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Student Networking NightOctober 25, 2022Emory UniversityRSPH BridgeEmory – Georgia TechHealthcare Innovation Program&Institute for Health Improvement

Program6:00$– 6:05$pmWelcome6:05$– 6:20 pmSpeaker$Introdu ction6:20$– 6:40 pmNetworking$Rotations6:40$– 7:30 pmSocial$Hour7:30pmClosing$Remarks

Meet our Guest LeadersFred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD Director, Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program | Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory School of Medicine | Professor of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public HealthFred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD career has been as a physician-scientist and academic leader. He is the Director of the Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Program, which has been developed with support from the Woodruff Fund and in coordination with the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (CTSA) to enhance innovation in healthcare delivery research, education, and service.As a leader, Dr. Sanfilippo has been active in academic medicine, transplantation, and pathology. He has served on the editorial board of 13 professional journals, been invited to speak at 200 academic and scientific venues, and elected president of seven academic and professional organizations. He has been a consultant to over 80 university, government and corporate institutions. As an educator, he has mentored 33 graduate students and fellows, and led the creation of numerous new courses, degree programs, departments, and centers at four institutions. As a scientist, he has published over 250 articles, been awarded three patents, and granted over $30 million in personal research support as principal investigator of R01, P01, and U01 grants from the NIH, as well as from the VA and industry. Dr. Sanfilippo earned his BS and MS degrees in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his MD and PhD in immunology as a Medical Scientist Training Program Fellow at Duke University. He did his residency training in Pathology at Duke University Hospital, receiving Board certification in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and Immunopathology. 2022 Student Networking NightTable 1

Meet our Guest Leaders2022 Student Networking NightDr. Kashef Ijaz Vice President of Health Programs, Carter CenterDr. Kashef Ijaz provides leadership for programs and initiatives working to control, prevent, eliminate, or eradicate six tropical diseases in 18 nations, as well as efforts to improve mental health care in the United States and abroad.Previously, Dr. Ijaz was the principal deputy director in the Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His division worked on building disease detection and response capacity for health security, including humanitarian assistance for refugees and internally displaced population in areas such as nutrition, WASH and mental health issues. He joined the CDC in 2002, and during his tenure served as deputy director for science and programs in the Center for Global Health and chief of the Tuberculosis Field Services and Evaluation Branch in the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention. He helped lead the CDC’s responses to the West Africa Ebola epidemic of 2014-16, the MERS-CoV outbreak of 2013-14, and the H1N1 pandemic of 2009.He began his career as a medical epidemiologist at the Arkansas Department of Health, where he worked with marginalized rural populations at the state, local, and community levels. He was Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and did molecular epidemiology research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He has worked extensively in Asia, Africa, and across the developing world on malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases. Dr. Ijaz is a physician trained in public health from the University of Oklahoma and holds certificates in public health leadership from the University of Alabama and in national preparedness and response leadership from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University.He is a member of the American College of Epidemiology and is recipient of Phil Brachman’s award for the Epidemic Intelligence Service alumni association at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He speaks five languages and has had more than 100 articles, chapters, and presentations published in peer-reviewed journals and at conferences.Table 2

Meet our Guest LeadersPhong Le Data Analyst, The Carter CenterPhong Le provides data expertise and technical support for the Center’s Trachoma Control Program. He develops disease monitoring dashboards, performs scientific analyses for journal publications, automates geospatial analyses, and translates data insights key to the elimination of trachoma.Le brings an extensive background in data science, informatics, and consulting. His most recent position was in spatial epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he built spatiotemporal dashboards for the Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention branch. He has previously served The Carter Center as an intern, graduate assistant, and contractor. Le earned his bachelor of business administration degree at Emory University’s Goizueta Business school and Master of Public Health at Emory Rollins School of Public Health.Nancye Feistritzer, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Vice President, Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing OfficerNancye Feistritzer, who has extensive executive nursing experience in an academic medical center setting, comes to Emory from Vanderbilt University Hospital, where she worked for 20 years, most recently as associate hospital director and associate chief nursing officer of the Surgical Patient Care Center. There, Feistritzer played an integral role in quality and safety improvements, such as improving hand hygiene compliance to 95 percent in a two-year initiative.She served as the executive leader for design, development and opening of several new operating room suites, and developed a five-year operating room capacity plan. She has also collaborated with numerous multidisciplinary groups to deliver patient- and family-centered care, enhance team effectiveness and physician relations, improve employee engagement, implement cost containment strategies and increase operational excellence2022 Student Networking NightTable 3Table 4

Meet our Guest LeadersNeelam D. Ghiya Senior Advisor for Training & Communications, CDCCDR Neelam D. Ghiya is a United States Public Health Services Officer (USPHS) stationed at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. She serves as a Senior Public Health Advisor in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) Office of the Director with a focus on Health Equity and Diversity. Previously, she worked in CDC’s Office of Science where she has launched agency wide scientific trainings. Neelam has served as a CDC Emergency Coordinator in which she facilitates CDC staff deployments. She coordinated the CDC Public Health Grand Rounds and served as a CDC Director’s emergency preparedness and response special assistant. She currently serves on CDC’s Monkeypox response.CDR Ghiya has participated in Hurricane, Tornado, Nuc/Rad, and Pan Flu exercises as well as UAC, Influenza H1N1 & H7N9, Flint Water, Polio, Ebola, Zika, and MERS CoV, and OAW response activations via the CDC Emergency Operations Center earning her Crisis Response and Outstanding Unit Citation USPHS Awards. She was deployed with the CDC CCOVID-19 Response Deployer Support Unit as the Lead Liaison Officer and Pre-Deployment Coordinator in which she received the USPHS Health Services Responder of the Year Award.CDR Ghiya has served as a Voting Member on Health Services (HS) Professional Advisory Committee, co-chairing the Membership and Awards Subcommittee. She is currently the Co-Lead of the HS Events Subcommittee Category Day Team and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Mentoring Program. Neelam has held leadership positions with the Commissioned Officers Association in which she serves on the Board of Directors and received the Atlanta Officer of the Year Award.Neelam is a Mentor for Emory University Rollin’s School of Public Health students and for CDC PHAP Fellows. She is a co-founder of CDC’s Young Professional’s Network and a CDC Ambassadors Program presenter. CDR Ghiya is a senior CDC USPHS Honor Cadre member and has been an aide-de-camp to past U.S. Health and Human Service Assistant Secretary of Health, Surgeon Generals, Rear Admirals, and Chief Professional Officers. 2022 Student Networking NightTable 5

Meet our Guest LeadersMathu Kamurasamy Program Director of Clinical Performance, Emory HealthcareMathu Kumarasamy is the Program Director of Clinical Performance Analytics in the Office of Quality at Emory Healthcare. In his role, Mathu is responsible for the development, implementation, and alignment of provider performance metrics across the system for professional practice evaluation. Additionally, he serves as an analytics consultant to various service line leaders and serves as a coach and mentor for various data analysts across the enterprise.Mathu is a graduate of Emory University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Neuroscience and Economics. A self-proclaimed “analytics evangelist” and aspiring data scientist, Mathu is passionate in leveraging data analytics, technology, and insights from the field of behavioral economics to help establish a culture of evidence-based, value-driven health care in the United States.William S. Pearson Health Scientist, CDC | Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public HealthWilliam Pearson has been working in the healthcare field since 1990; working in hospitals, private physician offices, managed care organizations, long-term care facilities and currently a public health agency. While working as an administrator of a 60-bed skilled nursing facility, he was told by his regional director that "the bottom line of all of this is the bottom line". At that point, he decided to go back to school to study in detail how the healthcare system operates. For more than 20 years now, he has been studying the delivery, financing and organization of the US healthcare system.He received his masters degree in Healthcare Administration (MHA) from the Medical University of South Carolina and his doctorate in Health Services Research (PhD) from the University of South Carolina.2022 Student Networking NightTable 6Table 7

Meet our Guest LeadersEmily Blum, MD Medical Director of the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI), an affiliate of Georgia Institution of TechnologyDr. Emily Blum is the Medical Director of the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI), an affiliate of Georgia Institution of Technology. GCMI serves to accelerate the development, testing, training and commercialization of innovative medical products. In her role she serves to bring in new programs and innovative ideas from local physician entrepreneurs while serving as an internal knowledge resource for program development teams guiding the clinical needs discussion around product innovation. She has lectured across the country on fostering an innovative mindset in medicine. In her role to champion commercialization of medical devices she has served as a reviewer/judge/mentor for numerous medical innovations pitch rounds as well as multiple Georgia Institute of Technology Capstone teams . Additionally, Dr. Blum is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine in the Department of Urology and practices with pediatric urology Georgia Urology, PA. She is board-certified in adult and pediatric urology.2022 Student Networking NightTable 8

Meet our Guest LeadersWilliam Phelps, PhD American Cancer SocietyWilliam (Bill) Phelps, PhD, worked in antiviral and anticancer research with the pharmaceutical industry for 13 years with Burroughs Wellcome, GlaxoWellcome and GlaxoSmithKline. More recently, he spent 2½ years with a small startup biotech company as vice president of research and development before joining the American CancerSociety in 2004. Additionally, he held an appointment as adjunct professor of genetics and microbiology at Duke University Medical Center from 1996-2004 and completed a certification program from American University in change leadership. While at the ACS heserved as a Scientific Program Director for 11 years and VP/SVP of Extramural Research for 6 years before departing in April 2021. Since that time, he has served as a consultant to both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.Dr. Phelps graduated from Rhodes College in 1977 with a BS in Biology. He went on to graduate school first at Virginia Tech where he earned an MS in Botany and later, to the University of Minnesota earning his PhD in Microbiology in 1985. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute working on human papillomaviruses.Jason French, JD Patent Advisor Office of Science (OS) | Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) Centers for Disease Control and PreventionJason graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Genetics in 2003. After graduation, he worked as a laboratory tech investigating the antibiotic production pathway in Streptomyces bacteria. His investigations continued at the Bioprocessing Technology Institute in Singapore. He retuned to the U.S. to attend law school and graduated cum laude from the University of Toledo – College of Law in 2010. He then spent 10 years in private practice as a patent attorney in Missouri. In that time, he procured hundreds of patents for a variety of clients, ranging from single, independent inventors, Universities, to Fortune 5 companies. For the last two years, his current role is the patent advisor for the Tech Transfer Office at the CDC. He currently resides in Marietta with his wife and two young children.2022 Student Networking NightTable 9Table 10

Meet our Guest LeadersDane Peterson Interim CEO and President and COO , Emory HealthcareAs interim CEO, he is responsible for the overall strategy, operations and financial responsibility for the entire health system. As president and COO of Emory Healthcare, Peterson is accountable for all compliance, strategy and planning, operational components of key system functions, including human resources, medical staff, quality and patient safety, managed care, finance, physician group practice, hospital group, nursing, marketing, facilities, pastoral services, and information technology. He is focused on translating strategy into action and operational excellence.Peterson joined Emory Healthcare in 2007 as COO of Emory University Hospital Midtown and became CEO of the same hospital in 2012. He was selected to serve as Hospital Group President in 2014 and was named COO of Emory Healthcare in 2018. Since 2020, Peterson has been serving as president and COO of Emory Healthcare. In September 2022, he began his appointment as interim CEO for the health care system while continuing his dual role as president and COO of Emory Healthcare.Prior to joining Emory Healthcare, Peterson was interim COO and an Associate Administrator at Medical City Dallas Hospital, Dallas, Texas, a 677-bed facility. His previous experience includes serving as an Associate Administrator for ancillary services at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, and working as a product engineer for the Ford Motor Company.Peterson, who received an MBA from Stanford University in 2002 and a bachelor’s degree in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan in 1990, has held leadership positions resulting in significant accomplishments in master plan construction and renovation, quality improvement, employee engagement and cultural transformation. These skills are crucial to an organization like Emory Healthcare, the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia, with more than 6.9 million patient encounters a year.2022 Student Networking NightTable 11

Meet our Guest LeadersLeigh A. Truss Smith, MBA, MSW, CPHQDirector, Quality and Patient Safety at EUH, EWWH, EUOSH, Emory Healthcare, Office of Quality and RiskLeigh is the Emory Healthcare Corporate Director, Quality Operations, based in Atlanta, GA. She is dedicated to ensuring the safety of patients and staff by overseeing quality improvement, infection prevention & control, accreditation and patient safety. Throughout her over twenty-year career, she has served as Vice President of Quality,Director of Patient Safety, Accreditation & Risk Management, and Director of Oncology Services & Women’s Imaging in the hospital setting.Leigh has always had a heart to serve and currently supports several local and national organizations,including her current appointment to the Board of Directors for the Partnership Against DomesticViolence (Atlanta, GA), and her Advisory Board appointment to the Paralegal Studies Program at Atlanta Technical College.Leigh is a proud graduate of Florida A&M University, Florida State University, and Texas Woman’sUniversity. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Walden University with her course of study in Organizational Leadership & Development. Leigh is an alum of Leadership Dekalb – class of 2019 and she recently completed a Fellowship with the Woodruff Leadership Academy of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory University. Finally, Leigh completed the Cognitively Based Compassion Training with the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion-Based Ethics at Emory University where she honed her skills in guided meditation.2022 Student Networking NightTable 12

Emory – Georgia TechHealthcare Innovation Program&Institute for Health ImprovementTable 1Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhDDirector, Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation ProgramTable 2Dr. Kashef IjazVice President of Health Programs, Carter CenterTable 3PhongLeData Analyst, The Carter CenterTable 4NancyeFeistritzer, DNP, RN, NEA-BCVice President,Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing OfficerTable 5CommanderNeelam D. GhiyaSenior Advisor for Training & Communications,CDCTable 6MathuKamurasamyProgram Director of Clinical Performance,Emory HealthcareTable 7William S. PearsonHealth Scientist, CDC | Adjunct Professor, RSPH, Emory UniversityTable 8Emily Blum, MD Medical Director of the Global Center for Medical InnovationTable 9William Phelps, PhDAmerican Cancer SocietyTable 10Jason French, JDPatent Advisor, Office ofTechnology and Innovation (OTI), CDCTable 11Dane PetersonInterim CEO and President and COO , EmoryHealthcareTable 12Leigh SmithDirector, Quality and PatientSafety, Emory Healthcare