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 & Medicaid Services

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

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

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

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

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

Cathy Jacobson
President and CEO of Froedtert 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

Luis Jose Maseda
Trustee, UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital

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

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

Rick Pollack
President and CEO, American Hospital Association

Gen. (ret.) Lori Robinson
Commander, NORAD; commander; U.S. Northern Command (May 2016–May 2018); commander, Pacific Air Forces (October 2014–May 2016)

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

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

Christopher Wray
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation