
David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P.
President
The Commonwealth Fund
Topic 1: Provider driven/quality data transparency
Topic 2: Pricing transparency
Topic 3: Open note transparency
President
The Commonwealth Fund
Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer
Providence St. Joseph Health
CEO and President
Cleveland Clinic
Executive Editor
New England Journal of Medicine
Koplow-Tullis Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board Co-Chair, NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery; Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey Associates; Editorial Board, New England Journal of Medicine
University of Utah Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, Dean of the School of Medicine, CEO
University of Utah Health Care
President and Chief Executive Officer
BJC HealthCare
Chief Information Officer
Stanford Health Care
Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Associate Dean of Diversity
Harvard School of Public Health
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 CEO 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.
He is the author of more than 300 academic articles and four books, Chaos and Organization in Health Care, Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern Medicine, An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare, and The Good Doctor.
Named 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.
Since July of 2011, Dr. Vivian S. Lee has served as Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, Dean of the University’s School of Medicine, and CEO of University of Utah Health Care. She is responsible for an annual budget of $3.3 billion, including a health care system comprised of four hospitals, numerous clinical and research specialty centers like the Huntsman Cancer Institute and John Moran Eye Center, a network of 11 neighborhood health centers; an insurance plan; over 1,330 board certified physicians; and Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health, Dentistry. graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe, Dr. Lee received a doctorate in medical engineering at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Returning to Harvard, she earned her M.D. with honors.
Following a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at Duke, she trained as a fellow in MRI at NYU. Prior to coming to Utah, she served as the inaugural Vice Dean for Science, Senior Vice-President and Chief Scientific Officer at New York University Langone Medical Center. Dr. Lee is currently principal investigator for two NIH R01 grants. Elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, she serves on NIH Council of Councils and the Journal Oversight Committee for JAMA. A Fellow and past President of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Dr. Lee has authored over 150 papers and a popular textbook, Cardiovascular MRI: Physical Principles to Practical Protocols. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on quantitative functional MRI for the improved understanding of physiology and disease.