Keynote Speakers

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 Pre-Conference Keynote 


Announcing the 2025 Annual Meeting

Pre-Conference Keynote Speaker


JOSEPH R. BETANCOURT, MD, MPH
President, The Commonwealth Fund

 

Save the date! AUPHA is pleased to announce Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH, as the 2025 Annual Meeting Pre-Conference Keynote Speaker. This keynote will be held virtually over Zoom on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 2:00 – 3:00PM Eastern time. Betancourt is the president of the Commonwealth Fund. One of the nation’s preeminent leaders in healthcare policy, equity, quality, and community health, Betancourt formerly served as the senior vice president for Equity and Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and as founding director of the Disparities Solutions Center. He has devoted his career to improving the quality and value of healthcare for diverse populations.

Betancourt is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a board-certified internist, providing primary care to a large Spanish-speaking and minority patient panel. He earned his MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and completed an internal medicine residency at New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center. Following his residency, he was a member of one of the first classes in the Commonwealth Fund–Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy, where he earned an MPH in health policy and management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

A special thank you to the National Association of Health Services Executives (N.A.H.S.E.) for sponsoring this pre-conference event.

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Keynote Speaker


ERIC L. CONLEY, MHA
Executive Vice President and President,
Acute & Post-Acute Care

Sentara Health

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2025
8:00 – 9:15AM


 

Eric Conley is Executive Vice President and President, Acute & Post-Acute Care for Sentara Health. Eric began his tenure at Sentara in April 2024. Conley oversees Sentara Health’s 12 hospitals in VA and NC, system-wide Pharmacy, and Sentara Enterprises which encompasses Inpatient Rehab, Home Health, and Hospice. 

Prior Experience

Eric brings 30 years of healthcare leadership and expertise to Sentara. As President of the South Region of Froedtert ThedaCare Health and President of Froedtert Hospital, he led the largest hospital in the state of Wisconsin, a Level I Trauma Center and the primary teaching hospital of the Medical College of Wisconsin. Conley was also responsible for their Community Hospital Division, which consists of seven neighborhood and community hospitals. During his tenure, he implemented strategies to drive quality of care and operational effectiveness throughout Froedtert Hospital resulting in #10 ranking in the Vizient database for demonstrating excellence in delivering high-quality care.

Eric earned his MHA from The Ohio State University. His career has included operational leadership, service line management, program development, and strategic planning at health systems throughout the country.