Phil Burgess
Phil Burgess serves as the President of Phil Burgess Consulting, LLC, a firm that specializes in assisting with state and federal regulatory issues involving the maximization of the use of technology to improve patient care and safety. Prior to this, he has held numerous positions with Walgreens including Director of Pharmacy Affairs and Director of Pharmacy Operations.
Burgess currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Community Pharmacy Foundation of Chicago. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of several organizations including the Illinois State Board of Pharmacy; the American Pharmacists Association; the University of California, San Francisco College of Pharmacy; University of Tennessee, Memphis College of Pharmacy and Drug Topics Magazine.
He received his B.S. degree in pharmacy from the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He also holds a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Kevin Hutchinson
Kevin’s leadership experience spans over 15 years from creating successful start-ups to leading large enterprises primarily in the healthcare industry.
He is considered one of the leading visionaries in healthcare technology as evident by his numerous strategic advisory roles for the federal government, large enterprises, and small to medium sized technology startups. Hallmarks of Kevin’s managerial approach are setting clear goals, building a strong culture centered on team and performance, communicating effectively and ensuring accountability for successful execution. Because of his reputation as an executive and leader, Kevin is able to attract and retain highly capable employees while motivating them to achieve the best that is within them, which has always served as the measure of his success. Kevin has been the keynote speaker at multiple venues as well as testified at the request of various Senate and House of Representative committees at the federal level on health information technology matters.
Kevin Hutchinson served as the founding President and CEO of SureScripts from 2002-2008. During this time, he launched the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, one of the most successful electronic prescribing networks in the country. Hutchinson also held leadership positions at VHA Inc., Oracle and IBM.
Additionally, he is a member of the eHealth Initiative’s Board of Directors and is part of the Connecting for Health Steering Group for the Markle Foundation.
Martin Makary, M.D., MPH, FACS
Martin Makary is the Mark Ravitch Chair of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Director at The Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Outcomes Research. Makary is an active surgeon and professor of health policy and management at The Johns Hopkins, and weekly ‘on-air’ medical expert for CNN Headline News.
Makary developed new standardized metrics for countries to measure health. He also founded The Lotus Global Health Foundation®, which is a non-profit organization that coordinates humanitarian medical relief efforts in developing countries. Makary is also the youngest surgeon in the U.S. ever to hold an endowed chair in surgery.
Makary is the author of over 100 scientific research articles, as well as a leading textbook of surgery that is used in the standard curriculum at approximately 40 percent of the nation’s medical schools. Makary currently serves in leadership roles for The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), The American College of Surgeons and The International Union of Risk Management.
Michael D. Hogue
Co-Founder, PharmMD
Michael Hogue is one of PharmMD’s three co-founders. In addition to his current academic administrative position, he maintains an active pharmacy practice as the co-director of the International Travel Medicine Clinic at the Jefferson County Department of Health in Birmingham, Ala.
Hogue has a diverse background in pharmacy practice, having owned a pharmacy and home infusion company, practiced as an ambulatory care specialist in a managed care clinic and worked in pharmacy association management, public health and academia.
He has served in numerous elected and appointed positions with the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). Currently, he is an academy President-elect and member-elect of APhA’s Board of Trustees (2011-13). He also represents APhA on the Pharmacy Services Technical Advisory Committee, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Pharmacy Association. Hogue was instrumental in the pharmacy profession’s efforts to define Medication Therapy Management (MTM) immediately after passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003. He has been a strong and consistent advocate for quality MTM services.
Hogue is the author of 3 books, numerous book chapters and primary literature manuscripts on the topics of immunization and payment for pharmacists’ professional services. He is also one of the development team members and authors of APhA’s national certificate program in immunizations, which is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is active in APhA, The American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists, The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the Alabama Pharmacy Association.
Michael Burcham, MBA, DHA
President & CEO, The Entrepreneur Center
Michael is President & CEO of the Entrepreneur Center. A serial entrepreneur who began his career at Hospital Corporation of America, Michael has a passion for helping individuals organize and grow their businesses.
Michael served as President of ParadigmHealth from 2000-2007. ParadigmHealth specialized in the management of life-limiting and life-threatening medical events and was sold to Inverness Medical Innovations in December, 2007. Prior to joining ParadigmHealth, Michael was President of Theraphysics, a venture-backed, specialty rehabilitation firm he founded in 1992. Theraphysics was acquired by Beverly Enterprises in 1998. Prior to Theraphysics, Burcham worked for HCA as Vice President of Managed Care for Centennial Medical Center.
In addition to his work in the healthcare industry, Burcham teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. He is also the Faculty Director and creative leader behind Vanderbilt’s Summer Business Institute, an intensive immersion in business designed exclusively for undergraduates and recent graduates in all majors.
Michael has over 25 years experience in healthcare and is a frequent National speaker on startups and entrepreneurship. He resides in Brentwood, TN.
Gregg O. Lehman, Ph.D.
President and CEO, Health Fitness Corporation
Gregg Lehman is President and CEO of Health Fitness Corporation, a public company that provides health improvement solutions in more than 390 client sites for more than 30 years in both health management and fitness management services.
Lehman is the former President and CEO of Inspiris, a unique healthcare management company that focuses on improving the quality of life of the elderly, while also reducing costs to Medicare Advantage health plans.
Prior to Inspiris, Lehman was President and CEO of Gordian Health Solutions, a Tennessee-based population health management company. He formerly served as President and CEO of the National Business Coalition on Health.
Lehman works with the Health Care Purchasing Institute through Academy Health, the eHealth Initiative, the National Quality Forum, the National Patient Safety Foundation and various other purchasing/quality organizations that promote value-based purchasing and market-based reform.
Dennis T. Delaney
Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Administration, Ingram Industries
Dennis Delaney was named Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Administration for Ingram Industries Inc. in 2003. He joined Ingram Industries Inc. in 1997 as Vice President of Human Resources.
Previously, he served as Vice President for Human Resources and External Affairs for PRIMUS, Ford Motor Credit Company’s non-Ford financing subsidiary from 1990 until 1997. Delaney joined Ford Motor Company in 1977 and held various positions including assignments in labor relations, organizational development and finance staff.
Delaney is a member of the Employee Benefits Committee, Chair of the Retirement Plans Committee and a member of the Workplace Wellness Alliance Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, he is part of the Employment Rights Committee of the Human Resources Policy Association. Delaney is the current Chair of the Finance Committee and serves on the Board of Trustees of United Way of Middle Tennessee.
A native of Detroit, Delaney holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a master’s degree from Central Michigan University. He earned his law degree at the University of Detroit.
David G. Schmidt
Principal, Schmidt & Associates
After leading SCAN Health Plan from the brink of bankruptcy to a position of national prominence, Dave Schmidt has established a consultancy practice that focuses on strategic planning and implementation in the health care industry including manufacturers serving health care as well as providers and payers.
Schmidt served as CEO and member of the board of SCAN™ Health Plan, a not-for-profit health care organization based in Long Beach, California and the largest Social HMO and 10th largest Medicare Advantage plan in the country. The company serves more than 130,000 Medicare beneficiaries including a large number of individuals receiving both Medicare and Medicaid. The Company revenues exceed $1.8 billion. It focused on serving the frail elderly with nearly 25% of its membership meeting the state criteria for nursing home certifiability. In his role, he was responsible to a board of directors and provided leadership to an executive team and nearly 900 employees.
During his 25-year career in senior management, Schmidt has held executive positions in operations, business development, and sales and marketing in health care and manufacturing industries. He has a strong background in finance and has been instrumental in developing successful customer-focused programs and providing strategic leadership that resulted in significant, profitable growth for other organizations.
Prior to joining SCAN, Schmidt served as CEO of Medicheck, a firm that provided internet based financial services management to health care organizations. He led the company through developing its software platform and sale to Passport Health Communications. After the sale he served on Passport’s board. At the final recapitalization in 2008 the Medicheck investors received a 6.5x return on their investment.
He was also associated with two major health plans as Senior Vice President of Sales and Customer Services with Care America/Blue Shield Health Plan and Regional Vice President for FHP Healthcare.
Schmidt holds an MBA and BA in Economics, from the University of California, Los Angeles.