Faculty Speakers

Vineet Aurora, MD, MAPP

Vineet Arora, MD is an expert at using novel methods, such as video vignettes and social media to promote clinician awareness and behavior change. In 2012, she was selected as HealthLeaders Magazine's one of 20 people who make healthcare better.
Karyn Baum, MD

Karyn Baum is Professor of Medicine and Associate Chair for Clinical Improvement at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Baum specializes in quality improvement (QI) with a special interest in teamwork as a means to improve quality and safety and health care.
Shelly Dierking

Shelly Dierking is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Patient Safety Education Partnership. Shelly has more than 20 years of experience managing complex initiatives in healthcare quality improvement.
Rosemary Gibson, M., SC

Rosemary Gibson, M. Sc., is a national authority on the health care industry and patient safety. She is Senior Advisor at The Hastings Center, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics research institute based in the United States that is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment.
Carole Hemmelgarn, MS

Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, has worked in healthcare for 26 years. Her early years were spent in sales interacting with private practice providers and academic institutions with interns, residents, fellows, and attendings. Her past nine years consist of working with health plans, medical groups, and employers collaborating on quality improvement, disease management, and prevention programs for their patients and employees.
David Mayer, MD

David Mayer, MD, is Vice President of Quality and Safety for MedStar Health and is responsible for overseeing the infrastructure for clinical quality as well as designing and directing system-wide patient safety and risk reduction programs for MedStar and each of its entities.
Chris Moriates, MD

Chris Moriates is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). During residency training he co-designed and implemented a successful cost awareness curriculum for Internal Medicine residents, which has been highlighted in multiple publications including the New England Journal of Medicine.
Gregory S. Ogrinc, MD, MS

Greg Ogrinc is a general internist at the White River Junction VA hospital in White River Junction, VT. He is the Senior Scholar for the White River Junction VA Quality Scholars Fellowship, the Director of the Office of Health Systems and Clinical Improvement (OHSCI), and an Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine and of Medicine at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
James Pelegano, MD, MS

Dr. Pelegano has had a diverse care in health care beginning as a pediatrician in private practice and then in neonatology on the faculties of both the Medical College of Wisconsin and Columbia University in New York City.
Neel Shah, MD, MAPP

Dr. Shah is the founder and executive director of Costs of Care, and a Harvard-affiliated ob/gyn who delivers babies, provides primary care and performs surgery.
Amir Tibb, MD

Dr. Tibb is Board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care, Neurocritical Care and Palliative & Hospice Medicine. After pursuing a fellowship in medical simulation, Dr. Tibb held faculty position at the Institute of Medical Simulation and Learning. He has been faculty for several Critical Care Ultrasound courses over the last 4 years and has given grand rounds on integration of Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit nationally and internationally.
Jennifer Weiss, MPH

Jennifer Weiss is a public health consultant with over 15 years’ experience in health education, policy, grant writing and research. Prior to starting her consultancy practice, she served as policy director for the Medicare Rights Center, a national, nonprofit consumer services and advocacy organization, and was Health Literacy Coordinator for Literacy Partners, a New York City-based literacy organization.
Daniel Wolfson, MHSA

Daniel Wolfson is Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation. Previously, Mr. Wolfson served for nearly two decades as the founding president and CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans (formerly The HMO Group), the nation’s leading association of not-for-profit and provider-sponsored health plans.