Innovatix + Essensa National Meeting & Expo

Keynote Speakers

Captain Mark Kelly
NASA Space Mission Commander and American Hero

NASA space mission commander and American hero Captain Mark Kelly demonstrates how focus, dedication, and persistence can help you tap into your potential to succeed in any competitive setting.

With an extraordinary career of service to our military, our nation, and humanity, Captain Kelly has secured his place in history as a role model, modern-day pioneer, and leader of distinction. Together with his identical twin brother, Scott, he has laid the groundwork for the future of space exploration as the subjects of an unprecedented NASA study on how space affects the human body. Currently, Captain Kelly is on the Commercial Crew Safety Board at Space X—and is the only person at Space X who has commanded a space mission—and is co-founder of World View, a full-service commercial space launch provider.

Captain Kelly captivates audiences with lessons learned from his extensive travels and experiences in the Navy, outer space, and on the ground. From leading teams in some of the most dynamic environments imaginable, to the thrill of spaceflight, and the recovery and resilience of his wife Gabrielle Giffords, he reveals the foundations for success so you can accomplish your mission in life and work.

John Sganga
Senior Vice President, Alternate Site Programs
Premier

John Sganga launched Innovatix in 1993 to offer group purchasing services to non-acute healthcare providers, and followed by launching Essensa in 2009 to service additional classes of trade. As President and CEO, he led both organizations through explosive growth, surpassing $8.2 billion in combined contract volume in 2016.

After Innovatix and Essensa became wholly-owned subsidiaries of Premier in 2016, Sganga assumed his current role of Senior Vice President, Alternate Site Programs. In this role, he provides overall leadership for Premier’s non-acute, alternate site, and sponsor programs.

Sganga’s nearly 30 years of healthcare experience includes serving as Executive Vice President of GNYHA Ventures (the business arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association), Senior Director of Financial Operations at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and at Ernst & Young’s Management Consulting Service. He provided leadership on the Executive Board of the Metropolitan Health Administrators’ Association (MHAA) for 17 years, and received the 2004 Award of Distinction for his commitment to healthcare. Sganga is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and currently serves on the White Plains Hospital Board of Directors.

In 1999, Sganga was recognized as one of Crain’s New York Business “40 Under Forty,” and was also awarded the New York University Alumni Torch Award for public service. In 2008, he was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, New York Metro Area Healthcare Division.

Sganga holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, with a concentration in Financial Management.

Tom Bevan
Co-Founder and Executive Editor, RealClearPolitics

Tom Bevan is the co-founder and executive editor of RealClearPolitics, a trusted political source in Washington that publishes original content and selects the must-read stories and analysis from each side of the debate. With seven million monthly views, the site’s calling card is its innovative RCP polling average, the first of its kind and trusted across the aisle.

Bevan addresses politics and elections. A political junkie, he also offers the historical context of today’s political events so that his audience can get a better understanding of what is happening in Washington and more importantly, why.

In addition to overseeing the editorial staff and writing regular features for RealClearPolitics, Bevan’s work has appeared in numerous publications, and he is featured frequently as a political analyst on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, and the BBC.

Seth Mattison
Co-Founder and Chief Movement Officer, Luminate Labs

Seth Mattison is an Internationally renowned expert and author on workforce trends, generational dynamics, and business strategy. As Co-Founder and Chief Movement Officer of Luminate Labs, Seth advises many of the world’s leading brand and organizations on the key shifts happening around talent management, change and innovation, leadership, and the future of work.

His ideas have been featured in such publications as The Wall St. Journal, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Globe and Mail and was recently named to the Editors’ Picks for Speakers to Watch in 2017.

For the past decade Seth has shared his insights with thousands of business leaders around the world and has received accolades from many of the world’s best brands including: MasterCard, Johnson and Johnson, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, AT&T, PepsiCo, GE Energy, Cisco, State Farm, Merrill Lynch, Dow, and Disney.

Education Session Speakers

Sheila Arquette
Executive Director, National Association of Specialty Pharmacy

Sheila Arquette is the Executive Director of the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP). She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Pharmacy. She has extensive practical and leadership experience in retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, long-term care consulting and dispensing, in addition to the managed care, PBM, and specialty pharmacy space. She is a regular speaker and participant at national pharmacy conferences, roundtables, and industry meetings.

Prior joining NASP in February 2017, Arquette was the Director of Pharmacy Services at Independent Health. She also served on the NASP membership committee and as the co-chair of the Government Affairs Committee prior to assuming her role as Executive Director. Arquette was elected to the NASP Board of Directors and received the NASP Distinguished Service Award in September 2016. She also is a long-standing member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy.

Manju T. Beier, Pharm D., BCGP, FASCP
President, Geriatric Consultant Resources LLC

Manju T. Beier is President of Geriatric Consultant Resources LLC. She has extensive experience targeting complex polypharmacy issues and addressing medication management in older adults. She is also Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a BCGP.

Dr. Beier serves on the national Epocrates Senior Clinical Board as the only pharmacist with expertise in geriatrics. Her experience in drug-drug and drug-gene interactions make her uniquely qualified in the domain of personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics, and polypharmacy.

Dr. Beier is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious George F. Archambault Award conferred by American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP). In 2012, she received the ASCP’s Richard S. Berman Service Award.

Rick Cantrall, MCSE, MCSA, MCA
Infrastructure Engineer, PowerForm

Rick Cantrall serves as the lead infrastructure engineer and architect for PowerForm, an IT firm, specializing in cybersecurity and digital privacy platforms. He is a mechanical engineer by education and has worked as a pioneer and trendsetter in the IT/computer industry for the past 30 years.

Cantrall’s firm takes hands-on approach to client support and management. He services companies ranging from one employee to over 30,000, and across all business sectors including medical/healthcare, accounting, automotive, financial services, construction, non-profit organizations, and commodity brokerages. Cantrall leads a technical team that pushes cybersecurity testing outside conventional thinking and boundaries. He designs and builds data centers and/or small server farms with focus on physical and virtual security of all electronic devices. He is a frequent speaker on all things cybercrimes and cybersecurity.

Susan Catalano
Managing Partner, JQLaCorte

Susan Catalano is the Managing Partner of JQLaCorte, a full service LinkedIn consultancy providing comprehensive LinkedIn-based marketing, business development, and employee advocacy programs for businesses. She consults with companies and professional services firms on the innovative use of LinkedIn to achieve measurable business results such as generating leads, boosting SEO results, improving visibility to clients and prospects, and promoting staff expertise.

Susan Catalano has over 15 years of experience in talent management for Fortune 500 corporations, as well as sales and marketing programs for companies and individual business owners. She regularly presents to national organizations and corporate and business audiences.

Blair Childs
Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Premier

Blair Childs is Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for Premier, leading the Advocacy, Communications, Safety and thought leadership units and serving on the company’s executive team. He works with the Congress, White House, and other policymakers involved in health policy.

Childs has been at the center of policy issues for more than two decades, playing a leading role on issues impacting medical devices, pharmaceuticals, insurers, and hospitals. Childs has held senior management positions in professional, trade, and advocacy associations and a Fortune 25 company.

Robert Clark
Managing Principal, LucidPointe

Robert Clark is Managing Principal of LucidPointe, a boutique digital agency specializing in online marketing, email marketing, and marketing automation strategy and execution. He has over 30 years of experience advising businesses from SMB to Fortune 50 companies, nonprofits, associations, and industry groups on marketing, sales, operations, strategy, and information technology.

Robert Clark regularly presents to national organizations and companies of all sizes.

Liya Davydov, PharmD, BCPS, BCGP
Senior Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services, Innovatix

Dr. Liya Davydov currently serves as a Senior Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services at Innovatix, where she focuses on the specialty and home infusion pharmacy segments. Prior to joining Innovatix, she worked as a Clinical Pharmacy Manager at Fidelis Care New York, a managed Medicaid HMO in New York State. Prior to Fidelis Care New York, she held a Clinical Pharmacy Manager position at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital.

Dr. Davydov earned both her degrees, BS in Pharmacy and Doctor of Pharmacy, from St. John’s University. She also completed an ASHP-accredited pharmacy practice residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapy, and is also a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist.

Paul L. Green, MS, RN, CPHQ
Vice President, Premier Performance Partners

As Vice President in Premier Performance Partners, Paul Green leads advisory services for high reliability and complex clinical quality transformation solutions, along with regulatory and accreditation solutions. He has over 30 years of healthcare experience in the areas of delivery, administration, executive leadership, care coordination, quality improvement, risk management, and consulting.

Green is a nationally recognized expert in licensure and accreditation issues, clinical quality improvement, systemic efforts for improving patient safety, and executive leadership development. His work supports transformational change to achieve improved clinical and operational outcomes. He has designed and led continuum focused care management strategies for integrated systems in numerous communities for over 20 years.

Green is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, with undergraduate degrees in Biology and Nursing. He holds a master’s degree in Child Health Nursing and Nursing Education.

Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP
Director of Error Reporting Programs, Institute for Safe Medication Practices

Matthew Grissinger, RPh, FISMP, FASCP is the Director of Error Reporting Programs at the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) as well as the Manager of Medication Safety Analysis for the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority (PSA). He has published numerous articles in the pharmacy literature, including regular columns in P&T and the PSA Patient Safety.

Grissinger serves as the Chair for the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP). He also serves on the National Quality Form (NQF) Common Formats Expert Panel, the Editorial Board for P&T, and the Faculty Advisory Board for the Pharmacy Learning Network (PLN).

Grissinger received a BS in Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. He is a fellow of the ISMP as well as the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists.

Doug Harris
Chief Executive Officer, The Kaleidoscope Group

Doug Harris is CEO of The Kaleidoscope Group, a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) consulting firm in Chicago. For over 30 years, Harris has combined compassion with a keen business sense to shepherd organizations, teams, and executives forward as the diversity dialogue has evolved from compliance to fostering inclusion and, ultimately, to achieving exceptional business outcomes.

Powerfully balancing the practical and the philosophical, Harris has partnered with countless clients to create customized strategies that address their specific and unique diversity needs. He works closely with leaders and executives to champion D&I, and to develop commitment and enthusiasm across all employee groups. Harris has designed cutting-edge content on the topics of conscious and unconscious inclusion, gender equality and equity, and generational differences. Clients have described his energy and passion for the work as “contagious,” and few have walked away with anything less than an unforgettable experience. Harris’s self-described mission is “to free the human potential.”

Matt Kelly
Partner & Business Designer, Do Tank

MAs a partner and business designer at do tank, Kelly assists organizations with alignment and clarity about the current state of their business, competition, economic challenges, and vision for the future. He is skilled in facilitating synthesis of multiple perspectives into a clear strategy and plan for action. Strategic planning, product and service innovation, and organizational culture work are areas where Kelly spends most of his professional time.

Kelly has an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Brad Kile
President, Dumbarton Group, LLC

Brad Kile is president of the Dumbarton Group, LLC, where he provides services to non-profit and corporate entities to assist them in navigating health care legislative and regulatory policy changes. He is active at both the federal and state levels as an advocate in the areas of long-term care and government-funded prescription medication benefits. Brad has extensive knowledge of state-level policies and the implications of federal policies on the development and delivery of state-based health care. Dr. Kile received his PhD in health care policy from Florida State University. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from James Madison University and a Master’s degree from the American University in Washington, DC.

J. Andrew Orr-Skirvin, Pharm.D., RPh., BCOP
Associate Clinical Professor & Interim Department Chair, Northeastern University

Andrew Orr-Skirvin has been a faculty member for 25 years, teaching pharmacy students and providing clinical services to oncology patients. Dr. Orr-Skirvin’s interest areas include adult oncology and hematology patient care. In particular, he focuses on supportive care for oncology patients, including pain management, symptom control, and minimizing toxicity.

Dr. Orr-Skirvin attended Oregon State University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, where he earned he Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed an oncology pharmacy residency at the Audie Murphy Veterans Hospital in San Antonio.

Alan G. Rosenbloom
President and CEO, Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition

Alan G. Rosenbloom serves as president and CEO of the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition (SCPC), the only trade group in Washington dedicated exclusively to the political and public policy interests of long-term care pharmacies. He helped a small group of pharmacies create the SCPC in October 2014. During his tenure, SCPC influenced numerous policy decisions benefitting long-term care pharmacies and patients.

Rosenbloom has spent his entire professional career in healthcare, including stints as president of the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association and acting president, EVP and COO of LeadingAge. He began his career as a healthcare lawyer in Philadelphia, with a focus on representing long-term care providers.

Rosenbloom received a JD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as associate editor of the Law Review, and also studied public policy at the Wharton School. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts.

Connie Sullivan, B.S. Pharm
Vice President of Research and Innovation, National Home Infusion Association

Connie Sullivan is the vice president of research and innovation for the National Home Infusion Association (NHIA). Sullivan has over 20 years of home infusion management and clinical practice experience, and is responsible for providing NHIA members with support and education on home infusion pharmacy issues such as sterile compounding regulations and clinical pharmacy best practices. Sullivan leads NHIA’s initiatives to create national quality standards through the implementation of benchmarking programs to describe and quantify the value of home infusion services.
In addition to her work for NHIA, Sullivan also oversees the research, leadership development, and education activities sponsored by the National Home Infusion Foundation. Sullivan is the current vice chair of the United States Pharmacopeial (USP) Sterile Compounding Expert Committee, and a member of the Parenteral Nutrition Expert Panel. Prior to joining NHIA, Sullivan served for 15 years as the national director of home infusion for HCR Manorcare, based in Toledo, Ohio. Sullivan graduated from The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy in 1994.

Phillip J. Wellington
Vice President, Digital Business Solutions, Premier

Phil Wellington is the Vice President, Digital Business Solutions at Premier. He is responsible for the design and development of Premier’s eCommerce business model. He has worked in all aspects of Premier’s supply chain business, including operations, group purchasing, and direct sourcing.

Earlier in his career, Wellington worked in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, performing various roles in corporate strategy, corporate development, and corporate finance. He started his career working in investment banking at Prudential Securities.

Wellington is a fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). He is presently on the boards of Roots & Wings, a New York based charity dedicated to help people lift themselves out of poverty, and Charlotte Soccer Academy Palmetto Football Club.

Wellington holds an MBA from the University of Florida and a B.S. from Georgetown University.

Steve Wilder
President and COO, Sorensen, Wilder & Associates

Steve Wilder has spent the past 35 years in healthcare safety, security, and risk management, providing consultation services to hundreds of clients, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, and physician practices. In his corporate career, Wilder served as Director of Risk Management for a hospital, Corporate Director of Risk Management for a long-term care corporation, and Corporate Director of Safety/Security for a system with 10 hospitals and 15 long-term care facilities.

An experienced trial expert, Wilder consults for law firms and insurance companies on issues of safety, security, aggression management, and workplace violence. He is co-author of the book “The Essentials of Aggression Management in Healthcare: From Talkdown to Takedown.” He is a Board-Certified Healthcare Safety Professional, and holds multiple certifications with the United States Department of Homeland Security. Wilder also spent 35 years in the fire service and is a retired fire chief in the suburbs of Chicago.

Chad Worz, PharmD, BCGP
Executive Director and COO, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists

Chad Worz is the executive director and chief operating officer of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP). A graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, Worz developed an innovative clinical practice in a long-term care setting in Ohio and directed the pharmacy practice of a regional, independent pharmacy serving 10,000 long-term care residents.

Worz established his geriatric-based practice, Medication Managers, LLC, to educate and serve nursing facility residents, nursing facility administration, long-term care pharmacies, and the public through a comprehensive knowledge of medication use. It expanded to provide consulting services to more than 600 nursing centers and over 35,000 skilled nursing, assisted living, and developmentally disabled clients across the country. Worz also helped start RxConcile, a telepharmacy application that connects nursing facility discharge patients with a live pharmacist for education and consultation on their medications.

Carl Zuhl
Partner & Business Designer, Do Tank

As a partner and business designer at do tank, Zuhl supports clients by getting teams to think boldly about their businesses and strategies, both in their current and future states. Pushing them outside their comfort zone to build unique and different ideas, he directs clients into another way of thinking. His work enables clients to drive growth in their core business as well as design, prototype, and test new adjacent and transformative businesses.

Zuhl has a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a dual master’s MS-MBA degree from Boston University.