
Marc Harrison, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Intermountain Healthcare
Keynote
CEO Perspectives and Roundtable
Sponsor Session with Optum
Insurer Perspective
President and Chief Executive Officer
Intermountain Healthcare
President and Chief Executive Officer
SSM Health
Editor-in-Chief, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery; Co-Chair, NEJM Catalyst Editorial Board; Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey Associates, Inc.
Member, Editorial Board, New England Journal of Medicine
Executive Editor, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery; Physician, Brigham Health; Associate Faculty, Ariadne Labs; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Chief Executive Officer
Optum Advisory Services
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School
Editorial Board Co-Chair, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery
Editorial Director
NEJM Catalyst
President and Chief Executive Officer
Geisinger
Head of Strategy and Innovation
Coöperatie VGZ
Marc Harrison, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Intermountain Healthcare, is a pediatric critical care physician with a proven track record as a top operations executive on a global scale. He is a national and international thought leader on transformation and innovation — ranking in Fortune magazine’s Top 50 World’s Greatest Leaders in 2019. He also ranked second among Modern Healthcare’s Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders and tied for second on its list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2018.
Dr. Harrison embraces strategic partnerships and novel collaborations to solve systemic problems and improve lives. Together with Intermountain’s 38,000 employees — who are all called caregivers — he has implemented bold new approaches to improve health, redefine value-based care, and serve people in new ways. Intermountain’s partnerships, pioneering initiatives, and commitment to service are transforming health care and bearing fruit for patients and communities.
For example, Intermountain led a partnership of hundreds of hospitals to launch Civica Rx, a not-for-profit generic drug manufacturer and distributor, to make generic medications more available and affordable in hospitals across the nation. Intermountain is also a founding member of the Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health, which is a collaboration of community partners designed to proactively address forces that affect people’s health well before they come to a clinic or a hospital.
Previously, Dr. Harrison served as CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Chief of International Business Development at Cleveland Clinic, and Chief Medical Operations Officer.
He received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, completed a pediatric residency and pediatric care fellowship at Intermountain’s Primary Children’s Hospital, and a Master of Medical Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Harrison is an all-American triathlete and represented the U.S. at the 2014 World Championships.
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. Louis, MO, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 290 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 10 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company, and an accountable care organization. The nearly 40,000 employees and 11,000 providers at SSM Health are committed to delivering exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.
Ms. Kaiser joined SSM Health as President/CEO in May 2017, bringing 30+ years of experience in health care strategy, improving clinical quality, fueling innovation, managing operational performance and growth, leading change management, and successfully facilitating health care integration.
Ms. Kaiser previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, UT. She also served at Ascension Health in a number of senior leadership roles including Regional Executive for the Gulf Coast/Florida region and President/CEO at Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola, FL.
Ms. Kaiser currently serves on several boards, including the American Hospital Association Health System Council, the Catholic Health Association, the Healthcare Leadership Council, Navitus Health Solutions, Nuance Communications, Embold Health, the Scottsdale Institute, and Civic Progress.
She earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Missouri, and a Master of Business Administration and Master of Health Care Administration from Saint Louis University. Ms. Kaiser is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, and in 2018 and 2019 was named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare magazine.
Dr. Thomas Lee is Chief Medical Officer of Press Ganey, and an internist and cardiologist who practices at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is a Professor of Medicine, part time, at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining Press Ganey, he served as Network President for Partners Healthcare System and Chief Executive Officer for Partners Community HealthCare, Inc., the integrated delivery system founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Geisinger Health System, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Geisinger Health Plan, Geisinger Quality Options, Inc., and Geisinger Indemnity Insurance Company Board of Directors. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Health Leads; the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medical College; the Special Medical Advisory Group (SMAG) of the Veterans Administration; and the Panel of Health Advisors of the Congressional Budget Office. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as Editor-in-Chief of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery and Co-Chair of the NEJM Catalyst Editorial Board.
He is the author of more than 260 academic articles and three books, Chaos and Organization in Health Care, Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine, and An Epidemic of Empathy in HealthcarNamed in his honor, the Thomas H. Lee Award for Excellence in Primary Care is given each year to recognize a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who meets the needs of his or her patients exceptionally well.
Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Science from Harvard College, a medical degree from Cornell University Medical College, and a master’s degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He lives in Milton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Dr. Soheyla Gharib, who is Chief of Medicine at Harvard University Health Services. The couple has three daughters.
Namita Seth Mohta, MD, is a physician executive with expertise in health care delivery transformation. As the Executive Editor for NEJM Catalyst; Innovations in Care Delivery, she is part of the founding leadership team and has responsibility for content strategy and quality. Most recently, Dr. Mohta served as the Director, Serious Illness Care Program (SICP), at Ariadne Labs, a health system innovation center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. SICP is focused on the design, test, and spread of solutions to improve care for patients and caregivers experiencing serious illness. Dr Mohta has been part of the founding Population Health and ACO leadership teams as Medical Director, both at Partners HealthCare (now MassGeneral Brigham) and the New England Quality Care Alliance (Tufts Medical Center), both in Boston. Her responsibilities have included designing and implementing value-based care with a focus on scaling tailored clinical interventions, integrating analytics and measurement, and leading system-wide change management efforts. Dr Mohta has worked with multiple start-ups, including PatientPing (now Bamboo Health), a digital health company, as their Physician Lead, with a focus on building products that improve care. She often consults with organizations to provide strategic and technical expertise and leadership. She worked as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group prior to medical training.
Dr. Mohta practices internal medicine as a hospitalist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Mohta is former faculty at the Center for Healthcare Delivery Sciences and current associate faculty at Ariadne Labs. She completed her Internal Medicine and Primary Care residency training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Mohta is a graduate of Yale College and Yale School of Medicine.
Mitchell Morris is Executive Vice President at Optum and CEO of Optum Advisory Services, the consulting division of Optum. Dr. Morris has more than 30 years of health care experience in consulting, health care administration, technology, and clinical care. Prior to joining Optum, Dr. Morris was Vice Chairman and Global Leader for the Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry at Deloitte. Dr. Morris also served as Senior Vice President for Healthcare Systems and Chief Information Officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center where he was also Professor in Surgery and in Health Services Research. At the University of Texas, Houston, he was Professor of Biomedical Informatics (adjunct). During his academic career, he received international recognition as a leading clinician, researcher, and educator.
Dr. Morris’s career focus has been on health systems, academic organizations, and government agencies, assisting them with the development and implementation of strategies around health reform, growth, technology, and innovation. He has published extensively and is a frequent speaker on health care reform, technology, and policy.
Michael Porter is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School. University professorship is the highest professional recognition that can be awarded to a Harvard faculty member. A leading authority on company strategy, the competitiveness of nations and regions, and strategic approaches to societal problems, Michael Porter’s work is widely recognized in governments, corporations, nonprofits, and academic circles across the globe. A sought-after teacher and the author of 19 books and over 125 articles, Professor Michael Porter is director of the Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, which was founded in 2001 to further his work and research.
Dr. Porter’s initial training was in aerospace engineering at Princeton University. He then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard’s Department of Economics. His research approach — applying economic theory to complex systemic problems — reflects these multidisciplinary foundations. Michael also serves as the Editorial Board Co-Chair of NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery.
As Editorial Director for NEJM Catalyst, Edward Prewitt oversees all editorial content for the monthly journal, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery; monthly Insights reports; and quarterly events. He works closely with NEJM Catalyst advisors, authors, and colleagues to ensure that editorial content advances the national and international dialogue to drive innovation in health care delivery, while upholding NEJM Group’s high standards for quality.
Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD, is the President and CEO of Geisinger, an integrated delivery system with over $6.5 billion in combined revenue and comprised of a medical group, hospitals and clinics, a health plan, and a medical school in central and northeastern Pennsylvania. Coming from Humana, as President of Integrated Care Delivery, he also held various leadership roles at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, Kaiser Permanente, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a body legislatively tasked with advising Congress on payment and other polices governing health plans and providers serving Medicare beneficiaries. He has previously also served in other advisory roles, including board positions with My Health Direct, Inc., a provider of digital care coordination solutions (acquired by Experian), as well as MCCI and JenCare, both organizations managing the financing and delivery of care. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the White House Fellows Foundation and Association.
Dr. Ryu earned his BA degree from Yale University, and his MD and JD from the University of Chicago. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Marit Tanke, MD, PhD, is Head of Strategy and Innovation at Dutch health insurance company Coöperatie VGZ. In 2016-’17, she was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Partners Healthcare Systems, studying strategies to improve care for complex patients. Previously, Tanke was a senior research fellow at Radboudumc and led a collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport focusing on strategies to improve care while keeping care financially sustainable. From 2010 to 2015, she was a manager at KPMG Healthcare NL and the KPMG Global Center of Excellence. Tanke has also worked at the pediatric department of Haga Hospital in The Hague.