IHI Forum Livestream

Can't attend the IHI Forum in Florida? No problem! Join the IHI Forum conversation via livestream and gain access to all of our main stage events, including our keynotes and spotlight sessions. In addition to real-time access to the cutting edge learnings shared at the Forum, Livestream participants can earn CE credits for a variety of disciplines and credit types (see CE info below).

Any Forum attendee who purchases the livestream pass may watch these mainstage events the day of, or they will be available for 90 days following the conclusion of the Forum. 

Some restrictions apply. Post-event keynote availability varies by speaker.

Livestream Fee: $345

2024 Main Stage Events

IHI Forum Keynote Speakers

Fauci Circle TEMPDr. Anthony Fauci is perhaps the most recognized and influential figure in public health and policy in modern time. With a career bookended by the HIV/AIDs and COVID-19 pandemics, Dr. Fauci’s impact spanned 7 presidents, covered 50 years of public service, and touched billions of lives. Dr. Fauci has served the country with a relentless pursuit of discovery and innovation. Serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for 38 years and being a public servant for more than 50 years, Dr. Fauci oversaw an extensive research portfolio devoted to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious and immune-mediated diseases. As the key advisor to 7 Presidents and their administrations, Dr. Fauci lead medical and public health preparedness and treatments against emerging infectious disease threats, including HIV/AIDS, pandemic influenza, Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19.  

Throughout his career, Dr. Fauci faced his research and his critics with an unwavering devotion to the science, and a deep concern and empathy for those suffering from disease, and a human-centered pragmatism that ultimately led to extraordinary results. Dr. Fauci’s memoir, On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service (out June 18, 2024), chronicles his fascinating life story from his childhood in Brooklyn to his unrivaled 50-year career as one of the most influential figures in public health. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, Dr. Fauci was at the forefront of HIV/AIDS research efforts and is recognized for his pivotal contributions to our current understanding of the disease and the development of preventative therapies and medications. During President George W. Bush’s administration, Dr. Fauci became one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which helped save more than 25 million lives throughout the developing world. Awarded by President George W. Bush both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest Presidential honor bestowed to a civilian and the National Medal of Science, the highest presidential honor bestowed to American scientists and engineers, Dr. Fauci’s trust in the science approach above political party agendas was a driving force during his illustrious career. His unwavering dedication to doing what’s best for the public fueled support for his scientific and medical contributions across political party lines. Dr. Fauci has been awarded numerous additional awards for his scientific and global health accomplishments, including the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, the Prince Mahidol Award from Thailand, the Robert Koch Gold Medal from Germany, and the Gairdner Global Health Award from Canada. Dr. Fauci is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and many other professional societies. He has been awarded 58 honorary doctoral degrees from U.S. and global universities, and has authored, coauthored, and edited more than 1,400 scientific publications, including major textbooks about internal medicine, infectious diseases, and autoimmune diseases. Following his retirement from the NIAID, Dr. Fauci joined Georgetown University as a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine. He also holds an appointment with the university’s McCourt School of Public Policy.  

 

 Locke Circle TEMPTembi Locke is a writer, entrepreneur, and thought leader in creativity and resilience. She is a New York Times best-selling author, actor, screenwriter, and TV producer with a passion for connecting with her audience both on the page and on the screen. In partnership with Hello Sunshine, Locke served as co-creator and executive producer for the adaptation of her memoir, "From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home," for Netflix. The series, “From Scratch,” became an instant global hit, spending weeks on Netflix’s Top Ten List in over thirty countries around the world and earning six NAACP Image Award nominations and the prestigious Los Angeles Film Italy award. Her aforementioned memoir was also a Reese’s Book Club pick and an instant bestseller. "From Scratch," published in 2019, begins with how Locke met her husband, a Sicilian chef, on a street in Florence during a study abroad program, and follows their cross-cultural love story over the next two decades. Although it was love at first sight for Locke and her husband, Saro, his family did not approve of him marrying a Black American woman. Reconciliation with his Sicilian family begins just as Saro is diagnosed with a rare cancer and Locke becomes his primary caregiver during his final years. The bestselling memoir also chronicles the three summers that Locke and her daughter spend in Sicily following Saro’s death as they begin to piece their lives together again. Finding solace in her mother-in-law’s presence and nourishment at her abundant table, Locke is able to reflect on her and Saro’s incredible romance and forge a new relationship with his family. In addition to her accomplishments as a writer and producer, Locke is an accomplished actor with over sixty film and television credits. She most recently held a recurring role on Netflix’s hit show, “Never Have I Ever.” Offscreen, she is a nationally recognized speaker, delivering keynotes on resilience, loss, creativity, and the power of storytelling. Her TEDx talk has been viewed by individuals and nonprofits around the world. She launched her podcast, “Lifted,” which features dynamic women sharing their stories of what and who have lifted their lives. Through her work, Locke aims to inspire people to embrace resilience, love, and the power of community. 

 

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Donald M. Berwick MD, MPP, FRCP, KBE, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is one of the leading scholars, teachers, and advocates in the world for the continual improvement of health care systems. He is a pediatrician, and a longstanding member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He founded and led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, now the leading global nonprofit organization in its field. He was appointed by President Obama as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he served in 2010 and 2011. He has counseled governments, clinical leaders, and executives in dozens of nations. He is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Philosophical Society. He has received numerous awards, including the Heinz Award for Public Policy, the Award of Honor of the American Hospital Association, and the Gustav Leinhard Award from the Institute of Medicine. For his work with the British National Health Service, in 2005 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed him Honourary Knight Commander of the British Empire, the highest honor awarded by the UK to a non-British subject.  

Kedar Mate, MD

Kedar Mate, MD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a member of the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Mate’s scholarly work has focused on health care quality, strategies for achieving large-scale change, and approaches to improving health equity and value. Previously Dr. Mate worked at Partners In Health, the World Health Organization, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and served as IHI’s Chief Innovation and Education Officer.  Dr. Mate is widely published, serves on multiple health system and health care technology boards, and has received multiple honors including serving as a Soros Fellow, a Fulbright Specialist, and an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow. He graduated from Brown University with a degree in American History and from Harvard Medical School with a medical degree. You can follow him on Twitter at @KedarMate.     

tom lee circle cutDr. Thomas Lee is an internist who practices at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Chief Medical Officer to Press Ganey, Inc. Prior to joining Press Ganey in 2013, Dr. Lee was Network President for Partners Healthcare System, the integrated delivery system founded by Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals. Dr. Lee has performed research leading to more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and five books, most recently Healthcare’s Path Forward (2023).  He became a Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. He is Editor-in-Chief of NEJM Catalyst and a member of the Editorial Board of The New England Journal of Medicine, the Board of Directors of Geisinger Health System, the Board of Directors of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the Board of Directors of Health Leads, and the Panel of Health Advisors of the Congressional Budget Office. He received is BA from Harvard College (1975) and his MD from Cornell University Medical College (1979), and then trained in internal medicine and then cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received a MSc in Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health in 1987.

 

DannaYoungCircleHeadshotDannagal G. Young, Ph.D. is a Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Delaware and Director of the University's Center for Political Communication. She studies the content, audience, and effects of nontraditional political information and how people make sense of their political worlds. She has published over seventy academic articles and book chapters on the content, psychology, and effects of political information, satire, and misinformation.  Her latest book, Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformationexplores the demand side of misinformation - that is, why we are attracted to falsehoods.  It was published in Oct 2023 with JHU Press.  Her first bookIrony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laugher in the U.S. examines satire and outrage as the logical extensions of the respective psychological profiles of liberals and conservatives (Oxford University Press, 2020) and is the winner of the 2021 Roderick Hart Book Award from the Political Communication division of the National Communication Association. 

IHI Forum Spotlight Session Presenters:

SP01: Dismantling Systemic Racism in Health Care Through Art, History, and Courageous Conversations

Michelle Browder, a Denver native, moved to rural Alabama at age 7, where she faced racial bullying. Her father challenged her to channel her energy into art, sparking her creativity. At 13, she started a hand-painted T-shirt business and later studied Graphic Design at the Art Institute of Atlanta. For over 35 years, Michelle has mentored marginalized youth through art and spoken word. She founded the I AM MORE THAN... Youth Empowerment Initiative and More Than Tours, offering transformative tours of Alabama. Michelle is also the artist behind The Mothers of Gynecology Monument, advocating for women's health through art and history.

SP02: How the Age Wave will Transform Health, Longevity and Health Care

Ken Dychtwald Over the past 45+ years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as North America’s foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care, economic and workforce implications of the age wave. Ken is a psychologist, gerontologist, and best-selling author of 19 books on aging-related issues. He was the executive producer and host of the highly rated/acclaimed PBS documentary, The Boomer Century: 1946–2046 which aired over 2,000 times on PBS stations nationwide as well as the public television special, Life’s Third Age. Sages of Aging is Ken’s latest national public television program featuring profound conversations with twelve of the leading pathfinders in the fields of aging. 

Since 1986, Ken has been the Founder and CEO of Age Wave, an acclaimed think tank and consultancy focused on the social and business implications and opportunities of global aging and rising longevity. He has served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum and was a featured speaker at two White House Conferences on Aging. In 2023, Ken has received the distinguished American Society on Aging Award for outstanding national leadership three times and, most recently, was awarded the President’s Award from ASA. American Demographics honored him as the single most influential marketer to baby boomers over the past quarter century. Ken and his wife, Maddy, recently received the Esalen Prize for their outstanding contributions to advancing the human potential of aging men and women worldwide. In 2018 he was awarded the Inspire Award from the International Council on Active Aging for his exceptional and lasting contributions to the active-aging industry and for his efforts to make a difference in the lives of older adults globally.

SP03: Transforming Safety: Making Sense of the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure & the National Action Plan

Beth Daley Ullem Patient Activist, Patients for Patient Safety US

Beth is the founder of Quality and Safety First, a governance advisory firm that supports health systems on their board quality and safety responsibilities. Beth was the project lead and lead author for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) White Paper: Framework for Effective Governance of Health System Quality. She was also an expert contributor to Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success and the Lucien Leape Institute’s White Paper entitled Shining a Light: Safer Healthcare Through Transparency. She also contributed on the governance guidelines for the HHS National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety and on many other healthcare metric development and standards assessment efforts.

Patricia McGaffigan VP Safety; President CBPPS, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Patricia is President, Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety, and Vice President, Safety at IHI and is senior sponsor of the IHI’s Lucian Leape Institute and co-chair of the National Steering Committee for Patient Safety. She is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS), an IHI Fellow and serves on numerous national committees, taskforces, technical expert panels and boards. She is the recipient of the AACN Lifetime Member Award, the 2023 University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Mary E. Luibel Distinguished Service Award and was named to the 2023 Becker’s Review List of Patient Safety Experts to Know. Patricia received her BS in Nursing from Boston College and her MS in Nursing from Boston University.

Michelle Schreiber Deputy Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Dr. Schreiber is the Deputy Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) at CMS, and the Director of the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group (QMVIG). Dr. Schreiber is a general internal medicine physician with over 25 years of clinical healthcare experience, and executive quality leadership of large health systems. She has a long history of advancing healthcare quality on a local, state and national level. Since arriving at CMS in 2018, Dr. Schreiber has led numerous quality initiatives, including MIPS transformation to value pathways, the modernization of the Hospital Stars program, and advancing digital quality measurement systems. Her current focus areas include Promoting Interoperability across care settings, Quality Measurement, and Patient Safety. During her time at CMS she has been on the boards of ACCME (continuing medical education) and Leapfrog. Dr. Schreiber served on the Board at the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) which sets forth standards for national information technology. 

Edward Yackel Executive Director, National Center for Patient Safety, Veterans Health Administration (VHA)

Dr. Yackel oversees the VHA Office of Patient Safety comprised of the National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS), Utilization Management, and Product Effectiveness. Dr. Yackel joined NCPS in December 2019 as Deputy Executive Director after retiring from an extensive military career reaching the rank of Colonel. He assumed his current duties in June 2021. Dr. Yackel, through his education, experience, and leadership, has had a tremendous impact on patient safety. He was instrumental in leading the Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) into a quality improvement journey establishing MEDCOM as a learning organization through several changes. One of the system-wide changes included engaging multidisciplinary teams in developing solution sets to improve health care outcomes. Dr. Yackel currently serves as a senior VA patient safety executive who provides national leadership for the formulation, establishment, operation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of effective management policies, programs, and practices for the Veterans Health Administration that maximize clinical patient safety delivered across the full continuum of care sites. Dr. Yackel received his Doctorate in Nursing from Duke University, his Master's in Nursing from the University of Michigan, Master's in Strategic Studies from the Army War College and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Lake Superior University.

SP04: Creating a Sustainable System for Integrated Diabetes Care: Linking the Key Ingredients

Jeffrey Boord Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Parkview Health System

Jeffrey Boord, MD, MPH is the Chief Quality and Safety Officer for Parkview Health System in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is a practicing adult endocrinologist. Dr. Boord is a graduate of the Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program and earned his master’s degree in public health from Vanderbilt University. In his current role, he oversees patient and workforce safety, quality and accreditation, infection prevention, and medical staff services. He served as Co-Chair of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Leadership Alliance’s Workforce Safety Workgroup from 2018-2022, and currently serves on the Indiana Hospital Association’s Council on Quality and Patient Safety.

Emma Eggleston Associate Vice President for Community Health Innovation, and Chief, Diabetes & Obesity Prevention, West Virginia University Health Sciences

Dr. Eggleston is the Associate Vice President of Community Health Innovation and Chief of Diabetes and Obesity Prevention at the West Virginia University School of Medicine, where she also directs the WVU Medicine East Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Health. Prior to taking her role in community health innovation, Dr. Eggleston was Dean of the Eastern Campus of WVU School of Medicine, and CEO of its affiliated practice plan. Dr. Eggleston received her master’s in public health and her medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has conducted health services research in diabetes in pregnancy, public health surveillance of diabetes, and the impact of health insurance design on diabetes disparities and outcomes.

Marie McDonnell Director, Diabetes Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Brigham Health System

Dr. McDonnell is Chief of the Diabetes Section in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston. She is the current Director of the Diabetes Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Massachusetts General Brigham health system. She has designed Diabetes services within two health systems in Boston. Her clinical and research focus is on health outcomes and implementation of scalable diabetes care services for marginalized patient populations. She has co-developed multiple national and international clinical practice guidelines and chairs the Endocrine Society Clinical Guidelines Committee.

SP05: Embedding Quality and Safety within Clinical Operations: How the Care Operating System Approach Designs Systems to Transform Health Care Delivery

Joshua Clark Vice President, Quality & Safety Operating Systems, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Josh Clark, RN, MHA, Vice President, Quality and Safety Operating Systems, Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), partners with health care systems to deploy a series of technology-enabled workflows that seamlessly embed quality, safety, and experience within clinical operations across a variety of settings. Prior to joining IHI, he served as the Senior Vice President of Quality and Safety Operations for Jefferson Health, an 18-hospital system covering the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. At Jefferson Health, he led the implementation of an industry-leading operating system that included an innovative serious safety event review program, enterprise escalating huddles, an organizational learning and triage platform, and a state-of-the-art enterprise analytics platform. Mr. Clark previously served as Enterprise Senior Director of Quality and Safety at Carilion Clinic. At Carilion, he helped develop and lead one of the largest clinically-informed human factors teams in the country. He has participated in National Quality Forum Action Teams for both Opioid Safety and Medication Safety and serves on the Board of the Health Care Improvement Foundation. His work to integrate translational human factors within clinical operations was recognized by the National Quality Forum with its 2018 Next Generation Innovator Award. His work at Jefferson Health was recognized by ECRI and ISMP’s 2021 Safety Excellence Award. Mr. Clark received his RN and Master of Healthcare Administration degrees from Jefferson College of Health Sciences.