Advisory Board Meeting

IHO 2012 Advisory Board Meeting

On June 13, 2012 health care leaders from around the world came together to attend the IHO Advisory Board Meeting at the Harvard Club in Boston, MA. The Board and other participants had the opportunity to hear from various organizations – Mayo Clinic Florida, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, New Jersey Hospital Association, Palmetto Richland and The Ottawa Hospital – that have adopted IHO’s methodology. In addition to our Board members, we were joined by many distinguished guests including the new President of Healthcare Financial Management Association, CEO of American Organization of Nurse Executives, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator, Executive Director of the Institute of Medicine, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services Secretary, as well as representatives of American College of Emergency Physicians, Leapfrog Group, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, hospital CEOs and Chief Nursing officers.


From left to right:
Cyril Chantler (Chairman of the University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership), Benjamin Chu (President, Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Mark Smith (President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation), Sandy Schwartz (Leon Hess Professor of Medicine and Health Management & Economics, School of Medicine and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), James Tallon (President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, Chair of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Secretary/Treasurer of the Alliance for Health Reform), Helen Darling (President & CEO, National Business Group on Health), Richard Umbdenstock (President & CEO, American Hospital Association), Susan Dentzer (Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs), Glenn Steele (President & CEO, Geisinger Health System), Michael McGinnis (Senior Scholar & Executive Director, Institute of Medicine of the National Academics), William Pierskalla (Professor and Former Dean of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Former President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies)


Michael McGinnis (Senior Scholar & Executive Director, Institute of Medicine of the National Academics), JudyAnn
Bigby (Secretary, MA Executive Office of Health & Human Services), Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), Donald Berwick (Former Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former President & CEO of IHI)

Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), Joe Fifer (President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association), Rick Gundling (VP, Healthcare Financial Management Association), Hakmeng Kang (Director of Program Development, IHO)

Sandeep Green Vaswani (Senior VP, IHO), Ellis Knight (Senior VP, Palmetto Health)

Jackie Martin (Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Hospital), Glenn Steele (President & CEO, Geisinger Health System), Kevin Tabb (President & CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

Michael Long (Senior Fellow & Clinical Consultant, IHO), Paula Doering (Senior VP, Ottawa Hospital)

Penny Carver (Senior VP, Institute for Healthcare Improvement), Marilyn Rudolph (Senior Clinical Consultant, Geisinger Health System)

Elizabeth Ryan (President & CEO, NJ Hospital Association), Aline Holmes (Senior VP of Clinical Affairs, NJ Hospital Association)

Mary Ditri (Director, NJ Hospital Association), Mark Smith (President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation), Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), Aline Holmes (Senior VP of Clinical Affairs, NJ Hospital Association), Sandeep Green Vaswani (Senior VP, IHO)

Cyrill Chantler (Chairman of the University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership), Helen Darling (President & CEO, National Business Group on Health)

Frederick Ryckman (VP, Cincinnati Children’s Hosptial), Brad Prenney (COO, IHO)

Ivo Ivanov (Data Analyst, IHO), Sandeep Green Vaswani (Senior VP, IHO), Josh Uri (Manager, Data Analysis, IHO), Peter Viccellio (Clinical Director, Stony Brook Medicine), Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), Muhund Chandramohan (Simulation Analyst, IHO), Michael Long (Senior Fellow & Clinical Consultant, IHO)

Sandy Schwartz Leon Hess Professor of Medicine and Health Management & Economics, School of Medicine and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), James Tallon (President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, Chair of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Secretary/Treasurer of the Alliance for Health Reform)

Michael McGinnis (Senior Scholar & Executive Director, Institute of Medicine of the National Academics)

Donald Berwick (Former Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former President & CEO of IHI)

Susan Dentzer (Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs), Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO)

William Pierskalla (Professor and Former Dean of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Former President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies)

Hakmeng Kang (Director of Program Development, IHO)

Paula Doering (Senior VP, Ottawa Hospital)

Daniel Smith (Chair, Surgery Department, Mayo Clinic Florida)

Ellis Knight (Senior VP, Palmetto Health)

Joe Fifer (President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association), Rick Gundling (VP, Healthcare Financial Management Association), Richard Umbdenstock

Joe Fifer (President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association), Helen Darling (President & CEO, National Business Group on Health), Rick Gundling (VP, Healthcare Financial Management Association)

Kevin Tabb (President & CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO)

Glenn Steele (President & CEO, Geisinger Health System)

Glenn Steele (President & CEO, Geisinger Health System), Kevin Tabb (President & CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)

Donald Berwick (Former Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former President & CEO of IHI), Cyril Chantler (Chairman of the University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership), Susan Dentzer (Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs)

Ajit Abraham (Consultant HPB Surgeon, Clinical Lead for Digestive Surgery, Hon. Senior Clinical Lecturer QMUL, Barts & The London NHS Trust)

Alex Katz (Data Analyst, IHO)

Frederick Ryckman (VP, Cincinnati Children’s Hosptial)

John Chessare (President & CEO, Greater Baltimore Medical Center)

Michael Long (Senior Fellow & Clinical Consultant, IHO), Benjamin Chu (President, Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Mark Smith (President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation)

Mark Smith (President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation)

Daniel Smith (Chair, Surgery Department, Mayo Clinic Florida), Hakmeng Kang (Director of Program Development, IHO)

Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), Richard Umbdenstock (President & CEO, American Hospital Association)

James Tallon (President of the United Hospital Fund of New York, Chair of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and Secretary/Treasurer of the Alliance for Health Reform), William Pierskalla (Professor and Former Dean of the Anderson School of Management at UCLA, Former President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies)

Joe Fifer (President & CEO, Healthcare Financial Management Association)

 Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO)

Pat Tietbohl (Accountant, IHO), Cyril Chantler (Chairman of the University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership), Brad Prenney (COO, IHO)

Benjamin Chu (President, Kaiser Permanente Southern California), Mark Smith (President & CEO, California HealthCare Foundation)

Jackie Martin (Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Hospital)

Ellis Knight (Senior VP, Palmetto Health), Daniel Smith (Chair, Surgery Department, Mayo Clinic Florida)

Eugene Litvak (President & CEO, IHO), Donald Berwick (Former Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former President & CEO of IHI)