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Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Carna Health
Salvatore is a practising physician, professor, researcher, and entrepreneur. He previously led GoodCell’s product line of genetic and biomarker testing, developing a healthcare platform that harnesses the power of blood to both inform and restore health.
Previously, Salvatore spent 14 years as a member of Harvard Medical School’s faculty and concurrently as a clinician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In that capacity, he held various administrative and clinical roles including Community Hospital Chairman and Director of Admissions of a Harvard Residency Program.
As an expert in medical imaging, Salvatore has published and presented nationally and internationally. Salvatore co-founded Brigham NightWatch, the first academic teleradiology network in the world. In addition, Salvatore served as an executive and board member of FreMon Scientific Inc. where he led the development of a next-generation blood product management solution through FDA approval and ultimately to market.
Salvatore began his path towards medicine while at Columbia University, earning a B.A. in Neuropsychology. Salvatore completed his residency and specialization at Harvard Medical School.
He also serves on the Board of Directors of Make-A-Wish Foundation MA/RI. In 2016, Salvatore completed the Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School. Salvatore is a member of the Forbes Technology Council member.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Chapters Health System
Andrew Molosky is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Chapters Health System, one of the nation’s premier community-based healthcare delivery systems. Under Andrew’s strategic vision, Chapters Health has redefined its position to become the nation’s largest not-for-profit, end-of-life care organization and a leading community-based population health organization. He’s also the CEO of CareNu, Chapters Health’s value-based subsidiary, which provides predictive analytics, risk modelling, case management and social determinants of health analysis to care delivery. Prior to Chapters Health, Andrew served in executive leadership for more than 20 years spanning an array of geographies and organizations including publicly traded, privately held, and not-for-profit.
Andrew was recognized as one of Modern Healthcare’s top 300 most influential persons, a national distinction. He is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, a Home Care 100 advisory board member and a board of directors for the National Partnership for Hospice and Health Innovation. He is a frequent panellist at healthcare conferences across the country, including the Home Healthcare + Investment (Hi2) conference in Chicago and others.
Outside of work, Andrew is an avid Ironman triathlete and was invited to last year’s Ironman World Championship in France. He’s an active outdoor enthusiast, including boating and scuba diving. Along with many other events, he raced in the Tampa Bay Frogman swim to support the Navy Seal Foundation.
Director of Corporate Venture Capital at Healthworx
Emily Durfee is a Director of Corporate Venture Capital at Healthworx, an organization committed to innovation and healthcare quality, accessibility, affordability, and equity. As a Partner on Healthworx’s Corporate Venture Capital team, Emily leads Seed through Series B deals in verticals including Medicare, Medicaid, women’s health, behavioral health, appropriate sites of care, therapeutics, health equity, etc.
Emily is an experienced problem-solver with a background across the start-up social enterprise spectrum, including impact investing, technology consulting, and direct execution in start-ups in developed and emerging markets. She has a thorough understanding of the overlap between the complex, highly regulated corporate healthcare industry and the startup sphere, with direct experience investing in and fostering the next wave of healthcare innovators.
She holds an MBA from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and a BS in Foreign Service, Culture, and Politics from Georgetown University.
Reporter at MedCity
Marissa Plescia is a reporter for MedCity News covering payers, employers and health tech. She previously worked at Becker’s Hospital Review as a finance reporter. Before that, she was a data journalism intern at Kansas City PBS for the Dow Jones News Fund. She received her Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health at Providence
As Providence’s Group VP and Chief of Virtual Care and Digital Health, Dr. Cunningham leads a care transformation portfolio of products and services that includes nine enterprise virtual care service lines, a hospital-at-home, remote patient monitoring, remote therapeutic monitoring, a virtual nursing team, and clinically focused digital products. Her team provides products and services to over 100+ hospitals across 8 states. She is also the co-chair of the Clinical AI governance team at Providence that is charged with identifying, vetting and prioritizing AI use cases for clinical care.
Dr. Cunningham is the founder of MedPearl, a patented clinical intelligence engine, designed to support next best actions and surface relevant patient data at the point of care. The platform is currently scaled at Providence and used regularly by thousands of clinicians.
As a national speaker, Dr. Cunningham is a thought leader and advocate for improvements in telehealth, clinician shortages and workforce burnout, clinical innovation and the application of AI in clinical care. She serves on the HIMSS Physician Executive Committee and was a recent recipient of the HIMSS-AMDIS Changemaker Award (2024) and Becker’s Health IT Up and Comers (2023).
Dr. Cunningham joined Providence St. Joseph Health in 2017, initially serving as the Chief Medical Officer of Providence Medical Group Southwest. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and has practiced since 2008 in the South Puget Sound community. Prior to joining Providence, Dr. Cunningham served as Women’s and Children’s Service Line Medical Director, Medical Director of Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology and Division Chief of Women’s, Children’s, Urgent Care and Virtual Care Services at CHI-Franciscan Health (currently, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health).
With over 20 years of clinical practice and 12 years of leading and managing clinical operations, Dr. Cunningham has the advantage of understanding the practical technologies, change management, workflow and care transformation strategies that are needed in clinical settings.
Dr. Cunningham received her medical degree at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and postgraduate residency training at Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center. She received her Master’s in Business Administration from University of Massachusetts- Amherst. She is passionate about restoring joy in the practice of medicine and addressing some of our greatest challenges in the industry related to workforce shortages, hospital capacity and care fragmentation.