Bob Auerbach Esq. is the Director of Payer Relations and Contracting for the Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Auerbach joined Temple in 2006, and has been responsible for the development and maintenance of all managed care payer agreements for Temple’s health enterprise, including many varieties of value based contracts. Prior to joining Temple Bob held management positions in provider relations at a number of different insurance companies including Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Prudential Health Plans, and Carefirst of Delaware. Bob got his JD from Widener School of Law in 1984.

REED BJERGO has been with UnitedHealth Group for 24 years, serving in a number of leadership roles during his tenure. Reed currently is Vice President, Next-Generation Network-Based Products, for UnitedHealthcare’s Employer & Individual line of business, which provides a comprehensive array of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services nationwide to large national employers, public sector employers, and mid-sized and small businesses, as well as individuals.

In his current role, Reed is responsible for strategic planning and development of next-generation health benefits offerings, including accountable care organization (ACO)-based products. He previously held positions in strategic planning and development for the commercial business, innovative product development, and sales operations.

Reed holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. He is a graduate of UnitedHealthcare’s General Manager Program and Executive Development Program, and is a Pinnacle President’s Award winner, which recognizes UnitedHealthcare employees for exemplary performance and leadership.

Chief Health Innovation Officer – Independent Health, Buffalo, NY Physician Entrepreneur – Provider, Payer, Community and Consumer Integration

Dr. Haughton is the CHIO/Quality Officer at Independent Health plan in Buffalo, NY and the Innovation Officer for the Chautauqua ACO. In both roles, he is responsible for leading integration, innovation and information for coordinated care. John has over twenty-five years of experience as a clinician and entrepreneur in health research, patient care, clinical workflow and informatics – pursuing a better, faster, easier and more satisfying healthcare system by integrating information-supported team based care across place, time and organization. Past work and research initiatives include clinical practice, running startups and leading teams pursing care management, evidence-based clinical measures, population analytics, and pay-for-performance activities. Results include driving sustained decrease in medical costs within 12 months of 6-10%/yr and sustained quality improvement from 15-50%.

Background: Prior to founding CogniMed and DocSite in the ‘90s and ‘00s (first cloud-native patient registry/care coordination/longitudinal record system – improved chronic disease care 25-50% in 3 to 6 months; cut medical cost by 6-10%), Haughton was CMO and senior vice president for product for the company that created HCC risk adjustment - DxCG, Inc; senior vice president of Clinical Integration and Product Development with ActiveHealth Management, Inc; and vice president of Medical Affairs and practicing rehab physician in a New England-based integrated post-acute provider focusing on inpatient and outpatient geriatric rehabilitation. Dr. Haughton earned his MD and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and finished his training at the University of Washington as Chief Resident in his PM&R; residency and there pursued an MS in Rehabilitation Medicine Research.

Personal: Married to Jennifer, blessed with three wonderful daughters – Sammie, Maddie & Lindsey Interests: Sailing, Learning, Fixing, Friends, Chautauqua, Developing Community

Advisory/Boards: Patient Advisory Committee, NIH. Chautauqua Institution Trustee.

David brings almost 20 years of experience within the healthcare industry with focus in the areas of analytics, reimbursement methodologies and alternative payment methodologies. The majority of David’s time has been spent on the vendor and consulting side of the healthcare ecosystem providing services both to Health Plans as well as Providers.

David joined Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana in June of 2015 in the role of Vice President of Provider Reimbursement and Payment Innovation. He now holds the position of Interim SVP of Medical Economics with responsibility for Alternative Payment Strategy, Reimbursement Methodology and Strategy as well as Provider Contracting, Credentialing and Communications. Prior to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, he worked at Trover Solutions as the SVP of Payment Integrity, Accenture as Healthcare Analytics Senior Manager, and OPTUM/Ingenix as VP/General Manager Payment Integrity, VP Hospital Solutions, and VP Data Analytic Solutions. Prior to OPTUM David worked at HSS, Inc., eHealthFirst and Health Process Management.

David did his undergraduate education at the University of Vermont graduating with two BS degrees, one in Mathematics and the other in Computer Science. He has a master’s degree from the University of Vermont in Mathematics and did PhD work in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona.

David lives with his wife Mitzi in Baton Rouge and enjoys golf and music.

Joe Kimura, MD MPH is Chief Medical Officer of Atrius Health and an internist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a medical practice of Atrius Health. He has broad experience leading ambulatory care delivery system improvements with specialty expertise in clinical informatics and healthcare data analytics. Dr. Kimura has held multiple positions within Atrius Health including Medical Director for Analytics and Reporting Systems and Medical Director for Quality Measurement. Since 2014, he has served as co-chair of the ONC HIT federal advisory workgroup on Advanced Health Models and Meaningful Use. Dr. Kimura has been nationally recognized as a Top 25 Clinical Informaticists by Modern Healthcare in 2012 and one of thirty leading CMIO experts by Health Data Management in 2016.

Dr. Kimura was an undergraduate at Stanford University, received his medical degree from Washington University, and his public health degree from Harvard University. He completed his primary care internal medicine residency at the University of California in San Francisco and his health services research fellowship in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. He completed the advanced management program at MIT Sloan School of Management with certification in Management, Innovation, and Technology.

Andrew Tessier is the Director of Business Development for Signature Medical Group, Inc., a multi-specialty group of 150+ physicians in 17 specialties and almost 1,000 employees in St. Louis, Kansas City, and rural Missouri. Signature has 63 orthopedists providing services in all orthopedic sub-specialties including total joint replacement, sports medicine, and pediatric. Over the past 15+ years, Andrew has worked in a variety of health care areas developing and managing physician group projects, information technology, and commercial bundled payments. Most recently, Andrew has focused on programs and opportunities within CMMI (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation) including Signature’s Awardee Convener Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative. Signature’s BPCI program encompasses 2,000 orthopedic physicians and 50,000+ clinical episodes throughout 26 states in 60+ cities and totals $1.3 billion in Medicare annual spend. Andrew received his MBA from Saint Louis University.

Carol Vargo is Director of Physician Practice Sustainability in the AMA Physician Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability Strategic Initiative Group. In this role, Carol directs AMA development of resources to support sustainable physician payment and delivery reforms. She also develops external partnerships with hospitals, health systems, commercial payers, technology vendors and other key stakeholders to advance the AMA strategic agenda on implementation and adoption of new federal, state and commercial payment and delivery models, including the new Medicare Quality Payment Program.

Prior to this position, Carol worked at the AMA as an Assistant Director of Federal Affairs and Outreach, Advocacy Group. In this role, she developed and implemented internal and external policies and strategies to advance the AMA’s priorities with the Federal Executive Branch, including the White House, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the CMS Innovation Center, and the Office of Health Reform at the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS). She began her career in federal policymaking as a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA). Carol is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a B.A. in Communications, and a recipient of a Masters in Health Sciences in health policy and administration from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. She and her husband, Robert Blanchard, an electrical engineer and VP of Sales at Cisco Systems, have two sons, Gray, age 17, and Henry, age 11, and reside in the Roland Park neighborhood of Baltimore.

Pierre L Yong, MD, MPH, MS, is the Director of Quality Measurement in the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group/Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). At CMS, he oversees measure development and analyses for a variety of CMS quality reporting and value-based purchasing programs. Previously, Pierre was the Director of Health Care Quality and Outcomes in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he oversaw projects on value based purchasing, quality, comparative effectiveness research, and data infrastructure for patient-centered outcomes research. Pierre also previously worked at the Institute of Medicine, where he focused on a portfolio of projects related to value and costs in health care. As a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, his research focused on quality of care. Pierre received his medical degree from Brown Medical School, his Masters in Public Health from Columbia University, and his Masters in Science in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his Internal Medicine training at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and most recently worked as a hospitalist at the District of Columbia Veterans Affairs Medical Center.