Future of Health Care Conference Agenda

Abbie Miller is a family medicine physician currently serving as the Chief Medical Officer for UnitedHealthcare Commercial Plans in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas in the Health Care MBA program. As a hospitalist and physician executive, she previously held clinical roles at several Minnesota metro area health systems. Miller received her Medical Degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and her MBA from the University of St. Thomas.

Ken Holmen, MD, serves as President and CEO of CentraCare, providing leadership and strategic direction for CentraCare and its 12,000 employees across Central, Southwest and West Central Minnesota. CentraCare includes St. Cloud Hospital, Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, seven critical access hospitals, and more than 30 clinics and specialty centers. Affiliated with the University of Minnesota are two Family Practice Residency Programs and a medical school. CentraCare also collaborates with educational institutions and supports more than 1,000 students within the organization each year. Dr. Holmen graduated from Augsburg College, earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed five years of post-doctoral and residency work at the University of Minnesota. He is a board-certified anesthesiologist.

Tommy Ibrahim, MD, MBA, MHA, is Executive Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer for Sanford Health. In this role, he oversees Technology, Digital Strategy, AI Strategy, Enterprise Data Analytics, innovation and Sanford Research, leading strategies to modernize the delivery of care. Prior to becoming the CTO, Dr. Ibrahim served as President and CEO of Sanford Health Plan, which serves 425,000 members across six states. Before joining Sanford Health, he served as President and CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network and held leadership positions with INTEGRIS Health, MercyOne and St. John’s Hospital. Dr. Ibrahim is a board-certified hospitalist and industry thought leader who regularly speaks and publishes on topics focused on advancing rural health and transforming care delivery models through innovation and technology.

Megan Remark, MHA, M is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the HealthPartners care group, leading the system’s hospitals and clinics across Minnesota and western Wisconsin. With more than 30 years of health care experience, she has served in several roles since joining the organization in 1995, including nine years as president of Regions Hospital in St. Paul.

Throughout her career, Remark has been committed to workforce development, affordable housing, and advancing diversity, equity and inclusion. She was named to the 2025 Twin Cities Business 100 list, and received the 2023 Leadership Award from Women’s Health Leadership TRUST. Her honors also include the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 40 Under 40 and Women in Business awards. Remark received a master's degree in Health Care Administration and MBA from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. David Herman serves as Chief Executive Officer for Essentia Health, leading an organization of 15,000 colleagues who are united in their mission to make a healthy difference in people’s lives across North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Dr. Herman received his medical degree from Mayo Medical School and completed his residency in ophthalmology at Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education. He served on the Mayo Clinic staff for more than two decades, including leadership roles with Mayo Clinic Health System and the Mayo Clinic Management Team. Following his time at Mayo, Dr. Herman became CEO of Vidant Health in North Carolina before joining Essentia Health in 2015. He also serves on several national and regional healthcare boards.

Jennifer Boese is Director of Health Care Policy and Innovation at CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP). She has worked across state and federal government and the private sector, bringing decades of experience in public policy, government relations and the healthcare industry. Her work at CLA focuses on thought leadership, policy analysis and strategic insights for healthcare providers across the continuum of care. A key focus of that work is on innovations, emerging payment models and transformation.

Throughout her career, Boese has led the development of new programs, structures and strategic approaches designed to align organizations around shared goals. She holds a Master of Science in Management, Strategy and Leadership from Michigan State University. Boese has also served on statewide, national and international NGO boards and has been frequently published.

Marc Baer serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the nation's leading nonprofit provider of inpatient and outpatient addiction and mental health care for adults and youth. He has worked in the healthcare industry for more than 26 years and is known as a strategist, operator, business leader and attorney with a passion for community health and team development. Prior to joining HBFF, Baer served in leadership roles at Centene Corporation, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Target Corporation and UnitedHealth Group. He currently serves on the boards of Second Harvest Heartland and the Angel Foundation. Baer received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and a bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College.

Dr. Francie Broghammer is a psychiatrist and physician executive serving as Medical Director of Anoka Metro Regional Treatment Center (AMRTC), Minnesota’s flagship state psychiatric hospital. Her leadership centers on modernizing public psychiatric care through high-reliability principles, interdisciplinary collaboration, patient safety and access to evidence-based treatment.

Her work has focused on reducing harm, strengthening management of complex behavioral crises and growing clinical capacity through expanded access to care, education, and development of interventional psychiatric services. During a period of unprecedented strain on Minnesota’s mental health system, this sustained performance helped secure $75 million in legislative bonding to expand the hospital by 50%, marking the hospital's first capital expansion in decades. Dr. Broghammer completed medical school and residency training at the University of California, Irvine and earned her Health Care MBA from the University of St. Thomas.

Craig Warren is a social impact catalyst with leadership experience across the public, private and nonprofit sectors. He is motivated by a desire to create more equitable community outcomes around education, income, employment and mental health. Warren currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at Washburn Center for Children, which nurtures the well-being and full potential of children and families through children’s mental health care. Prior to joining Washburn Center, he served as Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at the Minnesota Children’s Museum. His professional experience also includes leadership roles at Greater Twin Cities United Way, Best Buy and The Coca-Cola Company. Warren earned his master’s degree from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and his bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University.

Andy Kelly is a healthcare executive specializing in behavioral health and value-based care. He has scaled programs from $50M to over $3B in managed spend, impacting more than 800,000 lives while advancing measurement-informed care and innovative reimbursement models.

He recently joined Boulder Care as Chief Commercial Officer, where he leads payer partnerships, footprint expansion, and commercial strategy to advance access to sustance use disorder care.

Colleen Fitzgerald Lorenz is the Chief Operating Officer at Lorenz Clinic of Family Psychology, an outpatient mental health clinic group with eight locations throughout the Twin Cities metro. She has more than 20 years of experience leading teams and growing sustainable business operations, with a particular passion for recognizing potential and developing emerging leaders. Lorenz holds a bachelor’s degree and a Health Care MBA, both from the University of St. Thomas.

Dr. Scott Ketover serves as President and CEO of MNGI Digestive Health, one of the largest independent gastroenterology practices in the country. He completed his medical degree, residency and GI fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Ketover previously served as founding president of the Digestive Health Physicians Association, a national patient care advocacy organization representing 3,000 independent gastroenterologists. His clinical interests include the role of therapeutic diets and the intestinal microbiome in improving illness and promoting wellness. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Ketover is committed to physician leadership and practice management. He is a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Susan Truman, MD, FACR, is President and CEO of Midwest Radiology, one of the three largest independent radiology practices in the United States. Based in the Twin Cities, Midwest Radiology includes 195 physicians and 25 advanced practice providers delivering care at more than 90 hospitals and 250 outpatient clinics across Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota. Dr. Truman earned her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, where she was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. She completed her residency and abdominal imaging fellowship at Yale. Throughout her career, Dr. Truman has held leadership roles spanning clinical operations, health system administration and physician governance, including serving as medical director of radiology for Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Health System and completing a six-year Chief of Staff progression at Regions Hospital, including two years as Chief of Staff.

Troy Simonson launched True North Health Partners in 2023 with a focus on assisting health care organizations achieve excellence in organizational alignment, strategy, innovation and enterprise services. He also serves as CEO of Seattle-based Proliance Surgeons, an independent multispecialty practice with more than 100 locations across Washington, including 15 ambulatory surgery centers. Previously, Simonson served as CEO of Revo Health and Twin Cities Orthopedics. He co-authored Be the Difference: Bringing Goodness Back to Healthcare, a book focused on culture, governance and leadership. Simonson began his health care career in 1995 and previously worked with Banner Health Systems and Regina Medical Center. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Concordia College.

Ryan Johnson is a nationally recognized lawyer for healthcare innovation. He helps clients develop and launch business models designed to improve healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability. Johnson serves as outside general counsel for digital health companies, healthcare providers and life sciences companies transforming care through innovation, science and technology. He regularly advises investors, senior executives and corporate boards on strategic threats and opportunities arising from emerging technologies and new laws and regulations affecting the healthcare industry. Johnson serves on the board of directors for the American Health Lawyers Association and as adjunct faculty of health law and policy for the University of St. Thomas Health Care MBA program. He previously studied European healthcare innovation as German Marshall Fund Memorial Fellow. Johnson also co-chairs Fredrikson & Byron’s Life Sciences Group.

Abhinav Shashank is the cofounder and CEO of Innovaccer, a San Francisco-based healthcare AI company on a mission to transform how care is delivered and experienced. He is championing a bold vision for Autonomous Healthcare – a future where intelligence is embedded into every workflow, friction is engineered out of care delivery, and technology works quietly in the background so clinicians and patients can focus on what matters most.

David W. Johnson is CEO of 4sight Health, a thought leadership and advisory company working at the intersection of strategy, economics, innovation and capital formation. Prior to founding 4sight Health in 2014, Johnson spent many years in health care investment banking. He earned a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. Employing his knowledge and experience in health policy, economics, behavioral finance, disruptive innovation, organizational change and complexity theory, Johnson writes and speaks on pro-market healthcare reform. He is the author of Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare and The Customer Revolution in Healthcare: Delivering Kinder, Smarter, Affordable Care for All. His latest book, co-authored with Paul Kusserow, is The Coming Healthcare Revolution: 10 Forces that Will Cure America’s Healthcare Crisis.

Brenton W. Hill, JD, MHA, is Head of Operations and General Counsel at the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a nonprofit thought partner organization dedicated to providing guidelines for the responsible use of AI in healthcare. Trained as an attorney and health care administrator, Hill approaches his work from a risk-informed and operational perspective. Prior to joining CHAI, he served as Regulatory Strategy and Compliance Manager for Mayo Clinic Platform, helping identifying its approach to emerging AI regulation and risk mitigation strategies. He also served on Mayo Clinic’s SaMD Review Board, which provides governance for AI models being implemented at Mayo Clinic, and was Mayo Clinic's first legal-trained Administrative Fellow. Hill completed his undergraduate studies at Arizona State University and earned his JD and MHA at the University of Kentucky.

Maureen Prunty, MHA, serves as administrator for Automation and Integration at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, where she leads automation and digital integration efforts across clinical and administrative practice areas. She also oversees the Office of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants and leads the Practice Innovation and Excellence team of health systems engineers. Since joining Mayo Clinic in 2019 as an administrative fellow, Prunty has held leadership roles across neurology, clinical ethics and operational innovation. Her work focuses on aligning innovation with ethical practice, workforce development and patient-centered care. Prior to Mayo Clinic, she worked in strategy at Penn State Health, mission delivery at the Make-A-Wish Foundation and served as an AmeriCorps member in St. Louis.

Senthil S. Kumaran is Chief Information Officer for MNGI Digestive Health, where he spearheads digital transformation and innovation efforts to optimize health care delivery. He brings more than 30 years of experience in software engineering and strategic leadership, with expertise in cloud-native architecture, applied AI and machine learning.

A recognized thought leader in DevOps and agile methodologies, Kumaran also serves as an adjunct professor at Concordia University, teaching graduate-level courses in software engineering and data management. He has delivered more than 100 presentations at international technical and healthcare conferences. Previously, Kumaran was technical co-founder of Virtuwell, where he helped architect a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform that served more than one million patients. He holds a master’s degree in electronics engineering and an MBA.

Blake Darsow is the Chief Financial Officer of Midwest Radiology, one of the largest physician-owned radiology practices in the United States. He enjoys working with physicians and administrative leaders on strategy, financial performance, managing growth, and making good decisions in resource-constrained environments. Darsow also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, where he teaches accounting, finance, and leadership in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs. His teaching emphasizes financial literacy, financial decision-making, and the role of practical wisdom in effective leadership. Prior to joining Midwest Radiology, Darsow spent more than a decade with CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), where he provided assurance, consulting, financial modeling, and strategic advisory services to healthcare organizations. He is a licensed CPA in Minnesota and holds bachelor's degrees in accounting and political science from the University of Minnesota Duluth, along with an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.

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Dr. Marjorie R. Jenkins is Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, where she serves as chief academic officer for the school and chief fiduciary officer for UND’s Division of Health Affairs, guiding academic programs, research initiatives, health system partnerships, and fundraising efforts. A tenured professor of internal medicine, Dr. Jenkins previously served as dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Chief Academic Officer for Prisma Health - Upstate. She has also held senior roles at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health. Dr. Jenkins is recognized for her expertise in sex as a biological variable, precision women’s health, rural health, and multidisciplinary medical education. She holds degrees in chemical engineering, medicine, and a master’s in education for the health professions.

Dinesh Bande, MD, MBA, FACP, is a Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, Chair of Internal Medicine, and Associate Dean for Academic and Clinical Integration at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He graduated from Kurnool Medical College, completed residency training at the UND Internal Medicine residency program, and received his Health Care MBA from the University of St. Thomas.

Dr. Bande joined Sanford Health as a hospitalist in 2011, and currently serves as a hospitalist and physician advisor in Utilization Management. Since 2017, he has served as chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, overseeing medical education (residencies and fellowships), clinical care, research, and other administrative functions in collaboration with multiple teaching hospitals. He currently serves as Chair Elect of Faculty Academic Council advising UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

Dr. Bande is the Governor Elect of the North Dakota Chapter of American College of Physicians, and a member of the Graduate Business Alumni Board at the Opus College of Business. He served as Vice President and is a founding member of the North Dakota Chapter Society of Hospital Medicine. An active educator and mentor, he has contributed to more than 50 poster presentations and authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications.