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Lisa Woods serves as Vice President, Physical & Emotional Wellbeing for Walmart Stores, Inc. Woods is a benefits professional with broad based knowledge and has been recognized nationally as an innovator and thought leader in health care with a strong commitment to ensuring that more than a million Walmart associates have access to benefits that are comprehensive, affordable, and competitive. Woods has played a key role in developing a portfolio of innovative programs focused on payment reform, reducing waste in the system, and ensuring appropriateness of care for Walmart associates. Lisa led the effort with her team to design and implement the Centers of Excellence program for heart, spine, joint replacements, and cancer with leading quality health systems. Lisa has also worked on developing narrow network plans focused on quality including direct contracting with ACO's. Walmart was presented with the 2019 Helen Darling Award for Excellence in Health Care Value and Innovation by the National Business Group on Health for efforts to improve the health care delivery system. In addition, Lisa was named to Fortune magazine's World's Greatest Leaders (#10) in 2019 as a result of her efforts and most recently she was awarded the 2020 Top 25 Health Care Innovators. Lisa has expanded her role within Walmart and she is responsible for the physical and emotional well-being of all U.S. associates, both those enrolled in our medical plans and those not enrolled.