2025 ARM - Agenda

• Methods and Data Session: Causal Methods - Science or Sorcery (Basic Quantitative Methods)

• Career Development Session: Pursuing HSR Careers Outside of Academia
• Methods and Data Session: Building Trust and Shifting Mindsets - Community-Engaged Partnership in Research and Analytics

• Career Development Session: Burden and Burnout - How Inclusive Leadership Can Mitigate Toxic Cultures
• Methods and Data Session: Causal Inference - Start to Finish (Intermediate Quantitative Methods)
• Better Together: Collaborating to Improve Care Quality and Equity Using PROs

Opening Plenary

Panel: Charting the Future of Health Services Research: Opportunities in a Changing Landscape

Moderator

Author, Board Member, Member, Presenter, Staff

Aaron E. Carroll, M.D., M.S.

President and CEO - AcademyHealth

Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is President & CEO of AcademyHealth. A nationally recognized thought leader, science comm... Read Bio

Panelists

Presenter

Cara V. James, Ph.D.

President and CEO - Grantmakers In Health (GIH)

Cara V. James is President and CEO at Grantmakers In Health (GIH). Read Bio

Committee Member

Kat McDavitt

President & Founding Partner - Innsena

Kat is president and founding partner of Innsena, a growth consultancy supporting organizations operating in t... Read Bio

Board Member, Committee Member, Member

Nir Menachemi, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Dean & Professor, Fairbanks Endowed Chair - Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health

Dr. Nir Menachemi is the Dean, Fairbanks Endowed Chair, and Professor at the Indiana University (IU) Richard M... Read Bio

Alice S. Hersh Emerging Leader Award Presentation 

Gail Wilensky Award Presentation

• Career Development Session: Publish and Flourish - Meet the Editors
• Methods and Data Session: Accelerating Patient Access to Data and Analytics
• Opportunities for Improving and Learning from Transparency in Coverage Data (Supported in part by the Peterson Center on Healthcare)

• Methods and Data Session: How Data Science Approaches Drive Innovation in Health Services Research
• Leveraging Evidence for Reproductive Health - Current Threats, Opportunities and Strategies
• Transformative Tools - Address Challenges with Strategic Communication & AI
• Transforming Academic Institutions to Respond to Today’s Demands (Supported in part by the Association of University Programs in Health Admin)

Concurrent Sessions

Special Session: State Policy-Making: Progress on States’ Health and Spending Goals

Moderator

Committee Member, Member

Jennifer Edwards, Dr.P.H., M.H.S.

Vice President, Strategy Solutions - IPRO

Jennifer Edwards, Dr.P.H., M.H.S., is Vice President of IPRO’s Strategy Solutions Department and director of t... Read Bio

Panelists

Presenter

Lilia Cervantes, M.D.

Professor, Department of Medicine and Director, Immigrant Research - University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dr. Lilia Cervantes is a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Director of Immigrant Research at the... Read Bio

Presenter

Elizabeth Lukanen, M.P.H.

Director - SHADAC

Elizabeth Lukanen, M.P.H., is the Director of SHADAC, a health policy research center at the University of Min... Read Bio

Presenter

Kris Rhodes, M.P.H.

Director, Office of American Indian Health and Interim Assistant Commissioner, Health Equity Bureau - Minnesota Department of Health

Kris Rhodes serves as the Director of the Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Office of American Indian Hea... Read Bio

Presenter

Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President and Director, Women’s Health Policy - KFF

Alina Salganicoff is a senior vice president and the director of Women’s Health Policy at KFF (formerly the Ka... Read Bio

• Career Development Session: Updated View of Core Competencies - The Evolution and Readiness of HSR LHS Training Programs
• Methods and Data Session: Partnerships are the Heart of Community-Engaged Research
• Innovating Health Services Research in Challenging Times (Supported in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Plenary Session

From Ground Zero to Groundbreaking: Minneapolis’ Response to Racial Awakening Through a Public Health Lens

Moderator

Co-Chairs, Committee Member, Member, Presenter

Rachel Hardeman, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity - University of Minnesota School of Public Health

Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman is a tenured Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management at the University ... Read Bio

Keynote & Panelist

Presenter, Researcher

Brooke Cunningham, M.D., Ph.D.

Commissioner - Minnesota Department of Health

Dr. Brooke Cunningham was appointed in January 2023 as commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Health. Read Bio

Panelists

Presenter

Nathan T. Chomilo, M.D., FAAP

Medical Director, Medicaid & MinnesotaCare - Minnesota Department of Human Services

Dr. Nathan T. Chomilo’s work has centered on the impact early childhood intervention and healthcare access hav... Read Bio

Presenter

Simone Hardeman-Jones, M.P.P.

Founding Executive Director - GreenLight Fund Twin Cities

Simone Hardeman-Jones is the founding Executive Director of GreenLight Fund Twin Cities. Read Bio

Mosaic Award Presentation

Concurrent Sessions

Special Session: Insurer and Provider Consolidation in U.S. Healthcare

Moderator

Committee Member

Risha Gidwani, Dr.P.H.

Associate Professor, Division of Health Care Policy and Research - University of Colorado School of Medicine

Risha Gidwani, Dr.P.H., is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the Divi... Read Bio

Panelist

Presenter

Cory S. Capps, Ph.D.

Partner - Bates White

Cory Capps has 20 years of experience as an economist specializing in industrial organization, empirical metho... Read Bio

Cheryl Damberg, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Distinguished Chair and Principal Senior Researcher - RAND Corporation AcademyHealth Board Past Chair

Cheryl Damberg is the Distinguished Chair in Health Care Payment Policy and Principal Senior Researcher at the... Read Bio

Presenter

Amir Dan Rubin, M.B.A., M.H.S.A.

CEO & Founding Managing Partner - Healthier Capital

Amir Dan Rubin has focused his career on helping transform healthcare. Read Bio

• Career Development Session: Ethics of AI in Data Science and HSR: What Principles Should Matter Most to the Future Workforce
• Climate Change & Healthcare: Impacts on Patients, Providers, and Payers

• Methods and Data Session: Alternate Payment Models: How can we Drive Change at the State and Local Levels?
• Bridging the Gap: Communicating Evidence Across Political Divides
• Hot Topics in HSR

• Career Development Session: Digital Transformation in Health Care - Confronting and Managing Culture Change
• Methods and Data Session: Advancing Population Health Through Modern Data Science Approaches
• AI in Healthcare Administration: A Trust-centered Debate

Concurrent Sessions

Special Session: Health Equity, Performance Metrics, and Insurers

Moderator

Committee Member, Member

Omolola "Lola" Adepoju, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Research Director - Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute, University of Houston

Dr. Omolola E. Adepoju, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a health services researcher and clinical professor at the Tilman J.... Read Bio

Panelists

Presenter

Rev. Linda Davis

Pastor - Boynton Chapel Methodist Church-Houston

Rev. Linda Davis has over twenty-five years of experience as an Assistant Legal Administrator in Labor and Emp... Read Bio

Presenter

Mark Friedberg, M.D., M.P.P.

Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement & Improvement - Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Mark Friedberg, M.D., M.P.P., is Senior Vice President, Performance Measurement & Improvement at Blue Cross Bl... Read Bio

Committee Member, Presenter

Marianne McPherson, Ph.D., M.S.

Senior Director - ORS Impact

Marianne McPherson, Ph.D., M.S., is dedicated to working to advance well-being, thriving, and justice for peop... Read Bio

Presenter

Sarah Moyer, M.P.H., M.D.

Chief Medical Officer Humana Healthy Horizons of Kentucky

Sarah Moyer is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Humana Healthy Horizons in Kentucky, Humana’s Kentucky Medi... Read Bio

Closing Plenary

Orienting to the Future: AI’s Promise and Potential for Health Care

Moderator

Committee Member, Presenter

Daniel Yang, M.D.

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies - Kaiser Permanente

Daniel Yang, M.D., is vice president of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Emerging Technologies for Kaiser Perm... Read Bio

Panelists

Presenter

Grace Cordovano, BCPA, Ph.D.

CEO and Board Certified Patient Advocate - Enlightening Results

Upon recognizing significant unmet needs and challenges in patients' experiences throughout their cancer diagn... Read Bio

Presenter

Christopher Longhurst, M.D., M.S.

Chief Medical Officer and Chief Digital Officer - UC San Diego Health

Christopher Longhurst, M.D., M.S., is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at UC Sa... Read Bio

Presenter

Fatima N. Mirza, M.D., M.P.H.

Chief Resident, Department of Dermatology - Brown University Health

Fatima N. Mirza, M.D., M.P.H., serves as Chief Resident in the Department of Dermatology at Brown University H... Read Bio

Presenter

Abhinav Shashank

Co-Founder and CEO - Innovaccer

Abhinav Shashank is the CEO and co-founder of Innovaccer, a San Francisco-based healthcare technology company ... Read Bio

Reinhardt Distinguished Career Award Presentation