An Invitation from David B. Nash, MD, MBA, Founding Dean Emeritus, Jefferson College of Population Health, for You to Attend the Virtual 25th Silver Anniversary Population Health Colloquium
  • EARLY BIRD REG RATE ENDS OCT. 23
  • 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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CHAIR'S VIDEO INVITATION TO ATTEND


A message from Colloquium Chair David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Founding Dean Emeritus (Retired), Jefferson College of Population Health

INDIVIDUAL & GROUP REGISTRATION
Register by Oct. 23 for Early Bird Rate
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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

COLLOQUIUM AGENDA-AT-A-GLANCE
(Current as of 10/13/2026; Subject to Change and Regular Updates)
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2026
  • Opening Keynote: The State of Population Health Management — Cost Pressure, Accountability, and the Path Forward
  • Opening Fireside Chat: The Future of Population Health — A Conversation with James Merlino, MD
  • Plenary Panel: Payers, Providers, Employers & Vendors: Aligning Incentives Across a Fragmented System
  • Plenary Panel: The Accountability Era of Value-Based Care: What TEAM, ASM, ACCESS & LEAD Models Mean for Risk-Bearing Organizations
  • Fireside Chat: Building the Business Case for Population Health: Total Cost of Care, Risk Stratification & ROI
  • Fireside Chat: Pharmacy & Specialty Drug Cost Pressures: Integrating Medical-Pharmacy Strategies for Population Health
  • Plenary Panel: AI & Agentic Technology in Population Health
  • Fireside Chat: Health Equity and Social Drivers of Health — Closing Gaps in Access and Outcomes
  • Fireside Chat: Whole Person Care and Behavioral Health
  • Fireside Chat: What we Need to Think About When We Think About Health
  • Day 1 Closing Commentary: Intersection of Population Health and Policy
DAY 2: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2026
  • Opening Introduction: Value-based Care in Action
  • Plenary Panel: AI & The Great Leap in Healthcare
  • Plenary Panel: Strategic Specialty Contracting in Clinically Integrated Networks
  • Plenary Panel: The Business Model of Population Health
  • Plenary Panel: ACCESS Granted: What Follows?
  • Fireside Chat: Improving Condition Management Across Systems, Providers and Patients: CKD
  • Fireside Chat/Panel: Preparing the Population Health Workforce for AI
  • Fireside Chat: Innovations to Improve Outcomes
  • Plenary Panel: Recruiting and Retaining a Quality Workforce
  • Plenary Panel: Care Coordination Models That Reduce Preventable Hospitalizations & ED Utilization
  • Fireside Chat: Integrated Virtual Care: A Collaborative Data-Informed Approach
  • Plenary Panel: Longevity Medicine & Precision, Proactive Care: Redefining “Effective Care” for an Aging Population
DAY 3: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2026
  • Opening Keynote: Cracking the Code of the Healthcare Affordability Crisis
  • Plenary Policy Outlook: Advancing Affordability and Population Health in a Time of Transition
  • Fireside Chat: Measuring What Matters: Quality, Performance & Outcomes Reporting Across Payer and Provider Models
  • Plenary Panel: Automating Population Health Management: AI-Driven Risk Prediction & Care Management at Scale
  • Plenary Panel: Lessons from the Field — Case Studies in Successful Population Health Programs
  • Closing Keynote (Industry-Wide): The Road Ahead for Population Health Management

WASHINGTON DC USA -- HEALTH CARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE -- OCTOBER 13, 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

David A. Ansell, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President for Community Health Equity, Rush University System for Health

Bruce Broussard, MBA
Interim Chief Executive Officer, HP; Former Chief Executive Officer, Humana

Emily (DuHamel) Brower, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of ACOs

Brian Clark, MBA
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Beacon Light

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

Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA
Founder & CEO, Guidehealth; Former Senior Advisor, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

JJ Farook
Founder, Chairman and CEO, InfoMC

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Dean & Kahn Distinguished Professor in Public Health, Bursky School of Public Health, Washington University

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

Lee Handke, MBA, PharmD
Chief Executive Officer, Nebraska Health Network

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

Donald Lawrence, MHCM
Chief Operating Officer — Ochsner Health Plan

Keith Leaphart, DO, MBA
Humana Chief Health Equity & Community Impact Officer, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Health & Jefferson Health Plans

Charlie Lougheed
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Axuall

Barbara L. McAneny, MD
Chief Executive Office, New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants; Former AMA President

Dana McCalley, MBA
Vice President of Value Based Care, Navina Health

Stephanie Mercado, CAE, CPHQ
Chief Executive Officer, National Association for Healthcare Quality

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

James Merlino, MD
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Executive Officer Designee, Joint Commission

Christopher Metz
Chief Executive Office and Co-Founder, Zoadigm LLC

Jeremy Moskow, MSW
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Coral Connect

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

Rahul Rajkumar, JD, MD
Founder and CEO, Accompany Health; Former Deputy Director, CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

Emad Rizk, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Premier, Inc; Former President and CEO, Cotiviti

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

Yuri Sudhakar, MA
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Nudj Health

Abe Sutton, JD (Invited)
Director, CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; Former Policy Advisor, Domestic Policy Council, The White House (Trump)

Ken Terry, MA
Veteran Health Care Journalist and Author; Author, Beyond Medicare For All: Cracking The Code of The Healthcare Affordability Crisis

Joseph Vattamattam, MBA
Co-Founder & President, Healthmap Solutions

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

Kurt J. Wrobel, FSA, MAAA
Former President, Geisinger Health Plan and Executive Vice President of Insurance Operations, Geisinger

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

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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THE DIRECT PREDECESSOR TO THE POPULATION HEALTH COLLOQUIUM WAS HELD IN 2000


FROM 2001 TO 2010 THE EVENT BECAME THE DISEASE MANAGEMENT COLLOQUIUM

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