Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Premier Healthcare Alliance
As senior vice president of public affairs for the Premier healthcare alliance, Blair Childs is the primary spokesperson and communications strategist for Premier on key issues and serves as liaison to the U.S. Congress, White House, healthcare policymakers, and other major bodies involved in healthcare policy and regulation. Based in Washington, D.C., Childs leads Premier's Advocacy, Communications and Conferences units and serves on the company's executive team.Childs has been at the center of policy issues in Washington, DC, for more than two decades, playing a leading role on issues impacting medical devices, pharmaceuticals, insurers and hospitals. Childs has been involved in developing and enacting Medicare and health reform legislation as well as leading the medical technology industry's development of a Code of Ethics. read more
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Family Medicine Residency of Idaho
Ted Epperly, M.D., FAAFP, a family physician in Boise, Idaho is President and CEO of the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho and clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.
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Director, Division of Pediatric Practice, American Academy Of Pediatrics
Sunnah Kim is currently the Director, Division of Pediatric Practice at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In this capacity, she provides oversight to practice management, health information technology, and other work related to the delivery of care in the pediatric office setting. In addition, she assists in coordinating efforts around the patient and family-centered medical home for her Department. The AAP is a national professional membership organization of 60,000 pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists, and pediatric surgical subspecialists. Since joining the AAP in 1999, Ms.Kim has also worked as the Manager, Screening Initiatives and the Director, Division of Community Health Services and was a clinical nurse specialist in a hospital-based pediatric neurology practice. read more
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