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AUPHA is pleased to announce the panelists for the 2024 Pre-Conference Keynote Session. This keynote will be held virtually on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, from 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. ET, and will include Lisa Mallory, PhD, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Health Services Executives, Gayle Capozzalo, FACHE, Executive Director, The Equity Collaborative, Carol Emmott Foundation, Teri Fontenot, Board of Directors - AMN Healthcare Services and Amerisafe, Fawn Lopez, Publisher Emeritus of Modern Healthcare, and Ruth E. Williams-Brinkley, FACHE, President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc. Click on the panelists below to learn more about each one. 

We are grateful to the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE) for sponsoring this pre-conference event.

Sue Lehrman, MPH, PhD
Professor of Entrepreneurship, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Rowan University
Glassboro, New Jersey
 

AUPHA is pleased to announce that Sue Lehrman, MPH, PhD, will be the 2024 AUPHA Annual Meeting's Andrew Pattullo Lecturer. Dr. Lehrman is a Professor of Entrepreneurship, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey. The Andrew Pattullo Lecture officially opens the Annual Meeting, and will be held on Tuesday, June 4^th, 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time.  A lunch for all registrants will be held at 12:00Noon, immediately before the lecture.
 
Dr. Sue Lehrman has spent 25 years in higher education leadership roles, including serving as the founding president of Union Graduate College (now part of Clarkson University), where she oversaw a CAHME-accredited healthcare MBA program. She has also served as founding dean of the School of Business at Providence College, dean of the School of Business at Philadelphia University (now Jefferson University) and, between 2015 and 2023, dean of the Rohrer College of Business at Rowan University, an institution recognized nationally for its focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. 
 
Dr. Lehrman worked with key stakeholders in these positions to develop organizational resilience and formulate bold, transformational visions and strategies that address academia's rapidly growing challenges. Currently, Dr. Lehrman is on a year's sabbatical as a professor of entrepreneurship at Rowan. Her post-sabbatical plans focus on consulting with academic schools and programs interested in better positioning themselves to address these challenges.
 
Before her academic career, Dr. Lehrman was employed within what was then known as Daughters of Charity National Health System, where she served in various managerial positions.

Traci d’Auguste, MBA, MSHA
Chief Operating Officer
UF Health Shands Hospital

 

Mark G. Moseley, MD, MHA

President
USF Tampa General Physicians

Executive Vice-President
Tampa General Hospital

Vice-Dean for Clinical Affairs
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine

 
David Cutler has developed an impressive record of achievement in both academia and the public sector. He served as Assistant Professor of Economics from 1991 to 1995, was named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences in 1995, and received tenure in 1997. He is currently the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics and was named Harvard College Professor in 2014 until 2019.  Professor Cutler holds secondary appointments at the Kennedy School of Government and the School of Public Health.  Professor Cutler was associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences from 2003-2008.

Honored for his scholarly work and singled out for outstanding mentorship of graduate students, Professor Cutler's work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. Professor Cutler served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton Administration and has advised the Presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley, John Kerry, and Barack Obama as well as being Senior Health Care Advisor for the Obama Presidential Campaign. Among other affiliations, Professor Cutler has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.  He advises many companies and groups on health care.

Professor Cutler was a key advisor in the formulation of the recent cost control legislation in Massachusetts, and is one of the members of the Health Policy Commission created to help reduce medical spending in that state.

Professor Cutler is author of three books, several chapters in edited books, and many published papers on the topics of health care and other public policy topics.   Author of Your Money Or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System, published by Oxford University Press, this book, and Professor Cutler's ideas, were the subject of a feature article in the New York Times Magazine, The Quality Cure, by Roger Lowenstein. Cutler recently completed a book, Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation (with Edward Glaeser), examining how cities need to and can adapt to pandemics and other threats. 

Professor Cutler received an AB from Harvard University (1987) and a PhD in Economics from MIT (1991).

Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is President & CEO of AcademyHealth. A nationally recognized thought leader, science communicator, pediatrician, and health services researcher, he is a passionate advocate for the creation and use of evidence to improve health and healthcare for all. 
 
Before joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Carroll was a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Chief Health Officer at Indiana University, where he also served as Associate Dean for Research Mentoring and as the director of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Comparative Effectiveness Research at Indiana University School of Medicine. He earned a BA in chemistry from Amherst College, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and an MS in health services from the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
 
Dr. Carroll’s research focused on the study of information technology to improve pediatric care, decision analysis, and areas of health policy including cost-effectiveness of care and health care financing reform. He is the author of The Bad Food Bible and the co-author of three additional books on medical myths. In addition to having been a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Atlantic, he has written for many other major media outlets and is co-Editor-in-Chief at The Incidental Economist, an evidence-based health policy blog. He also has a popular YouTube channel and podcast called Healthcare Triage, where he talks about health research and health policy.