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As CEO of Patients Beyond Borders, Josef Woodman has spent the past twelve years researching and vetting international options for quality, affordable medical care. He has met and consulted with ministries and key stakeholders in the world's leading medical travel destinations, touring more than 200 medical facilities in 35 countries. Co-founder of MyDailyHealth (1998) and Ventana Communications (1987), Woodman's pioneering background in publishing, healthcare and technology has allowed him to compile a wealth of information and knowledge about international medical care, telemedicine, wellness, integrative medicine and consumer-directed healthcare.

Woodman has lectured at the UCLA School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, Duke Fuqua School of Business, Scientific American and the International Society for Travel Medicine. He has keynoted and moderated conferences on medical tourism and global healthcare in 20 countries. He has appeared in numerous print and broadcast media, including The Economist, The New York Times, CNN, ABC 海角社区, Fox 海角社区, Huffington Post, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, and more.

Woodman is an outspoken advocate of affordable, high-quality medical and preventative care for healthcare consumers worldwide.

Dan Polsky is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining Hopkins served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics from 2012 - 2019 and was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business. His research seeks an advanced understanding of the cost and quality tradeoff of health care intervention that addresses care, access, coverage, and payment.

Sophia L. Thomas, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, PPCNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, is president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners庐 (AANP). A family and pediatric nurse practitioner (NP) at the Daughters of Charity Health System in Kenner (New Orleans), Louisiana, Dr. Thomas鈥� clinical practice has focused on providing care to the medically underserved families. Dr. Thomas is active within several professional organizations, including the Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners (LANP). She has served in elected and appointed leadership and committee positions, including as president of LANP, and previously in AANP as Region 6 Director. Dr. Thomas was inducted as a Fellow in both the AANP in 2012 and the National Academy of Practice in Nursing in 2013. In addition to her advocacy, Dr. Thomas impacts NP education as clinical faculty for Georgetown University鈥檚 FNP program as well as through publications and presentations on multiple clinical topics. As AANP President and spokesperson, her multimedia reach includes print, radio and television. She also speaks extensively throughout the U.S. and internationally, advocating for NP scope of practice legislation and for improving patient access to quality, affordable health care.

Dr. Amy Montour is an Haudenosaunee woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She has completed Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Medicine degrees at McMaster University. Amy works clinically as a palliative care physician and as an advocate for Indigenous health. As full-time faculty with the McMaster University Department of Family Medicine she serves as the Site Director for the Grand Erie Six Nations site and as an Indigenous Health consultant.

Perry N Halkitis, Ph.D., MS, MPH is a public health psychologist, researcher, educator, and advocate who
is Dean and Professor of Biostatistics and Urban-Global Public Health at the School of Public Health at
Rutgers University. Dr. Halkitis is the founder and director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior &
Prevention Studies (CHIBPS).

For three decades, Dr. Halkitis鈥� program of research has examined the intersection of HIV, HPV, and
other STIs, with drug abuse and mental health burden. This research program seeks to determine the
biological, behavioral, psychosocial, and structural factors that predispose these and other health
disparities in the LGBTQ population and in turn, to translate this knowledge through the development of
tailored and adaptive interventions in order to reduce disparities. CHIBPS also is a training site for the
next generation of scholars who seek to improve the health of LGBTQ people and populations. His
research program has been awarded over $30 million in grant funding.

Dr. Halkitis is the author of the 2019 book, Out in Time: The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to
the Queer Generation. His 2013 book, The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience, is a
2014 Lambda Literary Award nominee. Both books received the American Psychological Association
Distinguished Book Award in LGBT Psychology. Dr. Halkitis is also the author of Methamphetamine
Addiction: Biological Foundations, Psychological Factors, and Social Consequences, and lead editor of
two additional books. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed academic manuscripts, hundreds of
papers for professional conferences, and dozens of keynotes. Because he conducts work on the hyphen of
theory and practice, Dr. Halkitis actively disseminates knowledge to mainstream media, appearing
frequently on television, radio, and podcasts.

Throughout his career, Dr. Halkitis has been at the forefront of fighting for the rights of those infected
with and affected by HIV, as well as being an outspoken advocate for the rights and health of the LGBTQ
population. Dr. Halkitis is actively involved in all aspects of community building and empowerment
through the dissemination and translation of the innovative, timely, and valuable public health research
that he and his teams at Rutgers and CHIBPS undertake. Dr. Halkitis holds degrees in psychology, education, and public health and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Omega (Public Health), Kappa Delta Pi (Education), and Sigma Xi Research Honor Society.

Sarita A. Mohanty, MD, MPH, MBA, serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The SCAN Foundation. The SCAN Foundation is one of the largest foundations in the United States focused on improving the quality of health and life for older adults. Its mission is to advance a coordinated and easily navigated system of high-quality services for older adults that preserve dignity and independence. 

The SCAN Foundation has been a national leader in the development and scaling of person-centered care models for vulnerable adults with complex needs, including those served by Medicare and Medicaid. The foundation has been at the forefront of policy discussions regarding health care for older adults and coordinating services both for older adults and their caregivers.

Previously, Sarita served as the Vice President of Care Coordination for Medicaid and Vulnerable Populations at Kaiser Permanente. Sarita was previously Assistant Professor of Medicine at USC; Chief Medical Officer of COPE Health Solutions, a health care management consulting company; and Senior Medical Director at L.A. Care, the largest U.S. public health plan. Sarita was recently named a National Quality Forum (NQF) Quality Policy Fellow and has served on several NQF committees related to quality measurement. 

Sarita completed her Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She earned her MD from Boston University, MPH from Harvard University, and MBA from UCLA. She completed undergraduate work at UC Berkeley. She currently is an Associate Professor at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and is a practicing internal medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente. Sarita enjoys international travel, tennis, and spending time with her husband and three children.

Amanda Starc, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). She received her BA in Economics from Case Western Reserve University, and her PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. Dr. Starc's research interests include industrial organization and health economics.

Her research examines the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, and Medicare Supplement ("Medigap") markets, as well as consumer behavior in insurance exchanges. Recent work measures the effectiveness of direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. Her work links models of consumer choice and supply side incentives, and uses a range of econometric techniques to analyze data.

Manuel Hermosilla (PhD in Marketing, Northwestern University) is an assistant professor of marketing at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He is an applied micro-economist specializing in economics and quantitative marketing. 
Hermosilla has studied diverse aspects of new product innovation. In the context of the pharmaceutical industry, his research has shown that the potential for large profits does not ensure that pharmaceutical firms will attempt developing scientifically novel drugs, and that organizational pressure may lead to large pharmaceutical rushing to innovate new drugs at the expense of lower success rates. In the context of the film industry, his research has shown that Hollywood studios actively try to cater to Chinese audiences by the inclusion of key cultural elements of their appeal.  

Christopher G. Myers, PhD is an associate professor in Management and Organization and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He also holds a joint faculty appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine) and core faculty appointments in the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative and Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality.

His research examines learning, leadership development, and innovation in organizations, specifically analyzing how people learn vicariously from others鈥� knowledge and experience at work. He focuses on studying health care organizations and other knowledge-intensive work settings. His work has been published in premier academic journals in the fields of management, organizational psychology, medicine, and health care, as well as in leading practice-oriented publications and editorials. Before joining Johns Hopkins, he was an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Harvard Business School. 

Dr. Carmen Morano is Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at the State University of New York: University at Albany School of Social Welfare. In addition to being a John A. Hartford Faculty Scholar, Carmen serves on the Veterans Administration Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee. His research focuses primarily in the areas of Gerontology, Health Care, and Inter-professional Collaboration and Education. Carmen is currently overseeing program evaluation projects that include Multidisciplinary Collaborations focusing on multidisciplinary team approaches to Police De-Escalation, Elder Abuse, and Community Based Transitional Care Programs targeting high risk older adults.

Ambar La Forgia is an assistant professor in the Management of Organizations group at the Haas School of Business. Her research studies the relationship between organizational and managerial strategies and performance outcomes in the healthcare sector. In particular, she uses quantitative methods to examine how the strategic decisions of corporations to merge, acquire, or partner with other organizations can change managerial processes in ways that impact both financial and clinical performance. A secondary research strand studies how health care organizations adapt their service delivery and prices following changes in state and federal legislation.