Andy Shin, JD, MPH is Chief Operating Officer for the AHA Center for Health Innovation, the American Hospital Association’s new endeavor designed to support hospital/health system transformation and accelerate innovation at-scale. In his role leading day-to-day management and strategy for the Center, he oversees initiatives and business lines spanning AHA’s commercial partnerships, applied research and data analytics, value and affordability, performance improvement, market intelligence and leadership development. Previously, he was COO of the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET), the AHA’s non-profit affiliate focused on quality improvement, patient safety and population health, which is now part of the Center.
Andy’s prior experience includes helping to lead an international non-profit based at Massachusetts General Hospital, aiming to advance clinician resiliency and patient experience through a focus on organizational behavior and neuroscience-based approaches to improve inter-personal interactions and culture.
His background also includes experience as a consultant for the bio-pharmaceutical industry and payers; healthcare analyst for institutional investors and private equity; and various roles in the federal government including with the Energy and Commerce Committee during drafting of the ACA and helping to launch the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) where he led stakeholder engagement.
Andy regularly writes and presents on topics that intersect health policy, innovation and leadership and was voted a JD Supra “Readers’ Choice Top Author” on matters concerning the Affordable Care Act. He was selected as a Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at Harvard University and is currently finishing his MBA program through the MIT Sloan School of Management.

As vice dean for the Health Ecosystem, Mini Kahlon drives the Dell Medical School enterprise focus on innovation to improve health outside the clinic, addressing the broader drivers of health including food and nutrition, physical activity, behavioral change and social isolation. She also oversees Dell Med’s work to advance new health products, drugs, devices, diagnostics and digital health tools leveraging the diverse strengths of The University of Texas at Austin and the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Austin.

Kahlon is also founder and director of Factor Health, a real-life health provider network that tests and builds businesses that improve health outside the clinic. Factor Health launched in early 2019 in Austin, in partnership with the Episcopal Health Foundation, and expanded to Houston in July 2019.

Kahlon was integral to the launch of Dell Med in 2014, leading the creation of a vision and mission to match the unparalleled opportunity in Austin to remake health. Subsequently, she has driven the development of a fourth pillar for academic medicine at Dell Med, one that structurally and financially begins to prioritize the investment in innovations necessary to demonstrate local impact and address non-clinical drivers of health.

Prior to joining Dell Med, Kahlon was executive director and chief information officer for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a two-time $200 million recipient of innovation funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kahlon is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCSF.

Sowmya Viswanathan, MD, MBA, MHCM joined Tenet Healthcare in 2016 as the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Tenet Healthcare’s Massachusetts and South Carolina market. With over 15 years’ experience in leadership roles as Regional Chief Medical Officer, Chief ACO Officer, Physician-in-Chief and Physician Quality Officer, Dr. Viswanathan has worked with large regional health systems and academic medical centers. She completed Internal Medicine Residency training at Boston University, has an MBA from University of Massachusetts and a Masters in Health Care Management (MHCM) from Harvard University. In her current role as the Group Chief Medical Officer of Tenet Health, she leads 7 hospitals based in Massachusetts and South Carolina. She is also a Harvard University Instructor and Program Director for ECPE (Executive and Continuing Professional Education). Prior to this, she spent time at Dartmouth Hitchcock, Partners Healthcare and UMass.

Results-oriented Healthcare IT Executive with significant experience operating as an ‘agent of change’. Highly self-motivated, a skilled communicator and dedicated professional with healthcare and technology experience and proven track record of success in hands-on leadership, governance & program management. Accomplished in team development and empowerment, instilling sense of pride and teamwork in staff. Experienced in all phases of information technology strategy development, system deployment, financial management, operations management, and has demonstrated skills in collaboration among healthcare organizations, physicians, and community leaders.

Senior Executive with over 22 years of IT leadership experience in the healthcare industry. Accomplished relationship builder and proficient change leader. Demonstrated ability to combine visionary, strategic, and tactical IT expertise to produce bottom-line results. Instrumental in achieving significant cost reductions and revenue improvements through reengineering, team building, and leadership expertise. Skilled IT leader with profound understanding of healthcare and processes in a large multi-facility hospital environment. Experienced in leading cross-functional teams of technical experts to analyze systems/processes and implement software and infrastructure improvements. Proven record of success in developing solutions that improve the efficiency of IT and business operations.

Experienced Chief Operating Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Healthcare Consulting, Performance Improvement, Operations Management, Team Building, and U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Strong business development professional graduated from Suffolk University.

Don Novo is a health policy professional whose career spans over 20 years within the publicly financed healthcare administration field including Medicaid Program Administration. He has served in leadership positions at both the state and federal levels; his work includes both direct state Medicaid program administration and federal regulatory oversight. He is a Principal with Health Management Associates, a national Health Care Policy Consulting and Research firm that specializes in Publically Financed and Safety-Net Healthcare systems. HMA his work helps to guide and inform clients about the development of Medicaid waiver programs, implementation of new delivery system models and program expansions. His work has allowed State Governments, Health Plans, and Associations to develop programs that improve the quality of care while reducing cost and maximizing federal revenue opportunities. He also advises technology clients of opportunities and provides business strategy within the publicly financed healthcare market. Don came to HMA from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) where he served as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Children�s and Families Program group in the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services. He served a dual role working on Health Reform Implementation projects related to the establishment of both the Federal and State-based Marketplaces. Before his marketplace work, he was the Medicaid Program Branch Chief for CMS in Region�s IX responsible for Medicaid Program oversight of several Western States (AZ, HI, CA, NV, GU, CMNI, AS) Medicaid programs. He also regulated the State Medicaid programs of the six New England State�s for CMS Region I, Boston and served on a study of a 12-State Congressionally-mandated review of Children�s Access to Early, Periodic, Screening and Diagnostic Treatment Services (EPSDT) available to Medicaid and CHIP enrollees. Before his Federal involvement, he served as the Director of Member Policy Implementation and Evaluation Services with MassHealth, the Massachusetts Medicaid Agency. In this role, he led the streamlining of the State�s Medicaid eligibility determination process, implemented their online Virtual Gateway Medicaid program application and developed the eligibility, systems processes, and enhancements necessary to implement both the electronic web-based application and the State�s 2006 Universal Healthcare expansion in Massachusetts.

Steve Allen, MD, MBA, is the recently retired CEO of Nationwide Children’s Hospital, a preeminent academic medical system in Columbus, Ohio. When he joined Nationwide Children’s in 2006, the hospital was known as an important regional health care center. By the time of his retirement in July of
2019, Nationwide Children’s had become one of the country’s most respected and innovative pediatric institutions with over $2.4 billion a year in revenue. It now consistently appears on U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll list of America’s top 10 children’s hospitals, and its Abigail Wexner Research Institute
is one of the National Institutes of Health’s top funded freestanding pediatric research facilities.
Dr. Allen oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and transformation in Nationwide Children’s size, scope and vision. Through his unique perspective, redefining the role of a modern healthcare organization, Dr. Allen built a team and culture that has been recognized as a role model for innovation and collaboration.
In the process, he has become one of the most prominent voices in American pediatric health care
strategy and policy. His advocacy in Washington D.C. and his opinion columns in The Hill, U.S. News and World Report and other publications provided a messaging template for other health care executives to
follow. Outside of his executive leadership, Dr. Allen is board certified in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and is the author of nearly 150 medical journal articles, reviews and book chapters.