between the organizations. In addition to helping guide the leadership team in the Office of Clinical Affairs, Dr. Dave is a key part of the MassHealth executive team.
Eve Dorfman, MA, RN, NEA-BC, Vice President, NYU Langone Health
Eve Dorfman has held many diverse roles in nursing and leadership throughout her twenty-seven-year career. In her current role as vice president for operations at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, she oversees the home hospital, home health services, dialysis services, respiratory/occupational/physical therapies, hospital medicine services, and biomedical engineering. In the past year, she successfully led the charge to operationalize a home hospital program for NYU Langone Hospitals. Ms. Dorfman has served on the board of the Greater New York Nassau Suffolk Organization of Nurse Leaders for the past three years.
Stephen Dorner, MD, MPH, MSc, Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home
Stephen C. Dorner, MD, MPH, MSc, is Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer, responsible for leading the design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of key service lines and capabilities, shifting the site of care from the hospital setting into the home. These efforts are tightly aligned with the goals of enabling a lower cost site of care, helping provide more flexible in-hospital capacity, and leveraging technology to extend the reach of our expert providers. In addition to serving as a practicing emergency physician, Dr. Dorner is striving to build home-based care to ensure Mass General Brigham is building a leading patient-centered care model for the future.
Krista Drobac, Partner, Moving Health Home
Krista is a Partner at Sirona Strategies where she provides strategic advice on a broad range of state and federal legislative and regulatory issues including Medicaid, Medicare, telehealth, SDoH, accountable care, insurance, and other areas
Shannon Germain Farraher, MBA, BSN, PCCN, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Shannon Germain Farraher MBA, BSN, PCCN is a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research covering Acute Home Care, Clinician Shortage and Burnout, Technologies Transforming the Clinician Workforce, Member Engagement Technologies, and Emerging Technologies.
Tahir Haque, MD, Senior Medical Director, Biofourmis
Tahir is a board-certified internist and biomedical engineer who serves as a Medical Director at Biofourmis. His work focuses on utilizing innovative digital health solutions to operationalize and scale acute care at home programs. Tahir practices as a Home Hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he holds dual appointments in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Division of Global Health Equity. He is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Faculty member at Ariadne Labs.
Colleen Hole, BSN, MHA, FACHE, Vice President, Clinical Integration, and Chief Nurse Executive, Atrium Health Medical Group
Colleen Hole serves in a dual role at Atrium Health as Vice President, Clinical Integration, and Chief Nurse Executive, Atrium Health Medical Group.
Tom Kiesau, Chief Innovation Officer & Leader, Chartis Digital, The Chartis Group
Tom is Chief Innovation Officer for Chartis and Leader of Chartis Digital. He directs digital transformation engagements, including digitally-enabled care model transformation
Patrick Kneeland, MD, SFHM, VP of Medical Affairs, DispatchHealth
Dr. Kneeland is VP of Medical Affairs at DispatchHealth where he leads AdvancedCare and Extended Care – service lines dedicated to bringing hospital and post-acute transitional care to patients’ homes. Previously, Patrick served as the Executive Medical Director for Patient and Provider Experience at UCHealth, where he led the development of a system-level interdisciplinary patient and provider experience team and strategic blueprint.
Mark Krivopal, MD, MBA, Director, Performance Operations, Chief Physician Executive, Chartis Digital
Mark Krivopal, MD, is a Director with The Chartis Group and a senior physician executive with 25 years of healthcare experience in academic medical centers, complex IDNs, independent community hospitals, and a healthcare information technology start-up. Mark focuses on healthcare enterprise financial and operational performance improvement, innovative operating care models, clinical service lines redesign, and acute care capacity and throughput optimization. In addition, Mark is the Chief Physician Executive at Chartis Digital, leading Chartis’ work in operationalizing technology-supported transformational care delivery such as Hospital at Home.
Russell Ledford, MD, Program Director, Hospital at Home, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Russell Ledford, MD is a internal medicine specialist in Nashville, TN. He currently practices at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Ledford is board certified in Internal Medicine.
Bruce Leff, MD, Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
Bruce Leff, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Community and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
Bruce Leff, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Community and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.
David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, Clinical Director for Research & Development, Healthcare at Home, Mass General Brigham and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr David M Levine, MD MPH MA, is an internationally renowned expert in designing and implementing advanced home-based care, using digital health technology to drive health outcomes, and evaluating the quality, safety, and experience of health care.
Constantinos (Taki) Michaelidis, MD, MBA, MS, Medical Director, Hospital at Home, UMass Memorial Health
Constantinos (Taki) Michaelidis, MD, MBA, MS is an internal medicine
physician by clinical training and practices as a virtual home hospitalist
in the UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) Hospital at Home program where
he is Medical Director and faculty in the Program in Digital Medicine at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School.
physician by clinical training and practices as a virtual home hospitalist
in the UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) Hospital at Home program where
he is Medical Director and faculty in the Program in Digital Medicine at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Michael Maniaci, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Hospital in Florida
Michael J. Maniaci, M.D. is the Enterprise Medical Director of Virtual Care in the Mayo Clinic Center for Digital Health and the current Medical Director of Mayo Clinic Hospital in Florida.
Ila Mapp, DNP, RN, CCRN-K, Director, Advanced Care at Home, UNC Health
Ila Mapp, DNP, RN, CCRN-K has been enhancing her nursing craft for 28 years through travel nursing, bedside patient care, and leadership.
Christopher McGhee, CEO and Co-Founder, Current Health, A Best Buy Company
Christopher McGhee started Current Health in 2015 as a medical student, ultimately leaving at the end of his third year with the belief that technology could have a more profound impact on how care is delivered at scale. Since then, Chris has led the company through many major milestones, including the platform’s FDA clearance in 2019, 3,000% revenue growth in 2020, and growing the team to 150 employees across the U.S. and U.K. in 2021.
Pita Nims, RN MN, Director, Hospital at Home and Telehospitalist, Providence
Pita Nims, RN MN, has been working in the telehealth space for the last twelve years and is a past of Chair for the American Telemedicine Association of the Nursing Special Interest Group (now Interdisciplinary SIG). Her background includes designing multiple telemedicine programs with an emphasis on workflow development while providing quality oversight in both the Acute and Ambulatory Care space. Currently, she acts in a triad partnership supporting both the Providence Telehospitalist program (attending and admitting service) and Hospital At Home. Additionally, she is the hiring manager for the Hospital At Home Command Center staff running 24X7 with both physician and RN support of patients enrolled in the Hospital At Home program.
Casey Phillips, BSN, RN, Nurse Manager, UMass Memorial Health
Casey Phillips, BSN RN joined UMass Memorial Hospital at Home Program in January 2023 as the Nurse Manager. She brings 5 years of experience working in different hospital at home models.
Casey completed her BSN at Laboure College in Milton, MA. Prior to working in the hospital at home model of care she worked as an Emergency Room nurse for 7 years with previous background in ICU and medical surgical nursing.
Casey completed her BSN at Laboure College in Milton, MA. Prior to working in the hospital at home model of care she worked as an Emergency Room nurse for 7 years with previous background in ICU and medical surgical nursing.
Sandeep Pulim, MD, VP Clinical Strategy & Partnerships, Biofourmis
"Sandeep is VP of Clinical Strategy & Partnerships at Biofourmis. He most recently served as the Chief Medical Officer at BlueStream Health and Chief Innovation Officer at Medici. Prior to joining the Medici team, Sandeep worked to enable cognitive technology at the point of care for HCPs and patients, to positively impact clinical learning and quality measures for healthcare organizations, pharma, and payers. Previously as co-founder of Health Recovery Solutions, he helped empower patients to better manage their health and improve quality of life using evidence-based interventions.
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