Speakers

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, Keynote Speaker

Professor, Harvard Medical School. Renowned surgeon and researcher. Author, Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto.

Atul Gawande’s bold visions for improving performance and safety in healthcare have made him one of the most sought-after speakers in medicine. His three books, Complications, Better, and The Checklist Manifesto, have all been highly praised inside and outside the medical community. His new book is Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. TIME placed him among the world’s 100 most influential thinkers.

Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD

Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research, Associate Dean for Community Health & Outreach, and Professor of Oncology at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center

Dr. Adams-Campbell is an epidemiologist who specializes in community health research, interventions, and outreach. With a focus on prevention, she studies issues that affect populations at the greatest risk for developing cancer. Dr. Adams-Campbell has participated and led several large cohort studies of African-American women and played a leading role in bringing the Boston University Black Women’s Health Study—the largest study of African-American women—to the District of Columbia. She has received numerous awards and honors, including election to the former Institute of Medicine (The National Academy of Medicine), and induction into the D.C. Hall of Fame for her research focus on health disparities.

Sanjeev Arora, MD, MACP, FACG

Director and Founder of Project ECHO, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Sanjeev Arora, MD, MACP, FACG is the Director and Founder of Project ECHO. He is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Project ECHO^® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) dramatically improves both capacity and access to specialty care for rural and underserved populations by linking expert inter-disciplinary specialist teams with primary care clinicians through teleECHO™ clinics, in which the experts mentor primary care clinicians to help them manage their patient cases and share their expertise via mentoring, guidance, feedback and didactic education. This helps rural clinicians develop knowledge and self-efficacy so they can adopt research findings and deliver best practice care for complex and chronic health conditions.

Joan Lunden

Award-winning journalist, bestselling author, motivational speaker and women’s health & wellness advocate

Joan Lunden has been a trusted voice in American homes for more than 30 years. For nearly two decades, Lunden greeted viewers each morning on Good Morning America bringing insight to the day’s top stories. As the longest running female host ever on early morning television, Lunden reported from 26 countries, covered 5 presidents, 5 Olympics, and kept Americans up to date on how to care for their homes, their families, and their health.