2024 Annual Conference

KEYNOTE

José Morey, MD

CEO and Founder, Ad Astra Media

Dr. Jose Morey, is called the first Intergalactic Doctor, is an Eisenhower Fellow, Chief Medical Innovation Officer for Liberty BioSecurity, CEO and Founder of Ad Astra Media LLC, and Director of Innovation and Chief Engineering Council/Innovation Lead of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. He is the Senior Advisor to the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology CORD19 Project and is Senior Advisor to the NASA AI Breathing Space Initiative.

He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, Medical Technology and Artificial Intelligence Officer for NASA iTech, and mentor with MIT Solve, IDEAS Global Challenge, and MIT 100K Entrepreneurship
Competition – Accelerate. He previously served as the Associate Chief Health Officer and Senior Medical Scientist with IBM Watson Health.

He is an AI Ambassador for DeepLearning.AI, serves as a member of the American Board of Radiology, Xcertia-American Medical Association, Aerospace Medical Association, The Space Foundation and The Planetary Society. He is on the Board of Directors for Medical Society of Virginia as well as the Virginia Chapter for the American College of Radiology. Dr. Morey is faculty at Singularity University and sits on the education admission committee for the Space Foundation and on the admissions committee for the Space Technology Hall of Fame.

He is an international speaker on AI and technology innovation and has given talks to NASA360, the Radiologic Society of North America, HIIMS, Academy Health, Health Datapalooza, Tech.Co, Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange, Stifel Nicolaus Healthcare Investment Conference, the Chinese Medical Association and the Senate of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

He has co-authored over 100 abstracts, book chapters, articles and is often featured on Forbes, Univision, CNBC and NASA360. Recently he has been featured on Nature, CNBC The Weekly Journal and Heathline forms work on utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Tech to combat the COVID Pandemic.

KEYNOTE – 5 Regrets to Avoid in Life and Business

Doug Holladay

Founder, PathNorth Inc.

J. Douglas Holladay is a co-founder and general partner of two private equity firms, Park Avenue Equity Partners, LP and Elgin Capital Partners LP, both focused on the middle market. While Mr. Holladay continues as an active investor and board member, as well as devoting time to a non profit he created with many of the nation’s leading lights, PathNorth, Inc. which helps CEOs and business owners to ‘broaden their definitions of success’ to include purposeful living. As a full time faculty member, Mr. Holladay holds the prestigious Heinz Christian Prechter Executive in Residence position at Georgetown University where he teaches MBA students to integrate purposeful living into the business context.

Mr. Holladay was formerly a senior officer with the international investment banking firm Goldman, Sachs and Company. At Goldman, Sachs, he worked in the Investment Banking Division based in Manhattan. While with the firm, he served as founding President of One-to-One Mentoring Partnership (Points of Light), an initiative of the New York financial community to bring imaginative solutions to the challenges of ‘at risk’ young people, now known nationwide as Mentor.

Prior to joining Goldman, Sachs, Mr. Holladay held senior positions in both the White House and Department of State. After working under White House Chief of Staff, James A. Baker III, Mr. Holladay was appointed by the President to the personal rank of Special Ambassador. In that unique role, he coordinated America’s public response to the challenges posed by South Africa and its entrenched policy of apartheid prior to the dramatic release of Nelson Mandela.

Mr. Holladay has advised several Presidents and numerous corporate leaders and has explained and debated public policy issues on national television. He has contributed to several books, in addition to his own, on a broad range of issues, foreign policy, culture, theology and 19th century history, and has placed articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today. He has delivered public speeches to leadership gatherings in more than 40 states and 20 nations.

Service has characterized Mr. Holladay’s career path allowing him to promote change and understanding in settings as diverse as East and South Africa, the White House and on Wall Street. Noted author, Gail Sheehy, in her best seller, Pathfinders, described Holladay as an influential layman who “excelled in all that he touched.”

Mr. Holladay has served on numerous Boards and Presidential Commissions, including the Presidential Commission on Drug Prevention, Presidential Commission on Small Business, the Board of Morehouse College, Sunrise Senior Living, Inc., Elgin Energy, CNL Hotels and Resorts Inc., United Way International, Miraval Inc., Harvard University Divinity, the Case Foundation, Oxford Analytica, Ltd., and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, among others. He has served as a key advisor to public and private companies including Heidrick and Struggles, the Case Foundation, Cognizant, Inc., MongoDB and others. Mr. Holladay’s pro-bono work includes serving as Executive Producer of a PBS film documentary, The Question of God, contrasting the philosophic world views of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis. Several times, Mr. Holladay has been a judge for the Emmy Awards. He even had small roles in two feature films, Three in the Attic and Heaven’s Gate. (Both were unmemorable as was Holladay’s acting.)

 

Zeb Elliott

CTO, UVA Health

 

Jeff Fuller

VP, Delivery, Divurgent

Jeff has spent his 27 year career as a health leader and collaborator, driven by a passion for innovating on care strategies that emphasizes a whole person view of high value care.  As a subject matter expert in analytics, clinical transformation, and strategy, Jeff has supported meaningful partnerships and collaborations to achieve innovation and improvement evidence through real measurable results.  Prior to joining Divurgent to lead the Analytics practice, Jeff led product strategy at a patient engagement solution provider and prior to that led the startup of the enterprise analytics team at UNC Health as executive director. Jeff has also led analytics at Atrium Health and MUSC Health.  Jeff is Board Certified as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and holds a Bachelor of Health Administration and a Master of Science in Management.

Dwayne Harms

IT Leader, VCU Health

Trip Humphrey

Director of Data Science, Carilion Clinic

Trip is a self proclaimed Nerd, caretaker of trivial knowledge, and endlessly opinionated data enthusiast. Unbeknownst to Trip his natural inclination towards computers and technology in his youth and his academic pursuits in economics, business, and statistics would eventually foment a career in data science. Now with over over a decade of experience in healthcare IT, Trip never hesitates to share his insights solicited or not. Trip is currently serving as the director of data science at Carilion Clinic.

Craig Joseph, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, Nordic Global

Craig Joseph, MD, FAAP, FAMIA is the chief medical officer of Nordic Global.. Craig has 30 years of healthcare and IT experience. In addition to practicing medicine as a primary care pediatrician for eight years, he worked for Epic for six-plus years and has served as CMIO at multiple healthcare organizations.

While at Epic, Craig helped build what is now called the Foundation System. He also assisted in the implementation and optimization of the electronic health record for Epic customers across the United States and Europe.

After leaving Epic, Craig was the CMIO at Agnesian HealthCare, a Cerner/Oracle Health enterprise customer. He has subsequently served as the long-term interim CMIO at Epic-customers Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston), El Camino Health (Mountain View, CA), and Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Joseph is the co-author of “Designing for Health: The Human-Centered Approach,” a book that promotes the intentional application of design to the particular needs of clinicians, hospital staff, and patients.

Craig is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Informatics Association. He remains actively board-certified in both pediatrics and clinical informatics.

Jeff Kim, M.D.

CMIO, VCU Health

Dr. Kim provides medical leadership for strategic planning, development, implementation and advancement of information technology used in the clinical and research environments to enable the health system’s vision, mission and goals.  Joining VCU Health from Loma Linda University Health in Loma Linda, California, he has held a series of clinical and informatics leadership positions throughout his career, most recently serving as CMIO and medical director of digital health for Loma Linda University Health and assistant medical director for Loma Linda University Health Care Managed Care. He is a practicing family physician.  While previously living in Richmond, Dr. Kim received his pre-medical basic health sciences certificate in microbiology/immunology from VCU, in addition to a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania and Doctor of Medicine degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed a residency in family medicine at Michigan Medicine.

Ankit Mathur

Chief Technology Officer, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)

As Chief Technology Officer, Ankit Mathur serves as a member of the senior leadership team, supporting development and execution of UNOS’ organizational planning and strategy as well as providing enterprise-level leadership and direction for all information technology functions.

Prior to joining UNOS, Mathur served in the White House as chief delivery officer for the United States Digital Service. Previously, he was the co-founder and chief product and technology officer of Roundtrip Health, the nation’s first digital transportation marketplace for non-emergency medical transportation and has extensive experience in public and private data and technology systems.

Mathur earned a BS in computer information systems as well as an MBA and and MS in information systems management, all from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Steve Morgan, M.D.

Senior VP and CMIO, Carilion Clinic

A board-certified physician in family medicine, Dr. Morgan graduated with a BS in biology and chemistry from The Virginia Military Institute in 1982 and earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1986. Dr. Morgan spent six years in private practice before joining Carilion in 1996. In 2010, Dr. Morgan transitioned from a full-time family medicine practice to work in informatics and information technology. He was appointed chief medical information officer in 2010 and was promoted to senior vice president in 2012. His areas of responsibility include data analytics, data science, research reporting, digital health, and clinical informatics. His teams are committed to advancing and transforming patient care and the patient experience through data, efficient workflows, technology, and digital solutions.

Tyler Okoren

Executive Director, Sentara

Tyler is the executive director over employer and consumer solutions within Sentara Medical Group, covering employer services as well as virtual and digital care efforts. He enjoys family timeIn my spare time, I love playing with my 3 kids, trying to surf, and going to new restaurants with my wife.

Carole Poff

Director of Digital Health, Carilion Clinic

Carole Poff has extensive work experience in the healthcare industry. Carole currently holds the position of director of digital health at Carilion Clinic. Prior to this, she worked at UPMC as the director of operations – Clinical Affairs. Before that, Carole served as the department administrator of pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente, focusing on resolving operational issues and improving healthcare delivery from an equitable and cost-effective standpoint. Carole also worked as the Trauma, Critical Care, & Acute Care Division manager at OHSU | Oregon Health & Science University, where she oversaw administrative and financial aspects of the division.

Carole has a Master of Science degree in licensed professional counseling from Carlow University. She also holds an MBA degree in health/health care administration/management from York College of Pennsylvania.

Monica Schmidt

Dr. Schmidt is a key leader in the healthcare industry. She obtained her MPH in epidemiology and PhD in Health Services Research with a focus on economics from the University of North Carolina’s Gilling’s School of Global Public Health.  Her focus has been on identifying unwarranted care variation using robust data sources to improve the quality and cost of care across the continuum. She has designed multiple informatics tools to address high cost problems such as acute kidney injury and diabetic related peripheral neuropathy leading to amputation. By finding novel ways to move care upstream in the chronic disease pathways, she has been successful in preventing downstream complications. The embedded tool designed by Dr. Schmidt to identify acute kidney injury earlier for inpatients has resulted in over 2000 averted cases of AKI estimated to be worth $8 million dollars in savings over 12 months. Dr. Schmidt’s research has been focused on identifying opportunities for large health systems and ACOs to reduce the cost of care while not compromising quality.

Ellen Wiegand

Senior VP and CIO, VCU Health

Ellen Wiegand is senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) at VCU Health. As CIO, Ellen is charged with leveraging technology to preserve and restore the health for all people of Virginia and beyond. She is accountable for overall IT strategy, including all infrastructure, operations, applications, informatics, data and analytics. Prior to joining VCU Health in October 2022, she served as vice president and CIO for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle. For demonstrating excellence in technology leadership, Ellen was selected as the health care winner for Seattle CIO of the Year in 2020, and Capital CIO of the Year in the enterprise category in 2024. Ellen earned a Master of Business Administration from The George Washington University, and a Bachelor of Science in biology from Boston College. In 2013 and 2018, she traveled to Japan to study the Toyota Production System with Shingijutsu.