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Molly leads a team that advances the strategic alignment of spend management services with health system and supplier strategies through all areas of non-labor expense across the entire healthcare supply chain. Her team develops and executes programs with a focus on sustainability, supply assurance, price assurance and insights/intelligence.

Tomas is a board-certified Internist with an extensive background in the acute, subacute and ambulatory arena. He has an extensive national presence in hospital medicine with the Society of Hospital Medicine in multiple areas pertaining to this field, where he was invited to be part of the inaugural class of Senior Fellows. While chief of hospital medicine at Baptist Health South Florida, Tom also started the system’s first palliative care program and Hospice GIP. He also has extensive experience in ambulatory and subacute acute care, prior to coming to Vizient.

Media: The Hospitalist
Podcast: Modern Practice

Mittal leads oversight for the industry-leading Novaplus® Enhanced Supply program, which gives Vizient members access to more than 100 million additional units of essential medications warehoused in the U.S. She leads a team that develops key strategic sourcing programs that focus on transparency, redundancy and commitment to support a resilient supply chain for essential medications, and to date, over a million doses of these critical medications have been accessed by health systems during a supply challenge.

Media: PSQH, Freight Waves, Journal of Healthcare Contracting

Margaret directs strategic planning and contracting for the Medical, Surgical, Lab and Med/Surg Distribution team, and the Impact Standardization program at Vizient. She is responsible for the strategy and execution of national agreements to deliver significant value and operational improvement for products and distribution services. Margaret also has oversight of several Member Councils, including Respiratory & Critical Care Anesthesia, Clinical & Supply, Perioperative, Wound Management and Lab.  She co-leads Vizient’s Supply Chain Strategic Council and is responsible for over $20 billion in annual spend.

Media: Repertoire, Modern Healthcare, Healthcare Purchasing News

Diana leads regulatory/accreditation advisory services with a team consisting of nurses, physicians, and life safety advisors. She provides education and coaching for member organizations’ compliance with The Joint Commission (TJC) standards and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation, including compliance assessments, education, intra survey coaching and post survey response activities including clarifications, corrections and adverse decision response.

Media: Relias Media, Vizient Newsroom

Aman has over 20 years of healthcare experience and is a board-certified internal medicine hospitalist. His areas of expertise include optimizing clinical value analysis programs, hospitalist programs (and other physician practices), care coordination services, clinical documentation improvement services, clinical quality and utilization and hospital and health system transformational consulting services.

Media : Business Wire, Vizient Newsroom

Tom directs the Vizient Research Institute, designed to provide independent thought leadership that contributes to a national movement toward a sustainable health care system capable of providing high quality, accessible and affordable care.

With a health care career spanning more than 25 years, Jim 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.

Using his background in hospital administration and expertise as a data scientist and change agent, Steve 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. Steve spends considerable time with the senior leaders of academic medical centers, providing insights for change in operational, financial and clinical areas.

As a member of the Sg2 consulting team, Andrew 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.

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

In his role as senior vice president of product strategy and innovation, Martin 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, Martin was senior vice president for MedAssets’ clinical operations consulting segment.

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

Media: Drug Topics

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

Media: United Press International, Healthcare Purchasing News

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

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 

Brian provides direction and support for advisory work related to ambulatory pharmacy. He helps health care organizations identify opportunities for implementing or expanding outpatient retail ambulatory, central fill and/or home delivery and specialty pharmacy operations. With over 25 years of experience in the health care industry, Brian's expertise spans multiple retail and ambulatory pharmacy market segments. 

Media: Becker's Hospital Review, Vizient Newsroom

In her role at Vizient, Nicole is responsible for the Vizient Chief Nurse, Quality and Medical Executives National Networks. A nurse for 25 years, with an emphasis on nursing leadership, Nicole joined Vizient in 2018 as a senior networks director with National Networks. In this role, she led the development of new networks, which hold strategic priority for Vizient including System Chief Nurse Executives and other network needs as they arise. Additionally, she develops the Vizient Nursing Leadership Series, Care to Lead podcast and other clinical education as needed. 

Media: Voice of Nursing Leadership, Vizient Newsroom, Vizient Care to Lead Podcast
Published: Nurse Leader, The Journal of Nursing Administration

Bryan leads strategic supplier engagement and category-based service models across Vizient, Provista, Sg2 and aptitude to create sustainable performance improvement through analytics, insights and expertise. Bryan has direct leadership responsibility for Vizient's Supplier Performance team and the Medical Device & Clinical Preference business. 

Media: Repertoire, MedTech Strategist, Healthcare Purchasing News

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

In her role at Vizient, Gena is responsible for solutions supporting cultural transformations, building improvement and sustainability infrastructures, embedding regulatory compliance into the foundation of quality and safety programs, and collaborating and improving through a Patient Safety Organization to decrease harm events. Through her decade tenure with Vizient, Gena has developed and executed multiple strategic, operational and performance improvement solutions all aimed at supporting healthcare organizations’ journey to achieve and sustain performance excellence.

In her role at Vizient, Ellen 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.”

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