The World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Supply Chain Management will present strategic solutions to the challenges of accelerating financial returns, containing costs, implementing information technology, streamlining supply chain management processes and controlling physician preference items. The conference program will convene industry leaders from hospitals, health systems and group practices and feature the most cutting edge issues through keynote addresses, executive seminars and tracks.

Leadership Summit Chairman
Eugene Schneller, PhD Professor, Director, Health Sector Supply Chain management and Policy, W.P. Carey School for Business, Arizona State University
Featured Presenters
Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA Chief Executive Officer Dean Health System	Keith B. Pitts Vice Chairman, Vanguard Health Systems
Christopher D. McFadden, CFA Managing Director, Senior Equity Analyst Goldman, Sachs & Co.	Vance Moore President, Resource Optimization and Innovation Sisters of Mercy Health System
Robert E. Luby Jr. Vice President, Supply Chain Management IBM	Lisa M. Ellram Dept. Chair and Allen Professor, Department of Management, Colorado State University College of Business
Deborah Templeton Associate Vice President, Supply Chain Geisinger Health System	Paul Peabody Vice President & Chief Information Officer William Beaumont Hospitals
John Powers Chief Administrative Information Officer Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Dean Edwards Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer Kaiser Permanente
Skip Skivington Interim Vice President of Supply Chain and Director of Operations, Procurement and Supply, Kaiser Permanente	Craig DeAtley Director, Institute for Public Health Emergency Readiness Washington Hospital
Ed Jones Vice President of Supply Chain HCA East	William Mosser, CMRP Managing Director, Supply Chain Services, Temple University Health System
John Roberts Director Healthcare GS1US	Frank Kilzer Vice President Materials Management St Alexius Medical Center
Nancy Bateman Managing Director PricewaterhouseCoopers	Philip Profeta Corporate Director of Purchasing, University of Rochester
Jamie Kowalski Managing Director Owens & Minor	Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Lifespan Corporation
Kathy Bridwell Purchasing Manager, American Heart Association	Dee Donatelli, RN, BSN, MBA Vice President, Supply Chain Services, VHA
Anand Joshi, M.D., M.B.A. New York Presbyterian Hospital	Steve Christensen ERM Services Area Leader IBM Global Business Services
Tom Ague COO St. Clair Hospital	Robert Lawton Burns, Ph.D Director, Center for Health Management and Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Allen S. Caudle, MBA Vice President, Supply Chain Management Swedish Health Services	Ed Hisscock Chief Executive Officer, Appleseed Healthcare Interim Resource Officer, St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Trinity Health
David Klumpe Senior Vice President, Enterprise Accounts Broadlane	Michael Langlois VP Contracting & Value Analysis Ascension Health
Dan Neuwirth Agility Healthcare Solutions	Les Popiolek Senior Vice President, Purchasing Services Broadlane
Dennis Robb Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati	Alex Rodriguez Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati
Richard Schaeffer CIO St. Clair Hospital	Thomas E. Skorup, M.B.A. Vice President of Health Technology Planning ECRI
Vicki Smith-Daniels Professor of Operations Management, W.P. Carey School for Business Arizona State University	John Strong President and CEO Consorta
Darrel Weatherford Chief Operating Officer Consorta	Alan Wilde VP Supply Chain, University Hospital Health System