Hazel Boyd is the Operations Manager of Perioperative Services at Boston Children's Hospital. In addition to managing the OR supply chain she chairs the new product, equipment, and technology request committee and provides leadership over the Central Processing Department. Prior to joining Boston Children's in 2013, she began her career in the operating room while serving in the United States Army for eight years. She completed her undergraduate program while on active duty and worked to complete her graduate program shortly after her transition to the civilian sector.

Over the past 20 years in Perioperative Services, Hazel has taken on more responsibilities and held a variety of titles from Director of Surgical Services to Business Director of Perioperative Services. She has worked in multiple enterprise systems requiring her expertise and focus on multiple campuses. At Children's her work extends beyond the hospitals walls where she has collaborated with Learning & Development to train others in High Reliability Principles. She has extensive experience with central processing, inventory management, Perioperative Construction & Design, OR software development, change management, and preference card maintenance and cleanup. Hazel lives with her family north of Boston, MA, and she is an avid runner and philanthropist.

Bethany Daily is the Executive Director, Perioperative Services and Healthcare Systems Engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her responsibilities include the strategic direction of information systems, statistical & financial reporting, process improvement, human resources management, and facilities planning. Bethany is the MGH Program Director for the MGH/MIT Collaboration, which uses operations research methods to optimize patient flow in many areas throughout the hospital.

Ms. Daily received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her Master of Healthcare Administration at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Sheila has greater than 20 years of experience as Surgical Services leader from a number of various clinical and leadership positions She received her bachelor of science in nursing from Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY; her master of science in nursing with a dual focus as a FNP and CNS from Binghamton University.

In her latest role, she is accountable for nursing across all of surgical services, including inpatient, ambulatory and procedural units as well as the sterile processing department. Valued experience as a leader has been working through expectations for process improvements related to efficiencies- the 'what, when, how' and most importantly the 'why' on specific things to collect data on.

Her nursing career has been dedicated to providing high quality, cost effective patient care and developing the next generations of nurses and health care professionals.

Bob Medziuch serves as Vice President at Hasenstab Architects, Inc. With more than 38 years of healthcare design experience he leads Hasenstab's healthcare studio and oversees the firm's healthcare efforts at three office locations in Akron, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Additionally, Bob is responsible for technical quality assurance company wide. He is a board-certified member of the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA), as well as a registered Certified Construction Specifier (CCS), and a member of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE). Bob received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from Kent State University. He has served as Principal in Charge for a variety of healthcare projects for clients including Summa Health, Akron Children's Hospital, Metro Health System, The Cleveland Clinic, Aultman Hospital, and Wooster Community Hospital.

Ms. Reiter has over 30 years of healthcare-industry leadership experience with the last 10 years in an executive level role. An experienced leader in setting strategic direction for surgical departments to grow market share and enhance operational efficiencies and throughput. She works collaboratively with physicians on strategies to improve operational workflow and throughput. She is recognized for developing and implementing strategies that support meeting business financial objectives, physician satisfaction and patient outcomes.

Ms. Reiter has led teams through the design and flow to open new and renovated state of the art operating rooms and sterile processing departments. She has the ability to inspire highly motivated teams, focusing on patient and physician satisfaction while ensuring exceptional workflow and efficiencies.

Ms. Shiskowsky is the Manager of Clinical Planning and Design at UCHealth in Colorado. She has over 23 years of varied hospital nursing experience including acute care, unit leadership and most recently in the design and construction field. Within this role, she utilizes her clinical awareness and operational knowledge to direct design decisions that support the flow and functionality of new and renovated health care spaces. Ms. Shiskowsky has and is supporting multiple new hospital towers, medical office buildings, and renovated clinical spaces, which include many OR suites, peri-op spaces, and sterile processing departments. As a part of a growing organization, she also is on the path to create design templates or standards to be duplicated across the healthcare system to make the process of design less cumbersome to clinical leaders.

Ms. Shiskowsky in addition to her BSN, she has a MBA and a nurse executive board certification from ANCC. She also is on the Board of Directors at Women in Healthcare Denver and has her Evidence Based Design Certification in an effort to continue to add to the research body of knowledge in the field of Health Care Design.

Dr. Juhn is a Professor of Pediatrics and a Clinician Investigator at the Mayo Clinic. He is a primary care physician in pediatrics and a clinical epidemiologist by training. He is board certified in clinical informatics. He is the Research Chair of the Mayo Clinic Health System, Director of the AI Program of Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Director of the HOUSES Program, and his research lab, Precision Population Science Lab. His research and lab are currently funded by NIH R01, R21, and investigator-initiated large industry grants. His research interests include computational and immune phenotyping of asthma, health disparities research, and AI model bias research. He has published 153 peer-reviewed papers, one patent and another pending patent and trained more than 80 trainees. He has been an invited speaker at NIH/NCATS national webinar for AI bias detection and mitigation.

Dr. Rosenbloom is the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and a Professor of Biomedical Informatics with secondary appointments in Medicine, Pediatrics, and the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. He is a board certified Internist and Pediatrician who earned his M.D., completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, a fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, and earned an MPH all at Vanderbilt. Dr. Rosenbloom is a nationally recognized investigator in the field of health information technology evaluation. His research has focused on studying how healthcare providers, patients and caregivers interact with health information technologies when documenting medical and health-related activities, and when making clinical decisions, and helped kick off the national effort to reduce the burden of clinical documentation to 25% of its current level within 5 years. Dr. Rosenbloom is also the Director for My Health at Vanderbilt, one of the nation's oldest and best adopted patient portals.

Adam Becker is an energetic and results-driven healthcare leader with experience in one of the largest integrated health systems in the United States. Currently serving as the Assistant Vice President of Financial Operations for Perioperative Services at North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Adam oversees financial, operational, and strategic aspects of 60 operating rooms. His role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities including financial budgeting and reporting, capital allocation oversight, comprehensive analytics, strategy and program development, and supervision of charge capture processes. Adam holds a Masters of Public Administration, Health Policy & Management from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Union College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Ryan Ott is currently the Manager of Financial Operations for Perioperative Services at North Shore University Hospital where he plays a critical role in the advancement of operational efficiency and fiscal management of the hospital's surgical services. Through collaboration with his clinical partners, Ryan spearheads multiple business initiatives focused on capital management, reducing excess waste, clinical standardization, staffing optimization, as well as various strategic initiatives within the department. Ryan leverages his strong skillsets within data & analytics, along with project management to drive business strategy. Ryan holds a Master's Degree from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and graduated from Bucknell University where he double-majored receiving a Bachelor of Arts Economics and Psychology.

Kelly Treacy is a highly accomplished registered professional nurse with 30 years of experience in both the clinical and administrative settings. As the Associate Executive Director of Perioperative Services at North Shore University Hospital, she leads the delivery of specialized surgical care to patients with complex medical needs. In this role, Kelly assumes 24-hour oversight of 30 operating rooms within a quaternary care, Level 1 Trauma setting. Her associated departmental oversight also extends to the pre- and post-operative settings, in addition to responsibilities for budgeting, planning, and implementing programmatic growth, along with the strategic planning of advanced surgical programs.

Kelly has vast perioperative nursing experience and has held several leadership positions throughout her career within Northwell Health. She is a strategic and highly skilled leader who is passionate about developing programs and process improvements that align with the hospital's overall mission and vision. Her dedication to people development makes her an effective team player who collaborates with others to achieve shared goals.

Kelly holds a Bachelor of Nursing degree from American Sentinel University, a Bachelor of Health Administration degree, and a Master of Business Administration degree from St. Joseph's College, where she graduated with Distinguished honors.

Ryan Ott is currently the Manager of Financial Operations for Perioperative Services at North Shore University Hospital where he plays a critical role in the advancement of operational efficiency and fiscal management of the hospital's surgical services. Through collaboration with his clinical partners, Ryan spearheads multiple business initiatives focused on capital management, reducing excess waste, clinical standardization, staffing optimization, as well as various strategic initiatives within the department. Ryan leverages his strong skillsets within data & analytics, along with project management to drive business strategy. Ryan holds a Master's Degree from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and graduated from Bucknell University where he double-majored receiving a Bachelor of Arts Economics and Psychology.

Andrew is a Research Associate at Cleveland Research Company. Andrew joined the healthcare team at Cleveland Research after graduating from Juniata College in 2022.

Jamie is a Senior Analyst and Partner at Cleveland Research Company. Jamie has been part of the healthcare team at Cleveland Research since joining the firm in 2012. He leads the Orthopedic Market Insights program and covers the orthopedics, cardiology, dental, and ophthalmology industries. In this role, he has established long-standing relationships with industry executives across providers, manufacturers, and suppliers and advises management teams on key industry trends and emerging technologies.

Cleveland Research Company (CRC) is an independent research firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 2006, CRC has a reputation for exceptional marketplace intelligence across healthcare, retail, foodservice, industrial, and technology sectors.

A diverse background including education, foreign language and translation with over 15 years' experience in the healthcare industry. My career healthcare includes experience in the hospital setting, specialty offices, acute dialysis services, healthcare credentialing consulting, medical staff services, quality and ambulatory surgery center administration. I hold both a Certified Professional Credentialing Specialist certification and a Certified Professional Medical Services Management Certification. Currently, I am the Administrator at Total Surgery Center in Naples, FL and serve as the Chair for the Subject Matter Expert Committee for NAMSS the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL STAFF SERVICES.

Tammy Straub is the Administrator of Perioperative Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network. She has worked collectively with the Network for 14 years and has responsibilities for 6 surgical sites to including Level One Trauma Center, tertiary inpatient, and outpatient services.

Tammy is an experienced Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the Staffing and Recruiting industry, Skilled in Healthcare Consulting, Clinical Research, and Patient Safety. She is a former Director of Operations with responsibilities to drive results of 16 Ambulatory Centers oversight included $50mm in revenue in a multisite multimarket environment. Tammy also has demonstrated success as a Chief Nursing Officer with responsibilities and oversight of establishing standards of nursing practice, and meeting performance objectives and metrics for all nursing areas.

Tammy is a Certified Operating Room Nurse and member of the Pennsylvania Organization of Nurse Leaders and a graduate from Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Rising Stars of Leadership and Professional Development Program.

Tammy has presented at several national conferences to include OR Management, AORN and Nursing Management. During her free time, Tammy enjoys spending time with her two children, friends, and family traveling.

Alex Warman is the Administrator of Perioperative Business Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network. He has been with the Network for 19 years and has responsibilities including monitoring business operations for Perioperative Services including financial management, revenue capture, market-share analysis, data analysis, budget development, value analysis, and resource/surgical block utilization.

As a highly adept healthcare leader, Alex has a proven record of facilitating and managing healthcare operations. Alex has operationally interfaced four newly acquired health systems. This included strategic partnering in developing relationships and providing relative departmental metrics in finances, surgery scheduling, laser surgery, surgical block management and charge posting audits. His skills and advanced understanding of perioperative operations assisted with the Perioperative scheduling and financial implementation of an electronic medical record system (Epic). Alex has also facilitated with patient mapping and operational flow by building interfaces for a new Children's Surgery Center and Orthopedic Hospital and Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgery Center. This included evaluation of current and future service line block schedule, revenue cycle mapping and patient flow through the facility.

Alex has presented at national conferences including XGM-Epic, O.R. Business Management Conference, O.R. Business Manager keynote in 2018 "Using Business Services to Help Optimize the Patient Experience" and most recently: O.R. Manager in 2019 "Going for Gold with the Cost Saving Olympics," a discussion on how to utilize clinical and non-clinical colleagues with cost saving ideas. Most recently, he spoke at IDN Summit 2022 on "Clinical Analytics and Data Integration," presenting on how healthcare analytics and data integration increase access and availability to end-users.

Alex has a BA in Music and Anthropology as well as a Pre-Medical Concentration from the College of the Holy Cross. He received his MBA from DeSales University in Healthcare Systems Management and is in the process of obtaining his Doctorate in Business Management at Liberty University. On a side note, Alex is a member of the American Federation of Musicians and has the played the cello for over 30 years across the country.

Stephanie Casanova is the Director of Procedural Business Services at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the primary facilitator for the New Product Introduction Process and actively participates in initiatives directed at achieving cost savings. Mrs. Casanova also leads the analyst team responsible for creation and maintenance of the perioperative operational and capital budgets. Mrs. Casanova holds a BS and MBA from Bentley University.

Courtney Costello is a Senior Analyst of Strategic Technology Implementation and Impact at Massachusetts General Hospital. Courtney works with cross functional teams, both clinical and administrative, to manage the business analysis and onboarding of new products and technology across Procedural Services at MGH. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance with a focus in Health and Industry from Bentley University.

Lieutenant Colonel Shari Bowen was born in Wilson, NC and enlisted in the Army in November of 1996. She transitioned from her enlisted career graduating from Officer Candidate School in 2005 commissioning as a 2LT Quartermaster Officer in the United States Army. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Maryland. LTC Bowen ambitiously completed her Master of Arts in Educational Technology in 2007. LTC Bowen changed duty, serving in the 3d Expeditionary Sustainment Command where she deployed to Balad, Iraq from 2008-2009 sustaining the theater of operations with fuel. Following the 15- month deployment, she repacked heading to Port-au- Prince, Haiti for a Humanitarian mission where she served as the Fuel OIC once more serving with allied forces daily. She served as company commander for 173D Brigade Support Battalion, Bamberg, Germany with soldiers dispersed in Aviano, Italy. She deployed to FOB Shank, Afghanistan in 2012 with 173d Airborne BCT.

LTC Bowen attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after which she held the forums position in the Center for Army Lessons Learned, impacting Army wide changes across all Centers of Excellence at the 3-Star Decision Making level. She served in 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii as the Sustainment Planner, Division Artillery Sustainment Officer, and Support Operations Officer. Simultaneous to LTC Bowen's military career, Shari completed a Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership. She most recently completed a Master of Social Psychology from Columbia University, NY as a part of the Eisenhower Leader Development Program (ELDP). LTC Bowen is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and teaches Military Leadership (PL300).

Her military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal (Numeral 4), Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (3 Oak Leaf Cluster), the Army Achievement Medal (4 Oak Leaf Clusters), the Humanitarian Service Ribbon, the Non- Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, the Overseas Ribbon (2 Oak Leaf Cluster), the Combat Action Badge, and the Parachutist Badge.

LTC Bowen and her war-veteran husband, Randy served dual military until he was medically retired due to injuries sustained during deployments. They have five adult children (Randy Jr. 28, SSG Tiana Bowen 26, Gabriel 24, Aaron 23, Jailah 22) and a 16-year-old son Simon who is a Sophomore in High School. The Bowen family has served every community they have lived in, through House of Clay International Ministry, founded by Randy and Shari, as well as their nation with a great sense of honor and pride.

As an Assistant Professor, Shari currently teaches third year undergraduates Military Leadership, at the United States Military Academy. This course is a multidisciplinary study of leadership in organizations. Cadets gain a pragmatic understanding of the behavioral, organizational, and sociological sciences, and apply that knowledge to become better leaders, develop better leaders, and make their organizations more effective. LTC Bowen has also taught Organizational Behavior internationally, partnered with Seton Hall and Management Center Innsbruck in Austria. LTC, Dr., Pastor Shari Bowen and her husband have international ministry in Grenada, West Indies. She is grounded in leadership and uses that training daily to help improve quality of life for individuals and organizations.

As an Associate Principal on Avalere Health's Financial Service's team, Lauren Cricchi provides policy, analytic, and due diligence support to clients in the healthcare investment and value-based care delivery space. With expertise in value-based contracting, particularly alternative payment models (APMs) developed through the CMS Innovation Center, she monitors developments with CMS quality and value-based programs, identifies best practices across public and private payer markets, and provides analytic support to innovative provider, payer, life sciences, and private equity companies through primary research and financial modeling. Lauren has worked with provider organizations in the orthopedic space to design and model financial performance under bundled payment models, design MSK capitated arrangements, and lead strategic market studies for potential investors. Prior to joining Avalere, Lauren supported CMS through quality measurement development and CMMI value-based payment model implementation at the Lewin Group. She has a degree in leadership and public policy from the University of Virginia and currently lives in Richmond, VA with her fiancé and their dog, Gus.

Marisela Morell is currently working as an interim Manager in Sterile Processing at Boston Children's Hospital. With over 36 years of experience in the field, she has been a leader, mentor, educator and trainer.

After working 26 years for a county hospital she decided to start consulting. She is an inspiration and a mentor to staff encouraging them to become better at what they do.

Her youngest son has the same passion as she does; followed the same footsteps as his grandmother and mother, and is a third generation Sterile Processing Tech & Educator.

Jeff O'Brien currently works as a director in the Sterile Processing department and has a total of 30 years' experience in the field.

Jeff earned a B.S. in Business Administration & Human Resources from Portland State University

Leigh Ann Nordt is the Director of Nursing Business Operations and Staffing at UVA Health. Leigh Ann provides leadership within inpatient nursing daily operations to support consistent staffing levels, growth of the flexible workforce program, as well as planning for new and innovative solutions. With the utilization of predictive analytics, her team also has supported efforts in the reduction of contingent labor usage and development of an internal traveler program.

Leigh Ann has nearly 30 years of nursing experience with most of her career spent focused on staffing. She started as a front-line critical care clinician and transitioned to leadership serving in various roles such as nursing supervisor, float pool nurse manager, and her current role, as director. Her leadership and skills in staffing solutions have afforded her the unique opportunity to engage with other key leaders in developing workforce solutions to support the evolving healthcare environment.

Leigh Ann graduated from the University of Virginia with her BSN and holds a MS in Nursing Leadership and Management from Walden University. She also completed the American Organization of Nursing Leadership (AONL) Nurse Manager Fellowship in 2015.

Dr. Zeh Wellington, DNP, RN, NE-BC, is the Director of Procedural Care - Surgical Services at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and has been practicing nursing for 17 years. He was awarded the Operating Room Nurse of the Year at the Medical University of South Carolina, as well as being named in the top nurses for the state of South Carolina - being awarded the South Carolina Palmetto Gold Winner. Dr Wellington was nominated for the Joan L. Shaver Outstanding Illinois Nurse Leader Award, winner of the prestigious Values in Action Award for Compassion and is an alumnus of the Amy V. Cockcroft Leadership Fellows at the University of South Carolina. He is a Medical University of South Carolina Share Grant Recipient as well as being awarded the inaugural MUSC Nursing Scholarship, MUSC/ WGU Foundation Scholarship and the Nursing Excellence Award Scholarship to continue his education. Dr. Wellington is an alumnus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VA Tech), Medical University of South Carolina's School of Nursing, Western Governor's School of Nursing and was awarded his doctorate in nursing at Walden University. He has extensive background in perioperative services serving as the clinical lead for surgical services with a focus in pediatric congenital heart defects and cardiothoracic adult surgeries as well as establishing leadership structures, process improvement and competitive structure development. He was elected by the Illinois nurses to serve on the Board of Directors for the American Nurses Association (ANA)-Illinois and has been appointed as a committee member for the national ANA. Dr Wellington was Illinois' Representative at the Nurses' Day at the Capital and has presented at the ANCC National Magnet Conference, SC Nursing Association Conference, and the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN). Dr Wellington's various publications and articles on Nursing and leadership principals have been accepted and presented in various Nursing and Sterile Processing's journals. Dr Wellington is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nurses and the Phi Sigma Kappa International Fraternity.

Bob Winandy is the chief executive officer of Infinity Medical Management, which provides independently owned and operated healthcare organizations with administrative and staffing services. He has been a nurse for almost 20 years and has spent his whole career in the surgical services field. In 2021, he started Infinity Medical Management to provide administrative and staffing services to a local ambulatory surgery center and now that company provides services to 15 independent medical practices in the area.

Joe Falk is the Associate Executive Director of Perioperative and Trauma Services at University of Utah Health. With over 50 operating rooms across the Salt Lake Valley, Joe is responsible for system operations and strategic priorities across all perioperative services. Joe has been working at UHealth for 10 years and prior to his current role had responsibility over the perioperative business operations. Over the past 20 years Joe has experience leading cultural transformations and connecting physician executives to operational and strategic priorities. He has extensive experience in lean operations, strategic planning, perioperative efficiency, and data analytics. When he is not at work he is usually enjoying time with his family enjoying the outdoors and mountains of Utah.

Dr. Warrier is a board-certified anesthesiologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Warrier has held leadership roles as the Acute Pain Fellowship Director, Anesthesia Director at the Farmington Health Center, Anesthesia Director of the Area E operating rooms, Medical Director of Environmental and Social Sustainability, and currently serves as the Chief Surgical Operations Officer for University of Utah Health. She has also held external leadership roles as the Immediate Past President of the Utah Society of Anesthesiologists and is currently serving as the Director for the State of Utah to the Board of Directors of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Dr. Warrier received her MD from Louisiana State University in 2004. She began her training in Otolaryngology at LSU, but her residency was disrupted by Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Warrier then focused her career on anesthesiology in 2007 and completed residency at the University of Utah in 2010. She went on to complete her fellowship in Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesia at the University of Utah in 2011. Dr. Warrier has been on faculty at the University of Utah since 2011.

Tesha Nesbit has over 20 years' experience as a Human Resource Development and DEI strategy professional. As an influencer and empowerment enabler, she also is a thought partner on community engagement, belonging and educational equity. Her personal mission is rooted in the Tamari expression "to do everything
in life with passion and emotion."

The Pennsylvania native is the founder and principal for A Phoenix Rising Coaching, a full-service coaching and consulting practice. Tesha uses empowerment coaching through the lens of emotional intelligence to build collaborative work/life solutions.

Tesha earned a B.A. in Communications from Penn State Behrend at Erie and a M.S. in Human Resource Management from La Roche College. She earned her Corporate Social Responsibility certificate from the Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts & Sciences in Washington, DC. The Worldwide Association of Business Coaches (WABC) awarded her the Registered corporate Coach designation and she completed foundational coursework in the executive coaching program through the Coach Diversity Institute + Howard University. Tesha is the host of The Remix podcast on Spotify.

Dolores is currently the Senior Administrative Director II at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, a part of Northwell Health. She oversees Perioperative Services which includes the Operating Room, Ambulatory Surgery/Same Day Admit, PACU, Surgical Annex, Endoscopy and Central Supply. Dolores has over 36 years' experience of which 34 years has been in Perioperative Services from Staff RN, Assistant Head Nurse, Head Nurse, Nurse Manager, and Director of Perioperative Services to present position.

Ms. Waslo has been in the perioperative arena for over 30 years, as a frontline nurse, Nurse Educator, Assistant Director and now Director. She has participated in the implementation of the remote video auditing in the operating rooms, completed the leadership courses, implementation of policies and procedures in the operating room suite. presented at the 2014 OR manager conference poster session. Hostra university medical school developed workshop for periopertative aspect protocol for scrubbing, gowning, gloving and basic instrumentation.

Soumi Saha, both a pharmacist and a lawyer, is the Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at Premier. In this role, Dr. Saha is responsible for developing and implementing Premier's advocacy strategy to lead the transformation to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare and resilient supply chains. Dr. Saha leverages her unique background to ensure the perspective of healthcare providers is represented in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Saha proactively advances legislation and regulatory actions that address vulnerabilities in our healthcare system. Her work directly resulted in the introduction and passage of the Mitigating Emergency Drug Shortages (MEDS) Act, which was signed into law as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March 2020.

Since the COVID-19 public health emergency, Dr. Saha has helped the nation's hospitals and healthcare providers through the pandemic with innovative legislative solutions that have resulted in a suite of regulatory flexibilities from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the White House.

Prior to joining Premier, Dr. Saha served as the Director of Pharmacy & Regulatory Affairs for the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), where she led AMCP's initiatives related to healthcare economic information (HCEI) communications between payers and biopharmaceutical manufacturers. Previously, Dr. Saha also held positions with Kaiser Permanente and CVS/Caremark.

Dr. Saha has a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) from the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and a Juris Doctor (JD) with a concentration in health law from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Genevieve Kragness is a doctorally prepared RN currently managing surgical services including a 7-suite hospital OR and 6 suite outpatient surgery center. She has been a practicing nurse for 22 years in a variety of practice settings including perioperative nursing and emergency medicine. She is an adjunct professor of nursing at St. John's University in Springfield, IL, and Wilkes-Barre University in Pennsylvania. In addition, she has been a freelance author and editor for Lippincott Advisor and Procedures & Skills since 2008. She holds a PhD in nursing science from Medical University of South Carolina.

Matt Ruby has over 9 years of perioperative experience and is currently the Business Operations Director for Surgical Services at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In this role, he has financial and operational responsibilities for 60 operating rooms and associated support areas. Prior to his role with Northwestern Medicine, he worked for a perioperative consulting firm, where he worked with many hospitals to build their surgical programs. His professional passions include block management, data reporting, and governance structures. Matt holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MHA from the Sloan Program in Health Administration, Cornell University. He also earned his Lean Healthcare Certificate from the University of Michigan College of Engineering in Ann Arbor, Michigan. When out of the office, you can find Matt spending time with his family or out on the golf course.

Michael Schiller, CMRP, is the Senior Director of Supply Chain for the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Association for Health Care Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM), a professional membership group of the AHA. As the organization's subject matter expert, he brings over 35 years of health care supply chain experience to this role. In this capacity, Schiller collaborates with industry and regulatory leaders from across the health care field on various supply chain, advocacy and resiliency initiatives.

Working with AHA and AHRMM executive leaders, Schiller participates in the development and implementation of the association's strategic direction and initiatives including the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Movement (CQO), Learning UDI Community (LUC), clinically integrated supply chain, global labor practices and ESG, as well as the association's ongoing support to the health care field in addressing ongoing shortages, disruptions and identifying strategies which include AHRMM's Supply Chain Resource Council.

Schiller holds a graduate certificate in information systems management from the Keller Graduate School of Management, a Bachelor's degree in business management from Northeastern Illinois University, is a Certified Materials & Resource Professional (CMRP) and a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Schiller was awarded the George R. Gossett Leadership Award in 2021.

Dr. Karen Grimley serves as the Chief Nurse Executive, UCLA Health and Assistant Dean, UCLA School of Nursing. She is responsible for the overall delivery and management of patient care and professional nursing practice, clinical education, profession development, research and clinical services. Her aim is to reinforce healthy clinical practice environments that are person-centered, while also providing significant contributions to education and research. Dr. Karen Grimley is a firm believer of incorporating the use of clinical and operational metrics to show nurses how their practice and delivery of safe, high quality care directly contributes to the operational success of any hospital.

Dr. Karen Grimley received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Anna Maria College in Paxton, Massachusetts before earning a Doctorate in Nursing from Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University. In 2022, she was selected to be a Fellow of the American Academy of
Nursing (Academy).