sysid,Name,Description,Image,Web,Address,Phone
1,Sally O'Connor,"O'Connor leads the development and implementation of enterprise strategy, and is responsible for the health care and clinical division, network relationships and health system innovation, business development, analytics, health reform implementation, and public affairs. She joined BCBSNC in 2000 as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel and later assumed the roles of General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer.  O'Connor has extensive experience in health policy and strategy, business development, provider relations and contracting and regulatory affairs. Before joining BCBSNC, O'Connor was Senior Regional Counsel with CIGNA, Senior Vice President and general counsel of Healthsource North Carolina and was in private practice with Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett & Jernigan. While in private practice, O'Connor represented hospital systems, physician practices, state medical societies and boards, and other health-related organizations.  She serves on the national board of the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) and co-chairs the finance committee of the North Carolina Health Information Exchange.",http://www.sas.com/images/landingpage/speakers/oconnor_100x110.jpg,http://www.mobilesmith.com,"5400 Trinity Rd. Raleigh, NC 27607",919-237-5000
2,Clay Berwick,"Berwick is a leading advocate for high-quality health care and speaks about the challenges faced by modern health care systems. Prior to being the Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services he was the founding CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a nonprofit dedicated to improving health care around the world. Previously Berwick practiced as a pediatrician and served on the Harvard Medical School faculty.",http://www.sas.com/images/landingpage/speakers/Christensen_100x110.jpg,http://www.mobilesmith.com,"5401 Trinity Rd. Raleigh, NC 27607",919-237-5001
3,Billy Christensen,"Christensen is regarded as one of the world's foremost experts on innovation and growth. His research has been applied to national economies, startup and Fortune 50 companies, as well as to early- and late-stage investing. Christensen is the best-selling, award-winning author of seven books, including The Innovator's Dilemma, which received the Global Business Book Award for the Best Business Book of the Year. Recently, Christensen has focused the lens of disruptive innovation on health care with The Innovator's Prescription, which examines how to fix our health care system.  He is a five-time recipient of the McKinsey Award for the Harvard Business Review's best article and the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010. Christensen is an experienced entrepreneur, having started three successful companies, and the founder of a nonprofit think tank whose mission is to apply his theories to vexing societal problems such as health care, education and clean energy.",http://www.sas.com/images/landingpage/speakers/hughes_100x110.jpg,http://www.mobilesmith.com,"5402 Trinity Rd. Raleigh, NC 27607",919-237-5002
4,Herb Labkoff,"At AstraZeneca, Labkoff leads three teams that are dedicated to using health care data for the development of ethical pharmaceuticals. He focuses on strategies for new health care delivery models and has demonstrated success in the convergence of medicine, life sciences and policy across disparate organizations including government, non-government organizations (NGOs), health plans and academic institutions.  Previously, Labkoff was Medical Executive in the Medical Affairs group in Pfizer's Primary Care Business Unit. He founded and led the Healthcare Informatics Group (HCI). The HCI group worked in the external environment to seek out new opportunities from the growth of health information technology in America and around the world.  Labkoff is a former cardiologist and an internist. He received his medical training at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.",http://www.sas.com/images/landingpage/speakers/berwick_100x110.jpg,http://www.mobilesmith.com,"5403 Trinity Rd. Raleigh, NC 27607",919-237-5003
5,Thomas Hughes,"Hughes is responsible for identifying and developing opportunities to create novel analytics solutions that help health care organizations improve care quality, clinical operations and patient outcomes. He has over 20 years' experience developing and delivering innovative health care IT products and services and is an expert on health care market dynamics, both in the United States and internationally.  Prior to working at SAS, Hughes was the Vice President of Product Strategy and Chief Medical Informatics Officer at GE Healthcare IT. In that role he led a customer-facing advanced technologies innovation team and spearheaded the annual strategic planning process for GEHCIT's enterprise portfolio of products.",http://www.sas.com/images/landingpage/speakers/Labkoff_100x110.jpg,http://www.mobilesmith.com,"5404 Trinity Rd. Raleigh, NC 27607",919-237-5004