C. Gresham Bayne, MD, executive medical director and a director of the Call Doctor Medical Group, is a certified emergency medicine physician with two decades of experience. He has served as chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, associate clinical professor at the UCSD Medical School, and associate director of Life Flight. Dr. Bayne is a fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Physicians. The company's founder, Dr. Bayne has operated the Call Doctor site in San Diego for most of the past dozen years. He has presented the mobile healthcare concept in scores of national publications and in keynote speeches for the AMA.
 

Mara Benner is the vice president of government affairs for Gentiva Health Services, one of the nation’s leading comprehensive home health and hospice companies. As Gentiva’s government liaison, Ms. Benner interacts with federal legislators and regulatory officials, and works closely with the national trade associations.    

Ms. Benner has had several years of experience working in the home health arena. Prior to joining Gentiva Health Services, she was the vice president of government relations for the American Association for Homecare and also served as the executive director for the Maryland National Capital Homecare Association. She previously served as the executive director for the Home Health Services and Staffing Association prior to the association merging to form the American Association for Homecare.

In 1992, Ms. Benner worked for the Home & Health Care Association of Massachusetts initiating the association’s government affairs and public relations. In this role, she began advocating on behalf of home health patients and providers at both the state and federal level.

From 1989-1992, she worked for Congressman Jim Saxton in Washington, DC working on a variety of issues that included health care.        

Ms. Benner graduated from Kent State University in Ohio with a BA in gerontology.

Peter A. Boling, M.D., is a professor of Medicine. He attended Amherst College (B.A. in English with honors, 1976) and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (student pathology fellow 1978-79, M.D. 1981) where he placed a particularly strong emphasis on the biopsychosocial model of illness and health. He completed Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1984 and remained in Richmond as a member of the VCU faculty.

Rebecca is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF and a national leader in Housecall medicine. She completed her undergraduate work in Neurobiology at Harvard University in 1990 and came to UCSF for her medical school training. She stayed at UCSF for residency in the Primary Care Internal Medicine program and for fellowship in Geriatrics.

K. Eric De Jonge, M.D. is Director of Geriatrics at the Washington Hospital Center, co-founder of the Medical House Call Program, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Georgetown.

Mr. Feorene holds an MBA with highest honors from the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University, with dual concentrations in finance and strategy. A respected presenter and author, he has written and spoken on a variety of strategic and management issues impacting healthcare, most recently on current community-based care management initiatives, including house calls, patient-centered medical homes and transitional care/bridges to home programs. Mr. Feorene formed House Call Solutions to provide high-quality business services to clients in the burgeoning medical house call industry.
 

Adam Groff, MD, MBA, is focused on improving care through business model innovation, analytics and entrepreneurship. As a Division Director at Bayada Home Health Care, he leads new ventures in home-based primary care, hospice, shared savings, and international expansion to India. He practices as a hospitalist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and is an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth Medical School and The Dartmouth Institute with projects in data management systems, health care utilization and patient outcome measurement. Adam enjoys the great food and the running, cycling and skiing lifestyle of living in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife Tricia, a general pediatrician, and their daughter Ingrid. He has an A.B. from Dartmouth College and an MD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jennifer Hayashi is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Nursing at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has been Director of the Elder House Call Program since 2004. In that role, she has taken the program to the next level with a strong focus on educating medical trainees at all levels, and the program has expanded to include medical residents from Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. A graduate of Ripon College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Hayashi completed her internal medicine residency at Washington Hospital Center and her geriatric medicine clinical fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. She also serves as Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and developed a house calls curriculum to teach internal medicine residents. In 2010, Dr. Hayashi was awarded the prestigious American Academy of Home Care Physicians House Call Doctor of the Year. Her data has been published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and she was lead author on “Community-Based Long Term Care and Home Care,” published in Hazzard’s Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, 2009. Dr. Hayashi has given numerous presentations on home care education and has written several peer-reviewed articles. She is a member of the AAHCP, ACP, AGS and Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine and belongs to a variety of advisory committees.   

Dr. Jayes is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the George Washington Medical Faculty Associates.  He practices in long term and subacute care, and is the medical director of the GW MFA Medical House Call program.  He teaches geriatrics fellows, medicine residents, and medical students in these settings.

Dr. Robert Kaiser is Director of the Home-Based Primary Care Program, Attending Physician in Geriatrics and Extended Care at the Washington, D.C. VA Medical Center, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine. He serves as Associate Director of the Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at GWU and teaches geriatrics and home care to medical students, residents, and fellows and is involved in curriculum development. Dr. Kaiser earned an A.B. degree from Duke University, an M.A. in History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.D. degree from The Medical College of Pennsylvania. He was a Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, where he was a VA Special Fellow in Advanced Geriatrics at the Durham GRECC and completed a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Research. Dr. Kaiser was selected as a Reynolds Scholar in Graduate Medical Education at Duke University in 2010. He has spoken on house calls education at the annual meetings of American Academy of Home Care Physicians, the American Geriatrics Society, and the Gerontological Association of America. He recently co-chaired the Workgroup on Interdisciplinary Team Training for the Partnership on Health in Aging.

George E. Kikano, MD, is the Dorothy Jones Weatherhead Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. A graduate of American University of Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Kikano also completed his internship in Internal Medicine at American University and his Family Medicine residency at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio. In 2001, he earned his CPE in Medical Management from the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Kikano also serves as Medical Director for UHConnect and Home Care Services with University Hospitals Case Health Systems in Cleveland. Prior to joining Case Western Reserve, he was the Director of Medical Management at St. Michael Hospital, University Hospitals Health Systems. Dr. Kikano has served on the Board of Directors for the Council of International Programs, USA for the past three years and was a member of the Board of Directors for the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians from 2003-2009. He has held several other leadership positions, including President of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland/Northern Ohio Medical Association and President of the Cleveland Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Kikano is the recipient of numerous honors and award, most recently, the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Northern Ohio Lebanese-American Association. He was noted as Scholar of the Month in Postgraduate Medicine in May 2009, and has also been listed in “Best Doctors in America,” “Area’s Top Docs” in Northern Ohio Live Magazine and “Top Docs” in Cleveland Magazine. Dr. Kikano has authored and co-authored many peer-reviewed articles and publications in the field of family medicine and managed care.     

Dr. Bruce Kinosianis an Associate Professor of Medicine with the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kinosian is a general internist/geriatrician with involvement among a broad group of researchers.  He has produced influential cost-effectiveness analyses of interventions for cardiovascular disease in work spanning a decade, developed sophisticated, pioneering models for Alzheimer's Disease using Grade of  Membership techniques, and has been involved in economic evaluations of a range of VA HSRD funded clinical trials.  He is currently Principle Investigator of a 3-year project to produce a new Long Term Care Planning Model for the Department of Veterans Affairs, an integrating endeavor that ties together VA and CMS data with national surveys spanning the past 20 years, as well as linking VA's research arm (HSR&D) with VA's Policy Arm (Assistant Deputy Under-Secretary of Health's Office of Policy and Planning).

Steve Landers, M.D., M.P.H. received his BA in Political Science from Indiana University, a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and his MD from CASE School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the CASE/University Hospitals of Cleveland Accelerated Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Landers is currently working with several senior investigators to develop an epidemiological study of physician home visits and the homebound elderly. His research tests a new model of comprehensive home care for the frail elderly. Dr. Landers is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at CASE School of Medicine.
 

Mr. Lane has over 19 years experience in the marketing and the healthcare industry and has a strong background in solution development, strategic planning, merger and acquisition.

Dr. Leff is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds a Joint Appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where he is also a member of the Health Services Research and Development Center and the Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care. He is the Director of the Center on Aging and Health (COAH) Program in Geriatric Health Services Research and the Co-Director of the Elder House Call Program in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal areas of research relate to home care and the development, evaluation, and dissemination of novel models of care for older adults, notably the Hospital at Home model of care. In addition, his research interests extend to issues related to multimorbidity, guideline development, and case-mix issues, and he is a member of the Johns Hopkins ACG Case-Mix system team. He has developed national curricula to train physicians in the development of medical homes. Dr. Leff cares for patients in the acute, ambulatory, and home settings. He directs the Medicine Clerkship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has received awards for his teaching and mentorship. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Physicians and President-elect of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians.

Dr. Magee is president of Positive Medicine Inc., a health leadership and communications firm committed to transforming powerful health visions into action. He is widely recognized as a visionary leader of the home-centered health care movement and lifespan planning records, and has advised the Institute of Medicine on these topics.

Chip Measells has been with Wyatt Matas & Associates for over seven years and has been primarily responsible for overseeing the firm's mergers and acquisition and capital raising engagements. His concentration in health care has brought his clients access to deep relationships in areas such as, acute care, home healthcare, hospice, disease management, physician practice management, infusion services and ancillary hospital services.

Before joining Wyatt Matas & Associates, Chip was the Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Fry Consultants, a global merchant bank in Atlanta, Georgia. However, he has often stated that his ability to relate with his clients came from his experience as an operator when he was the president of a senior healthcare company where he managed the company through 11 successful acquisitions while keeping it profitable. The company was later sold to a national healthcare company, where Chip served on the board of director for several years after the acquisition.

After graduating with a degree in economics from Mississippi State University, Chip went on to complete his MBA at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Chip and his wife, Karen, serve on various committees and boards, including the Board of Governors for a not-for-profit micro-financing institution in Chicago. They are also immensely entertained by their two young daughters, Molly and Morgan.

Dr. Mills, a graduate of the University of Rochester, Case Western, and MetroHealth Medical Center, is the founder of Western Reserve Senior Care, a full-service “house call” practice.  Dr. Mills, board-certified in Internal Medicine, is experienced in senior care, inpatient hospital care, procedural medicine, and care transitions.  He has built the practice based on principles of expert care, unparalleled access, and a friendly and personal approach, which frequently leads to patients and their families becoming exceptionally close with their physicians and practitioners.   Dr. Mills is on the active medical staff in the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals Health Systems and serves as primary hospital attending for his practice’s hospitalized patients.

Dr. Parker is board certified by ABIM with additional qualification in vascular medicine. He is an active fellow in the American College of Physicians and the Society for Vascular Medicine. He has been deeply involved in medical missions and teaching ministries. He travels extensively world-wide and is most proud of his family; wife Mindi of 33 years and adult children Jessica, Shae, and Sterling Kay.

Dr. Cynthia Pinson was born and raised in People’s Republic of China until the age of 18. In 1987, she came to study in the United States.

In 1992, Dr. Pinson graduated with a B.S. degree from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She then went on to earn her M.D. degree in 1996 from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University. Following three years of residency in the Department of Family and Community Health at Marshall University, Dr. Pinson worked for a local hospital for many years.

Jim Pyles, a co-founder of the firm Powers, Pyles, Sutter and Verville PC and has more than thirty-five years of experience in litigation, counseling, and lobbying in the field of health law. Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Pyles served for six years in the Office of the General Counsel for the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, where he received the department's Distinguished Service Award for successfully handling complex Medicare litigation.

Mr. Pyles has experience in nearly all areas of the firm's practice, but he is nationally known for his expertise with respect to the legal issues related to health information technology and health information privacy, chronic care coordination, home health, hospice, and ambulatory care services. He is also a registered lobbyist for several health care associations and participates intensively in health reform at the federal and state levels. He has crafted major pieces of health care legislation in many areas covered by the Medicare Act.

Mr. Pyles' expertise encompasses the legislative and regulatory aspects of government and private health insurance coverage and reimbursement; the legal aspects of acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, and networks; and the law pertaining to fraud and abuse. He writes and lectures frequently on health reform issues and appears periodically on national television as a health care commentator.

Mr. Pyles serves as counsel to several national home health, ambulatory care, and psychiatric care associations and is a member of the Board of Directors of a state home care association. 

Mr. Rakowski has had a highly diverse 30+ year career in sales engineering, process control consulting, energy consulting, management consulting, investment banking, strategic marketing, health care executive management, and entrepreneurial start ups in healthcare services and renewable resources. He is a frequent public speaker and fierce advocate for outcomes-driven and patient-centric healthcare strategies. He has worked and lived extensively abroad (Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan) and has a global view of business, education and social interdependency.

He is a co-founder of  Intersection, LLC, a company that develops and funds new business strategies in healthcare and renewable resources fields.

Mr. Rakowski’ s career includes the founding of Clinically Home (the first model to commercially deliver acute care in the home) and MyCare, LLC; a compelling new HIT business that provides access to electronic medical records to enable user defined real time search and alerts.

Prior to Intersection, Mr. Rakowski served as President of American Healthways, the nation’s leading Care Enhancement Company, serving the needs of patients with chronic and acute health conditions. He also founded and led New Paradigm Ventures, a consulting and investment firm in the health-care and food industry market. Earlier in his career, he was featured on a Good Morning America special on health care customization and his work in healthcare and energy has garnered a great deal of media coverage.

As part of his commitment to care quality, Mr. Rakowski works with major academic medical centers to advance the cause of outcomes driven and patient-centric  healthcare via new business ventures that are founded on measurable superior care quality.

Mr. Rakowski began his career in Honeywell as a sales engineer who quickly distinguished himself as a creative technologist with a strong ability to develop large projects.  He then became an operations consultant to Fortune 100 clients in North America, South America and Europe working with over 100 manufacturing and distribution facilities.  His process control experience in U.S. manufacturing during the 1970’s and 80’s, helped shape his views about the importance of measurement, quality and outcomes in any complex system where the definition of results need to be better understood.

From 1986 to 1989 Mr. Rakowski was a Partner in Marketing Corporation of America, where he developed and launched new business initiatives on behalf of Fortune 100 companies, including the General Electric Company, Kraft General Foods and Nissan. 

He funded and launched New Paradigm Ventures in 1992, which has partnered and served the needs of large companies, including DuPont, Baxter Health Care, American Home Products, Campbell’s Soup Company, General Nutrition Centers, and Mead Johnson. 

Dr. Ratner received his undergraduate degree from Carleton College. Medical school and residency training in Internal Medicine were at University of Chicago and affiliate hospitals. Post-residency training in Geriatric Medicine has included the Harvard's Geriatric Education Center, the Home Medicine Program at Boston University, and the University of Minnesota's Internal Medicine Geriatric Fellowship. He is also a graduate of the National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Fellowship program. His clinical practice currently focuses on care in the home. He serves on the Graduate faculty in three programs: Bioethics, Gerontology and Medical Informatics. Research and teaching interests include ethics, home care, interdisciplinary care, end of life care, telemedicine and use of computers and personal digital assistants in medical education. His current projects include an NIH funded study of end of life care among the homeless, development of a statewide POLST form and creation of service learning opportunities for medical and other graduate students.

Jonathan Rauch has been an Opinion Columnist with National Journal since 1997, and served as Contributing Editor from 1991-1995. Mr. Rauch is also the Writer in Residence for The Brookings Institution. In 1995, he was a Visiting Writer with The Economist in London. Mr. Rauch has also served as Fellow in the Japan Society Leadership Program, Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and Education Reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal. From 1984-1987, he authored many articles on domestic and foreign economic issues and institutions, politics, government and agriculture as a Budget and Fiscal Policy Correspondent. Mr. Rauch is the author of several books including Gay Marriage, Government’s End, Demosclerosis, Kindly Inquisitors and The Outnation. His articles have appeared in a myriad of periodicals, and Mr. Rauch has made television appearances on all major networks. In 1996, Mr. Rauch was honored with the Premio Napoli alla Stampa Estera (Naples Prize, Foreign Press) for his coverage in The Economist of the European Parliament. He is a graduate of Yale University, summa cum laude, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.   

Thomas Reed is the Chairman and CEO of Naples Health Care Associates in Naples, Florida. Mr. Reed has over 35 years of experience in the health care industry developing, funding and managing health care service businesses. He started his career with Merrill Lynch in the late 60’s, where he founded their health industry financing group which specialized in providing funding to hospitals. In 1982, Mr. Reed founded American Health Capital, Inc. in partnership with Voluntary Hospitals of America (VHA, the nations’ largest not-for-profit hospital group), the Mellon Bank, Aetna and Baxter where he pioneered the development of financial guarantees for hospitals through the Health Industry Bond Insurance Program.

Mr. Reed was the founder and CEO of VHA Enterprises where he oversaw the development and management of numerous health care service business including Partners National Health Plans, a managed care joint venture with Aetna, as well as companies involved with home health care, nursing homes, retirement center development and management, mobile diagnostics, and physician services.

Mr. Reed also founded the National Committee for Quality Health Care and was a founding trustee of the Healthcare Leadership Council.

In 2001, Mr. Reed started Personalized Physician Care, Inc. to provide physician coordinated, comprehensive, primary care medical services for seniors. The Company serviced the Medicare chronic care management market through a mobile physician services company and a Medicare certified home health care company. The Company services the private pay market through Naples Health Care Associates, the premier provider of concierge physician services in southwest Florida.

Marcia Reissig has been the Chief Executive Officer of Sutter Care at Home (formerly known as Sutter VNA & Hospice), the home health affiliate of Sutter Health, a $10 billion health care system that includes 24 hospitals and over 4,500 physicians, since March 2007. She is responsible for the development, administration and integration of the system's $200 million home care programs which include home health, hospice, home infusion pharmacy, home medical equipment/ respiratory therapy, lifeline, home attendant care & care management and flu & wellness. Sutter Care at Home's 1,500 employees serve over 15,000 patients per day living in 11 counties throughout northern California.

Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP is a Professor in the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, co-directs the Adult/Gerontological nurse Practitioner Program, Co-Directs the Biology and Behavior Across the Lifespan Research Center of Excellence, holds the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Chair in Gerontology at the School of Nursing, and does clinical work at Roland Park Place, a Lifecare community. In addition to clinical work and teaching, her research program is focused on optimizing function, physical activity and overall health among older adults, exploring the impact of resilience and genetics on function and physical activity, and tests methods of dissemination and implementation of established interventions in real world settings. Dr. Resnick has approximately 200 published articles, numerous chapters in nursing and medical textbooks, and books on Restorative Care, Assisted Living Nursing and Resilience in Older adults. She has held leadership positions in multiple organizations including the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Gerontological Society of American and the American Geriatric Society. Dr. Resnick has been recognized through receipt of numerous awards such as the Doris Schwartz award in 2008, the 2009 Nurse Leader in Gerontology award, and multiple mentoring awards. She has also been honored with Fellowships in the American Academy of Nursing, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the National Gerontological Nurses Association, the American Geriatrics Society and the Gerontological Society of America.  

For the past six years, Mr. Sage has been Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of APH and, as such, has executive and operating responsibility for the business and operations of the company.  Prior to founding APH, Mr. Sage was CEO of CareLink, The Link to Physician Housecalls, Inc., Claridge Health Services, Inc., and Claridge Health Partners, L.P.  Yale Sage co-founded and served as President of Claridge Capital Partners, L.P. (“CCP”).  Mr. Sage was past President and Chief Operating Officer of Seaboard Management Corporation in Atlanta, GA.  Seaboard was a privately held investment management and financial services company that managed two offshore, blind pool venture capital funds with a broad range of investments including Healthcare, Telecommunication, and Manufacturing.

With more than 30 years of experience in medical practice and health systems management, consulting and recruitment, and a background in health policy and advocacy, Mr. Swartz has represented and negotiated on behalf of providers with health plans and has represented providers, associations and health plans on a Federal and State level. He has both a Master’s degree (MPA) and law degree.

Mike Tudeen, President and Chief Executive Officer, has more than 20 years experience in healthcare management and leadership. Tudeen joined INSPIRIS in July 2002 as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, he served as Chief Operating Officer of National Seating and Mobility, which specializes in customized mobility equipment for handicapped children. Previously, Tudeen worked 12 years for American Healthways, finishing as vice president of operations. Tudeen was a leader in managing the company’s hospital-based diabetes treatment centers operations and also played a key role in the early development of the company’s disease management division. Tudeen earned an M.S. degree from Emporia State University and holds a bachelor’s degree from Central College in Pella, IA.

Dr. William Zafirau is Medical Director of the Medical Care at Home Program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, and has CAQs in Geriatrics and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Dr. Zafirau was Medical Director of the Summacare Physician House Calls Program, The Merriman Long Term Care Facility and the Care Management Interdisciplinary Team in Akron, Ohio. During those years, he was also an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine with NEOMED and Staff Geriatrician for Summa Health Systems. He completed his family medicine residency at Summa Health Systems and his geriatrics fellowship at Metrohealth Medical Center. Cleveland Magazine named Dr. Zafirau to the “Best Doctors 2010” and “Best Doctors 2011” lists. In 2005, he received a grant from AMDA/Pfizer for “A Protocol for Communication of Advanced Directives between an Acute Care Hospital and Long Term Care Facilities.” His research has been published in numerous journals including American Journal of Medical Quality, International Journal of Older People Nursing, Pharmacotherapy, and Family Medicine. Dr. Zafirau is a sought after presenter with the AAHCP, AGS and AMDA.