Zetema Panelists

Drew Altman is President and CEO of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (known as KFF).  He is an innovator in the world of foundations and non-profits and a leading expert on national health policy who publishes and speaks widely on health issues. 

Brett Baker is a Senior Health Policy Advisor on the staff of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate.  His focus is on Medicare payment policy, including the Part D prescription drug benefit.  Brett previously served as professional member on the staff of the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, United States House of Rep

Alan Balch has more than 15 years of executive leadership in the non-profit sector with an emphasis on consensus-building and collaboration. He became the CEO of both PAF and NPAF in 2013.

Elaine Batchlor, MD, MPH, is the Chief Executive Officer of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, a state-of-the-art, community-oriented safety net hospital that now provides compassionate, quality care to the South Los Angeles Community. Throughout her career, Dr.

Georges C. Benjamin, MD, currently serves as the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization of public health professionals.

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE, is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an organization that Dr. Berwick co-founded and led as President and CEO for 18 years.  He is one of the nation's leading authorities on health care quality and improvement.

Lanhee J. Chen, Ph.D.

Dr. Mandy Cohen was appointed to the role of Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in January 2017 by Governor Roy Cooper. Secretary Cohen and her team work tirelessly to improve the health, safety and well-being of all North Carolinians.

A global leader in healthcare innovation, Dr. Molly Coye’s career has spanned executive leadership in government, academic and private health systems, innovative technology and health services firms, and national policy advocacy and development. Dr.

Bruce C. Cozadd, MBA, co-founded Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2003 and has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since April 2009.

Aldy is a global leader at Apple responsible for managing the design and strategy for Apple’s Global Healthcare Programs. Aldy has been with Apple since 2013 and her primary focus is to bring a defined strategy that enables consistent thinking in how Apple supports healthcare for their employees and families globally.

Lisa Earnhardt joined Abbott, a global healthcare leader, in June 2019 as Executive Vice President, Medical Devices, a $12B business with 33,000 employees.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. William K.

Dr. Julie Gerberding is Executive Vice President and Chief Patient Officer at Merck & Co., Inc., where she is responsible for a broad portfolio focused on patient engagement, strategic communications, global public policy, population health and corporate responsibility. She joined Merck in 2010 as president of Merck vaccines

 Ernest J. Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN, currently President of the American Nurses Association (ANA), has more than 30 years of nursing and leadership experience. Effective January 2019, Grant is the first man to serve as ANA president.

John D. Halamka, MD, MS is the President of Mayo Clinic Platform. Previously, he served for over 20 years as  the chief information officer (CIO) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare System.   He is chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network (NEHEN), and a practicing emergency physician.

Amy Hall, MPA, is Minority Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. She previously served as a senior professional member, Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S.

Sandra R. Hernández, MD, is president and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation, which works to improve the health care system so it works for all Californians. Prior to joining CHCF, Sandra was CEO of The San Francisco Foundation, which she led for 16 years.

Karen Ignagni serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of EmblemHealth. EmblemHealth provides quality, affordable health care coverage and administrative services to approximately 3.1 million people.

Brent James is known internationally for his work in clinical quality improvement, patient safety, and the infrastructure that underlies successful improvement efforts, such as culture change, data systems, payment methods, and management roles.

Chris Jennings is Founder and President of Jennings Policy Strategies.

As President/Chief Executive Officer of SSM Health, Laura S. Kaiser, FACHE, leads a Catholic not-for-profit health system serving communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. Headquartered in St.

Gary S. Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE, FACPE, has served as chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System in Seattle since 2000. He is also a practicing internal medicine physician at Virginia Mason. 

Bob Kocher is a Partner at Venrock and focuses on healthcare IT and services investments. He currently serves on the Board of Jiff, Aledade, and Lyra Health, where he is also a co-founder, and is a Board Observer at Grand Rounds, Stride, and Doctor on Demand. He is a former Director at Castlight Health (CSLT).

Wright L. Lassiter III is President and CEO of Henry Ford Health System, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. He oversees the $7.5 billion health system comprised of six hospitals, a health plan and a wide range of ambulatory and retail and related health services consisting of more than 250 locations and 32,000 employees.

Peter V. Lee, JD, is the Executive Director of Covered California (the Exchange), where he oversees the planning, development and ongoing administration and evaluation of the Exchange. The Exchange was established by the State of California to support the dramatic expansion of coverage enabled by the Affordable Care Act.

Vivian S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., is President of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company whose mission is to apply digital solutions that enable people to enjoy healthier lives.

Peter Long is senior vice president of Heathcare and Community Health Transformation at Blue Shield of California, a 4-million-member nonprofit health plan that serves the state's commercial, individual, and government markets.

Alan Lotvin, M.D., is Executive Vice President at CVS Health and President of CVS Caremark. 

James L. Madara serves as the CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association. Since taking the reins of the AMA in 2011, Dr. Madara has helped sculpt the organization’s visionary long term strategic plan. Prior to arriving at the AMA, Dr.

Kedar S. Mate, MD, is the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Previously, Dr. Mate served as Chief Innovation and Education Officer.  In this role, he was responsible for research & development, innovation, and education at IHI.

Mark McClellan is the Robert J. Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine, and Policy, and Director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University with offices at Duke and in Washington DC. Dr.

Julie Morita is executive vice president of RWJF, where she oversees all programming, policy, research, and communications activities. Before joining RWJF, Dr. Morita helped lead the Chicago Department of Public Health for nearly two decades, first as a medical director, then as chief medical officer.

Dr. Farzad Mostashari is the CEO of Aledade, a start-up he co-founded aimed at helping primary care doctors transform their practices and form accountable care organizations (ACOs). Prior to Aledade, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, where he focused on payment reform and delivery system transformation.

Debra L. Ness, M.S. is President of the National Partnership for Women & Families. Before assuming her current role as president in 2004, she served as executive vice president of the National Partnership for 13 years.

Marcus Osborne serves as Vice President, Walmart Health, where he is focused on furthering Walmart’s goal of providing quality healthcare that is affordable and accessible.  Walmart Health is a first of its kind health center, initially launched in Dallas, GA, that provides integrated care of key health services like primacy care, dental, counse

Ron Pollack is Chair Emeritus and Founding Executive Director of Families USA, the national organization for health care consumers. Families USA's mission is to achieve highquality, affordable health coverage and care for everyone in the U.S. 

John Prince currently serves as the chief executive officer of OptumRx, an industry-leading provider of pharmacy care services.

Dr. Donald Rebhun is the Regional Medical Director of HealthCare Partners Medical Group and Affiliated Physicians, a nationally recognized medical group helping enable people across the greater Los Angeles area to live healthier lives.  Dr.

Avik Roy is the President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP.org), a non-partisan, non-profit think tank that conducts original research on expanding opportunity to those who least have it.

As president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Dr. Craig E. Samitt oversees the state’s first and largest health plan.

As President of System Enterprises for Sutter Health, Rishi Sikka, M.D. brings a deep commitment to improving the lives of others and a strong vision for a better patient experience to his role overseeing key integrated services for one of the nation’s leading health systems. 

From 2015 to 2017, Andy served as the Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under President Obama, overseeing the Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, value-based payment reform and the Health Insurance Marketplace.

Mark Smith is currently a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and Visiting Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. He co-chairs the Guiding Committee of the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network.

Arthur M. Southam, MD, is executive vice president, Health Plan Operations, for Kaiser Permanente, America’s largest not-for-profit health system with $80 billion in revenue, providing integrated health care and coverage to more than 12.2 million members and patients in eight states.  Dr.

As President and CEO of Atrius Health, Dr. Steven Strongwater, MD, leads 6,800 employees serving 675,000 patients across eastern Massachusetts with coordinated medical care, home health and hospice.

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform.

Matthew Walker is CEO of UNITEHERE HEALTH, a Taft-Hartley trust fund offering health benefits to 225,000 participants throughout the United States.

Jay Want, MD, is Executive Director of the Peterson Center on Healthcare. He leads the Center’s expanding portfolio of initiatives and grants to identify high-performance models of healthcare, validate their impact on quality and cost, and facilitate their adoption on a national scale.

Alan Weil became the Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs on June 1, 2014.  A multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the serious exploration of domestic and international health policy and system change, Health Affairs is the nation’s leading journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy.

Jeff White is the Director of Global Health Care and Well Being at The Boeing Company.  In this role he leads a team responsible for benefits strategy, contract negotiations and plan policy which accounts for $2.5 billion in annual spend.

Gail Wilensky is an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation. She directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs from 1990 to 1992 and served in the White House as a senior health and welfare adviser to President GHW Bush. Dr.