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16 Sign up for the COMPLIMENTARY Becker's Hospital Review CEO Report & CFO Report E-Weeklies at www.BeckersHospitalReview.com or call (800) 417-2035 medicine, medical ethics and quality of care, served several other roles before joining the NQF. She is one of 20 scientists serving on President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Cassel previously served as dean of the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine in Portland and as the chief of general internal medicine at the University of Chicago. Mark Chassin, MD. Dr. Chassin, a board-certified internist, has served as president and CEO of The Joint Commission since 2008. The Joint Commission, a nonprofit organization, accredits and certifies more than 20,000 U.S. healthcare organizations and programs. Dr. Chassin has established several new initiatives during his tenure, including the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare. The center works with leading hospitals and health systems to address problems surrounding healthcare-associated infections, wrong-site surgeries and other critical safety and quality lapses. Previously, Dr. Chassin was a healthcare mainstay in New York: He was the founding chairman of the health policy department at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and he also served as the commissioner of the state department of health. Benjamin Chu, MD. Nationally and regionally, Dr. Chu has become a prominent voice among hospital and health system advocates. He serves as executive vice president of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Health Plan in Oakland and regional president of Kaiser Permanente Southern California and Hawaii. Overall, Dr. Chu oversees the operations of 14 Kaiser hospitals and 168 medical offices. In addition, he is the current chairman of the American Hospital Association, the top elected position for the largest hospital lobbying group in the country. Previously, Dr. Chu served as president of New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., one of the largest public hospital systems in the country. Francis Collins, MD, PhD. The National Institutes of Health has had to deal with dwindling funding due to sequestration and other budget cuts. But as the 16th director of NIH, Dr. Collins has found ways to keep NIH as one of the most prominent biomedical research institutions in the world. Routinely working 90-hour weeks, he has led pioneering work in genomics — he discovered disease genes, sequenced the full human genome and oversaw the international Human Genome Project. Dr. Collins was the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH for 15 years. In 2007, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and President George W. Bush said Dr. Collins was "the man who led the federal [human genome] project to full and thrilling success." David Cordani. For the past four years, Mr. Cordani has led Bloomfield, Conn.-based health insurer Cigna as president and CEO. In 2012, Cigna posted more than $29.1 billion in total revenue and acquired HealthSpring in a $3.8 billion deal. Cigna has been one of the most proactive commercial health insurers in the accountable care organization space. Cigna calls its ACOs "collaborative accountable care" initiatives. As of November 2013, it had 75 CAC initiatives in 26 states with a variety of providers, and Cigna's stated goal is to have 100 CACs covering 1 million people in 2014. Mr. Cordani has been with Cigna for more than 25 years, holding other executive positions within the company's distribution, marketing, clinical management, underwriting, finance and operations divisions. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove, MD. Cleveland Clinic is one of the country's most iconic academic medical centers, and Dr. Cosgrove has led the $6.2 billion nonprofit organization as president and CEO for the past decade. Dr. Cosgrove, an award-winning cardiac surgeon and former surgeon in the U.S. Air Force, oversees a system that has become influential both locally and abroad: The main campus in downtown Cleveland has more than 1,400 beds, and the system has more than 4,400 beds overall. Cleveland Clinic operates eight community hospitals, a children's hospital, Cleveland Clinic Florida and two international sites — one in Toronto, Canada, and another in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Earlier this year, Cleveland Clinic formed a strategic partnership with Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, one of the largest forprofit hospital operators in the country. The collaboration will lead to the sharing of best practices between the two organizations, and they are also exploring hospital joint ventures together. RoseAnn DeMoro. Ms. DeMoro serves as executive director of National Nurses United, one of the largest, most progressive healthcare labor unions in the country. NNU represents approximately 185,000 registered nurses. Under Ms. DeMoro's leadership, NNU has spearheaded several campaigns, notably to improve the job environment Becker's Hospital Review Register Today for Becker's Upcoming Complimentary Webinars: Take Control of Your Purchased Services Spend: Best Practice Success Stories Sponsored by MD Buyline January 16th, 2014 • 2:00 pm (CST) Can you afford to be accountable for specialty care? A new approach for identifying variation and risk in specialty care episodes. Sponsored by ArborMetrix February 13th, 2014 • 1:15 pm (CST) Visit: www.beckershospitalreview.com and click on the Webinars tab To register call 800-417-2035 or email Lauren@beckershealthcare.com Webinars

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