Dr. Sule Gerovich is the Director of Center for Population-based Methodologies at the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission (“HSCRC”), which is an all-payor hospital rate setting agency in Maryland. At the HSCRC, Dr. Gerovich is responsible for the development and implementation of innovative payment strategies that promote effective, efficient and quality care. Prior to her current position, she developed measures for performance evaluation and payment, including clinical quality of care and patient outcomes and experience. Before joining the HSCRC, Dr. Gerovich participated in revising the state health plan on long-term care, assessment of quality of care in nursing homes, and race and ethnicity data collection. She is a  Fulbright Scholar and a nurse with six years of clinical experience at a hospital inpatient setting. 

 

Dr. Gerovich holds a doctorate degree in Health Policy and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Master of Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Master of Arts in Political Science and Public Administration from Bilkent University in Turkey. 

Mark Hagland has been Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Informatics (www.healthcare-informatics.com) since January 2010. Prior to that, he was Contributing Editor and then Senior Contributing Editor to the magazine, for over ten years. He has spent a quarter century in the health care publishing field, as a writer, editor, public speaker, and author. He has won numerous national and regional journalism awards, and is the author of two books on healthcare quality and efficiency: Paradox and Imperatives in Health Care (2008, with Jeffrey C. Bauer, Ph.D.) and Transformative Quality: The Emerging Revolution in Health Care Performance (2009). He holds a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Dave Levin, Chief Medical Officer, Sansoro Health
 

David Levin, M.D. is a co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Sansoro Health.

 

From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Levin served as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for the Cleveland Clinic Health System (CCHS) where his focus was on enterprise strategic planning and implementing information systems to support the transformation of healthcare delivery. While at CCHS, Dr. Levin helped establish and lead the CCHS Clinical Systems Office (CSO) that supports clinical information systems operations world-wide. He was also the founder of the CCHS Clinical Decision Support Center of Excellence.

 

Dr. Levin has over 25 years of experience in diverse areas including hospital, group practice and health plan operations, quality improvement, patient safety and population management. He also brings to bear over 30 years of experience in Information Technology and has worked with a wide variety of clients in both the US and China on the development of clinical and educational IT applications. Dr. Levin is a nationally recognized speaker and has appeared in diverse forums including academic, industry and consumer media ranging from National Public Radio to the Wall Street Journal. He is also the co-author of the book, “mHealth: Global Opportunities and Challenges”.

 

From 2008 to 2011, Dr. Levin served as the Vice President for Medical Informatics (CMIO) for Sentara Healthcare, a non-profit integrated delivery system based in Virginia. During that time Sentara implemented regional health information organization based on the EPIC EMR, achieved HIMSS Analytics Level 7 certification and won the HIMSS Davies Award (2010).

 

Dr. Levin holds degrees in Biology and Medicine from Brown University. He completed his residency in Family & Community Medicine at Brown in 1991 and a fellowship in academic Family & Community Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in 1994. He is also a former Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at EVMS.

 

Dr. Levin serves on multiple industry and venture capital advisory boards as well as non-Profit Boards of Directors. He is married to Dr. Beth Levin, an obstetrician-gynecologist.

 

David Lynn's career spans 30+ years and includes a diversity of experience in senior corporate positions and successful business start-up and scale-up ventures. He has experience in both competitive business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets with senior executives for corporations including Walmart, Bank of America, Honeywell, eviCore, JPMorganChase, Merck; as well as Private Equity firms including, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Caltius Capital Management, Berkshire Partners, and MTN Capital.

 

An accomplished business strategist, speaker, facilitator and executive coach, David has established long-term relationships with FORTUNE 1,000 executives, leading strategic human capital initiatives including culture change, post-merger integration and business development strategies. David has authored and coauthored several articles on culture formation, business strategy, leadership and human performance.

David graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a degree in History and minor in Psychology and studied graduate organizational psychology at the University of Cincinnati.

 

Greg Poulsen is Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Intermountain Healthcare. As a member of Intermountain's four-member Management Committee, he shares responsibility for the breadth of operational and strategic issues of the organization. Mr. Poulsen has direct responsibility for strategic planning, research and development, marketing, and payer contracting. He joined Intermountain Healthcare in 1982.

 

Mr. Poulsen was responsible for development of the first integrated hospital cost definition and accounting system in the U.S., which was subsequently marketed by Ernst & Young. He continues to consider cost management and healthcare affordability to be a personal priority. In his career at Intermountain, Mr. Poulsen has provided leadership in various areas, including strategic development of the insurance strategy, operational responsibility for clinical and financial I.T. development, and coordination of the physician strategy.

 

As a Commissioner for the Commonwealth Fund in Washington, DC, Mr. Poulsen is assisting in efforts to define a high performance health system for the United States. He has been a consultant to the Swedish Health Minister and the British National Health Service. Locally, he serves on several boards and is Chair of the Utah Health Data Committee Consumer Information Council. He is Vice Chair of the Utah Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research organization. He is a frequent participant in national and international health policy development.

 

 

As of January 2012, Marc S. Williams has been the director of the Genomic Medicine Institute of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania.  He is the co-PI of the Geisinger Electronic Medical Records in Genomics (eMERGE) project, is PI on the PCORI-funded Patient Facing Genomic Test Report research project, site PI of the Geisinger ClinGen project and is the medical director of the whole genome sequencing undiagnosed disease clinical research project. He represents Geisinger Health System on the NHGRI funded Genomic Medicine working group. He served as a director of the board of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics from 2006 and in 2009 was elected Vice-President of Clinical Genetics of the College a term that ended in 2013. He has participated in the Personalized Medicine Workgroup of the Department of Health and Human Services’ American Health Information Community Task Force, chaired the CDC’s EGAPP Stakeholder’s Group, was a member of the CDC’s CETT program review board and the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Genetics, Health and Society, having previously served on the Coverage and Reimbursement Task Force of that group.  He is a member of the EGAPP working group.  He is past chair of the Committee on the Economics of Genetic Services and the Ad Hoc Committee on the Value of a Genetic Diagnosis of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), as well as chair of the subcommittee on Health Care Systems of the Section on Genetics and Birth Defects of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  He founded the ACMG Quality Improvement Special Interest Group. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Manual on Reimbursement for Medical Genetic Services. 

 

Marc is a member of the external scientific panel of the Clinical Pharmacogenetic Implementation Consortium and has participated in guideline creation and review for that group.  He is board certified in clinical informatics and has published extensively on the role of informatics in the implementation of genomics and precision medicine. He has authored over one hundred articles in the peer-review medical literature and is a frequent presenter at national and international meetings. He is co-author of a textbook, Economic Evaluation in Genomic Medicine published by Elsevier/Academic Press in 2015.