Data | Policy | Action
AcademyHealth once again hosted Health Datapalooza as a standalone conference in 2023. Unique among other data or health policy offerings, this event embodied the ethos of Datapalooza’s beginnings with a renewed focus on the partnership between the public and private sectors to collaborate, innovate, and disrupt the industry.
Attendees gathered on February 23-24, 2023 in Arlington, VA for one of AcademyHealth's most exciting meetings. Great minds across multiple sectors learned from each other to leverage data and policy for action that transforms health and health care.
This meeting was a vaccine-required event.
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Congratulations to all patient scholarship and complimentary registration recipients for the 2023 Health Datapalooza!
Dr. Allison Arwady, M.D., M.P.H., is the Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), charg... Read Bio
Anita Bajaj, M.D., M.P.H., is a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist who has been working as a Medical Off... Read Bio
Jonathan (Jon) Blum currently serves as the Principal Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer at the ... Read Bio
Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble (known as Dr. Alfiee) is a globally recognized authority and thought leader on mental... Read Bio
Dr. Robert M. Califf was confirmed earlier this year as the 25th Commissioner of Food and Drugs. Read Bio
Stacie Carney, M.D., is the Chief Medical Information Officer at OCHIN. Read Bio
Ashok Chennuru serves as chief data and analytics officer for Elevance, leading enterprise data management, cl... Read Bio
Aneesh Chopra is the President of CareJourney, an open data intelligence service launched by Hunch Analytics, ... Read Bio
Dr. Nathan T. Chomilo is Medical Director for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid & MinnesotaCare programs and p... Read Bio
Dr. Bechara Choucair is the senior vice president and chief health officer for Kaiser Permanente, one of Ameri... Read Bio
Patrick Conway, M.D., M.Sc., joined Optum in February 2020 and serves as the CEO of Care Solutions at Optum, p... Read Bio
Upon recognizing significant unmet needs and challenges in patients' experiences throughout their cancer diagn... Read Bio
Mr. Michael Crawford, MBA, MHL, is the AVP for Strategy and Innovation at Howard University’s Office of Health... Read Bio
Karen M. Dale is the Market President for AmeriHealth Caritas’ Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) in Was... Read Bio
Andrew Dreyfus is a health care executive and expert in health care system change. Read Bio
Dr. Shereef Elnahal is Under Secretary for Health at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Read Bio
Dr. Kristen Honey is the Chief Data Scientist and the Executive Director of the HHS “InnovationX” team (former... Read Bio
Samir has 25 years of experience in senior roles in government, private practice, and civil society working at... Read Bio
Maneesh Juneja is a Digital Health Futurist who explores the convergence of emerging technologies to see how t... Read Bio
Stephen Konya serves as the Senior Advisor to the Deputy National Coordinator, and Innovation Portfolio Lead f... Read Bio
John R. Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H. has been President of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundatio... Read Bio
Deven McGraw is the lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae, a clinical genetic medicine company. Read Bio
Mr. Meroney currently oversees the work of the International Trade Administration’s Manufacturing unit, a grou... Read Bio
Dr. Herminia Palacio is a public health emergency management expert with more than 30 years of experience acro... Read Bio
Ninez A. Ponce, Ph.D. (B.S. UC Berkeley; M.P.P. Harvard; Ph.D. UCLA), is Professor and Endowed Chair in the UC... Read Bio
Dr. Powell is a tenured professor, nationally recognized expert and thought leader on racial trauma, healing, ... Read Bio
René Quashie is the first-ever Vice President of Policy & Regulatory Affairs of Digital Health at the Consumer... Read Bio
Kimberly is a survivor of ovarian cancer and early stage, triple positive breast cancer. Read Bio
Dr. Jacqueline Shreibati, M.D., M.S., FACC, is a senior clinical lead at Google. Read Bio
Rasu B. Shrestha, M.D., M.B.A., is Enterprise Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation and Commercializatio... Read Bio
Darius Tahir is a tech correspondent for Kaiser Health News who reports on health technology. Read Bio
Micky Tripathi is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health ... Read Bio
Reed V. Tuckson, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections. Read Bio
Michael Y. Uohara, M.D. is the current Chief Medical Officer of Microsoft Federal at the Microsoft Corporation... Read Bio
Senator Warner was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2008 and reelected to a third term in November 2020. Read Bio
Dr. Renee Wegrzyn serves as the first director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), a... Read Bio
Michael Wilkening served as Senior Advisor for Delivery at the US Department of Health & Human Services and th... Read Bio
| Ritu Agarwal Johns Hopkins Carey Business School |
Rebecca Lebeau Rhode Island EOHHS |
| Emily Berkowitz AISP, University of Pennsylvania |
Staci Lofton Families USA |
| Paul Bonta Safe States Alliance |
Andrew Mahler CynergisTek |
| Julie Brown-Georgi Digital Health Policy Strategies |
Anna McCollister Invitae |
| Zahid Butt Medisolv |
Katie McCurdy Pictal Health |
| Ashok Chennuru Elevance Health |
LaShawn McIver Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health |
| Aneesh Chopra CareJourney |
Kelsey McNamara Papa Inc. |
| Kaitlyn Christian Indiana Management Performance Hub |
David Muhlestein Leavitt Partners |
| Mandy Cohen Aledade, Inc. |
Nishi Rawat Bamboo Health |
| Janet Comrey Geisinger |
Rahul Rekhi Lazard |
| Isabelle Creavin Fair Health, Inc. |
Lauren Rhue University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business |
| Kenyon Crowley Accenture Federal Services |
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings Global Policy Solutions |
| Jean Drouin Clarify Health |
John Roman NORC at the University of Chicago |
| Katherine Feldman Maryland Department of Health |
Don Rucker 1upHealth |
| Lee Fleisher Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Clinical Standards & Quality (CCSQ) |
Ricky Sahu 1upHealth |
| Rebecca Flournoy Kaiser Permanente |
Lucia Savage Omada Health |
| Edward Garcia, III Foundation for Social Connection |
Eric Schneider The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) |
| Amit Garg HiLabs |
Greg Singleton HHS/OS/OCIO/IO, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| Travis Hoppe National Center for Health Statistics, CDC |
Jessie Tenenbaum North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
| Nick Ipiotis U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Naveen Valluri Microsoft |
| Ali Khan Oak Street Health |
Lina Walker AARP Public Policy Institute |
| Craig Kurtzweil UnitedHealthcare |
Hayley Young North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services |
| Category | Early by December 15 |
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Onsite by February 23-24 |
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| AcademyHealth Member/ Organizational Member | $895 | $995 | $1,045 |
| Non-Member | $1,195 | $1,295 | $1,345 |
| Federal Government - Member | $895 | $995 | $1,045 |
| Federal Government - Non-Member | $895 | $995 | $1,045 |
| AH Student Member | $395 | $495 | $545 |
| Developer | $595 | ||
| Patient | $595 | ||
| Speaker | $550 | ||
| Group Rate (5+) | $945 | $1,045 | $1,095 |
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Media Partner
The 2023 Health Datapalooza was supported by a group of social media ambassadors representing a variety of perspectives from across the health data ecosystem. Ambassadors helped spread the word about the conference ensuring awareness among a broad cross-section of networks. They also provided important social media coverage of the event in real-time.
Meet this the 2023 social media ambassadors below and be sure to follow them on social media! Join the conversation on social media by following @AcademyHealth, @hdpalooza on Twitter, and our LinkedIn page. Don’t forget to use our conference hashtag #hdpalooza!
Niall Brennan is the Senior Advisor for Data Strategy to the CDC Director. Read Bio
Andrea Downing is a BRCA Community Data Organizer and an ePatient security researcher. Read Bio
Susannah Fox is the principal of Internet Geologist, LLC, a health and technology consultancy. She is a social... Read Bio
Erin Moore, B.S., started her work in patient advocacy through a partnership with Cincinnati Children’s Hospit... Read Bio
Lygeia is the Founder and CEO of AdaRose, Inc., a company that provides corporate gifts and virtual experience... Read Bio
Lucia Savage is a nationally-recognized thought leader on using HIPAA to advance digital health while protecti... Read Bio
Rasu B. Shrestha, M.D., M.B.A., is Enterprise Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation and Commercializatio... Read Bio
Fred Trotter is a healthcare data journalist and author. He is a founder of CareSet Systems and The DocGraph J... Read Bio
Ambassadors are invited by conference organizers based on their activity, reach, and reputation on social media. Similar to members of the media, ambassadors receive complimentary registration to the conference.