Relentless Health Value

James is the founder and managing director of Fitzroy Health, a leading international health care investment and commercialization firm. He has served as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor in health care firms across numerous international markets. James sits on the boards of RJ Health Systems, DosedDaily, Salute Safety, and Flex Health. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at The Wharton...

James is the founder and managing director of Fitzroy Health, a leading international health care investment and commercialization firm. He has served as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor in health care firms across numerous international markets. James sits on the boards of RJ Health Systems, DosedDaily, Salute Safety, and Flex Health. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at The Wharton...

Eric is established as a national expert on the impact of health care reform on health care providers and is a respected thought leader in the hospital health system industry. A consultant with deep experience in health plan strategy, design, prevention care, and productivity and behavioral economics, Eric serves as the national leader of direct provider solutions for Collective Health. A former e...

Brian is an innovator in digital life science technology, launching 15 brands across biotech, pharmaceuticals, and technology. Most recently he was the vice president of strategy at Alere, where he led efforts in point-of-care commercial implementation and business process design. In his current role, Brian leads the effort to create and launch cutting-edge VR and AR experiences in health care as...

Kelly Close founded Close Concerns in 2002; its mission is to make everyone smarter about diabetes. At Close Concerns, Kelly and her team write approximately three million words each year on diabetes, prediabetes, obesity, and digital health for Closer Look, a highly praised service covering the goings-on in the field. Kelly's passion for the field comes from her extensive professional work as wel...

I'm a creative and detail-oriented professional gardener with many years of hands-on experience in addition to attending ongoing college courses at Edmonds Community College in their highly regarded Horticulture program. In my previous career, I spent a lot of time working with clients on innovative ways to deliver the results they wanted while keeping an eye on the big picture. Oddly, garden desi...

Seth Painter Seth is a senior-level business development, sales, and marketing professional at IQVIA, a leading global provider of information, innovative technology solutions, and contract research services focused on using data and science to help health care clients find better solutions for their patients. Seth's background is unique, having sold for and to pharmaceutical companies in addition...

Dyan is the owner of a patient-focused consultancy, Inspired Health Strategies, LLC (IHS). After spending 20+ years in Big Pharma in traditional sales and marketing roles, in 2007 Dyan began working as a contractor with Sanofi. She was brought in to develop a multi-cultural marketing initiative and Dyan had little hope of making much of an impact until she realized that Sanofi was serious as evide...

Edith Peterson Mitchell, MD, FACP, FCCP, is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology and is clinical professor, Department of Medicine and Medical Oncology, at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and associate director for diversity programs and director of the Center to Eliminate Cancer Disparities for the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson U...

Alex is a partner/managing director in Parthenon-EY, where she works primarily on growth strategy projects. She helps clients define and implement their strategy and build organizational capabilities to deliver sustainable business results through both organic and inorganic approaches. She is a thought leader in the industry and specializes in asset repurposing and optimizing value propositions. P...

Don is an accomplished Health IT expert with a 20-year track record of driving value with technology. Don began his career as a custom software developer and eventually built and lead a team of more than 30 engineers. Later he was a subject matter expert, product manager and head of sales and marketing for a digital health startup that launched a SaaS-platform focused on administrative simplificat...

John Gorman is founder and executive chairman at Gorman Health Group (GHG). In this role, he has led the development of the industry's leading consulting practice and several entrepreneurial ventures in government health programs. John's work focuses on Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act strategy, governance, and turnaround of distressed health plans. Prior to founding the firm, John serv...

Nathaniel (Nate) Lacktman is a partner with the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is the chair of the firm's Telemedicine Industry Team. He advises health care providers and technology companies on business arrangements, compliance, and corporate matters, with particular attention to telehealth, digital health, virtual care, and health innovation. Working with hospitals, entrepreneurs, and st...

John Gorman is founder and executive chairman at Gorman Health Group (GHG). In this role, he has led the development of the industry's leading consulting practice and several entrepreneurial ventures in government health programs. John's work focuses on Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act strategy, governance, and turnaround of distressed health plans. Prior to founding the firm, John serv...

Alex is a partner/managing director in Parthenon-EY, where she works primarily on growth strategy projects. She helps clients define and implement their strategy and build organizational capabilities to deliver sustainable business results through both organic and inorganic approaches. She is a thought leader in the industry and specializes in asset repurposing and optimizing value propositions. P...

Sean Erreger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW, MSW) in New York State with an undergraduate degree in psychology. Sean has over a decade of practice experience in a variety of settings, including foster care prevention, psychiatric emergency room, adolescent day treatment, and adult inpatient. Currently, he is a clinical case manager for children and adolescents at risk of inpatient psyc...

An experienced senior executive with several years of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, Will has held key positions where he was instrumental in launching a variety of innovative platforms in medical affairs. He speaks frequently regarding the ever-changing role of medical affairs at most major medical affairs conferences and is currently president and CEO of the ACMA, w...

Sandra is the chief operating officer at SinfoníaRx. SinfoníaRx is a leading provider of MTM services. Through a comprehensive suite of innovative health care solutions, SinfoníaRx provides direct support to health plans, health systems, provider organizations, and pharmacies. SinfoníaRx's team works directly with patients, caregivers, and providers to ensure the most effective and safest medicati...

David is a nationally recognized thought leader, speaker, and author on disrupting health care and delivering better care at lower costs for employers and their employees. He spends much of his time educating the industry, including his competition, on how to bring these powerful solutions to the masses. The rest of his time is working directly with employers to improve benefits and improve overal...

Since 2010, under Pablo's leadership, Antidote has raised $26 million in venture capital and grown to become a leading player within the digital health sector, empowering thousands of patients worldwide to discover and access potential new treatment options through clinical trials. Pablo is a seasoned entrepreneur and manager of internet companies. He's been building high-scale businesses in onlin...

Alex Lickerman, MD is a primary care physician, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of ImagineMD, a direct primary care medical practice headquartered in Chicago. ImagineMD works with self-insured and fully-insured businesses and their benefits consultants to help lower health care costs and improve the access to—and quality of—health care for their employees. This enables businesses to att...

This podcast inbetweenisode is mostly dedicated to Pharma teams who have determined that EHRs and Health Information Technologies are here to stay, and that it's a business imperative to develop initiatives that suit a digitized health care ecosystem. However, this info also has relevance to startups or other entrepreneurs looking to work with Pharma. Take this as a word of advice... if you are wo...

I was thinking about this when reading that Forbes article that came out the other day that 44% of Americans skip doctor visits or medical care due to cost. Here's my point: There could be 2 prongs to this. One of them is that the costs are too high. And yep, they are. Even more distressing when you consider that only a dime on every dollar spent on health care goes to the physician or nurse or pe...

Renya is a Partner in the New York City office of Mercer Health & Benefits and leads the Center for Health Innovation (CHI). CHI is a national team, which includes Mercer LABS, focused on driving market change via collaboration with our clients, our colleagues, and thought leaders across the ecosystem to generate unbiased solutions that translate health innovations into relevant and actionable opp...

Dr. Lipi Roy is an internal medicine physician board certified in addiction medicine as well as clinical assistant professor at the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Population Health. She is currently the medical director of an addiction treatment center in New York City. In her previous role as Chief of Addiction Medicine for NYC jails including Rikers Island, Dr. Roy oversaw substance use t...