Aditi Misra
Managing Director, Home and Health Platform and AI, Google
Aditi Misra is Managing Director of Home & Health Platform and AI at Google, where she leads the teams building Google's consumer health technology — including the AI-powered Google Health Coach and its integration into the Fitbit experience. Her work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday health, turning advanced models into tools people actually use to understand and improve how they live.
Before her current role, Aditi held a series of senior leadership positions at Google spanning global partnerships and hardware, negotiating the platform and media deals that brought "Hey Google" to TVs, displays, and smart speakers. Earlier in her career, she was a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
Aditi holds a master's degree from Duke University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Pune.
Ako Quammie
Vice President, Healthcare Analytics & Value Strategy, UCP Merchant Medicine
Ako Quammie brings over 25 years of experience across diverse sectors of the healthcare industry, including health systems, physician organizations, insurance providers, regional provider alliances, and clinically integrated networks.
His expertise lies in enterprise and service line strategic planning, partnership and transaction planning, and the development and implementation of a wide range of healthcare information technology solutions. He also has deep experience leading clinical integration initiatives, deploying electronic health record (EHR) systems, and establishing quality reporting frameworks aimed at improving population health outcomes.
His work supports healthcare organizations in building the capabilities necessary to thrive under value-based payment models.
Blake Windham, FACHE
Chief Ambulatory Executive, INTEGRIS Health
Blake Windham is the Chief Ambulatory Executive at INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma's largest not-for-profit health system, where he leads the system's ambulatory care strategy and operations.
He joined INTEGRIS from Texas Health Resources, where he served as Administrator of Integrated Health Campuses beginning in 2020. There, he built a track record as a results-driven operator, standardizing care to drive significant gross revenue growth, achieving top-tier patient satisfaction scores, leading facility renovation projects to elevate the patient experience, and launching a new telehealth progam.
A Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), Blake brings a growth-minded, patient-centered approach to ambulatory and outpatient care delivery.
Brandon Robertson
Founder & President, UCP Merchant Medicine
Brandon J. Robertson is Founder and President of UCP Merchant Medicine. He formed UCP Merchant Medicine in 2015 and has sought to create opportunities for health systems to thrive in the ever-changing healthcare consumerism space with focus in the on-demand care industry.
For the last decade, Brandon has advised hundreds of leaders on approaches and models to optimize patient experience and throughput. To date, 150 urgent care centers utilize the UCP Merchant Medicine model and produce 34-minute average door-to-door times and Net Promoter scores in the 90s.
Brandon’s expertise is in healthcare consumer centric modern urgent care, virtual care, and occupational health services. He is an expert in artificial intelligence applications for healthcare as well as Six Sigma and Lean methodologies.
Brandon holds an MBA from the University of Colorado with emphasis in Healthcare Administration.
Heather Fernandez
CEO & Co-founder, Solv Health
Heather Fernandez is the CEO and co-founder of Solv Health.
Solv is an AI platform for providers that powers the modern consumer experience. Built to work alongside any EHR, Solv uses AI agents to orchestrate scheduling, intake, messaging, payments and ongoing loyalty to help innovative providers grow their businesses and give patients same-day access & price transparency. To date, Solv has powered 100 million visits nationwide, partnering with top providers like Yale New Haven Health, American Family Care, MultiCare Indigo, GoHealth, and Community Care Partners.
Heather has focused her career on creating intuitive, transparent, and innovative consumer experiences. Prior to founding Solv, Heather helped scale Trulia from its early days through its acquisition by Zillow (NASDAQ: ZG). Her career spans politics and technology, including roles as Press Secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives and on Senator John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign.
Heather is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Josh Russell, MD
Chief Medical Officer, UCP Merchant Medicine
Dr. Russell has a rare combination of both clinical and industry leadership experience. He previously served in the Chief Medical Officer role with a multi-state telehealth service before joining UCP-Merchant Medicine. He currently provides clinical oversight for Intellivisit, leading a clinical and technical team to refine and improve the machine learning/AI “brain” behind Intellivisit–software that’s been used in over 700,000 Urgent Care (UC) encounters to date.
Additionally, Dr. Russell has been a leader in UC education and publishing with nearly a decade of medical podcasting and instructional video creation credits under his belt. He currently serves as an editor with EM:RAP, creating the CorePendium and UCMax products. Dr. Russell is the emeritus editor-in-chief of the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine, the world's only peer-reviewed Urgent Care journal, and has attained board certification in Medical Editing in the Life Sciences (ELS).
Clinically, Dr. Russell maintains an active and varied clinical practice ranging from telehealth to hospice to urgent care and emergency medicine. He is currently clinically board certified in both EM and Palliative Care. He is a fellow of CUCM, AAEM, and ACEP and has served in patient care and medical director roles in EM and UC for 15 years. Dr. Russell also holds a master’s in clinical research and has co-authored over a dozen peer-reviewed publications. He is data-driven and brings experience and passion for improving the quality of patient care through clinical metric development. He has been a frequent guest lecturer and keynote speaker at various domestic and international academic conferences.
Kristen Valdes
Founder and CEO, b.well Connected Health
Kristen Valdes is an accomplished healthcare executive with over 20 years of industry experience. She is the Founder and CEO of b.well, the industry’s leading interoperability and digital health platform, and was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year 2025 Mid-Atlantic Award winner by EY US. She was also recognized as a Top Innovator in Accenture's Global Health Tech Innovation Challenge. Previously, Kristen held leadership roles at United Healthcare and XLHealth, where she played a key role in a $2.4 billion acquisition.
Her work is inspired by personal advocacy in healthcare, earning her recognition as a "40 Under 40" innovator and being named one of "Women Transforming Industries" by Accenture. Kristen actively participates on various healthcare boards, including the CARIN Alliance, Health Scholars, and Nest Collaborative.
She holds a degree in Business Information Systems from Stevenson University.
Megan Leyba, MBA, BSN, RN
Director of Operations, INTEGRIS Health AllSet Urgent Care
Megan Leyba currently serves as the Director of Operations for INTEGRIS Health's AllSet Urgent Care network, where she oversees multiple clinic locations across Oklahoma and leads strategic initiatives focused on operational excellence, growth, quality outcomes, and patient experience.
Megan's healthcare journey began on the front lines of patient care as a Licensed Practical Nurse. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Master of Business Administration.
Passionate about advancing healthcare delivery, Megan is committed to improving access to care, enhancing the patient experience, and supporting healthcare professionals in reaching their full potential. Her leadership philosophy centers on servant leadership, continuous improvement, and empowering others to achieve success.
Teresa Asma
COO, Solv Health
With over 15 years of experience in technology and healthcare, Teresa has built a reputation for scaling early-stage concepts into impactful, consumer-ready solutions.
Teresa Asma is the Chief Operating Officer at Solv Health, where she drives the company's operations and financial strategy. Before joining Solv, Asma spent most of her career working on new technologies that worked in the lab or in theory, and bringing them to real world consumers. She began her career at Intel, supporting SOC architecture research and commercialization. An early finance hire at Google [X] – Asma partnered across a broad range of R&D teams including driverless cars (Waymo), augmented reality (Google Glass), telecom (Project Loon), delivery (Wing), and health tech (Google Life Sciences). As part of the founding team at Verily Life Sciences, Asma led the strategic finance function, helping to plan, fund and build innovative solutions to tackle intractable problems in healthcare.
A dual-degree graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, Teresa is known for her expertise in building financial processes that support innovation. She is passionate about operational excellence, team building, and advancing groundbreaking projects that tackle complex challenges in healthcare.