Chris Jennings is an over three decades-long health policy veteran of the White House, the Congress and the private sector. Jennings is currently President of Jennings Policy Strategies, a nationally respected health care consulting firm. In January 2014, he departed from his second tour of duty in the White House where he served President Obama as Senior Advisor to the President for Health Policy. He served in a similar capacity in the Clinton White House for nearly eight years.

From his positions in the executive branch, Jennings has helped implement the Affordable Care Act’s access and delivery reform provisions (for President Obama) as well as played leadership roles in the development, passage and implementation of bipartisan health reforms, such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program and major Medicare reforms in the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 (for President Clinton). In his decade of service in the U.S. Senate, he served as the Deputy Director of the Special Committee on Aging for three Senators (Glenn, Pryor, and Melcher) and led major reform efforts in the areas of long-term care, prescription drug coverage/cost containment, and rural health care.
Chris Jennings is an over three decades-long health policy veteran of the White House, the Congress and the private sector. Jennings is currently President of Jennings Policy Strategies, a nationally respected health care consulting firm. In January 2014, he departed from his second tour of duty in the White House where he served President Obama as Senior Advisor to the President for Health Policy. He served in a similar capacity in the Clinton White House for nearly eight years.

From his positions in the executive branch, Jennings has helped implement the Affordable Care Act’s access and delivery reform provisions (for President Obama) as well as played leadership roles in the development, passage and implementation of bipartisan health reforms, such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program and major Medicare reforms in the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 (for President Clinton). In his decade of service in the U.S. Senate, he served as the Deputy Director of the Special Committee on Aging for three Senators (Glenn, Pryor, and Melcher) and led major reform efforts in the areas of long-term care, prescription drug coverage/cost containment, and rural health care.

Tom Scully is a General Partner with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity firm in New York, which is the most active US PE investor in healthcare.
Mr. Scully was the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), from 2001 to 2004. CMS administers Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and is the largest agency in the U.S. Government, controlling more than $1.3 trillion for fiscal year 2016.
At CMS, Mr. Scully had an instrumental role in designing and passing Medicare reform and Medicare Part D legislation and in making the vast agency more open and accountable to the public. He initiated the first public reporting and disclosure for comparative quality among hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and dialysis centers.

Before joining CMS, Tom served as president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals from 1995 to 2001. The FAH represents 1700 privately owned hospitals.
Mr. Scully was a partner in Washington, D.C., with Patton Boggs, LLP, 1993-95; deputy assistant to the President, 1992-93; Counselor to the Director and Associate Director of OMB, 1989-92. Tom worked on the Bush for President campaign in 1988; practiced law with Akin Gump from 1985-1988; and served with US Senator Slade Gorton (WA), 1980-1985.

Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D. is an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health foundation.  She directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs and served in the White House as a senior adviser on health and welfare issues to President GHW Bush.  She was also the first chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Her expertise is on strategies to reform health care, with particular emphasis on Medicare, comparative effectiveness research and military health care. 
 
Dr. Wilensky currently serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mine Workers of America and the National Opinion Research Center, is on the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and the Board of Directors of the Geisinger Health System Foundation.  She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and has served two terms on its governing council.  She is a former chair of the board of directors of Academy Health, a former trustee of the American Heart Association and a current or former director of numerous other non-profit organizations. She is also a director on Quest Diagnostics and United Health Group boards.  Dr. Wilensky testifies frequently before Congressional committees, serves as an adviser to members of Congress and other elected officials, and speaks nationally and internationally. She received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan and has received several honorary degrees.