Bundled Payment & Care Transformation Summit

Dr. Jessica Aidlen is Chief of Spine Surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital (Mass General Brigham) and Medical Director of the NWH Spine Center, where she has led institutional initiatives to improve access and care for spine patients since joining in 2012. A board-certified orthopedic surgeon (FAAOS), she specializes in minimally invasive surgery for degenerative spine conditions and serves as spine consultant for Boston College Athletics. She studied biochemistry at Le Moyne College, earned her MD at the University at Buffalo, completed her orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Massachusetts, and pursued a fellowship in adult reconstructive spine surgery at Brown University. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and teaches residents and fellows, with a focus on female leadership in spine surgery.

Dani Andrade serves as Vice President of Care Continuum Integration at UCHealth, with a background in nursing and healthcare management spanning acute and post-acute care settings. She is a Board Certified Case Manager with expertise in value-based payment models and CMS policy compliance, and holds a BSN from Regis University and an MBA in Health Care Administration from Western Governors University. Prior to her current role she held leadership positions at UCHealth, SCL Health, and Life Care Centers of America.

Dr. Thiru Annaswamy is Professor and the Rocco Ortenzio Endowed Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine, where he leads the department. A physiatrist with more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, educator, and clinician-scientist, his work centers on spine and musculoskeletal disorders, neuromuscular disease, chronic pain, and electrodiagnostic medicine. Before joining Penn State in 2022 he was a professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a section chief at the Dallas VA Medical Center. He serves on the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Foundation for PM&R. He completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and earned his medical degree from Mysore Medical College.

Dr. Angela M. Bader is Vice Chair for Perioperative Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the founding Director of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Center for Preoperative Evaluation, which sees more than 19,000 patients a year and is recognized internationally as a benchmarking unit for preoperative assessment and quality improvement. She is a Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School, holds an endowed chair in anesthesiology, and is a research scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on value-based healthcare, shared decision-making, and perioperative optimization of the surgical patient. She earned her MD and an MPH in policy and management from Harvard.

Michael Barbati oversees the strategic and operational aspects of CMS and CMMI program participation at Advocate Health. His career spans medical economics, population health, and Medicare program management across Advocate Aurora Health, where he also served as ACO Executive for their Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Dr. Bumpass graduated summa cum laude from Furman University, studied health policy and economics at the University of Toronto as a Fulbright Scholar, and received his medical degree with honors from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 2008. He completed his orthopaedic surgery residency at Washington University in St. Louis and went on to complete two fellowships there, including a complex spine deformity fellowship under Dr. Lawrence Lenke, one of the world’s foremost spine surgeons. At UAMS he serves as Associate Professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, Vice Chair for Research, and Co-Director of both the Spine Service and the Spine Surgery Fellowship program, with a clinical focus on spinal deformity and spine tumors in pediatric and adult patients.

Dr. Jamie Chang is the Chief Medical Officer at WellSky, a board-certified emergency medicine physician with extensive experience in clinical operations who focuses on connecting teams across the healthcare system to deliver intelligent, coordinated care. Before joining WellSky he led clinical value innovation across Optum Health with a focus on acute and post-acute settings, designed and implemented value-based care programs in hospital settings while at McKinsey & Company, and worked with the World Health Organization to improve healthcare delivery in low-resource settings. He completed his clinical training in emergency medicine at Stanford and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in economics and earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Roger Conant serves as Associate Chief Nursing Officer for Perioperative Services at Cambridge Health Alliance, with prior experience at NorthShore Medical Center and an MSN in Nursing Administration from Salem State University. In his role at CHA he oversees perioperative nursing operations across the system’s hospital campuses, with a focus on patient safety, quality improvement, and OR efficiency.

John Fernandez is President and CEO of Brown University Health, a not-for-profit integrated academic health system affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, serving roughly 550,000 patients a year across Rhode Island Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital, The Miriam Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Newport Hospital, and Brown University Health Medical Group. Before joining Brown University Health he served as President of Mass Eye and Ear from 2007 to 2022 and as President of Mass General Brigham Integrated Care, and earlier held senior administrative roles at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He holds a BA in political science from the College of Wooster and a master's in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania. At the Summit, he joins a fireside chat on leading system-wide value-based care transformation.

Katie Galbraith joined New England Baptist Hospital in August 2025 as its inaugural Rosenberg Family President, leading one of the nation's premier orthopedic hospitals and a regional destination for musculoskeletal surgery within the Beth Israel Lahey Health system. She brings more than 30 years of healthcare leadership experience, including nine years as President of Duke Regional Hospital within Duke University Health System and most recently as President of Main Line Health Lankenau Medical Center in Pennsylvania. A Massachusetts native, she holds a B.A. in journalism from Northwestern University, an MBA from Elon University, and is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Stephanie Grejdus, DNP, RN, CPHQ, NE-BC is the Director of Clinical Quality Value Analysis for Penn State Health Supply Chain. She is a healthcare leader with expertise in clinical quality value analysis, evidence-based decision-making, product standardization, and multidisciplinary collaboration across complex health systems. In her current role, Stephanie leads initiatives that align clinical excellence with financial stewardship, ensuring new technologies, products, and services are evaluated through a rigorous lens of quality, safety, outcomes, and total value. She partners with physicians, nursing leaders, operational teams, and suppliers to drive informed decisions that support patient care and organizational performance. Stephanie holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and maintains professional credentials as a Registered Nurse (RN), Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), and Nurse Executive-Board Certified (NE-BC). She is recognized for her strategic leadership, commitment to informed innovation, and ability to build collaborative partnerships that create measurable value within healthcare delivery systems.

Mitchel B. Harris, MD was appointed chair of orthopedic surgery at Mass General Brigham effective January 1, 2025, as part of the system’s effort to integrate care across its academic medical centers. Before this role he led the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mass General, and prior to that spent 14 years at Brigham and Women’s, where he led the Orthopaedic Trauma Service. He holds a Harvard Medical School professorship and has over 25 years of academic orthopedic surgery experience.

Vincent McDermott serves as Senior Vice President and CFO of the Community, Specialty and Ambulatory Division at Mass General Brigham, with prior roles including Senior VP of Finance and CFO at Lahey Hospital and VP of Finance and Real Estate at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His career in the MGB system spans nearly three decades across finance, real estate, and operational leadership.

Michael Nurok serves as Professor and co-Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he is responsible for academic and innovation strategy. He went to medical school at the University of Cape Town, earned a PhD in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and completed residency and fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His perspectives on healthcare delivery have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, and other peer-reviewed and lay publications.

Bert Parnell serves as Senior Director of ASC and Hospital Based Operations at OrthoSouth, the region’s leading orthopedic practice in Memphis, with prior experience at Surgery Partners and Symbion. His skill set covers managed care, revenue cycle, physician relations, and contract negotiation, and he has overseen OrthoSouth’s ambulatory surgery centers to national recognition, including a top 2% ranking by Newsweek.

Ethan Parten serves as VP of Peri-Procedural Services across the Brigham, managing all capital improvement projects and leading performance improvement for areas spanning invasive and non-invasive cardiology, endoscopy, infusion, interventional radiology, and pre- and post-procedure services. He also oversees endoscopy and infusion programs at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, chairs the Peri-Procedural Leadership Group, and serves as adjunct faculty at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

Matthew J. Perreault is a partner in the Health and Life Sciences practice at McDermott Will & Schulte, where he advises healthcare organizations on complex transactions, sophisticated value-based care arrangements, and related fraud and abuse matters. He represents health plans, accountable care organizations, and a range of provider, risk intermediary, and provider enablement organizations on value-based agreements including shared savings, bundled payments, downside risk, and capitation arrangements, and counsels clients on the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute. Before entering private practice he served as Deputy General Counsel at Steward Health Care, supporting an integrated delivery network and its ACO agreements, and earlier held legal roles at Fresenius Medical Care. He is recognized by Best Lawyers in health care law.

Dr. Rahim serves as CMO and SVP for Population Health at Mount Sinai Health System and the Mount Sinai Clinically Integrated Network, with responsibility for clinical programs across 475,000 lives, including 200,000 with downside financial risk, and a network of 6,000 providers. He holds a BA in economics from Duke University, an MD from the University of North Carolina, and an MBA from Emory University, and completed his internal medicine residency at Yale and Northwestern. Prior to his current role he served as VP of Quality Improvement at Lumeris, Group VP of Quality Improvement and Innovation at Healthgrades, and Director at Sg2. He remains an actively practicing hospitalist at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Harita Reddy is the Executive Director of the Department of Anesthesiology at Cedars-Sinai, where she partners with physician and administrative leaders to advance clinical operations, education, research, and strategic priorities across a large academic anesthesiology department. She brings nearly 20 years of healthcare leadership experience spanning clinical operations, finance, strategic planning, and process improvement. Throughout her career, Harita has held leadership roles across complex academic medical centers and large integrated health systems, including NYU Langone Health and Kaiser Permanente. Her experience across diverse healthcare environments has shaped a multidisciplinary approach to operational strategy, organizational performance, and transformation. She holds an MPH from the University of California, Los Angeles, a BSN, is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Dr. Resnick serves as Chief Medical and Quality Officer and Senior Partner at Chartis, where he leads the High Reliability Care practice spanning Chartis Consulting and Chartis Clinical Quality Solutions. He brings more than 20 years of health system CMO and CQO experience, including SVP and Chief Quality and Safety Officer at Brigham Health, CMO and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Chief Quality Officer at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He remains an active associate surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a part-time lecturer at Harvard Medical School, holds an MD from Yale University School of Medicine and an MBA from the Wharton School, and has more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in quality, safety, and high reliability.

Dr. Siy serves as Senior Medical Director for Value-based Care and Home and Community Services at HealthPartners Care Group, and previously led the adult and pediatric hospital medicine program across 12 hospitals in Minnesota and Wisconsin, spearheading innovations including hospital at home and telemedicine. He obtained his MD from Mayo Medical School, completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Minnesota, and holds an MHA from the University of Minnesota, where he received the Outstanding Student Award upon graduation. In 2018 he joined the Society of Hospital Medicine board of directors and became President in 2021, and was recently honored with the Master designation for his contributions to hospital medicine. He also holds an adjunct appointment at the University of Minnesota in both the School of Medicine and the Executive MHA program.

Dr. Sprowl provides executive-level leadership and oversight of the medical group and physician enterprise across ambulatory, community, acute, emergent, and post-acute care settings at Sinai Chicago. Prior to Sinai Chicago, he held significant leadership roles at MaineHealth, SSM Health as Group President and Medical and Regional Clinical Affairs Officer, and PeaceHealth, with expertise spanning primary and specialty care strategy, physician engagement, and service line development.

Robyn Tessin leads payment policy work at the American Hospital Association, where her portfolio spans Medicare payment, value-based care, and telehealth. She is the association's named contact on its comment letters to CMS on bundled payment policy, including the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Expanded (CJR-X) Model, and has spoken nationally on how providers are positioned under the CMS TEAM model. She came to the AHA from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where as a supervisory attorney in the Office of the General Counsel she counseled federal officials on regulatory and policy questions across the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Earlier in her career she practiced in the health care group of a law firm, handling transactional, regulatory, and compliance matters for industry clients. She earned her Juris Doctor at the University of Michigan Law School and her B.S. at the University of Illinois.

Dr. Van Lancker is a graduate of the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, completed his residency at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, and went on to complete the Harvard Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Prior to joining CHA, he served as Vice Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery, VP of Trauma Services, and Chief of Orthopaedic Trauma at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, where he established protocolized hip fracture care that led to St. Elizabeth’s becoming the only Healthgrades 5-star hip fracture hospital in eastern Massachusetts. At CHA he is also an instructor in orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and holds dual board certification from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.

Rebecca “Becca” Waltuch is a partner in the Healthcare Transactions practice at Holland & Knight’s Boston office, where she advises nonprofit and for-profit healthcare clients on a wide range of transactional and regulatory matters. She counsels hospitals, health systems, and healthcare investors on complex operational and contracting matters, including multistate physician practice acquisitions, joint ventures, mergers, and affiliations, and has advised health systems on Next Generation ACO, Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Medicaid ACO models. Drawing on her prior role as in-house counsel to a large clinically integrated physician network and community hospital system, she helps clients meet business needs while navigating regulatory risk. She earned her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, an M.P.H. from Tufts University School of Medicine, and a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Dr. Daniel Ward is an attending physician at New England Baptist Hospital serving as Chief of the Division of Arthroplasty, with specialization in total joint replacement and revision surgery of the hip and knee. He holds an academic appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine and is actively involved in clinical research on hip and knee implants, with publications and national lecture credits in the field.

Dr. Warner is Co-Chief of the MGH Shoulder Service, Vice Chair for Quality and Safety for MGH Orthopedics, and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as founder of the Boston Shoulder Institute. He completed his medical training at the University of Rochester followed by a postgraduate residency in the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Surgery Program, and previously served as Chief of the Shoulder Service and Director of the Shoulder Biomechanics Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications, more than 200 book chapters, and five textbooks in shoulder surgery, and served as President of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society in 2012. He is also a Harvard Business School Executive Program graduate with ongoing work in value-based healthcare, and founded the Codman Shoulder Society, a value-based health care group.

Robert M. Weiss serves as Director of Business Operations and Optimization at Brown University Health, with dual graduate degrees including an MHA and MBA, and prior experience as Director of Strategic Business Planning Analysis at the same organization. Before Brown University Health, he held roles at Hartford HealthCare as Regional Manager of Business Operations and Regional Program Manager of Perioperative Administration, where he led operational efficiency initiatives and managed implementation of system-wide operational projects.