Agenda – PHA Forum

Throughout a successful career, Dr. Raymond Fabius has garnered medical and business leadership experience in an extraordinary variety of healthcare management areas including strategy, operations, network development and oversight, patient management, quality management, disease management, national accounts, occupational health, emergency preparedness, pandemic response, worker productivity, wellness and wellness promotion, travel medicine, health education, and data warehousing and analytics. He has served as a physician executive in academics, private practice, managed care, the health insurance industry, e-health, corporate health, workplace health, the pharmaceutical industry, and health informatics. He is the author of five books including the leading textbook in population health. Presently he is the co-founder of HealthNEXT – the leader in building sustainable corporate cultures of health and wellbeing. His company performs comprehensive assessments to identify gaps from benchmark and builds multi-year strategic plans to allow client companies to achieve best practice.

Dr. Wadhwa is Chief Health Officer, Solera Health. He is a population health leader focused on improving the health status of vulnerable populations, particularly for those in poverty, people with disabilities, and older adults. He has extensive corporate and government experience. He is responsible for curating national networks of digital and community, evidence-based, lifestyle interventions that have not previously been covered by health insurers. Dr. Wadhwa previously served as the State Medicaid Director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing where he led the design of the Accountable Care Collaborative. His prior experiences include management of payment and quality at 3M Health Information Systems and at McKesson heading up their care management services efforts. He continues to precept at Seniors Clinic at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Alisha Fehrenbacher’s commitment to health equity and innovation is represented by her dedication to the Quadruple Aim: better health; better care; better value; and better experience of care. She promotes this work through community activation and collaboration. She serves on the Integration Oversight Board, Statewide Workforce Council and is the Committee Co-Chair for the Regional System of Care Committee, which is focused on improving behavioral health, physical health and the criminal justice system. As Empire Health Foundation’s Chief Strategy Officer and Vice President of Health Systems, she supported the foundation of Washington’s Accountable Communities of Health. She founded a health collaborative in Oregon, obtaining legislative approval launching a community-based health plan that provided value-based contracts and community-based care coordination. She also serves as Senior Advisor for Pathways Community Hub Institute. Her transformational strategy supported the development of an Oregon Coordinated Care Organization and served as a health system executive leading strategy, community benefit and population health.

Dr. David Nace is the Chief Medical Officer at Innovaccer where its category-creating healthcare data activation platform is on a mission to organize healthcare information and make it accessible, useful and actionable. He has over 25 years of executive management experience in healthcare, having served in a Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer roles with United Health Group, Aetna, and McKesson Corporation, with a more recent focus on early stage innovation development in Silicon Valley. Dr. Nace completed his medical education and residency training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he subsequently served as junior faculty in his early career.

Dr. Osmick is a physician consultant with extensive experience in leading vendor, provider, employer and health plan businesses with the goal of improving the health of populations served. As an executive physician, she focuses on helps to design systems of care that support health risk reduction, chronic health condition control, wellbeing support and disease prevention, as well as on quality management and accreditation of systems in place. A special area of interest includes working with organizations, as well as teaching closing gaps on health equity and social determinants of health. She serves in peer review of research articles related to population health and speaks nationally on related subjects. Dr. Osmick has served as a board member of Population Health Alliance since 2016, and from 2018 through 2019 led the Quality and Research Committee that developed and published an extensive primer on taking action in social determinants of health. She also serves as a clinical advisor for a health technology company.

Audrey Sefakis is the Director of Case Management, Commercial Products at Tufts Health Plan. She is a Registered Nurse, a Certified Case Manager and holds a B.S. degree from Simmons University, Boston, MA.

At Tufts Health Plan, she is part of the Population Health team and is an active member on several cross-functional committees and Business Resource Groups. She has worked to improve member/employee engagement scores, staff productivity, and member reach/engagement rates. Her team focuses on all medical, behavioral, and social aspects of health to impact positive member self-management.

The Honorable David Shulkin was the Ninth Secretary of the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Previously he served as the Under Secretary of Health for VA. He served in both the Obama and Trump Administrations was confirmed by the Senate 100-0 on both confirmations. Secretary Shulkin is the author of “It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans”

Rose Maljanian is an accomplished senior executive driving innovation, positive organizational change and results for over 30 years. Leadership experience spans population health management, managed care, delivery systems and investment firms. Rose is Founder, Chairman & CEO HealthCAWS, Inc. focused on accountability and supports to improve health and reduce costs via strategic advisory, QI and consumer portals. At WaveEdge Capital, Rose serves as Business Advisor – digital health, behavioral health, senior and home care. Previously, Rose was SVP Product Innovation at Magellan, a multi-specialty managed care company leading initiatives with major impact on the company’s revenue base. Prior, she served as VP, Clinical Interventions, Innovation Center at Humana. At Hartford Hospital she founded and served as chief executive, Institute for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, developing and evaluating initiatives across the enterprise and community. Rose serves as Board Chairman Emeritus, Population Health Alliance and on Advisory Boards for URAC and RISE.