THOMAS J. CURRY LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Ian Morrison, PhD, is an internationally known
author, consultant, and futurist specializing in long-term forecasting
and planning with particular emphasis on health care and the changing
business environment. He combines research and consulting skills with
an incisive Scottish wit to help public and private organizations plan
their longer-term future. Morrison is the author of “Leading Change in
Healthcare: Building a Viable System for Today and Tomorrow,”
“Healthcare in the New Millennium: Vision, Values and Leadership,” and
“The Second Curve - Managing the Velocity of Change.” Morrison is a
past president of the Institute for the Future and a founding partner
in Strategic Health Perspectives, a joint venture between Harris
Interactive and the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of
Health Policy and Management.
Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, is an internationally
respected health care executive, innovator, speaker, and author. She
is the president and chief clinical officer of Press Ganey, which
focuses on improving the human experience of care as a strategic
differentiating business advantage. Dr. Compton-Phillips has served as
the president of clinical care at Providence and the chief quality
officer at Kaiser Permanente. Her key interests include developing
cutting-edge care through research, advancing access to care through
innovation, cultivating highly reliable care processes through
physician partnerships and systems design, and building the health
care workforce of the future. Dr. Compton-Phillips is a
board-certified internist and theme leader for NEJM Catalyst.
Imelda Dacones, MD, FACP, an internist and
hospitalist, is the Optum Washington market president and a recognized
leader in driving value-based care transformation and innovation.
Previously, she served as the president and CEO of Northwest
Permanente P.C., co-chair of the Kaiser Permanente Program Group, and
chair of The Permanente Federation representing the eight medical
groups of Kaiser Permanente with its more than 22,000 physicians. Dr.
Dacones helped shape enterprise and market strategy, modernize
business functions, and grow the Kaiser footprint, while improving
margins, driving innovations such as hospital care at home, and
fostering clinician and team member engagement. In 2020, she was named
one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Minority Leaders.
Pedro Flores, PhD, MAS, RRT, CCRP, is a clinician,
administrator, and restorative justice practitioner with over 25 years
of experience in all aspects of health care. Flores is affiliated with
the Center for Restorative Justice at the University of San Diego,
where he also conducts implementation research evaluating the use of
restorative justice to redress workgroup-related harms in health care,
academic medicine, and academic nursing settings. Flores teaches
comparative health care systems and health care leadership at the
University of California at San Diego, which is where he obtained a
master’s degree in the leadership of health care organizations. He received a doctorate from the University of San Diego with an emphasis on restorative justice, public health, and leadership.
Kevin Hopkins, MD, is a senior physician advisor with
the Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability Initiative
for the American Medical Association. He serves as a staff physician
in the department of family medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and as
the primary care medical director for Cleveland Clinic’s Primary Care
Institute. Dr. Hopkins is a nationally recognized leader in addressing
burnout and ambulatory practice transformation. He is a clinical
assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, teaches at the Cleveland
Clinic Family Medicine Residency Program, and is a faculty instructor
for the Cleveland Clinic Global Leadership and Learning Institute.
Edwin G. Lindo, JD, brings the interdisciplinary
study of critical race theory to medicine and law so we can better
learn how racism detrimentally affects our health, our learning, our
teaching, and justice. Lindo is the assistant dean for social and
health justice in the Office of Healthcare Equity, an associate
teaching professor in the department of family medicine and an adjunct
associate teaching professor in the department of bioethics and
humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is
also WSMA’s health equity consultant. He is internationally recognized
as a conscious voice for racial and social justice.
Mirna Ramos-Diaz, MD, is the inaugural chief
diversity officer for Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
and is an associate professor of pediatrics in the university’s
department of family medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, Dr.
Ramos-Diaz completed the AAMC Healthcare Executive Diversity and
Inclusion Certificate Program in 2020 and the University of San Diego
Restorative Justice Certificate Program in 2022. She is the co-founder
of Roots to Wings, a transformative co-mentoring program for
Indigenous and Latinx youth living on Native homelands to become STEM
and health care professionals, and the founder of the Science Research
Preparatory Yearlong Program for Indigenous and Latinx students in
Washington state.
Louise Keogh Weed, MPH, is an instructor in the
department of health management at the Harvard T.H Chan School of
Public Health and is affiliate faculty at the Harvard Medical School
Center for Primary Care, where she directed the Advancing Teams
Program, Leadership Masterclass for Non-Physicians in Primary Care,
and the Medical Director Leadership Institute. Keogh Weed is the
faculty director of the Advancing Leadership Strategies for Evolving
Healthcare Executives program in the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public
Health Executive and Continuing Education Department, and the faculty
co-director of Managing Yourself and Leading Others in Healthcare
course at the Harvard Extension School Center for Professional
Development.