2025 Massachusetts Healthcare Summit

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Registration now open!

Join us Wednesday, November 12 on campus in the Student Union Ballroom for our third annual healthcare summit! Register now.

Coming together to solve the Commonwealth's biggest challenges in healthcare.

This year’s summit will focus heavily on the changing federal health policy landscape. Faced with deep spending cuts on health and academic research, we will explore how long-term care, hospitals, and university healthcare research is being affected.

Participate in discussions with clinicians, educators, policymakers, and healthcare organizations to share and problem-solve the needs of our healthcare system. Breakfast and lunch provided by award-winning UMass Dining. 

Formal program:
8:30AM – 1PM
Student Union Ballroom
UMass Amherst

Optional alumni program:
Afternoon tea and tour of UMass Nursing simulation lab
2PM – 3PM
Skinner Hall
Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
UMass Amherst

Robust sessions and panel discussions, such as:

• Navigating Headwinds in Healthcare: How Federal Policy and Market Forces are Colliding in Massachusetts
  Andy Shin, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Mass General Brigham
• Panel: How will Federal Policies Affect the Commonwealth of Massachusetts?
  Rod Motamedi,  Assistant Director, Economic & Public Policy Research, Donahue Institute; Sarah Goff, Professor, UMass Amherst School of Public Health; Laura Vandenberg, Associate Vice Chancellor and Vice Provost for Research & Engagement, UMass Amherst
• Hospital Leadership Discussion
  Kevin Whitney, President and Chief Operating Officer, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Mass General Brigham;  Scott Lichtenberger, Chief Operating Officer, Baystate Health; Patricia Noga, Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association
• Panel: Long-term Care and Home Health Leadership
  Maggie Messer, Director of Talent Acquisition and Employee Engagement, Integritus Healthcare; Angela Williams, Director of Nursing, Center for Extended Care at Amherst; Tara Gregorio, President, Massachusetts Senior Care Association; and Daniel Metzger-Traber, Vice President of Strategic Business Operations, Mass General Brigham at Healthcare at Home
• Panel: Out-of-the-Box Solutions During Unprecedented Times
  Ann Becker, Clinical Associate Professor, UMass Amherst College of Nursing; Barbra Rabson, President and CEO, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners; Jessica Zeidman, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Public Health, and Ryan Schwarz, Chief Office of Accountable Care and Behavioral Health, Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Thank you to our legislative sponsors!