A virtual mini-series
Join us for OptumLabs CONNECTIONS 2020: Building a Better Health System, a virtual mini-series beginning October 20, 2020. Through this five-part series, we'll explore some of health care’s biggest challenges through the lens of opportunity for action. We’ll hear from national thought leaders, Optum leaders and many OptumLabs researchers through a diverse mix of keynotes, short talks and interactive panel discussions.
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Session 1: Designing-In Health Care Equity to Make the System Work Better for Everyone
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Time: 1–3 p.m. ET
Keynotes and short talks:
• Action for change: Health equity at every touchpoint
• Hidden in plain sight — Reconsidering the use of race correction in clinical algorithms
Panel: Action plans for social justice in health
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Session 2: Integrating Behavioral Health as a Key Strategy for Driving the Quadruple Aim
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Time: 1–3 p.m. ET
Keynotes:
• Integrating behavioral health to enable value-based care
• Behavioral health and the quality measurement complex
• Virtual behavioral health care opportunities for those with chronic conditions or post-acute care needs
Panel: New models for integrating behavioral health
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Session 3: Virtual Ideas Exchange — OptumLabs Project Showcase
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Time: 12–2 p.m. ET
Seven researchers from our partner organizations will showcase their novel and high-value use of OptumLabs data. They'll tell the story of how the data is helping them generate new actionable evidence and insight to help improve the health care system.
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Session 4: Living Better through Health in the Home: Telemedicine, Digital and More
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Time: 1–3 p.m. ET
Keynotes and talks:
• Bringing health to the home beyond the hospital
• Transforming care delivery via telemedicine and digital
• Scaling for change
Panel: The telemedicine explosion
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Session 5: Chronic Kidney Disease Innovation and the Polychronic Population
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Time: 1–3 p.m. ET
Keynotes and talks:
• Kidney care now
• The opportunity to manage ESRD through Medicare Advantage plans
Short presentations w/ Q&A: Innovating around kidney care — through the research lens
Speakers
Series moderator: Kevin Larsen, MD, SVP, Clinical Innovation and Translation, OptumLabs
• Jay Agarwal, MD, MBA, Regional Medical Director, UnitedHealth Group
• Atum Azzahir, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Cultural Compliance Officer, Elder Consultant in African Ways of Knowing, Cultural Wellness Center
• Brendan Carr, MD, Chairman of Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Health System, and former Director of Emergency Care Coordination at HHS
• Aric Coffman, MD, CEO, Everett Clinic, OptumCare
• Patrick Conway, MD, CEO, Care Solutions, Optum
• Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MSc, Director, Center for Health Equity Research, UNC; Co-Director, Advancing Change Leadership Clinical Scholars Program
• Amar Desai, MD, CEO, Optum Care California
• Chyke Doubeni, MBBS, MPH, Director, Mayo Center for Health Equity and Community Engagement Research
• Stephan Dunning, MS, MBA, PMP, Senior Program Director, OptumLabs;
• Leo Eisenstein, MD, Internal Medicine Resident, NYU Langone Medical Center
• Ana Fuentevilla, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Optum Population Health Solutions
• Kristi Henderson, DNP, SVP, Innovation and Telehealth, Optum Health
• Kam Kalantar, MD, MPH, PhD, Chief, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, University of California Irvine
• Katherine Hobbs Knutson, MD, MPH, SVP, Mental Health Care Delivery, Optum Behavioral Care
• Bruce Leff, MD, Director, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research and Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
• David Mohr, PhD, Director, Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern
• Sam Nordberg, PhD, Chief of Behavioral Health, Reliant Medical Group, OptumCare
• Margaret O’Kane, MS, Founder & President, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• Steve Ommen, MD, Cardiologist and Director, Mayo Center for Connected Care
• Reena Pande, MD, MSc, Chief Medical Officer, AbleTo
• Sharon Pearce, SVP, Government Affairs, National Kidney Foundation
• Brian Phillips, Consultant, UnitedHealth Group
• Harold Pincus, MD, Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
• Connie Rhee, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of California Irvine
• Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, FACP, President and CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
• Rhonda Robinson Beale, MD, SVP, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Mental Health Services, UnitedHealth Group
• Martin Rosenzweig, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Optum Behavioral Health
• Sonia Samagh, MD, MBA, Lead, Digital Acceleration Team, and Lead, Optum COVID Digital Response Team
• Donna Spencer, PhD, Principal Scientist, OptumLabs
• Mitchell Thornbrugh, Chief Information Officer, Indian Health Service
• Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA, Professor and Chair, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
• Kerry Willis, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, National Kidney Foundation
• Charlotte Yeh, MD, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, Inc
• OptumLabs partner researchers presenting their projects through the lens of the value of the data