Agenda – Precon

With 30 years of managed care and hospital leadership senior experience, Ken offers his clients valuable insights into the complexities of healthcare finance, hospital operations and value-based care. Ken has worked for both nonprofit and for-profit hospitals, as well as for individual hospitals and large health systems. He has held multiple leadership positions, including CEO, and was Vice President of Managed Care in a 42 -hospital system with responsibility for 24 hospitals and over $1 billion in annual managed care revenue. Ken has helped many hospitals and health systems make substantial improvements to contract reimbursement rates, contract language, and revenue cycle management. He has analyzed and negotiated statewide contracts with national health plans and led financial and strategic turnarounds for hospitals in large, competitive markets. Ken’s extensive expertise in bundled payments, ACO’s, CIN’s, alternative payment and delivery models offer value to providers in an era of unprecedented changes in the healthcare industry.

Nick Bott is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist who researches and designs for innovation in the assessment of cognition and emotion, healthy cognitive aging and high-value care delivery. At Stanford University, he serves as a research scientist at the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC). In addition to publishing his research in top-tier journals, his work has been featured in The New York Times, National Public Radio, and U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Bott also serves as the chief science officer of Neurotrack technologies, Inc., a Silicon Valley based startup using computer vision and digital behavior change to measure and monitor brain health and motivate individuals to lower their risk of cognitive decline and dementia through modifiable lifestyle behaviors. A native of St. Louis, Missouri

Natalia Leva studied English Literature and Modern Dance at the University of California, Berkeley, completed medical school at Stanford University, and went on to University of California, San Francisco for her training in Urologic Surgery where she is currently in her fifth year of residency. She has returned to Stanford to spend the year as a Postdoctoral Healthcare Design Fellow in the Clinical Excellence Research Center. Natalia’s interest in underserved populations has been a driving force in her diverse clinical experiences. Prior to medical school, Natalia researched antiretrovirals in perinatal women with HIV at San Francisco General Hospital, she has worked in Veracruz, Mexico investigating the dissemination of vaccines in children, and in residency is studying the needs of pediatric urology patients as they transition from childhood to adulthood. Natalia has a vested interest in bringing the best medicine has to offer to all patients.

Clare Purvis completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at the PGSP-Stanford Consortium, including clinical and research training at Stanford University, VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, and University of Wisconsin – Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Clare’s graduate research focused on mental health technology, and she joined a mental health technology startup upon completing her doctorate. In that role, she created clinical interventions, conducted research, and applied evidence-based behavior science to inform user experience and design. She is fascinated by the intersection of technology and health, and believes in the potential for technological innovation to radically improve healthcare in the United States.

Francesca Rinaldo is currently a resident in the Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery at Stanford University. In 2017-2018, she completed the Healthcare Design Fellowship at the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center. As a design fellow, Francesca and her team used the established CERC healthcare delivery innovation methodology to design a care delivery model for the “Late Life” population, with a focus on improving the quality and cost of care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions and functional limitations. She currently remains at CERC as a research fellow and as an Associate Director for the healthcare design fellowship. Her clinical interests are in surgical critical care, palliative care, and geriatrics. She is also interested in applications of artificial intelligence for improving the quality and cost of US healthcare.

Dr. Anoop Rao is an Instructor in Neonatology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford. Anoop completed his early clinical and research training in India before completing his MS in the Biological Engineering Division at MIT. He is board-certified in Pediatrics and Clinical Informatics. Prior to Stanford, he completed his residency in Pediatrics at Columbia and Biomedical Informatics fellowship at Harvard. Additionally, he has over 5 years of medtech industry experience and has independently lent intellectual property expertise in over 100 patent infringement cases. Given his background and expertise, he is exceptionally passionate about maternal and child health innovation. At Stanford Neonatology, he runs the NeoDesign group. This group holds monthly talks by healthtech innovators and physician scientists.

Dr. Courtenay Stewart grew up north of the Canadian border, in Toronto. She trained for 12 years to make the Canadian Olympic Team, and competed on the 2004 synchronized swimming team in Athens, Greece. As an oft-injured athlete, Dr. Stewart became fascinated with how the body works, and why her own physiology would stubbornly let her down. After touring the pools of the world, she came to Stanford to study human biology, then to Touro University-CA for medical school, and, finally, back to Stanford for residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She works with patients after significant nerve, muscle and bone injuries to develop an individualized recovery plan. During her residency training, she researched cost-saving technologies that bring rehabilitation exercises to patients at home and joined Stanford’s Biodesign Innovation course to create medical device solutions. Dr. Stewart is interested in a systems-design approach to improve outcomes and reduce costs in patients with disabilities.

Terry Platchek is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and serves as the Fellowship Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center. He is also the Vice President for Performance Improvement and Associate Chief Quality officer at Stanford Children’s Health. His career focuses on using Lean management to improve quality, safety, cost, appropriateness and service in healthcare delivery. Dr. Platchek is co-author of the book Advanced Lean in Healthcare. He is a founder and co-convener of the Lean Healthcare Academic Conference and has advised health care systems across the Unites States and Australia on performance improvement, including the Departments of Health in Victoria and Western Australia which have adopted junior doctor healthcare redesign programs using a continuous improvement model. Dr. Currently, he practices medicine as a Pediatric Hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.