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Liz Fowler is a nationally recognized expert in federal health policy and Distinguished Scholar on the faculty of the Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ and the Carey Business School. Most recently, Liz was Deputy Administrator and Director of the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In that role, she was responsible for advancing innovative payment and care delivery models in Medicare and Medicaid to promote value-based care on a national scale. These value-based payment models have provided an important testing ground and scaling opportunity for innovative start-ups and health care disrupters.

Prior to leading the Innovation Center, she was Executive Vice President of programs at The Commonwealth Fund and Vice President for Global Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson. In 2011-2012, she served as special assistant to President Obama on health care and economic policy at the National Economic Council to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). As Chief Health Counsel at the Senate Finance Committee, she played a major role in the drafting and passage of the ACA in 2010, and she also played a key role drafting the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA). Liz has over 25 years of experience in health policy and health services research. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania, a PhD from the Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½, and a law degree (JD) from the University of Minnesota. She is admitted to the bar in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Liz is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Health Innovators Fellowship and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. 

Purva Rawal is a nationally recognized leader in value-based care with experience spanning the academic, government and private sectors. Most recently, she was the Chief Strategy Officer at the CMS Innovation Center. She played a key role in the conceptualization of a strategy that was grounded in accountability and whole, person-centered care, and oversaw its implementation across the Center. Prior to that, Dr. Rawal spent a decade in policy research and business strategy consulting on value-based payment and health system transformation. She was also an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University teaching classes on the Politics of Health Care and mentoring students. In 2016, she published The Affordable Care Act: Examining the Facts and has written for internationally recognized publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs. From 2005-2010, Dr. Rawal served as professional staff on the Senate Budget Committee during the Affordable Care Act and as an advisor to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT). She started her career in DC as a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering. Dr. Rawal received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Sydney Dy, MD, MSc is Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management, Oncology, and Medicine, at Johns Hopkins, and Physician Leader of the Harry J. Duffey Family Palliative Care and Pain Program at the Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. She is a researcher and educator in health care quality and safety, focusing on evidence-based reviews and development and evaluation of quality indicators. Her work involves quality improvement for patients with serious illnesses in various settings in Johns Hopkins Medicine, including the Kimmel Cancer Center. She has worked to develop quality standards and guidelines with national organizations including the Physician Consortium on Performance Improvement, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and Center for Medicare Services, and quality-related research projects with the National Cancer Institute, Veterans Health Administration, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Current and recent projects include quality measures for patients with multiple chronic conditions; quality measures for Accountable Care Organizations; and systematic reviews of the evidence for patient safety practices and for quality improvement in end-of-life care, as well as a number of conceptual projects on various topics in quality measurement and improvement. Dy is the Quality and Research Chair for the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and teaches courses in Quality of Care at the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Peter Greene is a leader in the field of informatics in cardiothoracic surgery. He has served as the Chair of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Information Technology Committee. He is the founder, executive editor and key architect of Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSNet), the online community of 40 professional cardiothoracic surgery societies. He has more than 15 years of experience in information technology using a variety of medical applications in parallel to a clinical career. He had an important role in co-founding the MedBiquitous Consortium and serves as the consortium’s executive director. Founded by Johns Hopkins Medicine and leading professional medical societies, MedBiquitous is a non-profit, international group of professional medical and healthcare associations, universities, commercial, and governmental organizations dedicated to advancing healthcare education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care. Greene has over authored over 50 peer reviewed articles and has an active career in advancing healthcare education with information technology.

In 2006, Greene was appointed Chief Medical Information Officer and in this role he is involved in the implementation of a provider order entry and clinical documentation system throughout Johns Hopkins. As Associate Dean for Emerging Technologies he has developed a single portal for clinical E-learning across Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Douglas E. Hough, PhD, is Associate Professor, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.  He teaches in the areas of medical economics and strategic planning. His research interests are in identifying the optimal size and structure of a physician practice, and in the application of the emerging field of behavioral economics to health care issues. His book, titled, Irrationality in Health Care:  What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why, will be published by Stanford University Press in 2013. Hough has been a research economist at the American Medical Association, and a consultant in three health care strategy firms.  He is a frequent speaker and author on health care issues related to physicians. Dr. Hough earned his MS and PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, and his BS in Economics from MIT.

Stacey Lee is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School where she teaches Negotiations, Business Law, and Legal Foundations of Health Care. Lee draws on nearly twenty years of legal and arbitration experience, to create an interdisciplinary approach to negotiation and conflict management. She has created content specific negotiation courses and workshops for the Johns Hopkins Business of Medicine MBA program, the Kennedy Krieger Institute Leadership Development program, and the Carey Business School’s MBA Fellows program.

Prior to entering academia, Lee practiced law for over ten years.  She began as a securities litigator and later became in-house counsel for two of the country’s largest healthcare corporations. Lee also served as the senior regulatory specialist for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the United States’s largest national healthcare trade association.

Since joining the Carey faculty in 2008, Lee's research interests have focused on pharmaceutical manufacturers’ international and domestic influence on the access to medicines.  Her work has been published in the Yale Journal Health Policy Law & Ethics, Georgetown Journal of International Law, the Annals of Health Law Journal, and the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy.  She was the Berman Institute Faculty Fellow in the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy from 2011 – 2012 and in 2012 the graduating Johns Hopkins MPH/MBA cohort awarded Lee the Teaching Excellence Award for her Negotiation and Business Law courses. Lee earned her law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law and a BBA in Management from Loyola University of Maryland.