THOMAS J. CURRY LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE SPEAKER
BILL ECKSTROM is the founder and CEO of EcSell Institute and
EcSell Sports. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "The
Coaching Effect," a record-setting TEDx Talker, renowned public
speaker, husband, father, outdoorsman, and therapy dog trainer.
CYNTHIA BURDICK, MD, FAAP is the Medical Director for Medicare & Medicaid for Kaiser Permanente Washington. She is a practicing pediatrician and internist and leads the Kaiser Permanente Washington efforts for Integrated Social Health Practice.
ANDREA CARTER, MD has lived and practiced family medicine in
Moses Lake since the summer of 2000. She has been the CMO for
Samaritan Healthcare since 2015, and has worked to be a champion
for improved patient care in Grant County.
KAVITA CHAWLA, MD, FACP, MHA is a practicing internist at
Virginia Mason Kirkland Regional Medical Center. She leads
Virginia Mason’s education committee for ongoing, evidence-based
clinical education for providers in primary care. She has
completed her training in the Virginia Mason Production System
management method, which aims for a zero-defect rate in
health care.
ARIC COFFMAN, MD is Pacific Northwest Executive Vice President for Optum. Dr. Coffman previously served as Chief Executive Officer and President of The Everett Clinic and Northwest Physicians Network, part of OptumCare. He has also served as President of DaVita Medical Group New Mexico and has held several leadership roles within that team during his 12 years there. Prior to becoming the president in 2015, Dr. Coffman served as the Residency Program Director, Associate Medical Director of Specialty Care, Senior Medical Director, and Chief Medical Officer. He is board certified in general surgery. He serves on the boards for the Snohomish County YMCA, the Washington RoundTable, and the Washington Healthcare Forum.
RICHARD FURLONG, MD is a practicing internist and the medical
director at the Virginia Mason Kirkland Regional Medical Center, profiled in the
National Academy of Medicine’s Case Studies in reducing clinician
burnout. He has served on the Bree Collaborative and the Dementia
Action Collaborative since 2017. Dr. Furlong holds leadership
positions in the company’s efforts around safe opioid
prescribing, recognized with the Mary McClinton Safety award for
this work in 2019, and is co-director of department of primary care informatics, director of call center operations and access
at Virginia Mason, and is an advanced VMPS graduate, and has led many formal
and informal Kaizen events.
MANGLA GULATI, MD, CPPS, FACP, SFHM joined the University of Maryland in 2004 as an academic hospitalist. She is a clinician educator, with a particular focus on patient safety, cost effective care, and resource utilization. Dr Gulati is currently the Chief Quality Officer, Vice President of Patient Safety, and the Associate Chief Medical Officer at the University of Maryland Medical Center with a focus on promoting a high reliability organization, driving interdisciplinary strategy focused on safety excellence, developing innovative approaches to optimizing clinical outcomes and performance improvement. She is the Governor of the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians and the chair of the Hospital Patient Quality and Safety Committee for the Society of Hospital Medicine.
EDWIN LINDO, JD is the Assistant Dean for Social and Health Justice in the Office of Healthcare Equity and Acting Assistant Professor within the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He teaches, presents, and writes on issues of race and racism within the field of medicine and greater society. He is internationally recognized as a conscious voice for racial and social justice.
RUSSELL MIGITA, MD is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at
Seattle Children’s Hospital. He is the clinical director of emergency services and is responsible for QI review,
implementation, and standardization at the Seattle Children’s emergency department. He is also the co-director for education at
the UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care, Quality
and Safety, which has provided QI and patient safety education to
hundreds of front-line clinicians.
RANDAL MOSELEY, MD, FACP, FHM is medical director of patient safety and risk
at Confluence Health. He is board certified in internal medicine
and geriatrics, and currently practices part-time as a
hospitalist. His engagement at the state level has included work
with the Washington Patient Safety Coalition, the Washington
Health Alliance, the Washington State Choosing Wisely Taskforce,
the Washington State Hospital Association Patient Safety
Committee, the Robert Bree Collaborative, and the Washington
Communication and Resolution Program Alliance.
JOANNE ROBERTS, MD, MHA is the senior vice president and chief
value officer for Providence. In addition to coordinating the
efforts of the system’s chief medical officers, she leads
physician leadership development for Providence, including the clinical value improvement curriculum to drive daily improvement
from leaders to front-line caregivers.
NATHAN SCHLICHER, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP serves as the WSMA president
and regional medical director of quality assurance for CHI
Franciscan emergency departments, among other roles. He has led
multiple statewide quality projects across health systems
including the ER is for Emergencies initiative and Better
Prescribing Better Treatment.
KEVIN TAYLOR, MD, MS is a primary care internal medicine physician with a broad experience as a physician leader and is currently the Medical Director for the IHA Primary care and Geriatric Services at the Towsley Health Center in Ann Arbor Michigan. Dr. Taylor is a certified change practitioner and executive coach who recently served as the Organizational Transformation Director for the Practice Sustainability, Provider Satisfaction Department at the American Medical Association.