Keynote Speakers

 
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PRE-CONFERENCE KEYNOTE
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
(2:00 - 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time) 
  
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Executive Director
American Public Health Association 
 
 

AUPHA is pleased to announce that Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), will be the pre-conference keynote speaker for the 2022 Annual Meeting. Dr. Benjamin will speak on Wednesday, May 25, 2022,  2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time, over Zoom. 

Dr. Benjamin’s presentation will focus on the need to further blur the boundaries of health services delivery and public/population health to integrate for whole health, primary care, prevention, and wellness.


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Sponsored by the National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE)
 



PATTULLO LECTURE
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
(1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Mountain Time) 
 
  
 Bryan Brayboy, PhD
President's Professor and Borderlands Professor
of Indigenous Education and Justice
School of Social Transformation
Arizona State University
 
 

AUPHA is pleased to announce that Bryan Brayboy, PhD, will be the Pattullo Lecture during the 2022 AUPHA Annual Meeting on Tuesday, June 7th, 1:00 – 2:15 PM Mountain time. Dr. Brayboy is President’s Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. At ASU, senior advisor to the president, director of the Center for Indian Education, and co-editor of the Journal of American Indian Education. Learn more about his background here.
 



WEDNESDAY KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
(8:00 - 9:15 a.m. Mountain Time) 
 
  
 Michael Good, MD
CEO, University of Utah Health
Dean, University of Utah School of Medicine
Senior Vice President of Health Sciences
 
 
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Sponsored by AcademyHealth
 
 
AUPHA is pleased to announce that Michael Good, MD, will be the Wednesday Keynote during the 2022 AUPHA Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 8th, 8:00 – 9:15 AM Mountain time. Dr. Good is the CEO of University of Utah Health, the Dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine, and the Senior Vice President of Health Sciences. In these positions, Dr. Good works to assure the professional and educational success of more than 20,000 talented faculty, staff and students who make University of Utah Health (U of U Health) one of the nation’s premier centers of academic health sciences. 

Prior to coming to University of Utah, Dr. Good served as dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, where he maintained a strong focus on teams, faculty, and students. A professor of anesthesiology, Dr. Good is also a noted inventor. Early in his academic career, he led a team of UF physicians and engineers to create the Human Patient Simulator, a sophisticated computerized teaching tool that is now used in health-care education programs throughout the world. Learn more about his background here.



AUPHA FORUM
Thursday, June 9, 2022
(3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time) 
 
  
 Lisa Simpson, MB, B.Ch, MPH, FAAP
President and Chief Executive Officer
AcademyHealth
 
  


Sponsored by the David A. Winston Fellowship


AUPHA is pleaded to announce that Lisa Simpson, MB, B.Ch, MPH, FAAP, will be the AUPHA Forum speaker during the 2022 AUPHA Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 9th, 3:15 – 4:30 AM Mountain time. Dr. Simpson has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of AcademyHealth since 2011. A nationally recognized health policy researcher and pediatrician, she is a passionate advocate for the translation of research into policy and practice. Her research, and over 100 articles and commentaries in peer reviewed journals, focuses on the role of evidence and data to improve health and health care, particularly for children and vulnerable populations.


Before joining AcademyHealth, Dr. Simpson spent eight years as a professor of pediatrics, first as an Endowed Chair in Child Health Policy at the University of South Florida and then as the Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. In addition, she served as the Deputy Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1996 to 2002. Learn more about her background here.