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An innovative leader who has worked in bold strokes to get health care right for the patients and communities served by Allegheny Health Network (AHN), Cynthia Hundorfean is the CEO and president of the eight-hospital, $3.3 billion health care system based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since she joined the network in 2016, Ms. Hundorfean’s extraordinary efforts to transform AHN have been recognized both regionally and nationally. In 2019, she was selected by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the nation’s “Top 25 Women Leaders,” joining a distinguished list of executives whose work positively influences American health policy, care delivery models, and the industry as a whole. Ms. Hundorfean has directed AHN’s impressive financial recovery. For the decade preceding her arrival, the network and its predecessor organization sustained substantial annual operating losses. But under her leadership, the network has now reported two straight years of positive operating and net income. In 2018, AHN also closed on $1 billion in long-term bond financing, the network’s first ever public financing vehicle and a strong indicator of the network’s solid financial foundation.

CEO, Denver Health Medical Plan and Executive Director of Managed Care, Denver Health & Hospital Authority

Marshall Thomas is a Founding Executive Director at Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Depression Center at the University of Colorado, President and CEO at COLORADO ACCESS, and Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at University of Colorado and is based in Denver, Colorado. He attended The University of Texas at Austin between 1972 and 1976 and Baylor College of Medicine between 1976 and 1980.

Rajiv Patel is a Chief Executive Officer at Community Medical Group, Chief Executive Officer at US Medical Management, and Board Member at American Academy of Home Care Medicine and is based in Troy, Michigan. He has worked as System Chair Pharmacy and Therapeutics at SSM Health, Member at YPO, and Chief Medical Officer - DePaul Hospital at SSM Health St. Louis. Rajiv attended University of Florida between 1994 and 1997, Saba University School of Medicine between 1997 and 2001, and Isenberg School of Management between 2017 and 2021.