Welcome/Introduction – Eric Willis (Host)
Breakout Sessions: Round 1 and 2
David Vandewater (CEO of Anther Healthcare)
Breakout Sessions: Round 3
Opening – Eric Willis (host)
Kathy DeBruhl (The Health Law Group)
Chief Executive Officer, Anther Health Services
David Vandewater brings more than 35 years of health care leadership experience to Anther Health Services. Throughout his career, Mr. Vandewater has been responsible for the operations of more than 500 hospitals and led dozens of joint venture partnerships that combined the strengths of community hospitals, not-for-profit or academic health systems and investor-owned operators.
Healthcare Strategic Advisor
Mark Morsch is a Strategic advisor to executive leadership of early-stage healthcare start-up companies to support market positioning, next stage growth, and expanded patient trials. While he is currently engaged with companies focused on the post-acute care and oncology settings, Morsch is also an inventor with 15 patents in AI, NLP and health information.
Owner of Kathleen L. DeBruhl & Associates, LLC, The Health Law Group
Kathleen L. DeBruhl is a principal in the law firm of Kathleen L. DeBruhl & Associates, L.L.C., The Health Law Group, located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The law firm exclusively represents healthcare providers on a regional and national level. Ms. DeBruhl has expertise in multiple healthcare areas, including physician practice issues, mergers and acquisitions, including private equity ventures, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and appeals, licensure and accreditation, medical staffs, Stark and antikickback regulatory compliance, development of ancillary services, and joint ventures, such as ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, and specialty hospitals.
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Team Health
Partner at Sullivan Stollier Schulze LLC
Alec Alexander is the former Deputy Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Director of the Center for Program Integrity.
Mr. Alexander is a Partner who serves on the firm’s Management Committee and leads the Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. An experienced attorney, corporate executive, healthcare enforcement consultant, former federal prosecutor and presidential appointee, for the last twenty years Mr. Alexander’s work has focused on state and federal fraud, waste, abuse and enforcement issues in the administrative, civil and criminal contexts.
Partner at Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Robert Zink, former head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section, is a trial lawyer and member of the Firm’s Investigations, Government Enforcement and White Collar Criminal Defense Group.
Mr. Zink’s practice focuses on trying high stakes matters, defending corporate entities and individuals under investigation by federal and state law enforcement authorities and regulators across the United States, and providing advice and counsel to corporate entities in connection with the design, testing, and implementation of corporate compliance programs.
Partner at K&L Gates
Stephen Page is a partner at the firm’s Nashville office and is a member of the Health Care and FDA practice group. Stephen has advised a myriad of clients across the health care industry such as telemedicine companies, digital health companies, hospital systems, ambulatory surgery centers, and health care investors. He works with clients on strategic and operational matters including compliance issues related to patient privacy and data security, corporate practice of medicine, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, and physician self-referral prohibitions. Stephen has also served as in-house legal counsel to two investor-owned health care companies based in Nashville, Tennessee with operations across the United States. He has considerable experience assisting health care clients with matters concerning digital health, telemedicine, and offering practical and strategic advice across various regulatory areas.
Chief Technology & Information Security Officer, Kiriworks
Greg Wheeler has been working with IT infrastructure for 2 decades with a focus on performance, efficiency, and security. As Chief Information Security Officer of Kiriworks, he provides security expertise to both internally and to clients and partners, with a focus on risk management and threat modeling. Greg works out of Cleveland, Ohio and is a member of the FBI’s Infragard partnership as well as a member of the Cloud Security Alliance and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
Allen Bishop currently serves as the Director of Sales and Solution Engineering at i3-Milestone, with 15 years of leadership, training, and project/program management experience. Allen thrives in creating and implementing strategies to deliver strategic initiatives proven to improve systems, processes, bottom-line results, and to enhance the overall customer experience. In his current role, Allen also leads the Milestone Pre-Sales team in conducting demos, writing proposals, and discovering how Milestone can create internal efficiencies and increased customer engagement for Milestone’s customers.