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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.

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Charis Zhou MHA MPH is a Chief Executive Officer at American Public Health Association and Founder & CEO at Healthy China☯️ ��=Healthy World Media Co. and is based in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. She has worked as Research Assistant at American Public Health Association, Reviewer of Medical Care at WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH, and Researcher (Graduate Student) at Université de Montréal. Charis attended Université de Montréal between 2005 and 2009, Sun Yat sen University between 1994 and 1997, and Xinjiang Medical University between 1987 and 1992.

Mark Brown is a Chaplain (1st Lieutenant) at Texas State Guard, Deputy Sheriff (Reserve Command) at Harris County Sheriff s Office, and Chief Executive Officer at West Houston Assistance Ministries WHAM and is based in Houston, Texas. He has worked as National Director at Bible Society in New Zealand, Founder & Chief Strategist at Grow My Media, and International Distribution Manager at One Hope. Mark works or has worked at Global Scope Ministries and works or has worked as Parish Priest at Anglican Church of Australia. He studied at Edith Cowan University between 1997 and 1999, Leeming Senior High School, and Murdoch University between 1993 and 1996.