Speaker Biographies

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Timothy Church MD, MPH, PhD
John S. McllHenny Endowed Chair in Health Wisdom Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center

William Ellis, RPh, MS
Executive Director & CEO, American Pharmacists Association Foundation

Laura Fields, Pharm.D.
Associate Vice President Metabolism Marketing, sanofi-aventis

Dr. Larry Goldman
Vice President, ValueOptions

Michael Gorton, MS, JD
Founder and CEO, TelaDoc

Jay Hedlund
Head of Medicare Diabetes Screening Project, Novo Nordisk

Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD
Director of Gastrointestinal Surgery University of Minnesota

Gov. Bobby Jindal
State of Louisiana

Alan Levine
Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Norm Nichols
Executive Account Manager, Unisys Corporation

William Pinsky, MD
Executive Vice President for System Medical Affairs and Chief Academic Officer, Ochsner Health System

Shannon Robshaw, MS
Executive Director, Louisiana Health Care Quality Forum

Russ Thomas, JD
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Availity, L.L.C.

Reed Tuckson, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group