The Private, The Public, The Provider, The Professor, The Payor, and The People at HLTH

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Posted By: Carol Flagg January 24, 2018

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HLTH (@HLTHEVENT), an exciting new industry event, is set to take over the Aria in Las Vegas, May 6-9, 2018. Founders Jonathan Weiner and Anil Aggarwal have changed the financial and commerce industries with Money 20/20 and ShopTalk and are on a mission to do it again with HLTH. HLTH, their third industry-wide, community-building event, will include more than 300 world-class speakers and over 2,000 industry attendees. The majority of speakers scheduled on the HLTH agenda for 2018 are C-level executives, CEOs or Founders from today’s most successful and innovative companies. We’ve highlighted a handful of these speakers who are sure to inspire and educate audience members about the latest and greatest in healthcare today.

The Private
Kieran Murphy
CEO
GE Healthcare (@GEHealthcare)
Kieran Murphy is President and CEO of GE Healthcare, a $20 billion business unit of General Electric that provides transformational medical technologies and solutions to the global healthcare industry. GE Healthcare supports customers in over 100 countries with a broad range of services and systems, from diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT through to molecular diagnostics and life-sciences. Kieran joined GE Healthcare in 2008 and has over twenty years’ experience in the global life sciences and biotechnology industry.

The Public
Bruce D. Greenstein
Chief Technology Officer
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Bruce D. Greenstein is the Chief Technology Officer  at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As the CTO at HHS, Bruce provides leadership and direction to ensure that HHS effectively uses data, technology and innovation to improve the lives of the American people and the performance of the operating divisions across the Department. Greenstein joins HHS after serving as President-West at Quartet, a technology company improving the integration of behavioral health and physical healthcare for patients, providers, and payers.

The Provider
Dr. Joshua Landy
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer
Figure 1 (@Figure1)
Dr. Joshua Landy is the co-founder and chief medical officer of Figure 1, a medical case-sharing platform connecting millions of healthcare professionals around the world. Dr. Landy is a practicing internist and critical care medicine specialist, having completed his M.D. at the University of Western Ontario, his internal medicine residency at the University of Alberta, and his critical care fellowship at the University of Toronto. In 2012, Dr. Landy was invited to become a visiting scholar at Stanford University, where he researched online and multimedia-oriented approaches to health education.

The Professor
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
University of Pennsylvania
Ezekiel J. Emanuel joined Oak HC/FT as Venture Partner in 2016. He is a Board Member on VillageMD. Ezekiel is also the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Dr. Emanuel was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. Until January 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. He is a breast oncologist and author.

The Payor
Ben Wanamaker
Head of Consumer Technology and Services
Aetna
Ben Wanamaker leads the Consumer Tech and Services business at Aetna. Prior to Aetna Ben worked at Walmart where he co-founded and successfully launched a start-up business (Walmart Care Clinic) as well as joint ventures with McKesson and Quest Diagnostics. He also led strategic planning and business development initiatives for Walmart’s corporate, health and wellness, and eCommerce divisions. Prior to joining Walmart, Ben led the healthcare practice at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation.

The People
Alexandra Drane
Cashier
Walmart
Alexandra Drane is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Eliza Corporation, and co-founder of Engage with Grace. She has founded four companies (all boot-strapped), is in the process of starting her fifth, and takes an active role with the non-profits she feels are doing their best to change the world, including two she co-founded. Alex was named one of Disruptive Women in Health Care’s Women to Watch in 2014, and one of Boston Globe’s 2013 Top 100 Women Leaders. She appears on Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” and Healthspottr Future Health 100 lists, as well as an inventor on multiple patents. She is also currently working part time as a cashier at Walmart.

About HLTH 2018
HLTH is the leading event covering innovation in healthcare that is driving substantial reduction in costs and dramatic increase in quality. It’s an unprecedented, large-scale forum for individuals, companies and policymakers who are reshaping the healthcare industry to learn, collaborate and evolve.

The event is unique in bringing together all key industry stakeholders, ranging from established providers, payers, employers and pharma services to disruptive startups and prolific investors as well as representatives from government, media and analysts. By helping reshape the dialogue and ecosystem, HLTH serves as a catalyst for the development of the healthcare industry during a period of fundamental change.