HEALTH CONNECT SOUTH 2021
Sponsorships and speaking opportunities are now available.
We have a passion for connection
and collaboration.
and collaboration.
We have a passion for connection
and collaboration.
and collaboration.
The mission of Health Connect South is to serve the health community as a platform to promote regional health collaborations. Through our collective work, we seek to define and advance the Southeast’s role in the future of health. Serving as a gateway between health industry silos, we seek to facilitate unique and meaningful partnerships. Together, health advances.
2020 Featured Speakers
We brought together top-tier health leaders and innovators across disciplines to engage each other in collaborative conversations focused on meeting identified health needs through leveraging supporting ideas and institutions.
John Bardis
Chairman & CEOShareMD
Geoff Duncan
Lieutenant GovernorState of Georgia
Candice L. Saunders, FACHE
CEO & PRESIDENTWellStar Health System
Lynne P. Meadows, MS, BSN, RN
Coordinator Student Health ServicesFulton County Schools
John M. Haupert
CEOGrady Health System
Nancy Messonnier, MD
Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory DiseasesCDC
Tom Hawk, JD
PartnerKing & Spalding
Eddie Hahn
DirectorJabian Consulting
Charles Stokes, FACHE
Founding PartnerRelia Healthcare Advisors
Daniel E. Dawes, JD
Director of Satcher Health Leadership InstituteMorehouse School of Medicine
Sri Mani
Vice PresidentGoldman Sachs
Glenn Eggert
Executive Lead Enterprise Mobility - Healthcare & Life SciencesVerizon Business Group
Chet Bhasin, FACHE, MBA, MS
Chief Strategy OfficerShepherd Center
Ben Thrower, MD
Medical Director of the Andrew C. Carlos MS InstituteShepherd Center
David Rubinger
Market President and PublisherAtlanta Business Chronicle
Jennifer L. Kerpelman, PhD
Professor & Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Studies & OutreachAuburn University College of Human Sciences
Ben Scruggs, PhD
AssociateHatteras Venture Partners
Kenneth W. Saffold
DirectorBlackRock Private Capital Group
Tim Howe
Senior Director Corporate Strategy & InvestmentsCox Enterprises
Judy Monroe, MD
President and CEOCDC Foundation
Krishnendu Roy, PhD
DirectorMarcus Center for Cell-Therapy Characterization and Manufacturing
Veda Johnson, MD, FAAP
Director of PARTNERS for Equity in Child and Adolescent HealthEmory University
Kristine Werner
National MS Society
Timothy M. Moore, MD, PhD
W.W Walker Professor, Associate DeanAuburn University School of Pharmacy
Amy Kappen
Founder and Executive DirectorBest Day Ever Foundation
Dr. Aaron Levine
Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, Ivan Allen CollegeGeorgia Tech
Marcus Osborne
Senior Vice PresidentWalmart Health
Dr. Greg Russotti
CTOCentury Therapeutics (formerly Bristol Myers Squibb/Celgene)
Carlos Del Rio, MD
Chair of the Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious DiseasesEmory University School of Medicine
Dennis Liotta, PhD
Executive Director Emory Institute for Drug DevelopmentEmory University
Carol Burrell
President & CEONortheast Georgia Health System
Lea M. Sims, CHDS, AHDI-F
Global Practice Lead, Healthcare, Insurance & Life SciencesVerizon Business Group
James Lewis
Co-Founder & CEO11TEN
Nikkela S. Tucker, MPH
Director Health & WellnessWalmart, Inc.
Devin Absher, PhD
Director of Genomic HealthHudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology
Jeff Robbins
Director of Neurodiagnostics and TelehealthTift Regional Health System
Sherrie Williams
COOGlobal Partnership for Telehealth
Andy Miller
CEO & EditorGeorgia Health News
Tiffany Nelson, MBA, BSN, RN
Executive DirectorGeorgia Rural Health Innovation Center at Mercer University School of Medicine
Sandy Matheson
Development OfficerPrimary Healthcare Centers of Georgia
Dr. Sheng Lin-Gibson
Chief of the Biosystems and Biomaterials DivisionNational Institute of Standards and Technology
Joan H. Anderson, MPH, MBA, JD
Senior Field RepresentativeGeorgia Rural Health Innovation Center at Mercer University School of Medicine
Nattlie Rogers, MHA, PharmD
Senior Field RepresentativeGeorgia Rural Health Innovation Center at Mercer University School of Medicine
Nancy McDonald, CRNP, NP-C
Director of Employee Benefits and WellnessEast Alabama Medical Center
Jessica Merritt
Director of Business DevelopmentHudsonAlpha
Brian Thompson
Associate Director of Programs and Legal ComplianceCan Do Multiple Sclerosis
Clifton Bush
Chief Operating OfficerAlbany Area Primary Health Care, Inc.
Scott Boden, MD
Vice President of Innovation, Emory HealthcareChairman of the Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University School of Medicine
Claudia Douglass
PrincipalPwC
Amy Burney-Preddy, MHA, MS, CPC
Director of Revenue IntegrityWakeMed
Health topics are broad to create interdisciplinary partnerships
But information is specific to tackle current health challenges. And we explore where healthcare is going now and in the future.
Health Connect South could not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors.
OUR CHAMPION SPONSORS FOR 2020
