David Entwistle is President and CEO of Stanford Health Care (SHC). He is a recognized health care thought leader on hospital quality improvement, digital health innovation, and sustainability in health care. Among other achievements, Entwistle championed the development and implementation of an integrated strategic plan that aligns Stanford Health Care, the Stanford School of Medicine, and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health behind a common vision and strategic initiatives. He also spearheaded the completion of the new Stanford Hospital, which opened to patients in fall 2019, representing the culmination of more than a decade of planning and a critical component of Stanford Medicine’s COVID-19 response. SHC has continues to achieve recognition for quality, safety, and excellence from Vizient, Leapfrog, U.S. News & World Report, and CMS. Entwistle joined SHC in 2016 with extensive executive experience leading academic medical centers. He serves on the boards of Vizient and the American Hospital Association, and is a past board member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Teaching Hospitals and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Traci serves as the President at Texas Health Harris Methodist Southlake Hospital Southlake.  

Traci has made it her mission to take her passion for improving healthcare to various health systems including 9 years as a Vice President of Operations with the Baylor Health System. Traci's role of change agent fostered success by maintaining a balanced focus on improving operations, financial and satisfaction initiatives. Traci has been recognized for her ability to assist organizations in achieving desired results by engaging people and changing behaviors in the workplace.

By implementing a proven approach to excellence Traci helped her organizations create a culture that is built on the foundation of leadership and is focused on excellence in service, people, quality, finance, and growth. She has a proven record of accomplishment in increasing employee retention and creating cultures where patient care staff and management work cooperatively for the good of the patient.

With a broad background, including hospital operational responsibilities, finance, quality management and strategic planning, Traci has a results oriented philosophy and passion for employee, physician and patient satisfaction, leadership development and organizational culture change.  Traci contributes more than 20 years of clinical and management experience. Traci brings a practical, hands-on management approach to organizations. She is especially comfortable working with senior leaders, physicians, leadership teams and staff to align their goals with behavior to achieve operational excellence.

Traci understands the persistence it takes to shift a hospital culture, and has personally experienced the satisfaction it brings to watch an organization become one where employees want to work, physicians want to practice medicine and patients receive exceptional health care. Traci is passionate about operational and service excellence and creating great places for people to work and patients to receive care. This passion translates to results.

Aaron Bujnowski is a Director and IDN Lead with Chartis. Mr. Bujnowski’s healthcare career spans over 17 years. He focuses on developing innovative enterprise strategies that enable integrated delivery networks and their leaders to create lasting competitive advantage. He also helps PE firms to effectively make buy- or sell-side decisions and deliver increased value through their portfolio companies. 

Prior to joining The Chartis Group, Mr. Bujnowski was the system Chief Strategy Officer at Texas Health Resources, a ~$5B integrated health system where he spent nearly nine years. He was responsible for developing and implementing strategies across the entire enterprise, including acute, post-acute, ambulatory, physician, consumer, and value-based approaches His experience includes more than four years with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he served as a core member of BCG's strategy and health care practices. He was also a founding member of BCG’s PE practice, spending time on Wallstreet working on deals with many of the country’s largest PE firms. 

While at Chartis, Mr. Bujnowski has worked with large IDNs on major strategic efforts, including enterprise strategy development and implementation, service line strategy and structure, consumer strategy, and strategic and community partnership development. He has also helped accelerate the growth of the PE practice, working on buy-side due diligence efforts and sell-side efforts in the health provider space. Leveraging his previous in-house strategy experience, he has also worked on value-enabling efforts for PE portfolio companies, which have resulted in identifying significant sources of organic and inorganic growth and operational efficiencies for his clients.

Mr. Bujnowski holds a master's degree in business administration from The University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with the highest honors. He also holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in chemical engineering with a biomedical emphasis from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he graduated with honors. He is currently a candidate to receive a Doctor of Science in Healthcare Leadership from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In 2015, Mr. Bujnowski became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and is president-elect of its North Texas Chapter. 

Dr. Jonathan Clark is interim department chair and professor of management at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Clark began serving a second stint as department chair in 2022, after serving in that role from 2018 to 2021 and as interim associate dean of undergraduate studies in 2021. He joined the UTSA faculty in 2015 after serving on the faculty at Penn State University, where he also served as executive director of the Master of Health Administration program. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard Business School, and a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. His undergraduate degree in economics is from Boston College.

Dr. Clark has research interests in leadership and strategic management, with specific interest in understanding how leaders and organizations create the conditions under which individuals, groups and organizations do their best collective work. To date, his work has addressed issues broadly related to strategic leadership, organization design and organizational learning, with a special emphasis on how these issues play out in the health care industry. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Production and Operations Management, Health Affairs, and Health Care Management Review, among other outlets.

Dr. Clark’s portfolio of teaching experience includes courses, seminars, and training programs focused on helping aspiring leaders and executives understand, practice, and cultivate leadership more effectively in their personal and professional lives. Prior to his career in academia, he worked in the consulting industry and helped to nurture two startups. He and his wife Deborah are the parents of three boys.

Jennifer Danielson serves as executive vice president and chief health plan officer for Minnesota-based HealthPartners, the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation, serving 1.2 million patients, and 1.8 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. In this role, she leads and guides HealthPartners health plan in its efforts to continually innovate and grow. She is also responsible for organization-wide efforts to connect HealthPartners care and plan capabilities to make health care simpler and more affordable for employers, members, patients and the community.

Over the course of two and a half decades, Jennifer has focused her work on simply helping health care work better for people and calling the questions on the toughest challenges facing health care.

Prior to joining HealthPartners in 2023, Danielson was the chief growth officer at Collective Health, a California-based health and well-being organization. She also previously served as president of Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Utah for six years and was senior vice president of public affairs and policy at Cambia Health Solutions, a non-profit health company serving more than 3 million members.

In her work in the community, Jennifer is passionate about helping young leaders understand and develop their potential and opportunities, and works with Friends of the Children, an organization committed to ending intergenerational poverty through a data-driven professional partnership model. As a nationally- recognized speaker, Jennifer speaks on transformation in healthcare, and the value in healthcare that consumers demand. 

Ms. Danielson graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and received a J.D. from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. 

As one of the original four KLAS founders, Adam thrives on creating transparency in the healthcare world.  He has worked with hundreds of healthcare provider professionals, listening to the successes and challenges along their journey and shining a light on opportunities to improve. He also consults with executives from hundreds of healthcare technology vendors and services firms, ranging from emerging technology solutions to market giants.  Adam’s research focus has been on core clinical and financial systems and everything in between (patient engagement, population health, ERP and much more). 

Adam is a HIMSS Fellow with twenty-five years of healthcare experience and has spoken on the reality of vendor performance at conferences around the country, including HIMSS, vendor user conferences, CHIME and his own backyard. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University in business information systems. Adam resides in Orem, Utah with his wife, Jenn, and their six children.

Sebastien (Seb) Girard serves as Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at Centura Health. Supporting a team of 25,000 outstanding caregivers, Seb is on a mission to serve, elevate and care for every community, every patient and every associate. Seb is an accomplished human resources leader with talents and practical skills in workforce planning, talent acquisition and management, HR technologies, and market disruption.

A native of Montreal, Canada, Seb joined Centura from Atrium Health in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he served as the Senior Vice President responsible for workforce engagement and workforce operations. He previously served as the Chief Workforce Officer at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas. He spent nearly fifteen years with Randstad, a Dutch-based global human resources consulting firm, in executive and operations roles in both the United States and Canada.

Seb has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He completed Randstad’s prestigious international Senior Executive Program and the Human Capital Institute’s strategic workforce planning development program. He also serves as an advisory board member with three independent HR companies innovating in nurse staffing, professional nurse development, and health care workforce managed solutions.  

In addition to his deep professional experience, Seb passionately supports giving back to the community and has engaged in international humanitarian projects to recruit and attract some of the world’s best engineers to support those in India living with mobility obstacles.

Tad Morley, MHA, FACHE, executive director of regional network, outreach, and telehealth has worked for the University of Utah Health since October 2012. In his current role, he oversees the business operations of clinical services delivered in 7 states, at over 100 sites, business development, strategic partnerships, and educational programs for 23 affiliates and medical groups practicing throughout the Intermountain West. He and his team, work with physicians, hospitals, payers, and employers to extend access to clinical care, improve clinical outcomes, and collaborate with healthcare providers in this region.

Tad is an adjunct faculty member in the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, Master of Healthcare Administration Program and Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business. He is also president of Alliance in International Medicine (AIM), a non-profit organization with the mission of providing education and training to healthcare providers to improve patient outcomes and elevate the quality of care available to people living in developing nations.

Prior to joining the University of Utah, Tad worked as a CEO and COO at hospitals in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon. Tad was also a member of Leavitt Partners, a leading domestic and international health care consulting firm. He provided strategic counsel to hospitals, health systems, payers, and private equity health care investors. His expertise in the health care industry has made Mr. Morley a sought-after speaker at conferences and senior executive meetings globally.

Mr. Morley graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in organizational communications and received a master’s in healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota. He is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Caleb Stowell is Chief, Strategy and Value Analytics at Providence. He leads analytics efforts to understand Providence’s position in a competitive west-coast landscape. He also leads analytics to support Providence’s value-based care business. As a physician by training, he is especially interested in how to engage physicians with data to support better clinical decisions that optimize both the outcomes and cost of care.

Prior to Providence, he helped found and lead the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), focusing on outcome standard development and stakeholder engagement. He received his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and was Senior Researcher at Harvard Business School for 6 years.

 Keith Thurgood is a Clinical Professor of Healthcare Leadership and Management at the Jindal School of Management of the University of Texas at Dallas where he also the Director of graduate program in healthcare leadership and management and is an Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship.  In addition to his responsibilities at UT Dallas, Dr. Thurgood is a faculty member and senior advisor for the Thayer Leader Development Group (West Point, New York). 

Dr. Thurgood brings a unique perspective on healthcare, operations management and leadership having served at senior level leadership positions in for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.   Most recently Dr. Thurgood has returned to UTD following a 14-month sabbatical following an appointed by the Secretary of Defense Chief Management Officer to lead the largest global community services, retail and grocery reform effort in a generation. He was also President, Spend and Clinical Management, MedAssets, a healthcare performance improvement company.  He also served as President and CEO of Overseas Military Sales Corporation and as the Senior Vice President of Operations for Sam’s Club. He also served as the CEO of The Exchange (formerly the Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), the United States Department of Defense’s $10 billion global for-profit retail enterprise and he has also held executive positions with Frito-Lay and PepsiCo. In addition to his civilian job, he has over 28 years of Army service, both active and reserve.  Major General Thurgood served as the Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff, United States Army Reserve in Washington, D.C.  His last assignment prior to his retirement was the Deputy, Business Transformation, Office of the Secretary of the Army.  During his tour of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was the Commanding General of the Army’s largest transportation and distribution command and simultaneously the Deputy Commanding General of the theater logistics support / supply chain command 

Dr. Thurgood serves on numerous not-for profit boards.  Dr. Thurgood holds a BA in Political Science from Brigham Young University, a MS in Strategic Studies from the Army War College, a MS in Business Administration from Boston University and a PhD in Organizational Development and Leadership from Capella University. He is a frequent nationally recognized speaker on leadership and operations management. 

Ben Smalley serves as the COO at St. Mary’s Hospital, Intermountain Health’s 350-bed, Level II Trauma Center, located in Grand Junction, Colorado. Since joining Intermountain eight years ago, he has worked in their medical group in Logan, Utah, and then as the CEO of two different rural hospitals, the first in Utah and then another in Idaho. 

Prior to Intermountain, Ben worked for Sentara Healthcare based in Norfolk, Virginia, where he was the director for a 50-provider cardiology group and then led strategic planning at Sentara Virginia Beach Hospital. 

Ben holds master’s degrees in healthcare and business administration from the University of Minnesota and a bachelor’s degree in social psychology from BYU. Ben’s favorite thing to do outside of work is spend time with his wife, Melissa, and their five perfectly behaved children. 

Dan Springer is currently the Chief Operating Officer at MultiCare Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington. Over the years, he has served in executive leadership positions at large and small hospitals across the country, most recently as CEO for a hospital in the Providence Health system.

Dan’s commitment to and focus on organizational culture, including employee, physician and patient engagement has produced high performing teams and results. With particular interest in building programs and expanding services, Dan has participated in new hospital builds, developed and opened new service lines, and expanded offerings to the communities that he has served in. Early in his career he had a unique opportunity to work for Studer Group, which is where his passion for patient experience and leader development stemmed from. While his professional achievements bring fulfillment, his most important priorities and callings in life are that of husband and father, with an incredible wife, Brooke, and four kids between the ages of 11 and 5 years old.