Morning Keynote Speaker
Andrew Bhak
Visiting scholar at Yale School of Management
Leadership Council for the Dean of Yale School of Public Health
Andrew is Managing Director and Head of the Healthcare Investment Banking Group for BMO Capital Markets. Andrew has spent his entire 25-plus year career covering the Healthcare sector. He has served as advisor on more than $135 billion of M&A transactions, as well as debt and equity financings, for large and small companies, including CVS Health, Agiliti Health, Kindred Healthcare, GreatCall, Diplomat Pharmacy, Quest Diagnostics, Select Medical, and HCA Healthcare.
Andrew joined BMO from JP Morgan where he was a Managing Director in Healthcare Investment Banking. Prior to that, he served as Co-Head of Healthcare Services at Deutsche Bank and served in similar capacity at Morgan Stanley, where he helped build its healthcare services investment banking franchise.
Prior to his career as an investment banker, Andrew was a senior equity research analyst responsible for coverage of the healthcare provider and services sector. Andrew also serves as a Visiting Scholar at the Yale School of Management, on the Leadership Council for the Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, and on the Advisory Board for the Yale Healthcare.Andrew attended Yale University for his M.P.H. and received his B.G.S. from Kent State University.
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This year Andrew Bhak will be honored with the 2025 John D. Thompson Distinguished Visiting Fellow Award
Afternoon Keynote Speaker
Dr. L. Nneka Mobisson has over two decades of experience driving innovation in global healthcare systems and improving population health outcomes. Through her work in the private, nonprofit and public sectors across myriad health systems and economies, she has extensive experience in health and healthcare policy, strategy, innovation, quality, patient safety, disease management, and wellness.
As co-founder and CEO of mDoc, a digital health social enterprise which integrates proven methodologies in data, quality, and behavioral science with web and mobile-based technologies to support people with chronic disease, she is pioneering a new system for cutting edge innovation in healthcare delivery across Africa. Through her leadership, mDoc has collaborated with the UK FCDO, Google for Startups, USAID, Merck for Mothers, Boehringer Ingelheim and other partners to scale telehealth to drive system transformation.
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This year we are excited to have Dr. Mobisson as our afternoon keynote speaker.
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Nneka Mobisson,
MD, MBA, MPH
Co-Founder and CEO of mDoc
Breakout Session Speakers
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Executive Panel
“How Will We Know Whether to Trust AI: An Acronym Free Discussion”
Robert Galvin
MD
Moderator
Professor Adjunct of Medicine and Health Policy at Yale;
CEO of The Right Doctor;
Senior Advisor at Blackstone
Brian Anderson
MD
Speaker
CEO and Co-Founder of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI)
Harlan Krumholz
MD
Speaker
Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine;
Director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Jennifer Miller
PhD
Speaker
Associate Professor of Medicine;
Yale Liaison, Working Group on: Bioethics of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Genomics Implementation Science Curriculum
Morning Breakout Sessions
AI for Mental Health Support and Care: Meeting the Needs of a Growing Crisis
Amber Childs
PhD
Shirley Wang
PhD
Seth Feuerstein
MD, JD
Luis Voloch
Moderator
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine;
Co-founder and Director of the Getting Racism Out of our Work (GROW) initiative at Yale; Co-founder of the Yale Measurement-Based Care Collaborative; Founder of M-Select
Speaker
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University;
Lab Director of Yale Computational Clinical Science Lab;
Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Healthcare
Speaker
Chairman and Co-founder of Vita Health;
Co-founder and CEO of Oui Therapeutics;
Executive Director and Founder of Yale Center for Digital Health and Innovation;
Assistant Clinical Professor and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine
Speaker
Co-founder and CEO of Jimini Health;
Co-founder and former CTO
of Immunai
Confronting the Obesity Epidemic: Transforming America’s Health
John Morton
MD, MPH, MHA, BS, FACS, FASMBS
Moderator
Professor of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine;
System Lead for Surgical Quality and Bariatric Services in Yale New Haven Health;
Former President of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS);
Founder of Obesity PAC
Bubu Banini
MD, PhD
Speaker
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine;
Translational Research Director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program, Digestive Diseases
Jorge Moreno
MD
Wejahat Mehal
MD, DPhil
Speaker
​Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine;
Started subspecialty obesity medicine clinic
Speaker
​Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases) at Yale School of Medicine;
Director of the Yale Fatty Liver Disease Program and the Yale Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program
Transforming Healthcare Operations: AI in the Workplace and Workforce Dynamics
Katherine Heilpern
MD, FACEP
Moderator
President of Yale New Haven Hospital;
Executive Vice President of Yale New Haven Health
Trevor Gunn
PhD
Speaker
​Founder and Chair of the USA Healthcare Alliance;
Vice President of International Relations at Medtronic
Allen Hsiao
MD, FAAP, FAMIA
Speaker
Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine;
Chief Health Information Officer of Yale New Haven Health;
Vice Chair Clinical Systems, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science.
Laurence Coman
MBA
Speaker
​Co-founder and COO of AVO
What's Next for U.S. Health Policy:
The Federal-to-Local Perspective
Megan Ranney
MD, MPH
Moderator
Dean of Yale School of Public Health; C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health; Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale University; Elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering; Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians; Member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network; Founder of two non-profits (AFFIRM at the Aspen Institute and GetUsPPE)​
Amanda Skinner
MSN, MBA
Speaker
President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Votes! Connecticut and Planned Parenthood of Southern New England; Member of Planned Parenthood Federation of America Board of Directors; Chair of BetterHealth Board of Directors; Member of Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut Board of Directors
Gregg Gonsalves
PhD
Speaker
Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health;
Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School;
Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership;
Public health correspondent for The Nation
Victoria Veltri
JD, LLM
Speaker
Senior Policy Fellow for National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP); Former Executive Director of Malta House of Care; Former Executive Director of Connecticut's Office of Health Strategy (OHS)
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Hyper-Personalized Digital Health: Balancing AI Innovation with Risk
Robert Stavert
MD, MBA, FAAD
Lee Schwamm
MD
Jason Naidich
MD, MBA
Nick Culbertson
Moderator
Medical Director for Digital Patient Experience and Virtual Care at Yale New Haven Health System;
Co-founder and Head of Clinical Affairs of Medumo;
Director of Community Engagement in Yale’s Department of Dermatology;​
Former YHC Chair
Speaker
Associate Dean, Digital Strategy & Transformation at Yale School of Medicine;
Professor in Biomedical Informatics & Data Sciences and Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine;
Senior Vice President & Chief Digital Health Officer of Yale New Haven Health System
Speaker
Chief Learning and Innovation Officer at Northwell Health;
Associate Dean at Zucker School of Medicine;
Leads Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI)
Speaker
Co-founder and CEO of Protenus;
Managing Director of Techstars;
Treasurer and Executive Board member of The 6th Branch;
Advisory Board Member for The Johns Hopkins University
Scaling Solutions in Global Health: Leveraging AI to Tackle Development Challenges
Michael Dunne
MD
Moderator
Founder and Board of Directors member of Iterum Therapeutics;
Founder of Durata Therapeutics;
Former Chief Medical Officer and Head of Development at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation;
Former Vice President of Clinical Development at Pfizer;
Editorial Review Board of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases
Reza Yaesoubi
PhD, MSc
Speaker
Associate Professor of Health Policy at Yale School of Public Health;
Assistant Professor at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies;
Affiliated Faculty at Yale Institute for Global Health
John Kao
MD, MBA
Malick Diara
MD, MPH, MBA
Speaker
Senior Fellow at Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences;
Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of ThayerMahan, Inc.;
Speaker
Occupational Health Manager;
Global Medicine and Occupational Health Department;
ExxonMobil Global Operations and Sustainability;
Former Child Survivor Program Coordinator at Accordia Global Health Foundation
AI-Driven Innovation in Life Sciences and Biotech: Transforming Research, Medicine, and Investment
Margaret Alabi
Pharm.D., MBA
Stephen Knight
MBA, MD
Murat Günel
MD, FACS, FAHA, FAANS
Harlan Krumholz
MD
Moderator
Director of US and Global Patient Advocacy at Regeneron;
Founder and CEO of The Pivot Consulting Group LLC;
Yale EMBA '25
Speaker
President and Senior Managing Partner at F-Prime
Speaker
Sterling Professor of Neurosurgery and Professor of Neurobiology and Genetics;
Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine and Chief of Neurosurgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital;
2022 Recipient of Ralph G. Dacey Medal for Outstanding Cerebrovascular Research;
Director of the Yale Program in Brain Tumor Research
Speaker
Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine;
Director of the Yale New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation
Vaccine Policy, Implementation, and Research: Shaping the Future of Public Health
Reshma Ramachandran
MD, MPP, MHS
Timothy Callaghan
MA, PhD
Akiko Iwasaki
PhD
Lauren Pischel
MD, MSc
Moderator
Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine;
Co-director of Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency;
Board certified family physician
Speaker
Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at Boston University School of Public Health;
Co-director of The Politics and Health Lab;
Former Chair of the Health Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association;
Recipient of the Atlas Award for his research on vaccine hesitancy
Speaker
Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Dermatology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and of Epidemiology at Yale School of Medicine;
Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute;
Co-Lead Investigator of the Yale COVID-19 Recovery Study
Speaker
​Instructor of Medicine (Infectious Disease) at Yale School of Medicine;
Conducted research for the development of the pediatric malaria vaccine and impact of an antimicrobial triclosan on the human microbiome;
Recipient of the primary care award for the Fair Haven Community Health Center