Richard J. Donoghue Senior Vice President for Strategy, Planning and Business Development Richard (Rick) J. Donoghue, senior vice president for strategy, planning and business development at NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC), is responsible for the strategic initiatives of NYULMC which includes both NYU Hospitals Center and NYU School of Medicine. He is also responsible for the medical malpractice program, managed care contracting and payment reform response at NYULMC. Since his arrival in 1990, Mr. Donoghue has worked in a variety of positions including chief financial officer, chief information officer and head of the Merger Office, responsible for the integration of NYU Hospitals Center with Mount Sinai Hospital and the subsequent dissolution of that union. Rick is Chairman of the Board of Healthix, the largest RHIO in the country resulting from the merger of the New York, Brooklyn and Long Island Health Information Exchanges. Prior to joining NYU Langone, Mr. Donoghue spent 16 years in consulting and public accounting, including five years as a partner with Ernst & Young. He has an MS and BBA from Adelphi University and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP). He served on the Healthcare Financial Management Association s National Principles & Practices Board, including three years as its chair. For the last 17 years, Mr. Donoghue has served as a technical editor for the Healthcare Financial Management Association s hfm magazine.
Lawton Robert Burns, Ph.D., MBA, is the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor, a Professor of Health Care Management, and a Professor of Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Director of the Wharton Center for Health Management & Economics, and Co-Director of the Roy & Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management. He received his doctorate in Sociology and his MBA in Health Administration from the University of Chicago. Dr. Burns taught previously in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and the College of Business Administration at the University of Arizona. Dr. Burns has analyzed physician-hospital integration and integrated delivery networks over the past 30 years. In recognition of this research, Dr. Burns recently received the 2015 Distinguished Research Scholar Award from the Academy of Management and its Health Care Administration Division. He was named the Edwin L. Crosby Memorial Fellow by the Hospital Research and Educational Trust in 1992. Dr. Burns has also published several papers on hospital systems, physician group practices, ACOs, managed care, and price transparency. The last 15 years he spent studying the healthcare supply chain. He completed a book on supply chain management in the healthcare industry, The Health Care Value Chain (Jossey-Bass, 2002), and a recent analysis of alliances between imaging equipment makers and hospital systems. These studies focus on the strategic alliances and partnerships developing between pharmaceutical firms/distributors, disposable manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, group purchasing organizations, and organized delivery systems. He has also edited The Business of Healthcare Innovation (Cambridge University Press, 2012) which analyzes the healthcare technology sectors globally: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and information technology. Most recently, he has served as lead editor of the 6th Edition of the major text, Healthcare Management: Organization Design & Behavior (Delmar, 2011). His latest book, India s Healthcare Industry, was just published in 2014 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), to be followed in 2016 by a companion volume on China s Healthcare Industry and Reform (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Burns teaches courses on healthcare strategy, strategic change, strategic implementation, organization and management, managed care, and integrated delivery networks. From 1998-2002, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, where he taught corporate strategy to physicians. Dr. Burns also received an Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the reasons for failure in organizational change efforts by healthcare providers. He is a past member of the Grant Review Study Section for the Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, and a past board member of the Health Services Section of the Institute of Medicine. He is also a Life Fellow of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.
Fran Ganz-Lord, MD, FACP Chief Quality and Population Health Officer, The Valley Health System Fran Ganz-Lord, MD, Chief Quality and Population Health Officer for the Valley Health System is responsible for overseeing and growing program to bend the cost curve and improve quality performance across the Valley Health System. She is also on the executive team that is launching ColigoCare a Clinically Integrated Network. Dr. Ganz-Lord works on insurance contracts involving valued based care as well as governmental programs that the health system is involved in. Prior to joining the Valley Health System in the summer of 2016, Dr. Ganz-Lord worked at Northwell Health as the Medical Director for CIIPA (Clinical Integration IPA), the Medical Director for Northwell Health ACO a Medicare Shared Savings Program ACO and was the Director of Ambulatory Quality for the Medicine Service Line. She had previously worked at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center as an academic internist. While at NYP, Dr. Ganz-Lord functioned as the Medical Site Director for an Internal Medicine Residency Practice as well as the Divisional Director for Quality and Patient Safety. Dr. Ganz-Lord has a BA in Neuroscience from Amherst College, obtained her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine and did her residency training in Internal Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Campus. Dr. Ganz-Lord is a member of the New York ACP Quality Committee.
MG Longer Bio.docx https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wi3o7n5aot4cfo/mg Longer Bio.docx?dl=0 1 of 1 10/7/2016 1:33 PM Martin Gaynor is the E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and former Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. He is one of the founders of the Health Care Cost Institute, an independent non-partisan nonprofit dedicated to advancing knowledge about US health care spending, and served as the first Chair of its governing board. He is also a board member of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an International Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon Dr. Gaynor held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins and a number of other universities, and was a visitor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest in 1991. His research focuses on competition and antitrust policy in health care markets. He has written extensively on this topic, testified before Congress, worked with the state of Pennsylvania on its health innovation initiative, and advised the governments of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and South Africa on competition issues in health care. He has won a number of awards for his research, including the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Best Paper Award, Victor R. Fuchs Research Award, the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Health Care Research Award, the Kenneth J. Arrow Award, the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship (finalist), and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. Dr. Gaynor received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 1977 and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1983.
Elinor R. Hoffmann is Deputy Chief of the New York Attorney General s Antitrust Bureau. She focuses on antitrust issues arising under state and federal laws in diverse markets, including health care, pharmaceuticals and financial services. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School where she teaches courses in Antitrust and Antitrust Issues in Health Care, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Health Law Fellowship program. Prior to joining the Office of the Attorney General, she was a partner in the firm of Coudert Brothers LLP for 16 years. Elinor has led investigations and litigation of merger and non-merger matters involving antitrust, fraud, contract, RICO and other issues through trial, appeal and settlement. In private practice, she also counseled domestic and foreign clients on a variety of antitrust and dispute resolution issues, and in the Attorney General s office, her work has included competition policy and advocacy projects. Elinor has written and spoken extensively on antitrust and litigation topics, and served on the Board of Editors of Antitrust Law Developments (Sixth), the ABA Antitrust Section s flagship treatise. She is a member of the Section's Leadership. She also serves on the Executive Board of the New York State Bar Association's Antitrust Section and is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.