The next Paul Torrens Health Forum brings together visionary health system leaders and cutting-edge entrepreneurs for a fast-paced, idea-driven conversation on how American healthcare is being fundamentally reshaped - what true disruption looks like, how innovation can be responsibly integrated into care delivery, and what leaders, clinicians, and innovators must do next. Building on this discussion, several healthcare entrepreneurs will deliver rapid pitches, each offering a concise overview of a product or service designed to address today’s most pressing healthcare challenges. If you want to understand where healthcare is headed, and learn more about who is actively building that future, this is a forum you won’t want to miss.
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Featured Speakers:
Omkar Kulkarni, MPH, Vice President and Chief Transformation & Digital Officer, CHLA
Marschall Runge, MD, PhD, Former CEO, Michigan Medicine
Guest Disruptors:
Melissa Hanna, JD, MBA, CEO, Mahmee
Eric Marton, Founder & CEO, Agentic Healthcare, Inc.
Ling Shao, Founder & CEO, SpectrumAi
SPEAKER BIOS
Omkar Kulkarni, Vice President and Chief Transformation & Digital Officer, CHLA
In his role, Omkar is responsible for leading transformative change across the organization by designing and implementing practical, innovative solutions to high-impact problems. Under his leadership, the Office of Transformation drives digital and operational transformation by developing and deploying transformative products that improve patient access, operational efficiency, financial performance, growth, team member engagement and patient family experience. Omkar joined CHLA in 2018 as CHLA’s inaugural Chief Innovation Officer and has led many initiatives to position CHLA as an innovator in pediatric care delivery.
He helped lead the enterprise rollout of telehealth in 2020 and also led the development of the Office of Virtual Care, the Digital Health Lab incubator, and the Digital Transformation/Digital Front Door strategy – a five-year strategic plan to leveraging accessible digital technology to enhance how CHLA engages patients and families in their care journey. Omkar also founded KidsX in 2019, through which more than 30 children’s hospitals have come together to accelerate the development of 52 innovative digital products focused on improving pediatric health.
Prior to joining CHLA, Omkar served as executive director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars, where he helped build and launch the accelerator program. In that role, he evaluated over 3,000 health care start-ups and provided extensive mentoring, serving as the main liaison between the start-up community and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Omkar also led the performance improvement department at Cedars-Sinai for many years and has experience in financial process redesign at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Omkar has a master’s degree in public health and health care management from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from George Washington University.
Marschall Runge, Former CEO, Michigan Medicine
Marschall Runge, MD, PhD is the former CEO of Michigan Medicine and Dean of the University of Michigan Medical School, and a practicing cardiologist. During his tenure in these leadership roles, Dr. Runge implemented transformative change and positioned Michigan Medicine and the Medical School internationally for continued success.
He earned his doctorate in molecular biology at Vanderbilt University and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he also completed a residency in internal medicine. He was a cardiology fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has been a physician-scientist for his entire career.
Dr. Runge is the author of over 250 publications and holds five patents for novel approaches to health care. An avid thriller reader, Runge has experienced many you-can’t-make-this-up events that inform his fictional and non-fiction writing alike. In addition to The Great Healthcare Disruption, Dr. Runge is the author of the gripping medical thriller, Coded to Kill.