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Innovation 2010
Steering Commitee

THE HONORABLE ALEX M. AZAR II
Vice President
Business-to-Business 
and Puerto Rico
Lilly USA, LLC 

JONATHAN J. BUSH, JR.
President and Chief Executive Officer
athenahealth, Inc. 

DAVID CHILVERS, PhD
Chief Executive
NHS Innovations London Ltd. 

SUSAN DENTZER
Editor-in-Chief
Health Affairs 

GEORGE DIEHR
Professor, CSU San Marcos
CalPERS Board of Administration 

ADAM ELSESSER
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Penumbra, Inc. 

WAYNE GATTINELLA
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
WebMD 

PAT GERAGHTY
President and Chief Executive Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota 

C. MARTIN HARRIS, MD
Chief Information Officer
Cleveland Clinic 

STEVE HILL
Director Department of Retirement Systems
Administrator
Washington State Health Care Authority

GEORGE LAZENBY
Chief Executive Officer
Emdeon, Inc.

JEFFREY H. MARGOLIS
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
The TriZetto Group, Inc.

MARTHA MARSH
President and Chief Executive Officer
Stanford Hospitals and Clinics

PRIYA MATHUR
Board Member,
Chair, Health Benefits Committee
Vice Chair, Investment Committee
CalPERS

JONATHAN PERLIN, MD, PHD, MSHA,
FACP, FACMI 
Chief Medical Officer and President, 
Clinical Services
HCA/Hospital Corporation of America, Inc.

MICHAEL F. ROIZEN, MD
Chief Wellness Officer (CWO) and Chair
Wellness Institute of the Cleveland Clinic 

JOHN W. ROWE, MD
Professor of Health Policy and Management,
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health;
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Aetna Inc.

KEVIN SIDOW
Chief Executive Officer
Moximed, Inc.

MARK SMITH, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
California HealthCare Foundation

KENT J. THIRY
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
DaVita Inc.

NANCY TURETT
Global President - Health
Edelman

BRADLEY WAUGH
Chief Executive Officer
Navinet, Inc.

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David J. Brailer, MD, PhD

Chairman
david@healthevolutionpartners.com

David leads Health Evolution Partners, and supports sector teams for all funds.

Boards of Directors:
Optimal IMX

Select Prior Experience:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: David was appointed the nation’s first National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in May 2004. In this role, David was the architect of the nation’s effort to bring our health care system into the information age. David led a bi-partisan effort that moved the US health care system toward transparency, quality and efficiency. 

CareScience: David founded CareScience as a spin-out from The Wharton School and led it through several financings, strategic partnerships, an IPO and a strategic sale. Under David’s leadership, CareScience established itself as an early leader in the use of the Internet to share health information and to improve the quality of care across the United States.  

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School of Business: David founded the health information technology program at The Wharton School Health Management Program, taught health management and economics in the Wharton MBA program and lectured in The Wharton Executive Education program. David was an active patient-care physician in general medicine and in immune deficiency at the University of Pennsylvania.

Community:

David is active in philanthropy that champions access to education and health care for all people in the United States.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree, science and political science, West Virginia University 
MD, West Virginia University School of Medicine
Charles A. Dana Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Internal Medicine residency, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
General Medicine Fellow, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
PhD, health economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania