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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.

Katina began her career at Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center in 1996. Since this time, she has held successive roles as interim CEO and now CEO. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration and Planning from Tennessee State University her Masters of Science in Public Health from Meharry Medical College. In addition to overseeing strategy and operations at Matthew Walker, Katina also sits on a number of advisory boards including the American Cancer Society Nashville Advisory Board, Safety Net Consortium of Middle Tennessee and the Tennessee Primary Care Association Governing Board. In her free time, Katina enjoys volunteering with her church, serving as a Girl Scout leader and hanging out with her husband and two children.

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.

• A strategic hospital leader with a proven record of growing hospital operations, services, facilities, profitability and reserves • An entrepreneurial leader who creates collaborative partnerships to grow business together and better serve patients and communities • A quality leader who develops others to better lead their operations, processes, and people through vigilant oversight and improvement of the highest regulatory standard • A people-focused leader with proven record of high patient and employee satisfaction, creating a culture of engagement and accountability