Ujjwal Ramtekkar, MD, MBA, CPE

Ujjwal Ramtekkar, MD, MBA, CPE is a physician executive, healthcare strategist and operator who partners with founders, investors, and leadership teams to build and scale clinically differentiated healthcare companies. His experience spans executive leadership across payer, provider, digital health, and value-based care organizations, with expertise in behavioral health, healthcare AI, virtual care, employer health, and clinical operations.
He advises on product strategy, clinical validation, care model design, medical affairs, reimbursement and regulatory strategy, helping companies navigate the path from early product development to enterprise adoption and scalable growth. He completed psychiatry residency at Washington University in St. Louis and fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and holds an MBA focused on healthcare operations and a MPE focused on population health strategy, bringing a unique combination of clinical, operational, and commercial perspectives to healthcare innovation.

Dr. Michael Kupferman is CEO of Penn State’s $4.2 billion health system. In this role he works closely with Penn State College of Medicine Dean Dr. Karen Kim and other leaders of the College of Medicine and University to foster increased collaboration across the clinical and academic enterprises. In addition to his administrative duties as CEO, Kupferman intends to continue caring for head and neck cancer patients, as well as teaching medical students, residents and fellows. He holds a College of Medicine faculty appointment as a professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.

Kupferman is a fellowship trained head and neck cancer surgeon who completed his clinical and research fellowships at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he served as senior vice president of clinical and academic network development from 2006 to 2022. He led the development, management and growth of clinical oncology and research programs across the MD Anderson Cancer Network, inclusive of all domestic and international relationships. He joined Penn State Health after serving as president of the Banner University Medicine Division and senior vice president of the physician enterprise for Phoenix-based Banner Health, one of the largest health systems in the U.S. His responsibilities at Banner included academic medicine, system and service line strategy, hospital and medical group operations, patient access and health network performance.

He earned his bachelor’s in political science and biology from Yeshiva University, and received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his surgery internship and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a master’s in business administration from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. He is board-certified in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery.

Dr. Jordan Asher is a seasoned physician-executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in large, matrixed healthcare systems. He currently advises a range of healthcare companies focused on technology-enabled care delivery & innovation and serves as a Director at Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD).
Most recently, Dr. Asher was EVP and Chief Clinical Officer at Sentara Health, a leading Integrated Delivery Network. At Sentara, he led efforts to develop high-quality, equitable, and consumer-centered models of care. His portfolio included oversight of Clinical Quality and Safety, Clinical Effectiveness, Innovation, Research, the Clinically Integrated Network (Sentara Quality Care Network and ACO), Nursing, Academic partnerships, Residency Training, and the system’s High-Performance Design initiative.
Before Sentara, Dr. Asher held multiple leadership roles at Ascension Health and also served as Assistant Dean at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center’s Nashville campus.
Dr. Asher is a national thought leader on population health, value-based care, clinical integration, and payment model transformation. His work emphasizes cultural sensitivity, care equity, and delivering outcomes across the continuum—from individual care to community health.

Lainie Dean is a seasoned strategy executive whose growth-minded vision positively impacts a vast array of industries including healthcare, manufacturing, and others. Known for her big-picture thinking and problem-solving skills, Lainie not only achieves desired revenue numbers through streamlining processes and procedures but also builds high-performing teams by enhancing engagement, empowering individuals, and leading with empathy.

Lainie has a unique know-how when envisioning a plan of action. She sees the possibilities and measurable impact as she’s “wired” with a creative thought process and a high level of curiosity. She’s a strong synthesizer of information — able to boil-down complex topics, quickly gain a sense of focus, and then prioritize tasks for the team. She’s made a career of building lasting relationships by connecting people and creating deep levels of understanding. As a leader, she has mentored executives at all career stages by being invested in their future.

Currently, Lainie serves on two Advisory Boards: Kilele Health, which provides wearable remote biochemical monitoring devices for cardiometabolic diseases, empowering doctors and patients with real-time data; and Ecton: the world’s most advanced patient-provider healthcare payment platform powered by AI.

Prior to this, Lainie was the Chief Strategy Officer at Premier Health, a health system comprised of five hospitals in southwest Ohio that contributes $2.4B a year in economic impact. There, she designed and implemented comprehensive strategic plans, led innovative initiatives, and developed joint ventures and partnerships that resulted in revenue growth and operational impact. Her leadership earned her the 2022 Dayton Business Journal Power 50 Award.

Lainie earned her Master’s of Hospital and Health Administration at Xavier University and her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.  She has Certificates of Achievement from Yale and Villanova University, excelling in Women on Boards, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Lean Six Sigma.

Adding value and making a difference for individuals and organizations is at Lainie’s core.  She is a Board of Trustee Member at Chaminade Julienne High School, serving on the Governance Committee and Chairing the Marketing and Admissions Committee.

Dr. Di Capua is a board certified internist with a business background and formal training in health services research.  He studied neurobiology at Harvard University, then went to Yale University for a joint degree, MD, MBA. He trained in internal medicine at Stanford and UCLA. He is interested in designing healthcare systems for its users (patients, caregivers, physicians, and other health professionals) by using data, design principles, and organizational behavior. He is the Regional Medical Officer for Caremore Health in Connecticut, where is leading the implementation of a program in home-based primary care.

Alla Onitskansky is a leader in the senior care and rehabilitation space.  A trained physical therapist, Ms. Onitskansky has distinguished herself by developing innovative programs that both improved patient health and supported growth of internal rehabilitation departments.

As a President of Rehabilitation Services for Rockport HealthCare Services, she moved rehabilitation services in-house and grew it into a key profit driver while simultaneously enhancing clinical programs. Prior to Rockport, Onitskansky was Senior Vice President Clinical Operations for Genesis Rehabilitation Services, where she built a nationwide clinical team that consistently delivered financial and clinical results.

Currently, Alla is President of People IQ Consulting working with a range of companies to deliver the clinical excellence and operational effectiveness that are her hallmark.

Alla earned her speech therapy degree at St. Petersburg University, physical therapy degree at Cleveland State University, MBA at Baldwin Wallace University.

Michael Skaff is the Chief Information Officer for Sequoia Living.

Skaff previously served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer for the Jewish Senior Living Group, which supports the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, the largest private nonprofit Skilled Nursing Facility in California.

Skaff was recognized as a Corporate Finalist by the 2022 Bay Area CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards for his leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, mobilizing a digital workforce and constructing an effective model of the future of work for SNFs. He has been named one of the Top 20 Most Innovative Midmarket CIOs by CRN and was nominated to the Business Transformation 150 by Constellation Research, for his work in healthcare-specific technology.

Pamela Gill is a healthcare and not-for-profit consultant who brings experience as a clinical provider who has served in multiple executive positions, most recently as the President and CEO of Recovery Resources, a comprehensive non-profit behavioral health care organization where she led the acquisition of the agency by a major academic medical Center. Pam has had an extensive career in hospital and healthcare administration including leadership positions at The Cleveland Clinic, a global healthcare organization. Pam is a registered nurse; her clinical background is in neurosciences and her areas of interest are strategic planning and population health management. Pam has keen interest in innovative solutions through both technology, business partnerships and systems organization. Pam’s career has included strategic experience in multiple health system mergers and acquisitions

A Cleveland, Ohio native, she holds a nursing degree, a bachelor’s degree in Health Care Administration and a master’s degree in biomedical ethics. She is passionate about the arts and community development serving on multiple boards.

Dr. Avi Tsur, M.D is the Founder and Director of the Sheba Women’s Health Innovation Center, a collaborative effort or ARC, the Sheba Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and the Gertner Institute for Health Policy and Epidemiology.

Serves as Head of the Sheba Beyond Women’s Health Telemedicine Services providing cutting edge remote healthcare services across Israel and Beyond.

Clinically trained in the Hadassah Medical School, Sheba Medical Center and Stanford University Medical Center, and clinically serves as attending physician at the Sheba Antepartum (high-risk pregnancy) Department, High-risk Pregnancy Clinics and the Obstetrics and Gynecology Ultrasound Unit.

Leading a National Ministry of Health Committee, promoting telemedicine in women’s healthcare.

Dr. Tsur holds patents for several predictive machine learning models in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the founder of BirthAI.org and was the lead medical inventor of the Lioness, a mechanical device for prevention of preterm birth currently commercialized by Pregnantech.

Serves as principal investigator of several cutting edge studies –  PTBiome, precision gestational diabetes, and remote postdate fetal monitoring.  Author of 35 peer reviewed manuscripts and three book chapters.

Mentor at Biodesign Israel and the and at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) program in Healthcare Innovation.