Meet your Co-Chairs for the 2025 AVBCC conference! Together, this team is transforming the future for value-based care through leadership.
Burt Zweigenhaft
Executive Director, Co-Founder AVBCC EVP, FFF Enterprises
William McGivney, PhD
Managing Principal
McGivney Global Advisors
Michael Kolodziej, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Canopy
Sibel Blau, MD
President & CEO
ONCare Alliance/Exigent Research; President, Northwest Medical Specialties
Barry Brooks, MD, MBA
Medical Director GPO Services
McKesson Specialty Health
Howard “Skip” Burris, MD
President
Sarah Cannon Research Institute
Mark Chassay, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, Texas Plan
BlueCross BlueShield
Mona Chitre, PharmD
Chief Pharmacy Officer & President, Pharmacy Solutions
Lifetime Healthcare Companies
Erica Cischke
Vice President , U.S. Government Affairs
Alliance for Regenerative Medicine
Ron DiGiamio, MBA, FACHE
CEO
R3source Health
Ginger Ertel, PharmD, MBA
SVP, Pharmacy Aggregation
Vizient
Michael Fazio
Head of Value-Based Care
Navista
Nicolas Ferreyros
Managing Director, Policy, Advocacy, and Communications
Community Oncology Alliance (COA)
Marianne Gandee
Vice President Patient Solutions – Oncology
Pfizer
Jorge GarcÃa, PharmD, MS, MHA, MBA, FACCC, FACHE
Assistant Vice President, System Oncology, Infusion & Investigational Drug Pharmacy Services, Corporate Pharmacy Clinical Enterprise
Baptist Health South Florida
Lucio Gordan, MD
President/Managing Physician
Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute
Shawn Gremminger
President and CEO
National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Beth Hamilton
VP, Global Oncology Market Access and Pricing
AstraZeneca
James Hamrick, MD, MPH
Chairman of the Caris Precision Oncology Alliance
Caris Life Sciences
Lisa Harrison, RPh
SVP and President, Specialty Distribution and Solutions
Cencora
Rhonda Henschel
SVP, Payer and Care Transformation
The US Oncology Network
Scott Howell, MD
Former US Chief Strategy Officer, Novartis
Co-founder, Synapse Sciences
Atheer Kaddis
Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer, Pharmacy Services
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Deborah Kamin
Vice President, Policy and Advocacy
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Ira Klein, MD, MBA, FACP
VP Medical Affairs, Payer Relations
Tempus AI
Michael Kolodziej, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Canopy Care
Lavi Kwiatkowski
Founder & CEO
Canopy
Lucy Langer, MS, MD
National Medical Director, Oncology and Genomics
UnitedHealthcare
Roger Longman
Chairman
RealEndpoints
John Michael O’Brien, PharmD, MPH
President & CEO, National Pharmaceutical Council
Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of US Department Health and Human Services
Kathy Oubre, MS
CEO
Pontchartrain Cancer Center
Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA
Executive Vice President, Policy and Strategic Initiatives
Texas Oncology
Yale Podnos, MD, MPH, FACS
Chief Medical Officer
The Oncology Institute
Alti Rahman, MHA\MBA, CSSBB
Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer
American Oncology Network
Chevon Rariy, MD
Chief Clinical Innovation Officer
Visana Health
Erin Satterwhite
CEO
Optum Specialty Pharmacy
Stan Skrzypczak, MS, MBA
Managing Partner
5Prime Life Science Consulting, Inc
Stephen Speicher
Head of Clinical Oncology and Patient Safety
Flatiron Health
Lalan Wilfong, MD
SVP, Value Based Care
Thyme Care