Driving Innovation in Healthcare
David Feinberg, MD, Chairman of Oracle Health and Ed Levine, MD, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company will join us for a fireside chat to explore how organizations are driving innovation within the dynamic healthcare landscape. This forum will examine the multifaceted opportunities and challenges within the industry, and will address key questions such as: How can we foster innovation in a heavily regulated industry? What transformations can we expect in light of proposed changes to Medicare, Medicaid and NIH research funding? What successful M&A or strategic partnerships have proven synergistic and additive? What role does technology play in driving change and innovation in healthcare? And how is AI transforming healthcare practices and patient outcomes?
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Featured Speakers:
David Feinberg, MD, Chairman, Oracle Health
Ed Levine, MD, Senior Partner, Bay Area McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Jennifer Heenan, MPH, Partner, Spencer Stuart
Panelist: David Feinberg, MD, Chairman, Oracle Health
As Chairman of Oracle Health, David Feinberg, M.D., is committed to making healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable. His work advances thought leadership and strategy related to unleashing the healing power of data through an open and connected healthcare ecosystem. Previously, David served as president and CEO of Cerner, now Oracle Health, where he led teams delivering tools and technology to improve the patient and caregiver experience. As a pediatric psychiatrist, David built his early career around helping children and families. He served as president and CEO of both UCLA Health and Geisinger Health prior to assuming leadership of Google Health in early 2019. His work at UCLA provided David a clear view of how patient satisfaction translates to clinical success. His focus on the patient experience increased UCLA’s patient satisfaction scores from the 28th to the 99th percentile. At Geisinger, David led a complex turnaround that made Geisinger one of the nation’s most innovative healthcare providers, including a first-of-its kind clinical program that made DNA sequencing a routine part of patient care. David also guided Geisinger’s transition to value-based care using Cerner’s population health platform, HealtheIntent, integrated with a non-Cerner EMR. At Google, David leveraged Google’s technology, talent and search capabilities to tackle healthcare’s most important challenges. Under David’s leadership, Google was at the forefront of using Artificial Intelligence and mobile platforms to improve healthcare and – in partnership with Ascension Health – produced Care Studio, a tool that organizes patient records for healthcare clinicians at the point of care. David began his career at UCLA, researching and publishing in the areas of addiction and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He took on additional leadership responsibilities, including becoming the Medical Director of the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. By implementing rigorous service metrics and patient satisfaction measures and completing a financial turnaround, UCLA’s neuropsychiatric hospital is now considered the premier psychiatric hospital in the western United States. David earned his M.D. from Chicago Medical School in 1989, finishing at the top of his class and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He also holds an economics degree from the University of California-Berkeley and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Panelist: Ed Levine, MD, Senior Partner, Bay Area McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Ed Levine is a Senior Partner, Bay Area at McKinsey & Company. Ed leads McKinsey’s service to regional health systems, academic medical centers, and Children’s Hospitals. Ed has spent over 23 years working with the management teams of leading public and private-sector healthcare organizations, mainly focused on health system and physician/medical group strategy as well as cost and operations transformations. He is a leader in the firm’s knowledge development on payment innovation for providers and the implications of reform on health systems, physicians, and medical groups. He also plays a central role in health-system transformations, focusing on clinical operations, lean efficiency improvement, and total cost management. Ed has served numerous regional health systems on enterprise and local market strategy and approach to scale/M&A (including Board governance issues). He also served several top 20 AMCs on relationship issues between health system and school of medicine, including alignment of strategy, funds flows, financial planning and top 20 AMC to tackle acute care length of stay, resulting after a one-year transformation in over a day reduction on average, and the lowest recorded LOS over a multi-month period in over 10 years. He also has served numerous medical groups (some investor owned) on growth strategy and approach to risk-based reimbursement and its optimization. Ed obtained his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and his M.D. from the University of California San Diego. He was an Internal Medicine resident and Infectious Disease fellow at the University of California, San Francisco from 1997-2001. Ed was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellow at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda during his medical school training (1994-1995).
Panelist: Murali Gangadharan, Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Business Development, and Chief Strategy Officer
Murali Gangadharan is a business strategist with extensive global experience working on growth and innovation opportunities at the highest level. He has held key leadership roles at private and public‑sector healthcare organizations across the U.S., Greater China and Southeast Asia. Since joining Cedars-Sinai in 2018 as vice president of Strategy and Business Development, Murali has led numerous growth initiatives that have strengthened Cedars-Sinai and contributed significantly to the expansion of our clinical programs across our health system. He has also been instrumental in evaluating and establishing new business partnerships for Cedars-Sinai. Additionally, Murali has worked closely with the leadership of our affiliates, Torrance Memorial and Huntington Health, and our joint venture hospitals, Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center and California Rehabilitation Institute, to develop and expand clinical programs and coordinate various strategic initiatives. Murali is a highly effective leader, an advocate for growth and innovation, and has deep knowledge of healthcare and emerging external trends affecting healthcare industry constituents. In addition to his accomplishments, Murali has demonstrated an ability to work collegially across clinical, academic, research, hospital operations and Medical Network areas in support of Cedars-Sinai’s mission. As senior vice president and chief strategy officer, Murali is responsible for strategy, planning, and business development across Cedars-Sinai. In addition, he leads the development of a new consumer digital-innovation function to support the implementation and adoption of digital capabilities and the development of digital businesses in close partnership with EIS, the academic enterprise, hospital operations and the Medical Network. Before joining Cedars-Sinai, Murali served as the executive director for strategy at Cleveland Clinic, responsible for growth and mergers and acquisitions across northeast Ohio and Florida. Before that, Murali was a director in PwC’s global healthcare consulting practice for more than a decade, based in San Francisco, Singapore, and Shanghai. In this role, he worked globally with provider systems, payers and government entities on strategy, digital innovation, and merger and acquisition transactions.
Moderator: Jennifer Heenan, MPH, Partner, Spencer Stuart
Jennifer Heenan is a consultant in Spencer Stuart’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Healthcare Practice. She has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a leadership and strategy consultant. In her 11-plus years at Spencer Stuart, Jennifer has partnered with a broad range of healthcare organizations including health systems, integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, payors, physician groups and healthcare associations to recruit their senior most executive leaders. She is a recipient of the firm’s prestigious Lou Rieger Quality Award for high quality client service. Jennifer is a graduate of the UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, where she earned an MPH from the Department of Health Policy and Management. She also holds a B.A. in urban studies and planning from the University of California, San Diego. She is a member of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Board of Advisors, Partners in Care Foundation Board and UCLA Health Policy & Management Alumni Association Board.
