Health Care Rounds

Michelle Troseth and Tracy Christopherson are co-founders of MissingLogic®. They help healthcare organizations and healthcare leaders combat burnout through the power of a framework driven approach founded on Polarity Intelligence™. The core of their work is leading healthcare organizations through transformational change that results in the best place to give and receive care, and for leaders to live their best lives both personally and professionally.Michelle and Tracy have been interprofessional leaders, friends and colleagues for over 30 years. They are co-hosts of a top healthcare leadership podcast, Healthcare’s MissingLogic. Michelle and Tracy have a combined experience of more than 60 years working as consultants and coaches for healthcare organizations across North America supporting healthcare leaders as they strive to create healthy, healing work cultures. They frequently speak at national and international leadership conferences on the topics of managing healthcare polarities, achieving work life

Linda Hand brings 35 years of experience to her role as CEO of Prealize Health, with an emphasis in organizational leadership, product development, solutions delivery and go-to-market strategies across a diverse portfolio of industries. Before joining Prealize, Linda led the Clinical Trial Optimization Solutions division at IQVIA, where she was responsible for creating and delivering a suite of innovative clinical technology products, fueled by predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms, to drug development organizations worldwide.Linda is a past President and CEO of the San Francisco-based DecisionView, the leading provider of clinical trial enrollment optimization solutions. She also ran product development and delivery at a number of leading software companies, including DigitalThink, Hyperion, Arbor Software and Sybase.Linda holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed the Haas School of Business Executive Program.John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research G

Summer Knight, MD, MBA, a former firefighter/paramedic-turned primary care and emergency room doctor, is a Managing Director in Deloitte Consulting’s Life Sciences & Health Care practice.  She is a passionate advocate for humanizing healthcare, an innovative leader in digital and virtual health, and a pragmatic futurist who helps clients act upon today’s rapid changes in healthcare.Dr. Knight maintains an active physician license, is board certified in family medicine and was Chief of Staff of a 4-hospital healthcare system and Emergency and Urgent Care Department Chair. She is an accomplished leader having held key executive positions in F100 Plan, Digital Health, Provider, Government and Private Equity.  She also has academic credentials having been an adjunct Professor and Executive-in-Residence for Healthcare at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Her perspective on healthcare is informed not only by her professional experience, but also by her role as a patient and sandwich generation ca

Robin Shah is the Founder and CEO of Thyme Care, an oncology care management solution providing high-touch, tech-enabled cancer care navigation. Thyme Care was founded with the mission to radically improve the journey for every person diagnosed with cancer.  At the heart of it all is the belief that providing patients with access to the right team at the right time will lead to better quality, outcomes, costs, and ultimately patient experience. Before launching Thyme Care, Robin was a founding member of OneOncology, where he served as the Chief Development and Marketing Officer. Robin’s passion for building a stronger future for community oncology then brought him to Flatiron Health, a leading healthcare technology company. There, Robin served as Vice President of Provider Marketing and Strategy. Robin also helped manage a comprehensive community cancer center in his hometown, Gettysburg, PA. Robin earned his bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from George Washington University and holds an M.B.A from

Dr. John Shufeldt founded NextCare Inc. in 1993 and served as the CEO and Chairman of the Board until 2010. He now serves as the business manager and one of the founding partners of Empower Emergency Physicians and continues to practice emergency medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Shufeldt also founded MeMD, LLC, a platform used by more than 300 medical and mental health providers in 50 states to virtually treat patients on-demand and in the comfort of their home or place of work. Dr. Shufeldt has authored 11 books on leadership, self-improvement, business, entrepreneurism, urgent care management and urgent care medicine.Dr. Shufeldt received his BA from Drake University and his MD from the University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School. He completed his Emergency Medicine Residency at Christ Hospital and Medical Center where he spent his final year as Chief Resident. Dr. Shufeldt received his MBA and his Juris Doctorate from Arizona State University. His certifications inclu

 Josh Komenda is co-founder, CEO and president of healthcare logistics leader, Veyo, a full service NEMT broker using technology to better manage NEMT benefits for Medicaid and Medicare programs, state governments, and Managed Care Organizations.While focusing on the technology platform, Josh and his team recognized the need for Non-emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) in the industry and created Veyo. Combined with the healthcare logistics and transportation division of Total Transit, Veyo is a full-service transportation brokerage designed specifically to provide access to healthcare for people who need assistance getting to and from medical appointments. Veyo’s new tech-enabled healthcare approach has the most powerful network in NEMT and continues to deliver higher levels of reliability, quality, and transparency to customers, partners, and members.Josh received his degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and his graduate degree in Business from the Marshall School of Business at

Dr. Robert Pearl is the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. In these roles was responsible for the nationally recognized medical care of 5 million Kaiser Permanente members on the west and east coasts. Named one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 most influential physician leaders, Pearl is an advocate for the power of integrated, prepaid, technologically advanced and physician-led healthcare delivery.He serves as a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches courses on strategy and leadership, and lectures on information technology and health care policy.He is the author of “Mistreated: Why We think We’re Getting Good Healthcare—And Why We’re Usually Wrong,” a Washington Post bestseller that offers a roadmap for transforming American healthcare. His most recent book, Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Pati

Spencer Hutchins is the CEO and co-founder of Concert Health, America’s leading behavioral health medical group with a turnkey solution designed for primary care and women’s health physicians. Concert Health’s exceptional team of clinicians deliver Collaborative Care Management, an evidenced-based model proven to treat anxiety, depression, and other behavioral health conditions.  Prior to Concert, Spencer co-founded Reflexion Health, where he served as CEO for three years. Spencer also previously served as Senior Director at West Health, where he helped source and support investments in innovative companies such as Humedica, Change Healthcare, and goBalto. Spencer has also served as a member of the founding healthcare team at the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration.  Spencer received an MBA from Yale School of Management and BA from Colby College.   John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a healt

Dr. Emanuel has over 26 years of research and development, marketing and management experience in biotechnology projects, including development of drug delivery systems and immunology. His extensive expertise includes immunotherapy, vaccines, immunodiagnostics, systemic and local drug-delivery, and medical devices. Dr. Emanuel has a number of approved patents in the field of drug delivery and diagnostics. Dr. Emanuel is a co-founder of PolyPid and served as its CEO during the company’s first three years. He received his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companies. John is the author of The Accountable Organization and has adv

Christopher Robertson joined the Boston University law school faculty in 2020 as a tenured professor and an N. Neal Pike Scholar in health and disability law. Prior to that, he served as associate dean for research and innovation and professor of law at the University of Arizona. He is also a principal at Hugo Analytics, a firm that  provides scientific services to litigators. In 2019, Harvard University Press published his book, Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It. Chris has also co-edited three books, Nudging Health: Behavioral Economics and Health Law (2016,) Blinding as a Solution to Bias: Strengthening Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, and Law (2016), and Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation (2021). Chris graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and earned a doctorate degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught at Harvard Law School, NYU Law, and the London School of Economics. John Marchica, CEO, Darwin

Karthik Ganesh is the CEO of EmpiRx Health, the industry’s only value-based PBM, with a clinically focused, technology-enabled approach to bending the Rx cost curve. Prior to EmpiRx Health, Karthik was the founding operations leader of CareAllies. He is a senior health care executive with a solid track record of comprehensively scaling, transforming, and maximizing value at tech-enabled health service companies while driving dramatic before-and-after results across all facets of the organization. Karthik is recognized as a thought leader on health care, leadership, and resilience. He is a published author and has been featured in leading industry journals. John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companie

Dr. Thomas Young is a board-certified family physician with more than 35 years of medical experience. He is recognized as an innovator and thought leader in the fields of consumer-directed health care and population health care management. Dr. Young is the founder and chief medical officer of nView Health, an innovative software company that helps providers better identify, treat, and monitor patients with behavioral health conditions. John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companies. John is the author of The Accountable Organization and has advised senior management on strategy and organizational change for more than a decade. John did his undergraduate work in economics at Knox College, has an MBA an

Dr. Hale is the chief medical officer at VirtuSense Technologies, a health care company that uses proprietary technology and artificial intelligence to reduce adverse events within hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and senior living communities. He previously was the senior vice president for care solutions at Navvis Healthcare, after a 37-year career at Mercy Health, where he was the leader and clinical architect of the world’s first virtual care center. As the executive medical director of Mercy Virtual, Dr. Hale led the development of new ways to effectively and efficiently deliver health care to Mercy communities. Prior to his current position, Dr. Hale maintained a general internal medicine practice for 23 years. He was a founder of Mercy Medical Group and served as its first president for 15 years.  Dr. Hale holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from Saint Louis University. He received his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School, subsequently completing his internal medicine

Sean Brusky, health care entrepreneur, executive advisor, strategist, and former head of health care delivery innovation at Genentech/RocheSean’s career has developed around a central theme: How can we innovate to help Pharma become true partners in value-based care? Over the course of 15 years in various leadership roles with Genentech/Roche, Sean has lived experience attempting to solve the problems at the core of this challenge, directly engaging key market stakeholders from the seat of one of the world’s largest integrated health care companies, focused on both innovative new medicines and novel diagnostics, and real-world data solutions. Sean has built and led teams responsible for brand-focused marketing and sales, managed care marketing, channel contracting and engagement, integrated health system engagement, government and commercial payer engagement and, most recently, digital health partnerships and novel approaches to health care delivery. He spearheaded Genentech’s efforts to execute value-based p

Paul VerHoeve is CEO and a board member for Mission Healthcare. With more than 20 years of health care leadership experience, he has been recognized as a driver of healthy workplace culture. Prior to his involvement with Mission Healthcare, Paul was president of the west region with Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare, one of the largest post-acute care systems in the country. Before joining Kindred Healthcare, he served in several leadership positions with Gentiva Health Services (now part of Kindred Healthcare), Haven Healthcare, and VITAS Healthcare.  John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companies. John is the author of The Accountable Organization and has advised senior management on strategy

Dr. Kyle Guyton is a pediatrician, CFO and co-founder of SouthernMED Pediatrics, a multi-site pediatric and counseling practice with 10 locations throughout South Carolina. In addition to caring for his patients, he serves his local community as a member of the Lexington County School District One School Board. Dr. Guyton attended the Medical University of South Carolina, where he earned his medical degree, and furthered his training at the University of South Carolina in pediatric residency. Dr. Guyton has a passion to see that regions with a need for accessible, exceptional pediatric care are provided for.  John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companies. John is the author of The Accountable Organiz

Daniel J. Durand, M.D. serves as the chief innovation officer and chairman of radiology for LifeBridge Health. He led the LifeBridge Health ACO, LLC, and previously served as the first director of accountable care for Johns Hopkins Medicine. Prior to Hopkins, Dr. Durand was a vice president and member of the executive leadership team at Evolent Health, a health care IT startup. He also worked as an associate with McKinsey & Co. out of the firm's Washington, D.C., office. Dr. Durand earned his medical degree at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has more than 20 years of experience in health care, science, and technology. John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companies. John is the

Dr. Anthony Orsini is a practicing physician, author and frequent speaker on the topic of compassionate communication in medicine. He is a Level II Medical Director at one of the largest Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the world. He also serves as Chief of Patient Experience and Palliative Care Liaison for his neonatal practice, and is a frequent keynote speaker at various medical and business events, including an upcoming TEDx presentation entitled-Improving Healthcare Starts with a Single Conversation.In 2011, he founded The Orsini Way, a company that provides communication training to healthcare and business professionals. Dr. Orsini received his BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Rutgers University and his D.O. in Medicine at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has authored several papers on the topics of communication in medicine, enhancing the patient experience and delivering tragic news. His recently published book titled “It’s All in the Delivery – Improving Healthcare Starting

Jon Warner, CEO and Board Chair Decision-support Architect for Innovation, Technology, DigitalHealth, Aging populationsFive-time company CEO Jon Warner is a widely respected entrepreneurship expert. His career started in the corporate world with Air Products, working in the US and across Europe before joining Exxon-Mobil. At Exxon, Jon worked in the UK, the US, Australia, and Nigeria, ending his career there as deputy CEO. He is the founder of The Worldwide Center for Organizational Development, a management consulting business, and CEO of Silver Moonshots, a research organization and “virtual incubator” for startups focused on health technology and innovation aimed at the 50+ population. He is also a noted author and speaker at businesses, colleges and conferences around the world. A graduate of Warwick University in the UK, Jon has a double bachelor’s degree in philosophy and politics, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in psychology, specializing in neuroscience. He’s on the board of St. Barnabas and is co-chair of the a

2:07 - 2:13 Scott: “It was originally sort of a hobby and a marketing effort to develop a brand in health care.” 16:22 - 16:25 Scott: “So I understood the niche marketing concept, being in a niche within health care.”19:10 - 19:18 Scott: “It wasn’t until 7-8 years ago when we started, you know, really thinking about this as a serious business, where somebody said, ‘Oh, you’re in business-to-business media.’” 24:28 - 24:51 John: “I just get the sense that there’s still this antagonistic relationship between pharmacy and Pharma. … Pharma has not been able to demonstrate the value that they bring to the table.”26:02 - 26:14 Scott: “There’s this constant issue with pharmacy officers of, ‘Are we getting the right drugs, or ... is somebody pushing us drugs that don’t really make a difference but have a huge impact on the cost?’” 27:59 - 28:03 John: “I think people are willing to pay for the game changers, [but] not so much for the ones where there’s that marginal benefit.”32:58 - 36:16 Scott: "How do you mix in you