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Dr. Ellner is the President and CEO of Centura Health Physician Group, a 600 provider, employed multi-specialty group headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. Centura Health is a 17 hospital health system focused on connecting Colorado and western Kansas to affordable, world-class care with $1.3 billion in annual revenues. Dr. Ellner has completed a Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and National Patient Safety Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow with the Health Research Educational Trust and a member of the AHA Committee on Clinical Leadership. His work focuses on communication and culture change in the healthcare workplace to improve patient outcomes. He was Chairman and founding member of the Connecticut Surgical Quality Collaborative, a statewide, data sharing framework for all Connecticut hospitals to learn from one another using best practices. As an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Dr. Ellner created a four-year patient safety curriculum for medical students and a yearlong "Leading Surgical Quality" curriculum for the surgical residents. He has written numerous peer-review articles on the subject of patient safety and is considered to be one of the "50 Leading Experts" on the subject by Becker’s Hospital Review. Dr. Ellner holds a Master’s Degree in Health Care Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and has written case studies on surgical quality for the school to use as part of their curriculum. Dr. Ellner has appeared live on the Today Show, Larry King Live, NBC CT 30, NPR and has had articles in the CT Mirror, the Hartford Courant, the Wall Street Journal, Hartford Magazine, Hartford Business Journal, the HFMA e-Bulletin, Outpatient Surgery Magazine, Becker's Clinical Review, the American College of Surgeons Bulletin and the AHA Hospital and Health Networks Online Magazine for patient safety and health care quality improvement.

Kate Walsh is president and CEO of the Boston Medical Center (BMC) health system, with annual operating revenue of $4 billion. BMC is a private, not-for-profit, 514-bed, academic medical center with a community-based focus. The primary teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center has approximately 5,700 employees and 760 physicians. The BMC health system also includes the BMC HealthNet Plan, a Medicaid Managed Care Organization with more than 450,000 members and Boston HealthNet, a network affiliation of 14 community health centers throughout Boston. Prior to her appointment at Boston Medical Center, Ms. Walsh served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brigham and Women's Hospital. She served previously as the chief operating officer for Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and at Massachusetts General Hospital in positions including senior vice president of medical services and the MGH Cancer Center. Prior to her tenure at Mass General, she held positions in a number of New York City hospitals including Montefiore, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Saint Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital Center and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Ms. Walsh received her bachelor’s of arts degree and a master’s degree in public health from Yale University. She is a member of the Boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Hospital Association, the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals, Pine Street Inn, Dean’s Council of the Yale University School of Medicine, and the Greater Boston YMCA Board of Overseers.

Philip 'Phil' Incarnati is a Board Member at Reliant Renal Care Inc, Board Member at PYRAMID HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS, and President/CEO at McLaren Health Care. He has worked as Board Member at Theragenics Corporation; Board Member at HBO; and Board Member at PREMIER, INC.. Philip works or has worked at Detroit Receiving Hospital & Univ Hlth Ctr and Wayne State University. He studied at Eastern Michigan University.

Barry Arbuckle is a Chairman at MemorialCare Innovation Fund, Board Member at Summation Health Ventures, and Adjunct Faculty at California State University San Marcos. He works or has worked as CHAIRMAN at March of Dimes, CHAIRMAN at California Hospital Assn, and MEMBER at Integrated Healthcare Association. Barry studied at Missouri State University, Arizona State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Robert Wentz is a President/CEO at OROVILLE HOSPITAL, Owner at Oroville Sports Club, and Managing and Founding Partner at Tenzing Medical LLC and is based in Oroville, California. He studied at California State University-Sacramento.

K Scott Wester is a Board Member at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc, Chief Executive Officer at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc, and CEO & Pres:OUR Lady of The Lake Hospital at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System.

Robert (Bob) Howard is the president and Chief Executive Officer of St. Michael’s Hospital, a teaching and research hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Affectionately known as the Urban Angel, St. Michael’s is renowned for providing exceptional care to homeless, disadvantaged and the province’s most critically ill patients. Robert is a cardiologist with a passion for excellence in healthcare management and a vision for quality improvement and innovation. He has made it a cornerstone of the hospital’s strategic plan and his work in this area is setting the benchmark across Ontario. Under Robert’s leadership, St. Michael’s officially opened the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and the Keenan Research Centre. The hospital has also begun construction on a major transformation project, which will include the 17-storey Peter Gilgan patient care tower, and extensive renovations like the expanded state-of-the-art Slaight Family Emergency Department. This revitalization of the hospital’s facilities will position it to be the premier critical care hospital in Canada. Robert is also active in the broader healthcare community. Notable examples include his roles as chair of the Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network (TAHSN) and executive member of the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario (CAHO). He is also a board member for the Michener Institute of Technology, the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC) and the Health Force Ontario Marketing and Recruitment Agency (HFO-MRA). Robert has an undergraduate degree in industrial engineering from the University of Toronto, a medical degree from McMaster University, and an executive MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.