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Richard Merkin

Richard Merkin is the CEO and founder of the Heritage Group. Under his stewardship, the Heritage Group has become the largest, physician-owned and -operated integrated delivery system in the United States with more than 50 related health-care companies.
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Shmuel Meitar

Shmuel Meitar is the founder of Time to Know, the first comprehensive digital teaching platform. He established Time to Know in 2004 as a philanthropic endeavor in Israel and expanded it into an international business.
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Ken Dychtwald

Ken Dychtwald is president and CEO of Age Wave, a firm that guides companies and government groups in product/service development for baby boomers and mature adults. He has dedicated his life to battling ageist stereotypes while promoting a new, vital and purposeful role for life’s second half.
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Mark McClellan

Mark McClellan is the Robert J. Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine, and Policy, and founding director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. McClellan is a doctor and an economist who has addressed a wide range of strategies and policy reforms to improve health care, including payment reform to promote better outcomes and lower costs, methods for development and use of real-world evidence, and strategies for more effective biomedical innovation.
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Michelle Longmire

Dr. Michelle Longmire is mission-driven to accelerate the development of new therapies for disease as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Medable. A Stanford-trained physician-scientist, Dr. Longmire identified critical barriers to drug development and founded Medable to pioneer a new category of clinical trial technologies that remove traditional roadblocks to participation and radically accelerate the research process.
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Joseph Coughlin

Joseph Coughlin is founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. He teaches in MIT's Department of Urban Studies & Planning and the Sloan School's Advanced Management Program.
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Pinchas Cohen

Pinchas Cohen, MD, is the dean of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.
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Freda Lewis-Hall

Freda Lewis-Hall, MD, a pioneer in medicine and leadership, has been on the front lines of health care for more than 40 years as a clinician, researcher, and leader in the biopharmaceuticals and life sciences industries.
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Jennie Chin Hansen

Jennie Chin Hansen is the immediate past CEO of the American Geriatrics Society. Earlier in her career, she was president of the 38 million-member AARP, a position she held during the development of the Affordable Care Act.
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Angelique Chan

Dr. Angelique Chan holds joint appointments as a tenured Associate Professor in the Signature Program in Health Services & Systems Research at the Duke-NUS Medical School, and in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. She is the Inaugural Executive Director of the Centre for Ageing Research & Education at Duke-NUS.