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David is the Chief Development Officer where he is responsible for expanding the firm's influence in the health care market. Since joining Leavitt Partners, David has advised clients in areas of government activity, insurance market reforms, economic changes to the health care payment system, and alliances. He specifically helped establish the Private Exchange Coalition and has led multiple other collaboratives that aggregate parties with common interests to achieve statutory, regulatory, or market objectives. David also established and expanded Leavitt Partners Chicago operation. David has a masters of statistics with an emphasis in econometrics from the University of Utah. He also served on the Utah State Board of Regents, where he shared some collective stewardship over Utah's publicly funded institutions of higher education. You can find out more information at www.leavittpartners.com.

Melissa McCool is the co-founder and CEO of Stellicare Corporation. In 2009, Melissa developed Symptom Targeted Intervention (STI), a clinical program used in thousands of US medical clinics to improve the behavioral determinants of health. Since then, she has written and produced numerous articles, videos, and books and has trained thousands of clinicians around the US and Canada on how to implement STI into clinical practice. Melissa is also an EMDR-trained psychotherapist with a specialization in treating trauma. Her degrees are from UCSD and Columbia University.

Dr. Hunt graduated from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa and completed his residency in Pediatrics. During his military service, Dr. Hunt's held key leadership positions. As Chief Medical Information Officer, he has implemented 'Epic' and 'Cerner' EMRs. He is Board Certified in pediatrics and received a Master of Science in Medical Informatics. In April 2013, Dr. Hunt was appointed CPHO (Chief Population Health Officer [CMO/CMIO]) for St. Vincent's Health Partners, Inc., a Physician Hospital Organization with more than 400 providers, and St. Vincent's Medical Center. Dr. Hunt provides physician leadership and direction for the planning, design and implementation of clinical information systems at St. Vincent's Health Partners, Inc. and oversees quality and utilization for its provider network. Under the leadership of Dr. Hunt, St. Vincent's Health Partners, Inc. was the first organization in the country to become accredited and re-accredited by URAC as a Clinically Integrated Network and is leading the charge in changing the face of healthcare in CT. Currently, working with organizational leaders, Dr. Hunt is engaged to develop information system infrastructure to support a super clinically integrated network. As Chief Executive Officer (2016), he is now focused to develop additional opportunities for medical management with employers and payers, enhance network contracting, and continue to support organizational transformation to value reimbursement. Dr. Hunt joined St. Vincent's Health System (SVHS) as CMIO in August 2014. He is working closely with clinical and information technology associates to transition to ongoing operations after the Cerner EMR implementation. Additionally, Dr. Hunt participates with the Valued Care Alliance [VCA] (a newly formed six hospital consortium in Connecticut in which St. Vincent's Medical Center is a founding member) to establish system-wide population management infrastructure. The VCA has been recognized as a leading advanced network by Connecticut and participates with the Community and Clinical Integration Program, and awarded the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) model grant by CMS.

Darren Pearce serves as the Chief Administrative Officer for Ambulatory & Retail Services for Navicent Health, an academic medical system including a Level 1 Trauma center, multiple rural acute outposts and post-acute offerings located in Central Georgia. A proud Navy veteran, Darren Pearce started his early career as a Registered Nurse and went on to complete his MBA as he transitioned from direct clinical work into the business of healthcare. Working for Navicent for close to 10 years, he served in various healthcare executive leadership roles across the Navicent Health system of care including ambulatory/retail, rural-setting acute care and post-acute rehabilitation where he has consistently demonstrated an innate ability to challenge the current state and create practical innovations to address both quality and service improvements. Darren's emphasis on mentoring frontline change agents to address culture barriers for improved clinical and business outcomes has become his trademark. His results in the areas of financial and quality improvements in rural settings has been recognized nationally.

Bringing over ten years of experience as an entrepreneur and consultant to CipherHealth, Zach Silverzweig works with hospitals to achieve patient-centered care through the elegant application of innovative and forward-thinking solutions. He leads CipherHealth's product and development teams, managing the solution lifecycle from concept to napkin to prototype to launch to profitability. Zach also plays a key role in managing the company's financial operations and helping to shape CipherHealth's corporate architecture. Prior to CipherHealth, Zach served as founder and CEO of an online fitness planning website. Zach has worked as a consultant at Pace Harmon and Archstone Consulting, where he helped healthcare payors, providers and the Fortune 500, improve operations, increase performance, and reduce costs.

Jonathan Hirsch is the Founder and President of Syapse, a market leader in precision oncology solutions. Jonathan is dedicated to the Syapse vision of transforming healthcare through precision medicine. As President, he works closely with healthcare providers to create a robust software platform that brings together previously fragmented clinical, molecular, and outcomes data to help physicians make better decisions for their cancer patients. Jonathan works on catalyzing national cancer data sharing networks, including Oncology Precision Network (OPeN), and served on the White House Cancer Moonshot Data Sharing Working Group. In addition to his work at Syapse, Jonathan is the Chair of the Data Committee for GBM AGILE, a global initiative to find a cure for brain cancer. He is also a member of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Clinical Working Group and a member of the UCSF Technology Advisory Group. Earlier in his career, Jonathan worked in Neuroscience Commercial Development at Abbott Laboratories, where he developed strategies to fund drug development through partnerships and private equity financing. His research at the Center for Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Chicago helped establish the effect of exercise on promoting hippocampal neurogenesis and combating Alzheimer's disease. Jonathan received an M.Sci. in Neuroscience from Stanford University and an A.B. in Biology and Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago. You can find out more information at www.syapse.com.

Troy Trygstad, PharmD, MBA, PhD Troy Trygstad is a community pharmacist, a health economist, and a pharmacy visionary who continues to encourage pharmacy industry leaders into new and innovative ways of thinking. Troy is the Executive Director of CPESN USA, a clinically integrated network of community-based pharmacy networks that endeavors to improve the quality and effectiveness of enhanced services provided by participating pharmacies and align them with the workflows and payment reform incentives of physicians, their support staff and other healthcare providers. He also serves as the Vice President of Pharmacy Provider Partnerships for Community Care of North Carolina, an organization providing wrap-around population health management supports for nearly 2,000 primary care practices. Troy possesses over fifteen years of experience with multi-disciplinary care teams and intervention development under alternative payment and support models. He is the Project Director for a Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation Award that tests new models of payment and pharmacy connectivity to primary care providers and the medical neighborhood that includes over 250 pharmacies in North Carolina. Troy proudly practices in a community pharmacy setting on nights and weekends and serves as a board member for the American Pharmacists Association Foundation and the Pharmacy Quality Alliance, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Pharmacy Times. You can find out more information at www.cpesn.com.

Mike Rea has worked in global pharma strategy for over 25 years, working with the world's top 30 pharmaceutical companies. Regarded as an industry thought leader in innovation, Mike helped lead the strategic direction of over 100 pharmaceutical brands, and created the industry standard annual Productive Innovation Index, a ranking of top 30 pharma by their ability to launch innovation. Mike's passion for industry change has inspired those around him, and IDEA Pharma's clients, to think differently, to challenge the status quo and achieve strategic excellence. Under Mike's guidance, IDEA has supported over 3 in 4 of 'blockbuster contenders' in industry pipelines (cited by FiercePharma), positioned the top 2 launches of 2015, and over half of the 50 fastest growing drugs in the 2010-15 window. Individually, Mike has been: Named as one of the 100 Most Inspiring People in Healthcare in 2011, 2013 and 2015, and was presented the Red Jacket Lifetime Achievement award in 2016 (PharmaVoice) Voted one of Top 10 Innovators in Pharma (PharmaPhorum) Acknowledged as the industry's leading expert in early-phase Positioning, and has successfully positioned some of the world's leading pharmaceutical products Is leading the development of an industry Code of Ethics Outside work, Mike owns an independent record label (Medical Records), organises the street food/ food truck festival MXMK, and cycles really slowly… You can find out more information at ideapharma.com or @ideapharma on twitter.

As Senior Vice President in the Office of Population Health Management, Dr. Smith provides clinical leadership for all of Northwell's population health activities. He is also the Medical Director for Health Solutions, Northwell's care management organization and is the Chief Medical Officer for CareConnect, Northwell's insurance company. Prior to these responsibilities he led system-wide care continuum initiatives in the post-acute setting as medical director for Post-Acute Care Services. Dr. Smith is board certified in Internal Medicine as well as Hospice and Palliative care. He maintains an active clinical practice as a house call physician in Northwell's nationally recognized home-based primary care program. Dr. Smith, an associate professor at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, has published a number of papers on advanced care models for the frail elderly and has been a co-investigator on a number of grants investigating the outcomes of high-intensity primary care programs. He has been invited to give regional and national talks on health policy, the frail elderly and the intersection of payment reform and clinical redesign. Dr. Smith has worked with regional and national associations such as the Greater New York Hospital Association, the American College of Physicians, Center to Advance Palliative Care, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care and the American Association of Home Care Medicine on health care reform. He is the executive sponsor for a number of governmental demonstration projects including Medicare's Independence at Home, Bundled Payment for Care Improvement and the New York State Health Home. Dr. Smith graduated with a degree in sociology from Princeton University and received a Master of Public Policy in health policy from Harvard University, JFK School of Government. He received his Medical Degree from Boston University School of Medicine and completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Prior to joining Northwell he was an assistant professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and an assistant program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Eric Rosow serves as CEO of Diameter Health. He has more than 25 years of experience in healthcare technology, new venture creation and executive management. Prior to co-founding Diameter Health, Eric served as the VP and General Manager of the Patient Flow business unit for Eclipsys and Allscripts. Preceding that, Eric was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Premise, a company he co-founded and led through its sale to Eclipsys. Before founding Premise, Eric was the Director of Biomedical Engineering at Hartford Hospital. Eric is passionate about building high performance entrepreneurial teams that challenge the status quo and create disruptive, yet pragmatic healthcare IT innovations. A native of Avon, CT, Eric earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College, and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from the Hartford Graduate Center/Rensselaer in Hartford. He holds several patents and has authored more than 50 academic papers, several book chapters and a textbook on virtual bioinstrumentation. At the community level, as a former member of the U.S. National Rowing Team and an active Masters rower, Eric volunteers as a varsity crew coach for the Avon High School Rowing Program, which he helped co-found in 2007. He is also an active participant in the Pan Mass Challenge, an annual bike-a-thon that raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment. Contact info: email: erosow@diameterhealth.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-rosow-5aa843/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/erosow You can find out more information at diameterhealth.com.