Health Ecosystem Leadership Model (HELM™) Podcast Series

Rick Pollack is President and CEO of the American Hospital Association, elected in May 2015, having served the organization for more than three decades. The AHA represents more than 5,000 hospitals and 43,000 members nationwide—and works to ensure that the perspective and needs of healthcare providers are heard and addressed in national health policy development. […]

Dr. David Shulkin was Ninth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 2017 to 2018 under President Trump and is the author of the new book “It Shouldn’t be This Hard to Serve Your Country” which was released October 22nd, 2019. He was the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 2015 until 2017, […]

Dr. Samitt is the President & CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN and its parent company, Stella. He came to Blue Cross in July 2018 from Anthem, Inc., where he served as EVP and President of Anthem’s Diversified Business Group, and as Chief Clinical Officer. Dr. Samitt has led sequential health systems transformations, […]

Nancy Howell Agee is President and CEO of Virginia-based Carilion Clinic, an integrated health system which serves more than 1 million. Carilion Clinic includes seven hospitals which employs over 800 providers. Prior to becoming CEO in 2011, Ms. Agee service as EVP and COO. During her time as COO, she co-led Carilion’s reorganization from a […]

Laura Landy is President and CEO of the Rippel Foundation and has guided the creation of ReThink Health and FORESIGHT: Designing the Future for Health, the Foundation’s two flagship initiatives. Rippel seeds innovations in health by working with national and regional leaders to better see and execute systemic approaches that can transform our current system […]

Robert Allen leads the transition to value‐based care, consistent with Intermountain’s mission of helping people live their healthiest lives possible. As SVP and COO, he currently leads teams of key leaders focused on healthcare delivery across the Intermountain Healthcare System. He is an accomplished healthcare executive with experience in Outreach, TeleHealth, Life Flight, Homecare, Clinical […]

Lauren Steingold is the Head of Strategy for Uber Health at Uber – driving the company’s global efforts in the health space. She spearheaded the launch of Uber Health, Uber’s HIPAA compliant product that enables healthcare organizations to request or schedule rides of behalf of patients. For her work on this launch, Lauren was named […]

Nicolette is the lead for the Global Center of Excellence for Leadership and Executive Development for Sanofi Pharmaceuticals. She is responsible for leading a global team of 45 + resources to drive strategic initiatives for building leadership and managerial competency across the organization. Nicolette received her BA in government from Lehigh University, an MA in […]

Rod Hochman, M.D., is the president and CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health, a faith-based not-for-profit health and social services system comprised of over 111,000 caregivers serving patients and communities in 50 hospitals, 829 clinics and hundreds of programs and services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. Rod has been selected multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and 50 Most Influential Physician Executives by Modern Healthcare. He is a board member for the American Hospital Association (AHA), chair of AHA's Regional Policy Board 9 and vice chair of the board of trustees for the Catholic Health Association. Rod served as a clinical fellow in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology.

Dr. Stanton's career has focused on bringing the healing and compassion of healthcare to the world's most vulnerable and improving health outcomes for all regardless of race, ethnicity, socio-economic status or geographic location. She has consulted for numerous national and international agencies including the World Health Organization, the World Bank, UNICEF, Elsevier and USAID.