{"id":1873,"date":"2015-05-06T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/hlsc\/?page_id=1873"},"modified":"2023-03-22T14:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:02:06","slug":"2014-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/questromworld.bu.edu\/hlsc\/2014-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"2014-Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-xcvzr5-f6540e39a8941555b3665dcb28cf9b2b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Speakers &amp; Panels &#8211; 2014 Health &amp; Life Sciences Conference<\/h3>\n<p>FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH, 2014<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-wc2bzl-5970563927d90c07f0f6d3e578127de3\">\n.flex_column.av-wc2bzl-5970563927d90c07f0f6d3e578127de3{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-wc2bzl-5970563927d90c07f0f6d3e578127de3 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ulate9-301053e0cfc7e056f7999d9256822cec\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-ulate9-301053e0cfc7e056f7999d9256822cec{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-ulate9-301053e0cfc7e056f7999d9256822cec .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-ulate9-301053e0cfc7e056f7999d9256822cec .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-ulate9-301053e0cfc7e056f7999d9256822cec av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_toggle_container  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Keynote Speakers<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-sylh5d-953a8e2295c87f5be6cb992afbe2c652  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_hr  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-rvqiht-2fee3c45014c4693743c38ccec489b6e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-1' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Jon R. Cohen, MD \u2013 Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Jon R. Cohen, MD \u2013 Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Jon R. Cohen, MD \u2013 Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics\">Jon R. Cohen, MD \u2013 Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Quest Diagnostics<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-1' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Dr. Cohen is a business executive with extensive P\/L and operational responsibility including experience with growing existing business, developing and growing new business ventures and turnaround of losing entities.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cohen is currently Senior Vice President and Group Executive-Diagnostic Solutions Businesses and Chief Medical Officer for Quest Diagnostics (NYSE:DGX). With annual revenues of over $7.5 billion, Quest is the world\u2019s leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services. He has an extensive background in federal and state healthcare policy. In 2010, he was named as one the nation\u2019s top 50 most powerful physician executives by Modern Healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Quest Diagnostics in March 2009, Dr. Cohen served as Senior Advisor to New York Governor David A. Paterson and was responsible for all policy and strategic planning. In 2006, he was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York; his campaign platform centered on the healthcare crisis and substantive healthcare reform.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cohen served for six years as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, the nation\u2019s fourth-largest nonprofit health system. He has held senior professional appointments, including Professor of Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Senior Lecturer at Columbia University\u2019s Mailman School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Cohen is a vascular surgeon, having completed his residency in surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital\/Weill Cornell Medical Center and vascular surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed professional articles, authored two books and has spent more than two decades in the healthcare field as a practicing surgeon.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-p1c65t-b4e57562c550c071983c97ed96fb269c'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-2' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-2' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-2' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"David P. Meeker, MD \u2013 President and Chief Executive Officer Genzyme, a Sanofi Company\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: David P. Meeker, MD \u2013 President and Chief Executive Officer Genzyme, a Sanofi Company\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: David P. Meeker, MD \u2013 President and Chief Executive Officer Genzyme, a Sanofi Company\">David P. Meeker, MD \u2013 President and Chief Executive Officer Genzyme, a Sanofi Company<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-2' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-2' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>David Meeker was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Genzyme in October 2011. Genzyme is a global biotechnology company committed to discovering and delivering transformative therapies for patients with rare and special unmet medical needs. Dr Meeker oversees and provides the vision for the company\u2019s two business units \u2013 Rare Diseases and Multiple Sclerosis \u2013 as well as its long-standing relationships with patient communities and dedicated workforce of nearly 10,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>In his career with Genzyme, Dr. Meeker has held key positions of increasing responsibility most recently as Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he was responsible for Genzyme\u2019s commercial organization, overseeing its business units\u00b8 country management organization and global market access functions. As Chief Operating Officer, he played an important role in the integration with Sanofi.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Meeker joined Genzyme in 1994 as Medical Director to work on the Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy program. Subsequently, as Vice President, Medical Affairs, he was responsible for the development of rare disease therapies that today represent transformative and life-saving advancements in medicine for patients.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Genzyme, Dr Meeker was the Director of the Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic and an assistant professor of medicine at Ohio State University. He has authored more than 40 articles and multiple book chapters. Dr Meeker received his MD from the University of Vermont Medical School. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2000.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-nzjse9-45b344daeb1ff89fbe4bf18163aef42a\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-nzjse9-45b344daeb1ff89fbe4bf18163aef42a{\nheight:10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-nzjse9-45b344daeb1ff89fbe4bf18163aef42a hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_heading '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-n58tpd-efb96e3b11d583d0b46ef35a5a1b0527\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-n58tpd-efb96e3b11d583d0b46ef35a5a1b0527{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-n58tpd-efb96e3b11d583d0b46ef35a5a1b0527 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-n58tpd-efb96e3b11d583d0b46ef35a5a1b0527 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-n58tpd-efb96e3b11d583d0b46ef35a5a1b0527 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_toggle_container '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  ><span class='special_amp'>&#8220;<\/span>Terrier<span class='special_amp'>&#8221;<\/span> Talks<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-l7cypt-148ff76c1e704fa1d3da170255a63aee  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_hr  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-jki1up-b63bc190aa9383d4e0fdb7a231a1aa48'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-3' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-3' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-3' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Leigh Zawel, PhD \u2013 Center for Therapeutic Innovations \u2013 Boston, Pfizer\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Leigh Zawel, PhD \u2013 Center for Therapeutic Innovations \u2013 Boston, Pfizer\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Leigh Zawel, PhD \u2013 Center for Therapeutic Innovations \u2013 Boston, Pfizer\">Leigh Zawel, PhD \u2013 Center for Therapeutic Innovations \u2013 Boston, Pfizer<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-3' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-3' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Dr. Leigh Zawel joined Pfizer in 2013 to lead CTI\u2019s work in the Boston office. Before CTI, Dr. Zawel was the oncology site lead at Merck Research Laboratories (MRL) Boston. In this role, he was responsible for drug discovery efforts focused on the identification of development candidates for programs in the oncology franchise. Dr. Zawel worked previously at Sanofi-Aventis, where he was Director of Cancer Biology, and Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research\/Oncology, where he was an Oncology Group Leader. Dr. Zawel has a deep background in identifying and validating oncology drug targets and in transitioning drug discovery programs through lead optimization to Phase 1 clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zawel earned his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Danny Reinberg where he identified and characterized components of the RNA Polymerase II basal transcription machinery. Dr. Zawel\u2019s postdoctoral training was in the laboratory of Bert Vogelstein and Ken Kinzler and focused on dysregulation of TGFB signaling in cancer. Dr. Zawel also holds a MS in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, as well as a BS in Biology from Rutgers University. He has published more than 30 scientific publications. He is also an author on 45 patents covering chemical matter, drug combinations, biomarker utility and gene function in areas of apoptosis, inflammation and TGFB signaling.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-haqlch-b3ea7dfe7a978aa9f6cbd3917a853333'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-4' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-4' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-4' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Brian Jack, MD \u2013 Lead Investigator, Project RED (\u2018ReEngineered Discharge\u2019), Boston Medical Center\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Brian Jack, MD \u2013 Lead Investigator, Project RED (\u2018ReEngineered Discharge\u2019), Boston Medical Center\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Brian Jack, MD \u2013 Lead Investigator, Project RED (\u2018ReEngineered Discharge\u2019), Boston Medical Center\">Brian Jack, MD \u2013 Lead Investigator, Project RED (\u2018ReEngineered Discharge\u2019), Boston Medical Center<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-4' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-4' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Brian Jack, MD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Jack graduated from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and completed his residency training at the Brown University. He completed a fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Jack came to BU and Boston Medical Center in 1997 as the founding Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters, reviewed papers for major medical journals, served on NICHHD, HRSA and AHRQ grant review panels. He is currently PI on grants from HRSA, NHLBI, PCORI, AHRQ, Kellogg Foundation and NIMHD.<\/p>\n<p>His research team has developed the \u201cReEngineered Discharge\u201d (Project RED), adapted by the National Quality Forum as a national \u201cSafe Practice\u201d. RED is being used in all states and in over 10 countries. He completed projects with AHRQ funding including \u201cReengineering the Hospital Discharge for Patient Safety\u201d which provided an in-depth analysis of the hospital discharge process. RED was then tested in Testing the Re-Engineered Hospital Discharge a RCT funded by AHRQ in the \u201cPartners in Patient Safety\u201d grants. Dissemination and implementation of RED was explored in an Action RFTO entitled Avoiding Readmissions in Hospitals Serving Diverse patients. Building on a RO1 from NHLBI with colleague Tim Bickmore of Northeastern University, he developed a health IT system to deliver RED at the bedside (the \u201cLouise\u201d system). Dr. Jack completed an AHRQ funded project entitled \u201cVirtual Patient Advocates to Reduce Ambulatory Drug Events\u201d that adapted Louise to be used by patients online when they went home from the hospital designed to monitor medication adverse events related to the transition from the hospital to the ambulatory environment. He recently completed a project to design a tool kit describing the RED process and studied the barriers to RED implementation. New projects include a RCT of a mental health intervention to reduce rehospitalizations for those with depressive symptoms (AHRQ, Blue Cross\/Blue Shield Foundation) and an exploration of the causes of readmission from the patient perspective that focuses on mental health and the social determinants of care (PCORI).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jack received the 2008 CDC \u201cPartner in Public Health Improvement\u201d award for his work as leader of the CDC\u2019s Select Panel on the Content of Preconception Care. He has completed work to design a preconception HIT system (Gabby) to assist in the provision of this care (AHRQ, HRSA MCHB, Kellogg) and is beginning a RCT to study its impact (NIMHD).<\/p>\n<p>He received the 2013 Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-Profit Innovation, the \u201cPatient Care Award for Excellence in Patent Education Innovation\u201d award, the AHRQ \u201cPatient Safety Investigator\u201d award, and the \u201cBest Research Paper of the Year\u201d award of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He was selected to HealthLeaders magazines annual \u201cPeople Who Make Healthcare Better\u201d list and one of Boston\u2019s \u201cBest Doctors\u201d in each of 2010-2014. His Annals of Internal Medicine article describing RED is listed in the book \u201c50 Studies Every Physician Should Know\u201d. In 2013 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jack has also been active in the worldwide development of family medicine. He is Director of the Lesotho Boston Health Alliance, a Kellogg Foundation funded program that aims to improve the quality of district health services in Lesotho. He is a founding member of the AAFP\u2019s Center for International Initiatives. He spent a sabbatical year in Budapest, Hungary in 1995 where he received a special citation from the mayor of Budapest. He taught in Jordan and Pakistan and has worked on development of family medicine in Lesotho, Albania, Jordan, Romania, and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-g8bhoh-6e847e4c59a031a4fb4138db7cb90e17'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-5' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-5' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-5' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Ben Bau, VP and General Manager, Patient Self-Service Solutions, Vecna\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Ben Bau, VP and General Manager, Patient Self-Service Solutions, Vecna\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Ben Bau, VP and General Manager, Patient Self-Service Solutions, Vecna\">Ben Bau, VP and General Manager, Patient Self-Service Solutions, Vecna<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-5' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-5' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ben has overall executive profit and loss responsibility for the Patient Self Service product suite consisting of Patient Portal, Queuing, Kiosk, and Survey. These responsibilities include the strategic direction of the Patient Information Exchange Platform, its design and development as well as its implementation, deployment, and marketing. Ben directs the technical and GUI development, ensures that clients are benefiting from the latest technology advances, and advises domestic and international customers on best practices for achieving superior return on investment. Ben frequently speaks at events, conferences, and universities about the importance of patient-centric health information models. Ben is a graduate of MIT.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-et2hxd-b394967e3616161a1ddb54f8359a5c68\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-et2hxd-b394967e3616161a1ddb54f8359a5c68{\nheight:10px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-et2hxd-b394967e3616161a1ddb54f8359a5c68 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_heading '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-18tjv5-762bc7be7174e41bbc2d48ab385523d6\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-18tjv5-762bc7be7174e41bbc2d48ab385523d6{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-18tjv5-762bc7be7174e41bbc2d48ab385523d6 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-18tjv5-762bc7be7174e41bbc2d48ab385523d6 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-18tjv5-762bc7be7174e41bbc2d48ab385523d6 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_toggle_container '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Panel Discussion<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-aya53l-3113e9b7b9795ec62ba5287485587344  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-8tx31t-7ef4330442ef7cfd7dec990ecd41be81'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-6' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-6' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-6' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Henry Feldman, MD \u2013 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Henry Feldman, MD \u2013 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Henry Feldman, MD \u2013 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School\">Henry Feldman, MD \u2013 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-6' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-6' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Henry Feldman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board certified attending physician in Internal Medicine (FP Hospital Medicine). He has an undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Management. He worked in the computer industry for almost 10 years, prior to going to medical school at such companies as Allen Bradley, Microsoft, Kraft General Foods and The Boston Consulting Group. He received his medical degree in 2001 at the NYU School of Medicine. He completed his internship, residency and chief medical residency in Internal Medicine at NYU\/Bellevue Hospital in New York. He then completed a 2 year Medical Informatics fellowship at NYU School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 he joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center clinically as a hospitalist in the department of Medicine as well as being appointed to the division of clinical informatics. He currently serves as the Chief Information Architect of the Division of Clinical Informatics, where he manages the software design and development teams. His research is primarily around electronic health records, particularly in the Middle East, along with mobile computing and user interface design. He continues to practice medicine in the hospital, and serves as an attending physician on both the teaching and non-teaching hospital medicine services. He also attends on the wards at the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs Medical Center as a Nocturnist, providing hospital medicine and critical care overnight.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-ogqox-3f1035abf2d6d49c72cc4938109ca25e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-7' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-7' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-7' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Angela Patterson, MSN, FNP-BC \u2013 Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, MinuteClinic L.L.C, CVS Caremark\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Angela Patterson, MSN, FNP-BC \u2013 Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, MinuteClinic L.L.C, CVS Caremark\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Angela Patterson, MSN, FNP-BC \u2013 Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, MinuteClinic L.L.C, CVS Caremark\">Angela Patterson, MSN, FNP-BC \u2013 Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer, MinuteClinic L.L.C, CVS Caremark<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-7' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-7' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>As Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer for CVS Health MinuteClinic, Angela is responsible for providing clinical and professional practice governance and oversight for MinuteClinic\u2019s more than 2,500 Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants who provide evidence-based, high-quality, convenient and affordable healthcare services in the organization\u2019s more than 930 walk-in clinics located in 30 states and the District of Columbia. In addition, she is responsible for leading the organization\u2019s Clinical Quality and Patient Safety, Practitioner Training &amp; Education, Professional Practice Advancement, and Provider Workforce Recruitment and Planning programs.<\/p>\n<p>Angela serves as a board member of the Convenient Care Association (CCA), the industry\u2019s trade organization, where she chairs the Provider Workforce Committee. Additional appointments include the CVS Caremark Diversity Council, Clinical Consistency Review Council, and Executive Women\u2019s Committee. A graduate of Simmons College in Boston, MA, Angela has been a Nurse Practitioner since 1988. She has over 20 years of Primary Care as well as Practice Management experience in an urban-based Family Medical Practice which she co-owned. Angela also served for 10 years as a principal lecturer and clinical instructor for the Family Nurse Practitioner program in the School for Health Studies at Simmons College, Boston, MA.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-5za62p-c8aef0b9d6939259829c98ee552911af'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-8' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-8' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-8' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Daniel McNamara, Head of US Patient Services, Patient Access, Shire\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Daniel McNamara, Head of US Patient Services, Patient Access, Shire\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Daniel McNamara, Head of US Patient Services, Patient Access, Shire\">Daniel McNamara, Head of US Patient Services, Patient Access, Shire<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-8' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-8' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Daniel McNamara oversees all of Shire\u2019s Rare Disease Patient Services teams which include case management, patient access, and program management. This team supports over 3000 patients and family members living with Hunter Syndrome, Gaucher Disease and Hereditary Angioedema. He is also responsible for the Patient Services integration plan of Shire\u2019s acquisition of Viropharma this past year. Shire\u2019s Patient Services support programs include financial assistance support, case management support and access and reimbursement guidance for physicians who treat patients afflicted with these rare diseases. He joined Shire in 2010 to lead the Patient Access Management team within Shire\u2019s Rare Disease Business Unit. In this role he was responsible for a team of field based access and reimbursement experts focused on ensuring that all patients had access to Shire\u2019s portfolio of rare disease products and support.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel started his biotech\/pharmaceutical career at Elan Pharmaceuticals in 1997. He has since held roles in sales, sales management, sales training, biologic consulting and area management for both biotech and medical device companies. Prior to joining Shire, Daniel was leading a team of business development executives for Covidien focusing on practice management and operational efficiencies for bariatric surgical programs. Daniel has a BA in Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany and a Masters in Business from St. Johns University in New York. He resides in Medway Massachusetts with his wife Kelly and their four children.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-3zyfsx-2db69fd4a9b064233c1ff8633ebcd985'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-9' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-9' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-9' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Martha R Temple \u2013 President, New England Market, Aetna\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Martha R Temple \u2013 President, New England Market, Aetna\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Martha R Temple \u2013 President, New England Market, Aetna\">Martha R Temple \u2013 President, New England Market, Aetna<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-9' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-9' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Martha is the President of the New England Market for Aetna, where she is responsible for the profit and loss for the six New England states. She has responsibility over relationships and contracting with hospitals and physicians, all legislative and regulatory relationships, as well as she has oversight for the sales and service organization for the middle market, small group, public sector, and individual business. Martha has offices in Hartford, CT and Burlington, MA in the Aetna offices. She will be opening a new office in January located in Boston where she will have an office as well.<\/p>\n<p>Martha graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries (FSA). Martha has been with Aetna since 1990 in various roles both in the actuarial field as well as in the businesses. She ran Aetna Global Benefits for 9 years before moving over to her current role in the New England Market.<br \/>\nMartha sits on the Boards of the Middlesex County United Way in Middletown, CT, and Achieve Hartford!, an education fund helping to close the education gap in the Hartford, CT schools, the New England Council, MetroHartford Alliance, and Connecticut Business and Industry (CBIA) boards. Martha is on the board of the Coginchaug Valley Education Foundation in her home town of Durham, CT.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-6qvq9-b8084f65bb99c14ccb4f9b4d663a3fb3'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p id='toggle-toggle-id-10' data-fake-id='#toggle-id-10' class='toggler  av-title-above '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-10' data-slide-speed=\"200\" data-title=\"Moderator: Sally Okun \u2013 VP Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety, Patients Like Me\" data-title-open=\"\" data-aria_collapsed=\"Click to expand: Moderator: Sally Okun \u2013 VP Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety, Patients Like Me\" data-aria_expanded=\"Click to collapse: Moderator: Sally Okun \u2013 VP Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety, Patients Like Me\">Moderator: Sally Okun \u2013 VP Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety, Patients Like Me<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-10' aria-labelledby='toggle-toggle-id-10' role='region' class='toggle_wrap  av-title-above'  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Sally Okun is the Vice President for Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety at PatientsLikeMe in Cambridge, MA. She is responsible for the company\u2019s patient advocacy initiatives; she participates and contributes to health policy discussions at the national and global level; and she is the company\u2019s liaison with government and regulatory agencies. Sally joined the company in 2008 as the manager of Health Data Integrity and Patient Safety overseeing the site\u2019s medical ontology including the curation of patient-reported health data and an ever-evolving patient vocabulary. Okun also developed and manages the PatientsLikeMe Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Platform.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining PatientsLikeMe Sally, a registered nurse, practiced as a palliative and end-of-life care specialist. In addition as an independent consultant she contributed to multiple clinical, research, and educational projects focused on palliative and end-of-life care for numerous clients including Brown University, Harvard Medical School, MA Department of Mental Health, Hospice Education Network and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Sally participates on the Institute of Medicine\u2019s Roundtable on Value and Science Driven Healthcare as a member of the Clinical Effectiveness Research Innovation Collaborative, the Evidence Communication Innovation Collaborative, and the Best Practices Innovation Collaborative and is a member of the Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost. She serves on the Advisory Panel on Patient Engagement for the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute\u2019s (PCORI); the National Quality Forum\u2019s Person-centered Care and Outcomes Committee; the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Reagan-Udall Foundation\u2019s Innovation in Medical Evidence Development and Surveillance (IMEDS) Program and the Program Advisory Board of the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Health Care. Sally is a frequent speaker at clinical, advocacy and policy events and in April 2013 was the first nurse invited to give a TEDMED talk at Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n<p>Sally received her nursing diploma from the Hospital of St. Raphael School of Nursing; Baccalaureate degree in Nursing from Southern Connecticut State University; and a Master\u2019s degree from The Heller School for Social Policy &amp; Management at Brandeis University. 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