The Virtual 25th Population Health Colloquium Releases Its Agenda-at-a-Glance
  • Virtual Online Video Live and Archived
  • The Leading Forum on Innovations in Population Health & Care Coordination
  • Media Partners: Harvard Health Policy Review, Health Affairs, and Inside Health Policy
  • December 9-11, 2026
  • www.PopulationHealthColloquium.com
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COLLOQUIUM AGENDA-AT-A-GLANCE
(Current as of 8/6/26; Subject to Change and Regular Updates)
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2026

OPENING PLENARY SESSION
  • Keynote: The State of Population Health Management in 2026
  • Plenary: Cost Pressure, Accountability, and the Path Forward
  • Plenary Panel: Payers, Providers, Employers & Vendors: Aligning Incentives Across a Fragmented System
  • Plenary: The Accountability Era of Value-Based Care: What TEAM,
    ASM, ACCESS & LEAD Models Mean for Risk-Bearing Organizations
  • Plenary: Building the Business Case for Population Health: Total Cost of Care, Risk Stratification & ROI
  • Plenary: Best Practices for Managing High-Risk Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions
  • Plenary: Pharmacy & Specialty Drug Cost Pressures: Integrating Medical-Pharmacy Strategies for Population Health
  • Plenary Panel: The GLP-1 & Specialty Drug Era: Managing Utilization, Cost & Outcomes at Scale+A27:A36
DAY 2: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2026

MORNING PLENARY SESSION
  • Plenary Introduction: Value-based Care in Action
  • Plenary: AI & Agentic Technology in Population Health: Governance, Adoption & Measurable Impact
  • Plenary: Interoperability, Data Sharing & the Digital Health Record Ecosystem
TRACK SESSIONS
  • TRACK A: Medicare Advantage Reset: Margin Discipline, SNP Expansion & Enrollment Strategy
  • TRACK A: Medicare Advantage Reset: Star Ratings & Quality Measure Optimization
  • TRACK B: Scaling Accountable Care: Network Design, Specialist Engagement & Downside Risk Readiness
  • TRACK B: Specialist Accountability Under TEAM & ASM Models
  • TRACK C: The 2026 Benefits Playbook: Flexible Design, Point-Solution Consolidation & Vendor Vetting
  • TRACK C: Point-of-Care Transparency & Digital Navigation Tools
  • TRACK D: Go-to-Market Strategy for Population Health Technology in an Accountability-Driven Market
  • TRACK D: Developments of Clinical Outcomes/Improvement
AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION
  • Plenary Panel: Talent, Workforce & Benefits as a Retention Strategy in Population Health
  • Plenary: Care Coordination Models That Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations & ED Utilization
  • Plenary: Strategies to Improve Patient & Physician Engagement in Managing Population Health
  • Plenary Panel: Cross-Industry Collaboration on Cost Containment: Payers, Providers & Employers at the Table Together
  • Plenary: Longevity Medicine & Precision, Proactive Care: Redefining "Effective Care" for Population Health
DAY 3: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2026

OPENING PLENARY SESSION
  • Plenary Policy Outlook: CMMI's Model Portfolio, OBBBA Impacts & What Regulatory Shifts Mean for 2027 Planning
  • Plenary Measuring What Matters: Quality, Performance & Outcomes Reporting Across Payer and Provider Models
  • Plenary: Automating Population Health Management: AI-Driven Risk Prediction & Care Management at Scale
  • Plenary Closing Keynote (Industry-Wide): The Road Ahead for Population Health Management: From Volume to Value, From Reactive to Proactive

COLLOQUIUM CHAIR COLLOQUIUM CO CHAIR

David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Founding Dean Emeritus (Retired), Jefferson College of Population Health

Josh M. Berlin, JD
Chief Executive Officer, rule of three, LLC; Editorial Board, Population Health Management Journal

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WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTH CARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE -- AUGUST 11, 2026: The Virtual 25th Silver Anniversary Population Health Colloquium, www.PopulationHealthColloquium.com, will be held on December 9-11, 2026 as a purely virtual online event broadcast live and will remain available in video archive for 9 months.

FEATURED FACULTY

Susan Dentzer, MS
President and Chief Executive Officer, America's Physician Groups; Former Editor in Chief, Health Affairs; Former Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour

David Gorstein, MD
Partner & Director, Practice Leader Population Health, DRI Healthcare Technology

Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA
President and CEO, SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Omar Lateef, DO
President and CEO, Rush University System for Health and Rush University Medical Center

Richard Merkin, MD
Board, Cal Tech & USC Keck School of Medicine; Founder Merkin Foundation for Stem Cell Research, Broad Institute, Harvard and MIT

Billy H. Oglesby, PhD, MBA, MSPH
Associate Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Humana Dean, Jefferson College of Population Health, Thomas Jefferson University

Arshad K Rahim, MD, MBA, FACP
Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President, Population Health and Clinically Integrated Network, Mount Sinai Health System

Christopher Stanley, MD, MBA
President, Populance, Henry Ford Health; Former Chief Population Health Officer, Sutter; VP, Population Health, Catholic Health Initiatives

Ana Stearns, MD
Senior Director Population Health & Provider Relations, Brook Health; Founder and CEO, Transformational Intelligence

Robert M. Wachter, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine, UCSF; Author, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future

JOIN A WIDE VARIETY OF ATTENDEES

THE COLLOQUIUM HAS FEATURED 24 YEARS OF POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP EXPERTISE
(Keynote speakers listed with positions as of the date of their presentation.)

2000 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Leland R. Kaiser, PhD

Healthcare Futurist; President, Kaiser & Associates

2001 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH

Chief Physician, William M. Mercer, Inc.; Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health

2002 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Molly Joel Coye, MD

Founder and President, Health Technology Center; Former Director, CA Dept of Health Services; Former New Jersey Commissioner of Health

2003 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Samuel R. Nussbaum, MD

Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield

2004 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Carolyn M. Clancy, MD

Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

2005 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Paul Wallace, MD

Executive Director, Care Management Institute, Kaiser Permanente
INDIVIDUAL & GROUP REGISTRATION
Register by Sep. 11
for Early Bird Rate
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CALL FOR PRESENTATION PROPOSALS
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EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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TUITION SCHOLARSHIPS
The Colloquium is now offering a limited number of partial and full Tuition Scholarships to qualifying representatives of government, consumer advocate organizations, academics, students, representatives of health services research organizations, and those in employment transition.

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THE DIRECT PREDECESSOR TO THE POPULATION HEALTH COLLOQUIUM WAS HELD IN 2000
FROM 2001 TO 2010 THE EVENT BECAME THE DISEASE MANAGEMENT COLLOQUIUM

FINALLY, IN 2011 THE EVENT WAS RENAMED THE POPULATION HEALTH COLLOQUIUM


2006 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Al Lewis

President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International; Past President, Disease Management Association of America

2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jeffrey Brenner, MD

Founder, Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers; Clinical Instructor, Department of Family Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Camden

2008 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD

EVP for Programs, The Commonwealth Fund, President, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England

2009 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Andrew Webber

President and Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health

2010 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Sean Sullivan

President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Health and Productivity Management

2011 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Nancy L. Snyderman, MD

Chief Medical Editor, NBC News; Author, Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health for Women Over Forty

2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Michael B. McCallister

President and Chief Executive Officer, Humana, Inc.

2013 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Paul Grundy, MD, MPH

President, Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative; Global Director of Healthcare Transformation, IBM

2014 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Bruce D. Broussard, MBA

President and Chief Executive Officer, Humana, Inc.

2015 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Jeff Arnold

Chair & CEO, Sharecare; Former Founder & CEO, WebMD

2016 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Peter R. Orszag, PhD

Vice Chair, Citigroup; Former Director, OMB; Former Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers

2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Michael J. Dowling

CEO & President, Northwell Health; Former SVP, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Former Director, New York State Department of Health

2018 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mark D. Smith, MD

Clinical Faculty, University of California, San Francisco; Attending Physician, Positive Health Program for AIDS Care, San Francisco General Hospital

2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH

Professor of Population Health, Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin; Former National Coordinator for HIT

2020 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Robert M. Wachter, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, UCSF; Author, Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes

2021 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania; Special Health Policy Advisor, OMB

2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc

CEO, Care Solutions, Optum, UnitedHealth Group; Former CMO, Deputy Administrator & Director, CMMI, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

2023 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President, Humana

2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Arshad K Rahim, MD

Chief Medical Officer & SVP, Population Health, Mount Sinai Health System and Mount Sinai Clinically integrated Network

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