Laura Jacobs is managing principal at GE Healthcare Partners and has been with the firm since 1990. She has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of integrated delivery system development, payer strategy, population health management, healthcare strategic and financial planning, transactions, and governance/management systems. She is a noted speaker and industry resource on the impact of healthcare trends, most notably the requirements for success in value-based payment models, clinical integration, and creating successful integrated delivery systems.Laura has assisted organizations throughout the country with strategic and financial planning, performance improvement, merger facilitation, and affiliation strategies.

She has led the development and implementation of clinical integration and accountable care initiatives. She has led the strategic, financial, and operational redesign of health systems, including transforming the framework for decision-making and care delivery. She has led the organizational and compensation redesign for provider organizations to achieve greater integration and aligned incentives.

She has assisted academic medical centers and large multi-state health systems with implementing clinical integration strategies and transitioning to value-based models. She is a frequent speaker regarding current trends in healthcare, payer strategies, risk-based payment models, consumer expectations, clinical integration, governance, and optimizing performance

Dr. DiLoreto, Principal at GE Healthcare Camden Group, is a physician-executive who is highly experienced in executive management, strategy and operations of healthcare delivery systems, and managed care companies. He has deep management expertise in community-based and academic health systems, large group medical practices, hospitals, and managed care organizations. His areas of specialty include clinical transformation, population health, business process improvement, leadership development, medical informatics, quality improvement and patient safety, and data management and analytics.

Dr. Valenzuela is the Chief Medical Officer for Sutter Medical Group of the Redwoods in Santa Rosa, California which is comprised of 125multi-specialty providers practicing throughout Sonoma County. He’s given national and international presentations on topics related to change management, healthcare innovation and physician leadership development.

Peter’s been recognized twice by the Medical Group Management Association(MGMA) with the Harwick Innovation Award for developing innovative solutions that enhance the effectiveness of healthcare delivery and the Physician Executive of the Year Award for exhibiting leadership deemed outstanding to achieve exceptional medical group performance.

In his spare time, Dr. Valenzuela is a medical satirist with a web comic called Doc-Related (www.doc-related.com) that chronicles the hilarious lives of clinicians, staff and administrators working within atypicalU.S. health system.