California Summit Speakers


Anshu Abhat MD, MPH
Director of Patient Engagement, Office of Patient Access
Department of Health Services, Los Angeles County

Ursula Baffigo MD, MPH
IPA Medical Director and Regional Medical Director
AltaMed Health Services

Kamar Braish MS, RHIA
HIM Director
CHOC

Adam Cherrington
VP Digital Health
KLAS

Don Crane
CEO
America’s Physician Groups

Alan Dubovsky
Vice President and Chief Patient Experience Officer
Cedars-Sinai

Theresa Dudley
Lead, Healthcare Programs
Spectrum Enterprise

Darren Dworkin
Senior Vice President of Enterprise Information Services and Chief Information Officer
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Mark Hagland
Editor-in-Chief
Healthcare Innovation

Brenda Hopkins
Chief Healthcare Information Officer
j2 Cloud Services

Stuart Karten
President/Founder
Karten Design

Omkar Kulkarni MPH
Chief Innovation Officer
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Sean Lane
Chief Executive Officer
Olive

Diana McWaid MS, Med, RHIA, CDIP, CCS, CRC
Assistant Director, Education and Training
Kaiser Permanente

Melany Merryman RHIA, BA, MSL
Director, Health Information Management & Clinical Documentation Improvement Departments
Torance Memorial Medical Center

Matthew Pirritano
Director, Population Health Informatics
L.A. Care Health Plan

Linda Rader RHIT
Operations Manager, Health Information Management
Children’s Hospital of Orange County

Sarah Richardson
Vice President, IT Change Management
OptumCare

Ryan Sheldon
Senior Systems Engineer, Healthcare
Nutanix

Adam Soloman MD, MMM, FACP
Chief Medical Officer
MemorialCare Medical Foundation

Esther Tolentino RHIT, CPHI, CHTS-IS, CHTS-PW
Director Health Information – Technology
Adventist Health

Claudia Williams
Chief Executive Officer
Manifest MedEx