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John W. Kenagy, MD, MPA, ScD, FACS |
Dr. John Kenagy knows healthcare as a physician, executive, scholar, advisor, and patient. In addition to 20 years experience as a vascular surgeon, he has been Chief of Surgery, Chief of Staff, and Regional Vice President for Business Development for a multi-state, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system. Most importantly, he has been a patient.
His frustration with current methods was fueled by an injury—he suffered a broken neck in a fall from a tree. Critically injured, he discovered that his recovery depended on the efforts of individuals working in an unpredictable and often unresponsive system. Searching for answers beyond “try harder,” he earned a management degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School and was appointed Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School from 1998–2002. His experience, research, and teaching focus on the keys to success of resilient, highly adaptive organizations that thrive when the rest failed to adapt and change.
He brought his discoveries to healthcare as Adaptive Design®, a set of revitalizing, patient-centered choices that cultivate adaptability in the everyday work of the organization and its people. His book Designed to Adapt: Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times was named 2011 Book of the Year by the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Dr. Kenagy’s speaking, teaching, and advising help everyone from the frontline to the executive suite deliver on the fundamental promise of their calling: getting patients exactly what they need, safely, at continually lower cost. It’s the way to fix healthcare.
Dr. Kenagy is speaking as part of the Foundation’s Thought Leaders lecture series, which is made possible through philanthropic contributions from HealthPort and Precyse. |
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Aneesh Chopra
US Chief Technology Officer |
Aneesh Chopra served as the nation's first chief technology officer, reporting directly to President Obama. He helped advance the National Wireless Initiative, a set of Internet policy principles that informed the White House response on proposed online piracy legislation and an Open Innovation movement that delivers results by "crowd sourcing" citizen expertise to solve problems and help the economy grow.
Mr. Chopra previously served as Virginia's secretary of technology and a cabinet member on the Council on Virginia's Future (2006–2009) where he launched the Productivity Investment Fund to spark innovation in state government. Virginia's productivity and transparency measurement system, Virginia Performs, was cited by Governing Magazine when it named Virginia "best managed state" in 2008.
In 2011, Chopra was awarded the Wireless Foundation's Industry Achievement Award for Outstanding Leadership and the National Association of State CIOs' Technology Champion award, and made Modern Healthcare's list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (#39). In 2008, he was named to Government Technology magazine's Top 25 in their "Doers, Dreamers and Drivers" issue.
Upon his departure, President Obama noted, “[he] did groundbreaking work to bring our government into the 21st century...from electronic health records for veterans, to expanding access to broadband for rural communities, to modernizing government records. His legacy of leadership and innovation will benefit Americans for years to come, and I thank him for his outstanding service.” |
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Joy Behar
Co-host of ABC Television Network’s TheView |
Daytime Emmy® Award-winner Joy Behar—one of the two original co-hosts of ABC’s The View—is among today’s leading comic talents. Whether performing standup comedy or interviewing politicians and artists, she is a comedic original and a leading woman on both stage and screen.
Armed with an MA in English from SUNY at Stony Brook, Ms. Behar originally began a career in teaching. She then set out to pursue comedy professionally and immediately received bookings from such famous New York clubs as Caroline’s and Catch a Rising Star. She went on to win three MAC Awards and a Cable ACE Award.
Ms. Behar is host of The Joy Behar Show on HLN, which features newsworthy guests and examines today’s water cooler issues: from pop culture to politics and everything in between. The show, which premiered in 2009, received its first GLAAD Media Award nomination for “Outstanding Talk Show Episode” with Ms. Behar interviewing Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. She headlined her own HBO special and was a regular on the series Baby Boom. Her television appearances include Dr.Katz, Real Time with Bill Maher, Last Comic Standing, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
For three years Ms. Behar hosted a popular call-in radio show on WABC, where she discussed politics with a deadly humorous bent. Her film appearances include Hall Pass directed by the Farrelly Brothers, Cookie, with Peter Falk, This Is My Life, directed by Nora Ephron, Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery, and Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail.
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Major General David Rubenstein (ret.) |
"Healthcare Leadership: Thoughts From My Foxhole."
General Rubenstein will present an interactive dialogue that leads participants to consider the leadership development of themselves and their teammates, and to apply tools that address leader and mentor development.
David Rubenstein is a retired Army Major General who has excelled as a leader at all levels of the Army Medical Department. He ended his 35-year Army career as Commanding General of the Army Medical Department Center & School and, concurrently, Chief of the Army Medical Service Corps. General Rubinstein is a graduate of Texas A&M University and the Army War College, and has a Master’s Degree in Health Administration from Baylor University. His many recognitions include distinguished alumnus status at two universities, listing in five Who’s Who publications, and being twice included in Modern Healthcare’s list of the 100 most influential people in healthcare. His professional credentials include being a board-certified healthcare executive and past chairman of the 37,000 member American College of Healthcare Executives. General Rubinstein has authored numerous peer-reviewed professional articles and book reviews, and is working on two military medical history books and a book about leading and mentoring leaders. |