Healthcare THOUGHT LEADERS
Alan Katz
Alan Katz speaks and writes nationally on healthcare reform, technology, sales and business planning. He is author of the award-winning Alan Katz Blog and of Trailblazed: Proven Paths to Sales Success.
Roy Franco
Over the past two decades, Roy A. Franco has emerged as one of the principal architects of policies and practices that define the world of Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance. From his experience as director of risk management for Safeway from 1993-2010, he realized the need for greater clarity and efficiency in matters related to Medicare compliance.
Chunka Mui
Chunka Mui is the co-author of the best-selling Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, which in 2005 the Wall Street Journal named one of the five best books on business and the Internet. He also cowrote Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years.
John C. Goodman
John C. Goodman is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on health policy. He is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute and author of the widely acclaimed book, Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis. The Wall Street Journal calls Dr. Goodman "the father of health savings accounts." He has written numerous editorials in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, Los Angeles Times and many other publications.
Steve Spina
Steve Spina is responsible for OneBeacon Professional Insurance's health group, which provides liability insurance solutions for medical facilities, long-term care facilities, managed care organizations and hospitals, physicians and complex risks. Spina’s group also offers tailored coverages for the medical excess segment and has developed an innovative extended reporting period (ERP) product to address the evolving physicians’ integration environment.
Kaveh Safavi
Kaveh Safavi is the managing director for Accenture's global healthcare business. Safavi is responsible for developing and driving a growth strategy that differentiates Accenture's offerings for providers, health insurers and public and private health systems across the globe.
Tom Emerick
Tom Emerick is president of Emerick Consulting and cofounder of EdisonHealth and Thera Advisors. Emerick’s years with Wal-Mart Stores, Burger King, British Petroleum and American Fidelity Assurance have provided him with an excellent blend of experience and contacts.
Mark Walls
Mark Walls is the vice president, communications and strategic analysis, at Safety National. Mark is also the founder of the Work Comp Analysis Group on LinkedIn, which is the largest discussion community dedicated to workers' compensation issues.
Al Lewis
Al Lewis, widely credited with having invented disease management, is co-founder and CEO of Quizzify, the leading employee health literacy vendor. He was founding president of the Care Continuum Alliance and is president of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium.
William Zachry
William Zachry has been the vice president of risk management for Safeway (the third largest retail grocery company in the U.S.) since 2001. He oversees Safeway's nationwide self-insured, self-administered workers' compensation program of 11 locations with 125 claims staff.
