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Charles Henderson is the Chief Field Operations Officer of the American Diabetes Association (ADA). Charles joined the ADA in January 2020 after spending 24 plus years in for profit sectors and volunteering in the non-profit sector, Charles is passionate about spending the balance of his career in a space that will make a significant impact on lives. Philanthropy and Sales/Fundraising is thread through the fabric of his DNA. Charles comes to the ADA from Champion Life Safety Solutions where he was CEO & President. Prior to that he was a Field Sales Executive running multi-billion territories across the country for Dell Healthcare, Commonground Marketing (including executing special events in the field) and Viacom. His professional skill set and success, coupled with his passion and desire to give back makes this a perfect time to lead a non-profit organization in the development area. Chuck is an astute executive skilled in building trusted & collegial working relationships, relationship selling/fundraising, driving productivity, leading and also supporting change-management initiatives. He has deep experience developing best-of-breed, solution selling leaders, who think as strategic business partners, with a culture of winning as a team and over delivering results. An expert in team building, fundraising/sales management, strategy & solution development, contract negotiation, execution, and C-suite client relationship building. A native Texan, Charles has a strong commitment to his family, community, and church. An avid golfer, Charles is also involved with his Alma mater, Texas A&M where he serves on boards and leverages his professional skills to raise money for the school in different capacities. When he is not working on fundraising for A&M causes, he is working on raising capital funds for his church where he serves on the Board of Trustees. Charles is married to his beautiful wife Courtney and they have a beautiful daughter, Charlie who is 11 years old.

@KimCallinan is a sought-after thought leader, inspirational speaker, certified death doula, and head of the largest end-of-life consumer advocacy organization. Frequently speaks at conferences and events; testifies before lawmakers; conducts policy briefings; serves on committees; and authors commentary. Areas of expertise include the stark contrast between consumer needs and existing practices in end-of-life care; consumer empowerment and planning at life’s end; preplanning for a dementia diagnosis; reducing disparities in end-of-life planning and care; the impact of religiously-affiliated health care on end of life care; and the authorization and implementation of medical aid in dying, also referred to as death with dignity.

Extensive non-profit and government sector leadership experience in strategy, operational excellence, organizational design, performance management, change management, inclusion and diversity, financial management, service design and innovation.

James L. Madara, MD, serves as the CEO and executive vice president of the American Medical Association, the nation’s largest physician organization. He holds the academic title of adjunct professor of pathology at Northwestern University. Since taking the reins of the AMA in 2011, Dr. Madara has helped sculpt the organization’s visionary long-term strategic plan. As an extension of this vision, he now also serves as chairman of Health2047 Inc., an independent, design-driven innovation firm based in San Francisco whose mission is to help advance the AMA’s goal of improving the health of the nation. Prior to arriving at the AMA, Dr. Madara spent the first 22 years of his career at Harvard Medical School, receiving both clinical and research training, serving as a tenured professor and as director of the NIH-sponsored Harvard Digestive Diseases Center. Following 5 years as chair of pathology at Emory, Dr. Madara served as dean of the medical school and CEO of the hospitals at the University of Chicago, bringing together the university’s biomedical research, teaching and clinical activities. While there, he oversaw the renewal of the institution’s biomedical campus and engineered significant new affiliations with community hospitals, teaching hospital systems, community clinics and national research organizations. Dr. Madara also served as senior advisor with Leavitt Partners, an innovative health care consulting and private-equity firm founded by former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt. Having published more than 200 original papers and chapters, Dr. Madara has received both national and international awards, and served as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Pathology and as president of the American Board of Pathology. In addition to Modern Healthcare consistently naming him as one of the nation’s 50 most influential physician executives, as well as one of the nation’s 100 most influential people in health care, he is a past recipient of a prestigious MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health. He received the 2011 Davenport Award for lifetime achievement in gastrointestinal disease from the American Physiological Society and the 2011 Mentoring Award for lifetime achievement from the American Gastroenterological Society. Dr. Madara is an elected member of both the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He also co-chairs the Value Incentives and Systems Innovation Collaborative of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and is a member of NAM’s Leadership Consortium for Value & Science-Driven Health Care. Dr. Madara and his wife Vicki have 2 children, Max and Alexis.

Karen Peddicord is a Chief Executive Officer at Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and Interim Executive Director at Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and is based in Washington d.c. Metro Area.