May 8th, 2024 | 10:30am - 5:00pm

Goldwurm Auditorium, Mount Sinai Icahn Medical Institute, 1st Floor

1425 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029

Bringing together leaders in government and the private sector to discuss the future of healthcare readiness.

Keynote Panel: National Priorities for Readiness in the Post-COVID Era

  • Dawn O’Connell

    Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  • Paul Friedrichs

    Deputy Assistant to the President and Inaugural Director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR)

  • Robert Kadlec

    Former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

  • Jeff Gold

    President-elect, University of Nebraska System, Chancellor, University of Nebraska Medical Center, member of the President’s COVID-19 Taskforce and the All Hazard 21st Century Threats Taskforce

  • Brendan Carr

    moderator, CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System

Opportunities in Public-Private Collaboration to Improve Readiness

  • Tina Grande

    President and CEO, Healthcare Trust Institute

  • Jody Long

    Clinical Advisory Director, Point Click Care

  • Jane True

    Vice President, mRNA Commercial Strategy & Innovation and Global Pandemic Security Lead, Pfizer

  • Jeff Freeman

    Director and Special Assistant to the President, National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Uniformed Services University

  • Michael Redlener

    moderator, Co-Director, Center for Healthcare Readiness

Regional Approaches to Health System Readiness

  • Dara Kass

    Strategic Consultant, Healthcare Communicator and Emergency Physician and former Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

  • Paul Biddinger

    Chief Preparedness and Continuity Officer and Director Center for Disaster Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

  • Vikramjit Mukherjee

    Chief of Critical Care and Special Pathogen Program Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue

  • Mike Anderson

    Principal, WittKieffer and Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)

  • Mary O'Dowd

    former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health

All the Future Hazards: Specific Threats to Health Security

  • Don Boyce

    Vice President of Emergency Management, Mount Sinai

  • Rosalind Wright

    Dean for Public Health, Mount Sinai

  • Viviana Simon

    Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Director, Personalized Virology Initiative, Mount Sinai

  • Robert Wright

    Ethel H. Wise Chair of the Department of Environmental Medicine and Climate Science, Mount Sinai

  • Laura Iavicoli

    Chief Medical Officer, NYC Health & Hospitals/Elmhurst & Professor

  • Brendan Carr

    moderator, CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System