How AI Governance and Use Cases Will Reshape Health Systems in 2026

Anthony J. Tortolani, MD, FACS, FACC, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeon and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College

Gena Lawday, RN, BSN, Chief Quality Officer at UVA Community Health

Andrew Tang, MD, Cardiac Surgeon at Medical City Heart & Spine Hospitals

Dr. Michael Redler, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Connecticut Orthopaedics

Tara Good-Young, MSHA, CASC, CEO, PDI Surgery Center

Mark Makhinson PharmD, Senior Director of Outpatient Pharmacy at Mount Sinai Health System

Ratnakar Lavu, Chief Digital Information Officer at Elevance Health

Healthcare Investing, AI Enablement, and Scaling Category Leaders with Saurabh Bhansali of Health Velocity Capital

Michael Verdon, DO, FACOS, Neurological Spine Surgeon at Transcendent Care, Inc.

Brenda Fernández, MBA, Chief Financial Officer, Puerto Rico ASC Holding

John Mallia, Interim CFO, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

Leading Academic Medicine and Public Health at the University of Iowa with Dr. Denise J. Jamieson

Nancy Beale PhD, RN, NI-BC, FAMIA, Chief Nursing Information Officer, VP of Clinical Informatics, Catholic Health

Patrick O'Shaughnessy, President and CEO, Catholic Health

Clinical AI Use Cases Shaping the Future of Healthcare

Payer Consolidation, AI Arms Races, and the Future of Prior Authorization with Jakob Emerson

Optimizing Long Acting Injectable HIV Care with Dr. Jackie Kissel and Dr. Alvin Choy

James Dover, President and CEO, Avera Health

How Health Systems Are Reshaping Clinical Decision-Making by Turning Molecular Data into Actionable Care