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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.

Letitia M. Close is a Chief of Staff to the CEO at Cook County Health and Hospitals System and Governmental & Legislative Affairs at Cook County and is based in Chicago, Illinois. She has worked as Chief of Staff to Alderman Patrick O'Connor at City Of Chicago, Government Affairs at Chicago Transit Authority, and Campaign Management at Citizen's for Devine. Letitia studied at Loyola University Chicago between 1982 and 1984 and St. Norbert College between 1980 and 1982.

Mike Dreyspring is a Chief Executive Officer at Lea County Electric Cooperative, Inc. and Board Member at Lea County Electric Cooperative, Inc. and is based in Durango-Pagosa, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has worked as President at LLANO UTILITY SERVICES LLC, Director of Finance and Administration at First Electric Cooperative, and General Manager at Mike Dreyspring Consulting LLC. Mike works or has worked as Member Board Of Directors at Pagosa Springs Community Development Corporation, Executive Committee Member at Durango Industrial Development Foundation Inc, and Exofficio Director at La Plata Electric Association Round Up Foundation. He attended Oklahoma Baptist University between 1978 and 1981, NRECA Managment Internship Program between 1987 and 1988, and Texas Christian University between 1977 and 1978.