Don Crane is President and CEO of America’s Physician Group, the nation's only professional association exclusively representing capitated, coordinated care organizations, and is a leading voice promoting the interests of physicians practicing accountable care across the nation. APG consists of approximately 200 multi-specialty medical groups and IPAs that provide medical care to over 16 million patients across 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Mr. Crane is in the forefront of national public policy advocacy on behalf of accountable care organizations across the country as they make the journey from volume to value and move into risk-based alternative payment models. He is the lead producer and moderator of APG's nationally acclaimed healthcare conferences.

A seasoned healthcare attorney, Mr. Crane practiced healthcare law for over 30 years and served as corporate counsel for several major integrated health systems. Mr. Crane speaks regularly on healthcare issues to a wide variety of physician groups, hospital boards, and academic meetings. He has been a guest lecturer on healthcare management issues to graduate students at major California universities.

Sheila P. Burke is a faculty research fellow at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and a member of the faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She also serves as chair of the government relations and public policy group at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, and is a distinguished visitor at the ONeill Center for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center.

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.

Dr. Kavita Patel is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a co-founder of Tuple Health, a physician led company focused on practical clinicalsolutions to bring care back to health as well as a practicing primary care physician at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In her role at the Brookings Institution, Dr. Patel was instrumental in the development of several specialty payment models including the Oncology Care Model Initiative and the Next Generation ACO model.

Dr. Patel was previously a Director of Policy for The White House under President Obama and a senior advisor to the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Her prior research in healthcare quality and community approaches to mental illness have earnednational recognition and she has published numerous papers and book chapters on healthcare reform and health policy.

She has testified before Congress several times and she is a frequent guest expert on NPR, CBS, NBC and MSNBC. Dr. Patel serves on the editorial board of the journal HealthAffairs and is a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates.