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November 6-8, 2023

Future of Health Summit

Closing the Gap: Better Health for More People

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Amy Abernethy

President, Product Development and Chief Medical Officer, Verily

Jean Accius

President and CEO, Creating Healthier Communities

Rajiv Ahuja

Associate Director, Future of Aging, Milken Institute

Cara Altimus

Managing Director, BD²: Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder

Yele Aluko

Chief Medical Officer, EY

Brian Anderson

Chief Digital Health Physician, MITRE

Merrill Anovick

Merrill Anovick

Co-Founder and President, 25Madison Health

Nwando Anyaoku

Global Vice President, Chief Health Equity and Clinical Innovation Officer, Providence Swedish Health

Allison Aubrey

Health Correspondent, NPR News

Christopher Austin

Christopher Austin

CEO-Partner, Flagship Pioneering; CEO, Vesalius Therapeutics

Omer Awan

Professor and Vice Chair of Education, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Public Health Contributor, Forbes.com

Alex Azar

24th Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services

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Christine Baeder

Christine Baeder

Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer for US Generics and Global Biosimilars, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

John M. Balbus

Director of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health

Sandy Balkin

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Analytics, Royalty Pharma

Ananya Banerjee

Ananya Banerjee

Chief Commercial Officer, Aledade

Susan Barlow

Co-Founder, Managing Partner, COO, Blue Moon Capital Partners

Emily Baxi

Director, Strategic Philanthropy, Milken Institute

Xavier Becerra

Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services

Tomasz Beer

Chief Medical Officer, Multi-Cancer Early Detection, Exact Sciences

Michael Bennet

US Senator, Colorado

Rick Berke

Co-Founder and Executive Editor, STAT

Barbara Bierer

Faculty Director, Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center, Harvard Medical School

Lora Black

Executive Director, Clinical Research, Sanford Research

Sam Blackman

Founder and Head of Research and Development, Day One Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

Nate Blaylock

Chief Technology Officer, Canary Speech

Luciana Borio

Venture Partner, Arch Venture Partners

William Brangham

William Brangham

Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

Nicholas Brooke

Nicholas Brooke

Executive Director, Patient Focused Medicines Development, The Synergist

Deborah Brooks

CEO and Co-Founder, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure

Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Emily Brown

CEO, Free From Market

Stuart Buck

Executive Director, Good Science Project

Victor Bulto

President, Novartis US

Daniel Buss

Unit Chief, Climate Change and Environmental Determinants of Health, Pan American Health Organization

Jennifer Byrne

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Robert Califf

Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration

Michael Cantor

Chief Medical Officer, Uber Health

Kathryn Capanna

Kathryn Capanna

Acting Associate Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships and Tech Innovation, Centers for Devices and Radiological Health, US Food and Drug Administration

Brian Carandang

Brian Carandang

Associate Director, Business and Program Development, Milken Institute

Bill Cassidy

US Senator, Louisiana; Ranking Member, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, US Senate

Alison Cernich

Deputy Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

Grace Chang

CEO, Kintsugi Mindful Wellness, Inc.

Sung Hee Choe

Senior Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute

Juliet K. Choi

President and CEO, Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum

Kristen Clifford

Kristen Clifford

Chief Program Officer, Alzheimer's Association

Jon Clifton

Francis Collins

Francis Collins

Head, Molecular Genetics Section, National Human Genome Research Institute; 16th Director, National Institutes of Health

Rena Conti

Associate Professor, Questrom School of Business, Boston University

Diana Contreras

Diana Contreras

Chief Health Strategy Officer, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Nakela Cook

Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

Bertha Coombs

Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay

Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay

Principal Deputy Center Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration

John Couris

President and CEO, Tampa General Hospital

John Crowley

Executive Chairman, Amicus Therapeutics

Isabella Cueto

Chronic Disease Reporter, STAT

Everett Cunningham

Everett Cunningham

Chief Commercial Officer, Exact Sciences

Bob Cusack

Editor in Chief, The Hill Newspaper and TheHill.com

D

Gregory Daniel

Vice President and Head of Global Public Policy, Eli Lilly and Company

Kevin Davies

Executive Editor, The CRISPR Journal; Author, Editing Humanity

Michellene Davis

Michellene Davis

President and CEO, National Medical Fellowships

Mat Davis

Vice President, Data Science, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Natalie Davis

Co-Founder and CEO, United States of Care

Lu de Souza

Executive Medical Director, Learning Health Network, Oracle Life Sciences

Robert DeLuca

President, Orexo Pharmaceuticals

Dan Diamond

National Health Reporter, The Washington Post

Joseph Dill

Chief Dental Officer, Delta Dental

David Dill

Chairman and CEO, Lifepoint Health

Debbie Dingell

US Representative, Michigan

Richard Ditizio

Richard Ditizio

CEO, Milken Institute

Kimberly Driggins

Kimberly Driggins

Executive Director, Washington Housing Conservancy

Doug Drysdale

Lauren Dunning

Director, Future of Aging, Milken Institute

Ysabel Duron

Founder and Executive Director, The Latino Cancer Institute

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Martin Edlund

CEO, Malaria No More; Executive Director, Health Finance Coalition

Jesse Ehrenfeld

Jesse Ehrenfeld

President, American Medical Association

Olivier Elemento

Olivier Elemento

Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Cornell University

Katie Ellias

Managing Director, JDRF T1D Fund

Eddie Eltoukhy

Partner, Pear VC

Adaeze Enekwechi

Adaeze Enekwechi

Operating Partner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe; Former Head of Health Programs, White House Office of Management and Budget

Gunnar Esiason

Head of Patient Engagement, RA Ventures

Robert Espinoza

Robert Espinoza

Executive Vice President of Policy, Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute

Arthur Evans, Jr.

Arthur Evans, Jr.

CEO, American Psychological Association

Anita Everett

Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

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Jason Farley

Director, Center for Infectious Disease and Nursing Innovation (CIDNI); Endowed Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Judy Faulkner

CEO and Founder, Epic Systems

Shamiram Feinglass

Shamiram Feinglass

Fellow, Aspen Institute

Obi Felten

Founder and CEO, Flourish Labs

Andrew Fish

President and CEO, Medical Device Innovation Consortium

Lee Fleisher

Professor Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; Senior Advisor, FasterCures

Jon Fortt

Co-Anchor, TechCheck, CNBC

Elizabeth Fowler

Elizabeth Fowler

Deputy Administrator and Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, CMS

Michael J. Fox

Actor, Author and Advocate; Founder, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research

Nick France

Vice President, Global Therapeutic Area Head for Genomic Medicines and Neurology, Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease

Holly Freishtat

Holly Freishtat

Senior Director, Feeding Change, Milken Institute

Andrew Friedson

Andrew Friedson

Director, Health Economics, Milken Institute

Patricia Furlong

Patricia Furlong

President and CEO, Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy

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Atul Gawande

Assistant Administrator for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development

Mohamed Ghanem

Head of Healthcare, Qatar Investment Authority

Sam Gill

President and CEO, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Daniel Gillison

Daniel Gillison

CEO, Executive Office, National Alliance on Mental Illness

Adam Gluck

Senior Vice President, U.S. and Specialty Care Corporate Affairs, Sanofi

Ron Goldman

Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Wisdo

Lynn Goldman

Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University

Nadine Gracia

President and CEO, Trust for America's Health

Robert Graham

Co-Founder, Fresh Medicine

Pamela Greenberg

Pamela Greenberg

President and CEO, Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness

Amanda Grigg

Staff Director, Forum for Children’s Well-Being Division of Behavioral and Social Science and Education, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Cyndi Grossman

Head of Realworld Research Networks, Biogen

Michael Guarino

Michael Guarino

North America Head of Healthcare Technology, Citi

Rahul Gupta

Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Vin Gupta

Chief Medical Officer, Amazon Pharmacy

Arun Gupta

CEO, Big Health

H

Karen Hacker

Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Gray Harris

Senior Advisor, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, USDA Rural Development

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois

Adrian Hernandez

Adrian Hernandez

Executive Director and Vice Dean, Duke Clinical Research Institute

Thomas Heymann

President and CEO, Sepsis Alliance

John Higgins

Managing Director, Brain Tumor Investment Fund

Julianne Holt-Lunstad

Julianne Holt-Lunstad

Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University

Julia Hu

CEO and Co-Founder, Lark Health

Michael Hund

CEO, EB Research Partnership

Cynthia Hutchins

Cynthia Hutchins

Director of Financial Gerontology, Retirement Research and Insights, Bank of America

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Frederick Isasi

Frederick Isasi

Executive Director, Families USA

Srini Iyer

Chief Technology Officer, Health Group, Leidos

J

Hirsh Jain

Head of Public Health and Senior Vice President, Federal, Palantir Technologies

Cara James

President and CEO, Grantmakers in Health

Carole Johnson

Administrator, Heath Resources and Services Administration

Lisa Joldersma

Strategic Advisor, Avalere Health, LLC

Christian Jung

Partner, Dementia Discovery Fund, SV Health Investors

K

Kirk Kaminsky

President, McKesson, Pharmaceutical Solutions and Services

Maha Katabi

General Partner, Sofinnova Investments

Lynne Katzmann

President and CEO, Juniper Communities

Amy Kelley

Deputy Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

Rusty Kelley

Managing Director, Retinal Degeneration Fund

Kacie Kelly

Chief Innovation Officer, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Annie Kennedy

Chief of Policy, Advocacy and Patient Engagement, EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases

Joneigh S. Khaldun

Joneigh S. Khaldun

Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer, CVS Health

Conrad Kiechel

Executive Director, Global Programming and Events, Milken Institute

Amy Klobuchar

US Senator, Minnesota

Alex Knapp

Senior Editor, Healthcare and Science, Forbes

Bob Kramer

Co-Founder and Strategic Director, National Investment Center; Founder and Fellow, Nexus Insights

Esther Krofah

Executive Vice President, MI Health, Milken Institute

Raj Kumar

President and Editor-in-Chief, Devex

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Lisa Lacasse

President, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network

Helen Lamont

Director, Disability and Aging Policy Division, Office of the Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Services

Mike Lehmicke

Senior Vice President, Science and Industry Affairs, Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

Ben Lenail

Commercial Advisor, CIONIC

Ben Leonard

Health Care Reporter, Politico

Freda Lewis-Hall

Freda Lewis-Hall

Managing Director, INTELMED, LLC

Colleen Lindholz

Colleen Lindholz

President, Kroger Health, The Kroger Co.

Yasmeen Long

Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute

Michelle Longmire

Michelle Longmire

CEO, Co-Founder, Medable

Jennifer Lotito

Jennifer Lotito

President and Chief Operating Officer, RED

Richard Lui

Journalist, News Anchor, NBC News

Kevin Lynch

CEO, President, and Founder, The Quell Foundation

M

Caitlin MacLean

Caitlin MacLean

Senior Director, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute

Carolyn Magill

CEO and Board Director, Aetion

Jack Mahler

Chief Investment Officer, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

Jon Mahrt

Chief Operating Officer, Optum

Peter Marks

Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration

Roger Marshall

US Senator, Kansas

Robin Marty

Executive Director, West Alabama Women's Center

Alfred M. Mays

Chief Diversity Officer and Strategist, Senior Program Officer for Diversity and Education, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Mark McClellan

Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University

Bridgette McCullough

Bridgette McCullough

Founder and CEO, ACIRAH Health

Kathryn McKenzie

Kathryn McKenzie

Divisional Vice President, Global Citizenship and Sustainability, Abbott; Vice President, Abbott Fund

Beth Meagher

Vice Chair, US Federal Health Sector Leader, Deloitte

Dan Mendelson

CEO, Morgan Health, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Martin Mendoza

Director of Health Equity, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health

Richard Merkin

CEO, The Heritage Group; Founder, Richard Merkin Foundation for Stem Cell Research

Michael Milken

Chairman, Milken Institute

Christine Ann Miller

Christine Ann Miller

President and CEO, Melinta Therapeutics

Alasdair Milton

Alasdair Milton

Principal, Healthcare and Life Sciences, KPMG

Sunita Mishra

Chief Medical Officer, Amazon

Susan Monarez

Deputy Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)

Dariush Mozaffarian

Dariush Mozaffarian

Jean Mayer Professor and Director, Food is Medicine Institute, Tufts University

Joep Muijrers

General Partner, Public Investments, Venture and Growth, Gilde Healthcare

Joia Mukherjee

Chief Medical Officer, Partners in Health

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Joseph Nadglowski

Joseph Nadglowski

President and CEO, Obesity Action Coalition

Samar Nassar

Managing Director, Healthcare Ministry of Investment of Saudi Arabia

John Nkengasong

John Nkengasong

Ambassador at Large, US Global AIDS Coordinator and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy, US Department of State

Jeremy Nobel

Founder and President, The Foundation for Art and Healing; Faculty, Harvard Medical School

O

Kelly O'Brien

Vice President, Prevention, Us Against Alzheimer's

Kara Odom Walker

Kara Odom Walker

Executive Vice President, Chief Population Health Officer, Nemours Children’s Hospitals

Anaeze Offodile

Anaeze Offodile

Chief Strategy Officer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

William K. Oh

Chief Medical Officer, Prostate Cancer Foundation

Sally Okun

Executive Director, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative

Alice Miranda Ollstein

Alice Miranda Ollstein

Health Care Reporter, Politico

Lianna Orlando

Vice President of Research, Partner, CureDuchenne Ventures

Florian Otto

CEO and Co-Founder, Cedar

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Anand Parekh

Chief Medical Advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center

Neena Patil

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Ellen Patterson

Ellen Patterson

President and Chief Impact Officer, Corporate Impact, EverFi

Carmen Paun

Global Health Reporter, Politico

Ethan Perlstein

Ethan Perlstein

Founder and CEO, Perlara PBC; Co-Founder and CEO, Maggie's Pearl LLC

Joanne Pike

President and CEO, Alzheimer's Association

Susan Pinker

Psychologist; Author, The Village Effect; Social Science Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Rachana Pradhan

Rachana Pradhan

Correspondent, KFF Health News

R

Eric Racine

Vice President and US Country Head, Public Affairs and Patient Advocacy, Sanofi

Maha Radhakrishnan

Maha Radhakrishnan

Group Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Biogen

Rachel B. Ramoni

Rachel B. Ramoni

Chief Research and Development Officer, Office of Discovery, Education, and Affiliate Networks, US Department of Veterans Affairs

Megan Ranney

Dean, Yale School of Public Health

Ayesha Rascoe

Host, Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR News

Tina Reed

Senior Health Care Reporter, Axios

Ekemini Riley

Managing Director, Aligning Science Across Parkinson's (ASAP)

Dena Ringold

Director, Strategy and Operations, Human Development, World Bank

James Rosen

Sara Roszak

Senior Vice President, Health and Wellness Strategy and Policy, National Association of Chain Drug Stores

Jeffrey Rothstein

Jeffrey Rothstein

Director and Founder, Robert Packard Center for ALS Research; Founder, Answer ALS Research Program

Charles Ryan

President and CEO, Prostate Cancer Foundation

Jaewon Ryu

President and CEO, Geisinger

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Nabiha Saklayen

Nabiha Saklayen

Co-Founder and CEO, Cellino

Herman Sanchez

Chief Business Officer, Trinity Life Sciences

Kristin Schneeman

Kristin Schneeman

Senior Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute

Tara Schwetz

Acting Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health

Ken Seitz

President and CEO, Nutrien Limited

Meena Seshamani

Meena Seshamani

Deputy Administrator and Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Nirav Shah

Senior Scholar, Stanford University

Neel Shah

Chief Medical Officer, Maven Clinic

Carolyn Shore

Senior Program Officer, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Gregory Simon

President, Simonovation

Christa-Marie Singleton

Christa-Marie Singleton

Chief Medical Officer, US Office of Personnel Management

Sabrina Spitaletta

Sabrina Spitaletta

Senior Director, Public Health, Milken Institute

Yvonne Sprow

Senior Vice President, Global Communications, Novavax

Nicholas St. Fleur

Nicholas St. Fleur

Science Reporter, STAT; Host, Color Code Podcast

Lissette Steele

Lissette Steele

Founder and Managing Partner, Verge Scientific Communications, LLC

Melissa Stevens

Melissa Stevens

Executive Vice President, MI Philanthropy, Milken Institute

Julie Stich

Vice President, Content, International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans

Ivana Stojanovic

Ivana Stojanovic

Vice President, Market Access and Direct to Consumer Marketing, CVRx

Matthew Stoudt

CEO, AppliedVR, Inc.

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AmirAli Talasaz

AmirAli Talasaz

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Guardant Health

Michelle Tarver

Michelle Tarver

Deputy Center Director, Chief Transformation Officer, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, US Food and Drug Administration

Troy Tazbaz

Director, Digital Health Center of Excellence, US Food and Drug Administration

Kent Thielen

Vice President, Mayo Clinic; CEO, Mayo Clinic in Florida

Pat Thistlethwaite

Pat Thistlethwaite

Global Chief Experience Officer, Havas Health & You

Henry Ting

Senior Vice President and Chief Health and Wellness Officer, Delta Airlines

Meg Tirrell

Medical Correspondent, CNN

Reed Tuckson

Former Commissioner of Public Health for The District of Columbia; Co-Founder, Black Coalition Against COVID

Joyce Tung

Vice President, Research, 23andMe

Diane Ty

Senior Director, Future of Aging, Milken Institute

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Ashwin Vasan

Commissioner, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Monique Vledder

Monique Vledder

Head of Global Health, Nutrition and Population, World Bank Group

Nora Volkow

Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

Hubertus von Baumbach

Hubertus von Baumbach

Chairman and CEO, Boehringer Ingelheim

Andrew von Eschenbach

Andrew von Eschenbach

President, Samaritan Health Initiatives, Inc.

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Chris Wasden

Chief Strategy Officer, Twill

Jared Watkin

Senior Vice President, Diabetes Care, Abbott

Matthew Watley

Pastor, Kingdom Fellowship AME Church

Renee Wegrzyn

Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Cheryl Platzman Weinstock

Cheryl Platzman Weinstock

Independent Journalist

Elizabeth White

Elizabeth White

Founder, NUUage Coliving

Joseph Williams

Joseph Williams

Managing Director, Freedom Forum

Paul Williams

Senior Vice President, Products Business, Emergent Biosolutions

Angela F. Williams

Angela F. Williams

President and CEO, United Way Worldwide

Susan Winckler

CEO, Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration

Janet Woodcock

Principal Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration

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Todd Young

US Senator, Indiana

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Ran Zheng

CEO, Landmark Bio

Alice Zheng

Principal, RH Capital