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9 Publisher's Letter March Issue. is is the Population Health Issue of Becker's Hospital Re- view, featuring a list of 60 rural hospital CEOs to know and an interview with Geisinger CEO Dr. David Feinberg on the health system's radical new population health program. e issue also contains a listing of 21 hospital closures in 2016, a look into what keeps CEOs up at night and a Corner Office interview with Elizabeth Concordia, president and CEO of UCHealth. I hope you enjoy reading. Becker's Hospital Review 8th Annual Meeting (April 17-20 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago). is year's annual meeting will host more than 300 speakers, including 233 health system executives and eight of the greatest hospital CEOs in the country. e event features celebrity keynotes by Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California, and Jay Leno, comedian and former host of "e Tonight Show." Here, the keynotes and keynote panelists include: 1. Marna Borgstrom, MPH, Chief Executive Officer, Yale New Haven Health and Yale New Haven Hospital 2. Delos M. Cosgrove MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic 3. Michael J. Dowling President and Chief Executive Officer, North- well Health 4. Rodney F. Hochman MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Providence Health & Services 5. Redonda Miller MD, MBA, President, e Johns Hopkins Hospital 6. John Jay Shannon MD, Chief Executive Officer, Cook County Health and Hospitals System 7. Johnese Spisso MPA, President, UCLA Health; Chief Executive Officer, UCLA Hospital System and Associate Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences 8. Nancy Howell Agee, President and Chief, Executive Officer, Car- ilion Clinic 9. Barry Arbuckle PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Me- morialCare Health System 10. Lloyd Dean, President and Chief Executive Officer, Diginity Health 11. Laura Forese, MD, MPH, Executive Vice President and Chief Op- erating Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian 12. Steven Goldstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Strong Memorial Hospital 13. Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Hacken- sack Meridian Health 14. Charles Lauer, Author, Consultant, Speaker, Former Publisher, Modern Healthcare 15. Stephen Mansfield PhD, FACHE, President and Chief Executive Officer, Methodist Health System 16. Anthony Mercando MD, FACC, FAHA, Cardiologist, NYP Med- ical Group/Westchester; Associate Clinical Professor, Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 17. Richard Nesto, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Lahey Health 18. Randy Oostra, DM, FACHE, President and Chief Executive Officer, ProMedica 19. Stephen Rosenthal, President and Chief Operating Officer, Monte- fiore Care Management 20. Michael T. Rowan, FACHE, President, Health System Delivery and Chief Operating Officer, Catholic Health Initiatives 21. omas Sadvary, Chief Executive Officer, HonorHealth 22. Lou Shapiro, President and Chief Executive Officer, Hospital for Special Surgery 23. Warner omas, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ochsner Health System 24. Rhoda Weiss, PhD, National Healthcare Consultant, Speaker, Edu- cator, Author, Managing Healthcare Reform: Ideas for Leaders Becker's Hospital Review 3rd Annual CIO/HIT + Revenue Cycle Conference (September 19-22 at the Hyatt Regency). We are thrilled to host keynote speaker George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States, along with close to 100+ hospital and health system CIOs and revenue cycle speakers. e conference will include three full CIO/ Health IT Tracks and three full Revenue Cycle Tracks. We hope you will join us. To learn more and register, please visit: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/conferences-and-events.html. Should you have any questions or if I can be of help in any manner, please do not hesitate to contact me at sbecker@beckershealthcare. com. I can also be reached at (800) 417-2035. Thank you, as always, for reading. Very truly yours, Scott Becker