Speakers

Mike Allen
Co-founder and executive editor of Axios, former POLITICO chief White House correspondent

Jim Austin
Former senior executive at Baxter Healthcare

David Axelrod
Political strategist and former senior advisor to former President Barack Obama

Greg Bentz
Board chair, Saint Luke’s Health System and chair of AHA’s 2023 Committee on Governance

Jonathan Blum
Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Joshua Boisvert
Senior vice president, Beekeeper Consulting Group

Rep. Larry Bucshon, M.D.
Congressman representing Indiana’s 8th district

Jonathan Capehart
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, associate editor of The Washington Post

Joanne M. Conroy, M.D.
President and CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, chair-elect of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees

Gen. James Conway, USMC (Ret.)
34th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps

Rep. Madeleine Dean
Congresswoman representing Pennsylvania’s 4th district

Shereef Elnahal, M.D., M.B.A.
Under Secretary for Health at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Delvecchio Finley, FACHE
President and CEO, Atrium Health Navicent and chair of the American College of Healthcare Executives

Tina Freese Decker, FACHE
President and CEO, Corewell Health

Lisa Goldstein
Senior vice president at Kaufman Hall

Patrice Harris, M.D., M.A.
CEO and co-founder of eMed, and past president of the American Medical Association

Sen. Maggie Hassan
Senator from New Hampshire

John M. Haupert, FACHE
President and CEO of Grady Health System, chair of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees

Jennifer Havens, R.N., M.H.A., FACHE
CEO, UnityPoint Health – Grinnell Regional Medical Center

Emily Henn
Senior policy advisor to Congresswoman Carol Miller

Mark Holmes, Ph.D.
Director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Stacey Hughes
Executive vice president, Government Relations and Public Policy, American Hospital Association

Cathy Jacobson, FHFMA, CPA
President and CEO of Froedtert Health

Ashish Jha, M.D., M.P.H.
White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator

Denise Keefe
Executive vice president of Continuing Health for Advocate Health

Mary Beth Kingston, Ph.D., R.N., NEA-BC, FAAN
Chief Nursing Officer, Advocate Health

Wright L. Lassiter III
CEO of CommonSpirit Health, immediate past chair of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees

James Liggins, Jr.
Board director, Bronson Healthcare Group

Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D.
Senator from Kansas

Luis Jose Maseda
Trustee, UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital

LaShawn McIver, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health

Tom Morris, M.P.A.
Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration

House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi
Congresswoman representing California’s 11th district

Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., M.B.A., Ph.D.
President and CEO of The Joint Commission

Scott Peterson, M.P.A.
CEO, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Franklin

Noah J. Phillips
Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice, Cravath, Swaine and Moore LLP and former commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission

Rick Pollack
President and CEO, American Hospital Association

Wendell Primus, Ph.D.
Senior Health Policy Advisor to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi

James R. Prister, FACHE
President and CEO, RML Specialty Hospital

Karl Rove
Political strategist and former senior advisor to former President George W. Bush

Frank Sesno
American journalist, former CNN correspondent, anchor and Washington bureau chief; director, George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs

Erin Shadbolt
Chief Nursing and Interim Chief Operating Officer, Ascension Post-Acute and At-Home Services, Ascension

Maria Shriver
Acclaimed journalist, bestselling author, entrepreneur, former first lady of California, and founder of the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement at Cleveland Clinic

Jim Skogsbergh, M.H.A., FACHE
CEO, Advocate Health

Rep. Adrian Smith
Congressman representing Nebraska’s 3rd district

Joshua H. Soven
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Adm. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.)
NATO’s 16th Supreme Allied Commander Europe and 15th Commander of the U.S. European Command (2009-2013)

Michael Stewart
CEO of Saline Health System

Harsh Trivedi, M.D., M.B.A.
President and CEO of Sheppard Pratt

Jim VandeHei
Co-founder and CEO of Axios, co-founder and former CEO of POLITICO

Arpan Waghray, M.D.
CEO, Well Being Trust at Providence Health and chair of AHA’s committee on behavioral health

Sen. Mark Warner
Senator from Virginia

Tina Weatherwax-Grant, J.D.
Senior vice president of public policy and advocacy, Trinity Health

Roxie Wells, M.D.
President of Hoke Healthcare, Cape Fear Valley Health

A.J. Wilhelmi
President and CEO, Illinois Health and Hospital Association

Christopher Wray
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Sen. Todd Young
Senator from Indiana