Chris McCarthy is the VP of Strategy & Design at Hopelab and the Executive Director and Founder of the Innovation Learning Network.  At Hopelab his main focus is at the intersection of design and science in the service of young people’s health. Currently he is guiding work with young cancer survivors, teen moms, and emotional well-being of young people. In his previous role at Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Consultancy, he tackled safer medication administration for patients, more robust shift changes for nurses, exploring the social space of elders, and the care experience of transgender people.

His work has been featured with CNN ( Dec 2017), Harvard Business Review (Sept 2010), Bisognano’s “Pursuing the Triple Aim” (2012), FastCompany, the New York Times and many more.   As an author, he collaborated with Lyle Berkowitz, MD on “Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare” (2012). You can find his quirky design blog at McCarthyChris.com.

He was named the 2015 H.I.T. Innovator and the 2011 Ellerbe Beckett Lecturer. And is an international speaker on innovation and design.

Chris has a master’s in business administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Copenhagen Business School, and a master’s in public health in Health Policy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In his spare time, he obsesses about fitness, movies and home remodels.

Janell Moerer, MBA, joined the Centura Health leadership team in October 2017 as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. She is responsible for leading the Centura Health brand and fueling our connected community of caregivers to live out their missions. Prior to this role, Moerer served as the Group Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for one of the organization’s operating groups, where she played an instrumental role in growth and operational efficiencies.

Moerer brings more than 25 years of progressively responsible senior leadership experience in marketing, innovation and business development across the entire care continuum to Centura Health, serving in leadership roles at Via Christi Health (integrated health system), Nursing 2000 (home care and ambulatory care), Continental Medical Systems (post-acute and rehabilitation), Wheatland National Group Holdings (insurance brokerage) and Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center (acute care).

Moerer earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and her Master of Business Administration from Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. She is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a board member of Innovation Leader Network and a member of Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce. Moerer and her husband Brent are the parents of two children.

Lyle Berkowitz, MD, FACP, FHIMSS is a primary care physician, a digital healthcare innovator and a health tech entrepreneur. He is Chief Medical Officer and EVP of Product for MDLIVE, as well as President of the MDLIVE Medical Group, one of the largest virtual primary care groups in the nation. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of healthfinch (http://www.healthfinch.com/), Board Member of Oneview Healthcare (http://www.oneviewhealthcare.com/), the Executive Director of the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program and previous Director of Innovation for Northwestern Medicine. He serves on the Governance Board of the Innovation Learning Network, the Advisory Board of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the Editorial Board for Clinical Innovation Technology, and is the author of Innovation with Information Technologies in Healthcare (http://www.thehealingedge.org/). He has been listed as one of HealthLeader’s “Twenty People Who Make Healthcare Better”; Healthspottr’s “Future Health Top 100”, and Modern Healthcare’s “Top 25 Clinical Informaticists”. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. You can find him at www.DrLyle.com (http://www.DrLyle.com) and @DrLyleMD (https://twitter.com/DrLyleMD).

Margaret has distinguished herself as a catalytic leader in health care, forging cross-sector partnerships that drive positive social impact. At Hopelab Margaret leads a multidisciplinary team with expertise in healthcare, academic research, and design to create science-based technologies to improve the health and well-being of teens and young adults. She is passionate about bringing together government, nonprofit and private-sector stakeholders interested in advancing the role technology can play in supporting and improving health outcomes, with a particular focus on improving care for underserved populations.

Prior to HopeLab, Margaret spent 17 years at the California HealthCare Foundation as Director of Public Financing and Policy and Director of the Innovations for the Underserved program. She also founded the CHCF Health Innovation Fund, a mission-focused investment fund supporting companies that improve access to and lower costs of health care. The Fund, launched in 2010, has now made investments in eleven early stage health care technology and services companies.  Earlier in her career Margaret worked in management consulting with Accenture, in international health with the World Health Organization’s Global Programme on AIDS, and in state government with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Margaret holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and an A.B. in English Literature from Princeton University. She serves on the boards of Health Leads and Project Glimmer and as an adviser to the Acumen America Fund, Omidyar Network, and Peer Health Exchange as well as a number of early stage health care services and technology companies. Margaret is a lecturer in management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. When not traveling the U.S. exploring health care innovations, Margaret enjoys international adventures, spending time in nature and discovering great food, and arts and culture.

After over 16 years at Kaiser Permanente, Marilyn Chow, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, Vice President of National Patient Care Services and Innovation, has retired.

Marilyn joined Kaiser Permanente in 2000, arriving with a wealth of health care expertise, including front line nursing, academic experience, policy work, and administration. At National Patient Care Services, she worked to enable the delivery of high-quality care. She made significant contributions to nursing through her scholarship, leadership, and civic involvement.

Marilyn Chow is widely recognized for her expertise in innovation, regulation of nursing practice, and workforce policy. Marilyn’s leadership has been instrumental in shaping the role that nursing plays in Kaiser Permanente’s mission and care delivery. This is especially true where innovation and technology intersect nursing practice and compassionate care delivery.

For those of us who have been lucky enough to work with Marilyn, we know the energy, passion, and personal commitment she brings to her work. She is dedicated to improving patient safety and well-being. As a recognized leader in nursing, she inspired countless nurses to take their practice to the next level and remember the profound difference they make in patients’ lives every day.

Penny Ford Carleton RN MS MPA MSc is Director of Clinical Innovation at CIMIT (The Consortia for Improvement of Medicine through Innovation and Technology) in Boston, Research Associate at Harvard Medical School and Program Director for the NIH/NIBIB Point of Care Technology Research Center in Primary Care.  She has extensive national and international experience teaching innovation methodology and leading technology innovation projects, including the development of a physiologic monitoring patient surveillance safety net, the “Guardian Aingeal” for traditionally unmonitored hospitalized patients, in collaboration with Intelesens, Northern Ireland, and for the “Acuity Flexible Monitoring System” for general care marketed internationally by Protocol/Welch-Allyn.  Her international work also includes collaborations with A*STAR and the Eastern Health Alliance in Singapore and consultation for the P.D. Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai, India. She has published multiple articles and chapters, including as co-author of “Accelerating Innovation through Coopetition: The Innovation Learning Network Experience”. Prior to joining CIMIT, Ms. Ford Carleton was Associate Director for Research Management at Partners HealthCare, Bedside Technology Specialist in the Bioengineering Department at MGH, and a Clinical Nurse Specialist in critical care at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She holds graduate degrees in cardiovascular nursing from University of Michigan and in Palliative Care from University of London, as well as a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.

Zayna is the Future Strategist with SE Health, a health and social impact enterprise with a major focus on home care. There, she leads the SE Futures team established for the new era of health innovation ie, a future where the "home-spital" is where health will be created, managed and restored, people and their families will be more empowered, and intelligence will support decisions. In 2017 she spent the year on secondment to the REshape Health Innovation Centre at Radboud university medical centre in Nijmegan, Netherlands where she led several initiatives to advance health innovation in the country.  From 2014 to 2017 Dr. Khayat lead health system innovation with MaRS Discovery District, a major innovation hub based in Toronto. At MaRS, Zayna and her team helped smooth the path to adoption of innovation by healthcare systems in Ontario and around the world.

Zayna is adjunct faculty with the Rotman School of Management in the Health Sector Strategy stream where she teaches a health MBA course on Healthcare Innovation.

Dr. Khayat was previously a senior leader and adjunct faculty member with the International Centre for Health Innovation at the Ivey School of Business at Western University.

From 2010-2012, Zayna was an associate partner with SECOR Consulting/KPMG Canada. There, Zayna worked with medium and large sized public and private health and life sciences organizations in Ontario and nationally on issues of strategy and management. Prior to joining SECOR-KPMG, Zayna was a Principal with the Toronto office of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm, from 2001 to 2010.

Zayna earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Toronto / Hospital for Sick Children where she was a scholar of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, studying how insulin and exercise regulate blood glucose in the muscle, and why/where this process breaks down during disease states such as diabetes. She has more than 10 publications and chapters in international journals and textbooks.

Zayna completed undergraduate studies in biochemistry at the University of Windsor, where she earned the President's Medal for top all around graduate of the University (1996) and the Board of Governor's Medal for top graduate of the biochemistry department.

Zayna speaks proficiently in French and Arabic, and is based out of Toronto where she lives with her husband and 3 children.