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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.

With years of clinical leadership experience, Dr. Kevin Klauer brings valuable and innovative talents to the team. Dr. Klauer is a proven leader and brings his expertise and knowledge to the company as the chief medical officer for Emergency Medicine, chief risk officer for TeamHealth, and executive director of TeamHealth’s Patient Safety Organization. He works hard to develop cutting-edge patient safety and clinical best practices throughout the organization and directs clinical risk management. Dr. Klauer is responsible for: • risk management initiatives • clinical education • litigation support • patient safety • assistance with training medical directors • promotion of effective communication with physicians and advanced practice clinicians Concurrent with his role at TeamHealth, Dr. Klauer is an assistant clinical professor at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and serves as the medical editor-in-chief for ACEP Now, the monthly publication of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). He previously served as editor-in-chief for Emergency Physicians Monthly. Dr. Klauer has published three risk-management books, Emergency Medicine Bouncebacks: Medical and Legal, Risk Management and the Emergency Department: Executive Leadership and Protecting Patients and Hospitals, with a third, Pediatric Bouncebacks, released in March 2015. Dr. Klauer also served as a speaker of the ACEP Council. Dr. Klauer received the ACEP National Teaching Faculty Award in 2001 and the Emergency Medicine Resident's Association Robert Dougherty ACEP/Emergency Medicine Foundation Teaching Fellowship. In 2014, he was the recipient of ACEP's Honorable Mention Outstanding Speaker of the Year Award and was recognized by the Ohio Chapter of ACEP with the Bill Hall Award of Service. Dr. Klauer earned his Executive Juris Doctor with honors from Concord Law School in 2011.

Ben Heavrin is a Chief Medical Officer at Qsource, Board Member at MindCare Solutions Group Inc, and Emergency Medicine Physician at Nashville General Hospital and is based in Area, Tamil Nadu, India. He has worked as Attending Physician at Middle Tennessee Emergency Physicians; Medical Director and Section Chief, Emergency Care at Veterans Affairs; and Medical Director and Chief - Emergency Medicine - Tristar Skyline Medical Center at HCA Healthcare, Inc.. Ben studied at Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management between 2002 and 2004, 美國普林斯頓大學 between 1994 and 1998, and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine between 1999 and 2004.