Multiple Tracks And Networking Opportunities

Bruce Cohen, MDDr. Cohen currently is the CEO for OrthoCarolina and has served as vice chairman of the Board of Directors and chair of the Operations Committee at OrthoCarolina. He has served as Fellowship Director of the OrthoCarolina Foot and Ankle Fellowship and is currently serving as the Chief of the Foot and Ankle Division at Carolinas Medical Center. He is the Vice-President of the American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society Board of Directors.

Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBADr. Bozic is the Chair of Surgery and Perioperative Care at the Dell Medical School at UT Austin. He is an internationally recognized leader in orthopaedic surgery and value-based health care payment and delivery models. Dr. Bozic is the 2nd Vice President of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and will assume the position of President in March 2023.

David Jevsevar, MD, MBADr. Jevsevar is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of OrthoVirginia. He was previously Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Jevsevar has had a long involvement with value-based care including evidence-based medicine, clinical program and care pathway development, quality and performance improvement, and clinical/patient–reported outcomes.

Joseph A. Abboud, MDDr. Abboud is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and specializes in the treatment of patients with shoulder and elbow disorders. He is an internationally recognized authority on the treatment of shoulder and elbow disorders. He is the current Chief Medical Officer for the National Platform at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute. He has worked with the executive leadership team to oversee a time of tremendous organizational growth of Rothman Orthopaedic Institute.

William N. Levine, MDDr. Levine is a nationally and globally renowned specialist in arthroscopic and open shoulder, elbow, and knee surgery, and sports medicine. He is Chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he holds the Frank E. Stinchfield Professorship in Orthopedic Surgery, and serves as Chief of the Orthopedics Service at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Levine is Columbia University’s head team physician, responsible for providing care for 31 Columbia intercollegiate athletic teams and is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedics.

Roy Sanders, MDDr. Sanders is the President of Florida Orthopaedic Institute (FOI), and Chairman of USF’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a Past President of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (2004-2005) and Chief of the Department of Orthopaedics at Tampa General Hospital. He is highly respected both nationally and internationally for his work in orthopaedic trauma, and foot and ankle surgery.

Terrance Peabody, MD, FAOADr. Peabody is the Edwin Warner Ryerson Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He also provides care for patients at Lurie Children’s Hospital and is a member of the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center. He was formerly the Simon and Kalt Families Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chief of the Section of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Chicago.

Mark Vrahas, MD, MHCDS

David StackMr. Stack serves as Chairman and CEO of Pacira BioSciences, Inc. He previously served as Managing Director of MPM Capital; President and CEO of The Medicines Company; and President and General Manager at Innovex, Inc., along with other key leadership roles at Immunomedics and Roche Laboratories.

Thomas Jackiewicz, MDDr. Tom Jackiewicz is president of University of Chicago Medical Center, a leading $3B academic and community health system. Tom’s career has focused on executing ambitious and broad transformation in academic environments and engaging physician leaders to drive organizational change. A strategic visionary, he has ushered in eras of substantial growth and improvement at academic health systems across the country.

David Lubarsky, MD, MBADr. David Lubarsky is the CEO of UC Davis Health, which serves more than 6 million people in 33 counties across 65,000-square-miles in Northern California. He oversees multiple top 50-ranked entities, including the UC Davis School of Medicine, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, the UC Davis Medical Center, and the UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

Christopher Olivia, MDDr. Christopher T. Olivia is an experienced physician and executive. He has served as CEO seven times having managed hospital systems, health insurance companies, post-acute services, physician practices, technology, and tech-enabled service companies. He presently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the renown Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, the largest surgical practice entity in the United States.

David Jacofsky, MDDr. Jacofsky is a respected authority in health care reform strategies for payors, providers, and health systems. Dr. Jacofsky has extensive background in business management and is the founder, CEO and Chairman of HOPCo (Health Outcomes Performance Company), The CORE Institute®, and its affiliated entities. Dr. Jacofsky is on the Editorial Review Board of multiple journals, has published over 100 articles, 27 book chapters, and 3 textbooks. He is also an inventor listed on over 30 patents.

Aashish Shah, MD, JDDr. Aashish Shah has a 3600 perspective of healthcare with roles spanning the continuum from individual provider to institutional payer. He is a seasoned executive whose expertise is the achievement of healthcare innovation through the integration of product design, physician alignment, network development and value-based contracting. He is now the Corporate Vice President for Strategy, Product Innovation within HCA’s Payer Contracting and Alignment. He is responsible for leading HCA’s product development and innovation through strategic alignment with health plans, third-party administrators and employers.

Roy Winston, MDDr. Winston is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Winston is an honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. Navy, a board certified anesthesiologist, and was most recently the chair of Anesthesiology at Palm Beach Children’s Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center. He served on The Georgia Composite State Board of Medical Examiners as Vice President and President Elect, and worked with the legislature to create and modify healthcare policy.

Leslie Basham, MBALeslie is passionate about partnering with healthcare executives to improve the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve, while profitably growing their organizations. As President and CEO of Surgical Directions, Leslie is responsible for building meaningful relationships with clinicians and administrators, ensuring high quality work and insights, and delivering measurable outcomes. She focuses on patient access, process improvement, clinician productivity, consumer engagement, and health innovation.

Wael K. Barsoum, MDDr. Barsoum is currently the President and Chief Transformation Officer at Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo) where he leads the company’s market transformation initiatives along with growth and clinical integration strategies. He spearheads the MSK service line hospital integration, specialty hospitals, quality programs, and operations. Prior to joining HOPCo, he was the CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic Florida.

Franco Carli, MD, MPhil, FRCA, FRCPCDr. Carli is a Professor for the Department of Anesthesia and Associate Professor for the Department of Human Nutrition at the McGill University. He previously was a Wesley Bourne Professor and Chairman of the McGill Department of Anesthesia. Dr. Carli’s research and experience include metabolic changes associated with surgery and the impact of perioperative interventions (regional analgesia, nutrition, hormones, exercise) on postoperative recovery; the evaluation of functional outcome measures during the surgical recovery process; and multimodal prehabilitation of surgical patients.

Carol Peden, MB ChB, MD, FRCA, FFICM, MPHDr. Carol Peden is an international expert in designing and leading healthcare improvement and innovation projects. She is an Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Southern California and Executive Medical Director for Clinical Quality at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association covering care for 113M Americans. Carol is the immediate past Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Perioperative Brain Heath Initiative and a board member of the International ERAS Society, USA.

Michael Doyle, MBAMike serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Florida Orthopaedic Institute. Under the leadership of the combined physician and management team board the group has significantly expanded their footprint, all while maintaining a clinically focused physician owned and led organization. Prior to his current role, Mike served as Chief Executive Officer of Surgery Partners (NASDAQ: SGRY).

Scott Sigman, MDSigman is an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in Sports and has served as Team Physician for the US Ski Jump Team, and serves for the last 20 years as Team Physician at UMASS Lowell. He is the Chief of Orthopaedics at Lowell General Hospital and is considered a national authority in Opioid Sparing Surgery. He has contributed to numerous publications and research studies on advances in orthopaedic surgery.

Jeff Gadsden, MD, FRCPC, FANZCAGadsden is a world leader in the areas of ultrasound-guided nerve blockade, the monitoring of regional anesthesia, trauma, and education. He holds fellowships with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (anesthesia) and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, widely published and a well-known speaker in these areas.

Michael Y. Wang, MD, FACSDr. Wang was born in Scottsdale, Arizona and spent his childhood in Atlanta, Georgia. He then attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, California where received both his BS and MD degrees. He completed his residency at the University of Southern California/LA County General Hospital and Fellowship at the University of Miami under Drs. Barth Green and Allan Levi. He then went on to become the Spine Program Director and Spine Fellowship Director at the USC. In 2007 he moved to South Florida and currently serves as a Professor in the Departments of Neurological Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. He is the Director of Neurosurgery at University of Miami Hospital and the Spine Fellowship Director.

Nader Samii, JD, MBAHe is the CEO of the largest and most reputable revenue cycle management company in the ASC market. Prior to National Medical, Nader was the president of Ajuba International, an award-winning health care revenue cycle company. Prior to Ajuba International, Nader was an investment banker focused on mergers and acquisitions at both Merrill Lynch in and UBS, and also served as a corporate finance attorney at Dykema Gossett.

Karen Zupko, MBAAn internationally recognized thought leader and speaker, Karen Zupko advises physicians and healthcare managers about the challenges and trends impacting the practice of medicine. Her pragmatic, action-oriented style inspires people to apply common sense and business rigor to improve profitability, efficiency, and patient satisfaction.

Chauncey T. Jones, MDDr. Jones is Co-Managing Partner of Northwest Anesthesiology and Pain Services, Houston, TX. He joined the private practice group after completing residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. He has been Medical Director and Chief of Anesthesia during startup and transition phases of several ASC’s and hospitals with focuses on operational safety and efficiency. Clinically, Dr. Jones’ focus is flow, efficiency, and safety of outpatient spine and total joint procedures.

Kim Wilder, MSN, RN, ONCKim is currently the administrator for Baptist Health Surgery Center in Lexington, Kentucky. She has been with Baptist Health for 26 years and has held various positions during her tenure including: critical care staff nurse, nurse manager for Preop/PACU, nurse educator, Nursing Director, performance improvement coordinator and Executive Director for Orthopedic Service Line.

Kamshad Raiszadeh, MDDr. Raiszadeh has 20 years of experience with a broad range of spine surgery including minimally invasive surgery, complex spinal disorders such as scoliosis and kyphosis, and cervical spine disorders. During this 20 years he has noticed a dramatic increase in patients turning to surgery for treatment of neck and low back pain, but many of them not getting their desired long-term result. He therefore became increasingly interested in improvement and standardization of non-operative treatment which led to the founding of SpineZone.

Kristi Crowe, MPTKristi is the founder and President of Ambulatory Healthcare Innovations, a healthcare consulting firm heavily focused on Orthopedics, spine, pain management, and rehabilitation strategies. AHI helps physician practices and health systems bring new services to market, develop the governance structure to support their programs, establish meaningful partnerships, and develop the ideal geographic footprint for their services across the care continuum.

Shealynn Buck, MDDr. Buck is Chief Medical Officer at Lockton Companies serving as a health and welfare strategic consultant for U.S. employer clients, including health care employers, and specializing in clinical data analysis to inform actionable cost and risk mitigation solutions. Dr. Buck is the clinical leader of Lockton’s Coronavirus Advisory Practice and guides a multi-disciplinary team of 22 clinical experts providing timely and practical clinical advice to 13,000+ U.S. employers and Lockton Associates.

Brigitte Nettesheim, MBABrigitte is currently the President for the National & Enterprise Accounts for Aetna, a CVS Company. She is a transformative healthcare leader with an extensive track record across payer, provider, technology and communities of continually improving both access to and the affordability of quality healthcare with a unique array of leadership experience across private and public sector organizations.

Christopher Day, MBA

Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhDIn addition of being President of Rothman Institute, Vaccaro is Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University. He is the past President of the American Spinal Injury Association. He has over 650 peer reviewed publications and is the editor of over 54 textbooks and co-editor of OKU-Spine I and editor of OKU-8.

Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA, FACSSuk is chair of the Geisinger Musculoskeletal Institute and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and is also the chief physician officer for Geisinger System Services. He is on the editorial board of several orthopaedic journals, author of numerous scientific articles and a textbook. He is a national authority on VBC in the orthopedic space.

Randy Fagin, MDDr. Randy Fagin is the Chief Medical Officer for the National Group at HCA Healthcare, the world’s largest hospital management company with over 300 hospitals & ASC’s across the United States and the United Kingdom. Previously, Dr. Fagin was the Chief Administrative Officer for the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery a data and performance management company inside of HCA Healthcare’s Central and West Texas Division.

Zeev N. Kain, MD, MBAKain is a thought leader in Orthopedic Value based care and an international expert on Perioperative Surgical Home and enhanced recovery. He is also a national leader in perioperative digital health. He previously served as Chair of Anesthesiology and Associate Dean of Clinical Operations Officer in UC Irvine Health.

Ranjan Gupta, MDDr. Gupta is a world renown orthopedic surgeon and researcher who had been continuously funded by NIH-NINDS since 2000. Gupta has previously served as Chair of Orthopedics at UCI and has received numerous awards such as the NIH Career Development Award from the NINDS-NIH.

Controversies in Blood Pressure Management: What should the current standard be?

Even short durations of low blood pressure in surgical patients, historically thought to be benign, are now known to be associated with increased risk of kidney injury, myocardial injury and even death. This session will review the current evidence against existing standards, and incorporate discussion on what should be communicated within multi-disciplinary care teams and even with patients.

The dynamics of the patient journey are experiencing substantial change. Driven by the expectations of younger, more active patients, as well as evolving healthcare economics and advances made in minimally invasive surgical techniques, significant opportunities exist for those seeking arthroplasty in a same-day setting. This discussion will explore the changing dogma for the ASC, exploring what has worked, the way forward, and how vendor partnerships may play a vital role in future success.

Description for when your mouse hovers over it: Join the conversation and learn how to maximize ASC outcomes and efficiencies with world class surgeons. Smith+Nephew Life Unlimited faculty members leading the discussion are Dr. Jaime Hernandez, MD of Southern California Orthopedic Institute and Dr. Michael Kimball, MD of Girard Orthopedic Surgeons moderated by Dr. Aric Christal, MD of Proliance Surgeons.

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