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Azra is responsible for vaccines, brand & specialty pharmaceuticals, network aggregations groups, Rx technology as well as all pharmaceutical services programs. Bringing over 15 years of health care experience in retail, hospital, academic and specialty settings, Azra is recognized in the industry for her expertise and speaks at industry conferences on maximizing value and supply chain management for acute and non-acute settings.

Media: ABC News, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, ABC News

Julie Cerese leads performance management programs and national networks for Vizient. In this role, she oversees quality, safety and clinical leadership programs, technical sales and solution delivery, and data science and member insights.

Shaleta guides the strategy and vision of Vizient’s industry-leading Supplier Diversity Program, enabling members to champion inclusion in their supply chains and accelerate economic growth in local communities. She works with executive leaders and suppliers to lead development of new offerings and implementation of strategic initiatives that empower quality and cost-competitive minority-, women-, LGBT-, disabled-person- and veteran-owned businesses while delivering significant member value and satisfaction.

Media: Journal of Healthcare Contracting, Journal of Healthcare Contracting, Vizient Newsroom

In her role at Vizient, Flynn has oversight of the Vizient Patient Safety Organization (PSO), leading patient safety activities provided by the PSO to help members improve patient safety, health care quality and outcomes. She works with members on topics such as “Just Culture,” “High Reliability,” “Human Factors” and “Culture of Safety.”

Beth oversees analytical modeling, metric development, and the hospital ranking/scoring methodology and framework for Vizient members. Additionally, Beth supports member scenario and impact analysis regarding changes to the national landscape, including CMS Pay for Performance Program methods and publicly reported measures and methodology.

Vizient newsroom: CMS Updates its Star Ratings, Vizient Offers Approaches to Improve Health Equity to CMS in IPPS Comments

Cristina provides strategic and operational leadership for Novaplus, the industry’s longest-running private label program and Novaplus Enhanced Supply, which provides additional inventory of essential products to mitigate supply disruptions and demand surges.  In addition, Cristina guides the strategy of Vizient’s industry-leading Environmentally Preferred Sourcing program, which enables responsible sourcing decisions through the broadest, most cost-effective portfolio of environmentally preferred products.

Media: Healthcare Purchasing News, Becker's Hospital Review, Vizient Newsroom 

Dan has oversight for an expanded pharmacy program that links analytics, strategic sourcing and pharmacy networks into one team, while setting the strategic direction to ensure that Vizient members maximize value by utilizing the industry’s leading GPO pharmacy program.

Media: Modern Healthcare, Center for Biosimilars, USA Today

As senior vice president of public policy and government relations, Krilow leads Vizient government relations, monitoring federal legislative and regulatory developments of importance to Vizient and its members.

Media: United Press International, Healthcare Purchasing News

Blending clinical leadership and informatics experience, David is responsible for driving numerous key initiatives for Vizient, including growing the Center for Advanced Analytics, leading the development of risk-adjustment methodologies and increasing the engagement of physicians and other clinicians. The Center brings together analytics from multiple clinical and operational offerings to provide insights to members across the continuum of care.

Media: Modern Healthcare, Bio IT World, Modern Healthcare

As performance improvement program director, pharmacy, Lichauer is primarily responsible for developing and leading performance improvement collaborative programs focusing on medication safety and adverse drug events.

Media: Drug Topics

In his role as senior vice president of product strategy and innovation, Marty Lucenti combines his unique background in both medicine and operational engineering to provide valuable subject matter expertise related to clinical-supply integration. Prior to joining the company, Lucenti was senior vice president for MedAssets’ clinical operations consulting segment.

Steven is responsible for providing education to member organizations and supporting their efforts on various clinical practice topics, including improving medication safety, mitigating the impact of drug shortages, benchmarking pharmacy costs for key drug classes, evaluating the expense of high-cost biologics and preparing for the future development of biosimilar medications.

Published: Biosimilars and Biologics: Implementation and Monitoring in a Healthcare Setting 1st Edition

Media: Reuters, Modern Healthcare, Medscape

As a member of the Sg2 consulting team, Andrew Mancuso works on the deployment of Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model services.

Previously, Andrew was a part of TRG Healthcare Solutions, a leading national consultancy that specialized in the development of physician-to-hospital alignment models, such as service line co-management, professional services agreements, direct employment, joint ventures, gainsharing and bundled payments.

Using his background in hospital administration and expertise as a data scientist and change agent, Meurer works to increase engagement in the company’s comparative data and performance improvement products and services. In addition, he drives the future enhancements of current tools and the development of new tools that will help members improve. Meurer spends considerable time with the senior leaders of academic medical centers, providing insights for change in operational, financial and clinical areas.

With a health care career spanning more than 25 years, Jim Reilly has extensive experience in health care advisory services with hospitals, health systems and physician practices nationwide. The nature of his health care consulting includes hospital/physician alignment, value-based care initiatives, bundled payments, strategic planning, new service development and implementation services.