Keynote Speaker

Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Maureen Bisognano previously served as IHI’s President and CEO for five years, after serving as Executive Vice President and COO for 15 years. She is a prominent authority on improving health care systems, whose expertise has been recognized by her elected membership to the National Academy of Medicine (IOM), among other distinctions. Ms. Bisognano advises health care leaders around the world, is a frequent speaker at major health care conferences on quality improvement and is a tireless advocate for change. She is an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She chaired the Advisory Board of the Well Being Trust, co-chairs the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care with Dr. Atul Gawande, and serves on the boards of the Commonwealth Fund, Indiana University Health and Nursing Now. Prior to joining IHI, she served as CEO of the Massachusetts Respiratory Hospital and Senior Vice President of The Juran Institute.

Event Committee

Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, Former Chief Executive Officer, AONL, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, AHA

Joshua Boger, PhD

Ellen R. Cohen, MSW, Founder, Schwartz Center Board

Wendy K. Cohen, LICSW

Ethan Crain, Executive Vice President, National Healthcare Practice Leader, Lockton

William T. Curry, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer, Academic Medical Center, Mass General Brigham

James C. De Vellis, Partner, Foley & Lardner, LLP

Mishele and Robert Fields, MD, Executive Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health

Matthew Fishman

Melissa A. Fitzpatrick, MSN, RN, FAAN, President, Kirby Bates Associates

Graham Gardner, MD, MBA, Founder and Former Chief Executive Officer, Kyruus Health

Matt Germak MD, MPH, Vice President of Patient Safety, CRICO

Elizabeth L.B. Greene, Partner, Mirick

Brent L. Henry, Member, Mintz

Ed Keohane, Founder and CEO, Babywell MD

Michele Klau, RNCS, The Danielsen Institute at Boston University

Sarah Lukas, Former Partner, Edelstein & Co., LLP

Sharon McNally, CEO, Camp Harbor View Foundation

Ann Muschett and Michael L. Blau, Former Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Reena L. Pande, MD, Partner, Oxeon

Paresh Purohit, Vice President, Marsh MMA

Scott Quint and Michael Gustafson, MD, MBA, CEO, The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare

Jean-Paul A. Rebillard, Executive Vice President, MedPro Group

Jay Shiland, Partner, MTS Health Partners LP

Colette and Dan Stanzler, Partner/Portfolio Manager

Marjorie and Paul Stanzler

Elizabeth Vernaglia, PhD, and Lawrence Vernaglia, Partner, Foley and Lardner LLP

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