Peter Micca, MS
Pete is a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP with 30 years of experience in the health care and life sciences industry. He has worked with companies in the health plan, life sciences and health technology, and health care provider segments. Pete is currently the National Audit Industry Leader, Health Tech. He previously served as National Assurance and Enterprise Risk Services Industry Leader, Health Plans. Pete also leads Deloitte’s national cross-sector go to market strategy around the emergence of health tech and health services within the industry. A frequent speaker and presenter on accounting and financial reporting issues for external organizations, he has served on the board of advisors of St. John’s University College of Business and of the Executive Business Program at Columbia University. Pete has also served on the board of directors, audit committee and as president of the New York Boy Scouts of America.
Kalyani Thampi, MPA
Kalyani Thampi is currently a Senior Manager of Research & Grants at Peterson Center on Healthcare. She has over 15 years of progressive experience designing and implementing high-growth health and human services. Kalyani developed and scaled the NYC Clinical Data Research Network (NYC-CDRN), a newly established citywide collaborative initiative that offers users a large volume of high-quality clinical, claims and social determinants of health to advance healthcare delivery nationally. Kalyani has served as a senior consultant for state and local governments, specializing in policy implementation and strategic planning for technology-enabled modernization initiatives in health and human services, and has additional experience in program development and evaluation; strategic partnerships and coalition-building; and research on health and social welfare policies in the U.S.
Bridget Walsh, MPH
Bridget Walsh, MPH is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, a statewide, non-profit, policy and advocacy organization in New York. Ms. Walsh has over 25 years of experience in the field of health policy in New York. She has held positions in state government and several non-profit organizations representing constituencies as varied as physicians and business. She has deep expertise in the areas of public health, oral health, maternal and child health, and public programs and policies involving social determinants of health. Bridget earned a Master’s in Public Health from the University at Albany and a Bachelor of Arts from Ithaca College where she majored in politics.
Joshua Weiner, MSc
Joshua is the Head of Health Technology Strategy at Facebook and was formerly an executive at CVS Health where he led several analytics and patient engagement efforts across Medicare, Medicaid and Commercial private insurance. Earlier in his career Joshua was a senior expert at McKinsey & Company and focused on both domestic and international healthcare organizations. Joshua is passionate about pediatric care and also serves on the Board of Enduring Hearts, the only non-profit focused on increasing the duration of pediatric heart transplants. Joshua holds a Master’s from Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s from Carnegie Mellon University.
Lara Zizic, MHS & MFA
Lara Zizic is a communications and strategic media consultant with over 15 years of experience. She has worked in both the public and private sectors, including for the ACE fund, SY Partners, Kois Bank, UNICEF and USAID and is a partner in the communications firm Frame144. She is an award-winning director and has helmed documentaries for Al Jazeera, Current TV, CNN International, as well as for the European Union and the United Nations. She received an MFA in filmmaking from Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts, an MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, and a Bachelor of Environmental Science degree from Barnard College.