Doctor Michael Wasserman is a geriatrician who has devoted his career to serving the needs of seniors. Most recently he served as Chief Executive Officer for Rockport Healthcare Services, overseeing the largest nursing home chain in California. He previously was Executive Director, Care Continuum, for Health Services Advisory Group, the QIN-QIO for California. In 2001 he co-founded Senior Care of Colorado, which be-came the largest privately owned primary care geriatric practice in the country, before selling it to IPC in 2010. Springer published his book, “The Business of Geriatrics,” in 2016, which details how to succeed in Geriatrics in today’s healthcare marketplace. He previously was President and Chief Medical Officer for GeriMed of America, a Geriatric Medical Management Company located in Denver, Colorado. While at GeriMed, he helped to develop GeriMed’s Clinical Glidepaths in conjunction with Drs. Flaherty and Morley of St. Louis University’s School of Medicine Geriatric Division.

Dr. Wasserman is a graduate of the University of Texas, Medical Branch. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at UCLA. He spent five years with Kaiser-Permanente in Southern California where he developed Kaiser's first outpatient Geriatric Consult Clinic. Dr. Wasser-man was a co-founder and owner of Common Sense Medical Management (CSM2), a case management company that helped manage high risk beneficiaries of Cover Colorado. He is past chair of the American eriatrics Society’s (AGS) Managed Care Task Force and has served served on the Public Policy Committee for AGS and AMDA. He was formerly a Public Commissioner for the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission. He has recently served on several CMS Technical Expert Panels related to MACRA and Value Based Purchasing.

Dr. Wasserman was a co-founder of MESA (Medicare Experts and Senior Access) a multiyear grant from the Colorado Health Foundation to train primary care physicians in how to effectively care and bill for Medicare patients. He was the lead delegate from the State of Colorado to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. He also co-chaired the Colorado Alzheimer’s Coordinating Council. Dr. Wasserman has actively supported the Wish of a Lifetime Foundation since its inception and serves on its Board. He served on the Board of The Denver Hospice for fifteen years. He serves as a board member for the American Geriatrics Society’s Foundation for Health in Aging, and is the President of the California Association for Long Term Care Medicine. He has spoken extensively and been published on a variety of topics involving geriatrics, uality improvement, geriatric workforce issues, healthy aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, the business of health care, practice management and managed care.

Joseph Steier (Joe) Steier, III is the President & CEO and Co-Founder of Signature HealthCARE (SHC), one of the nation’s leading long-term care, rehabilitation, and health care providers with 108 locations in 10 states and approximately 13,800 employees.

Signature’s mission and vision is to “radically change long-term care forever" through its three foundational pillars - Spirituality, Learning and Intra-preneurship. Under Joe’s leadership, SHC has earned many national accolades including Modern Healthcare’s ‘Best Places to Work’ designation, the Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing privately held companies, U.S. News & World Report’s list of ‘Best Nursing Homes,’ and more.

Signature has launched multiple spin-off organizations including Silver Angels Home Care Services, and SHC Med Partners. As well as Sig Rehab, A Signature Healthcare subsidiary. Also, various philanthropic endeavors aid Signature’s own employees and the communities it serves.

On the leading edge of health care innovation and specialization, Joe and his leadership team have expanded into the care continuum including post-acute units inside of acute care hospitals, developing specialized behavioral centers, operating dementia and Alzheimer’s programs within various healthcare settings, and operating high acuity pulmonary programs including ventilator care. With Signature's most recent acquisition, he aggressive expansion of SHC Medical Partners, the launching of Signature Advantage, the addition of YourDOC2U, our telemedicine launch, and the massive policy changes impacting all healthcare providers and consumers, Signature, under Joe’s leadership, is leading the evolutionary healthcare landscape through market-based intelligence, demographic shifts, specialty needs, and intuitive prowess, as sweeping unknowns continue to outpace the rate of operational change.

Signature helped catapult the city of Louisville into the national spotlight as a leader in innovation in aging care. SHC is now among Louisville’s dominant economic clusters, a feat that has earned the industry and the city coverage in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and other renowned publications. Joe is cofounder of the Louisville Innovation Summit to convene national leaders in health care, technology, design and other fields, and spark dialogue about the future of aging care.

A Louisville native, Joe has over two decades of professional experience invested in health care. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from Bellarmine University, a CPA license, a health care executive leadership MBA from the University of Miami, and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Education from the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School of Business.

In 2017, Joe was inducted into the Kentucky Chamber’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. In addition, he has received the Business First Forty Under 40 Hall of Fame award, Partners in Healthcare ‘Leader of the Year’ award and Community Health Charities of Kentucky’s Champions in Health Leadership award, among many other honors.

Betsy Wade, MPH, CHC, CNA, joined Signature HealthCARE in May 2017 as Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer and Privacy Officer.

She previously was Vice President and Corporate Responsibility Officer for Catholic Health Initiatives and oversaw compliance for its KentuckyOne Health division, where she had started with Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services in 2002. Prior to that she was Privacy Officer for University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center.

Betsy has more than 20 years of compliance experience in academic medical centers, acute care settings, critical access hospitals, inpatient rehab facilities, and behavioral health, long term care, home health, clinically integrated networks, accountable care organizations, pharmacy, research and physician practices. She also has experience with mergers and acquisition, divestitures and CIAs.

In 2016, Betsy completed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Compliance Academy. Organized by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, at the FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, and the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington. The FBI Compliance Academy covered: Understanding White Collar Criminals, Office of Integrity and Compliance’s Ethics and Compliance Program, Economic Espionage, Emerging Money Laundering Trends, Cyber Matters and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Betsy has been a member of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Basic Compliance Academy faculty since 2018. She has taught on risk assessments, conflicts of interest and privacy. She has been an adjunct faculty member for the Arizona State University Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation Bachelor of Science in Health Care Compliance and Regulations program since January 2021. She has taught on data privacy and security, corrective action plans, risk assessments and Corporate Integrity Agreements.

She is the author of two chapters of HCCA’s recently published Complete Healthcare Compliance Manual. The chapters focused on the CMS Open Payments Database and Conflicts of Interest. She also has served as the columnist for HCCA’s Compliance Today magazine since March 2021.

In addition, she is an active member of HCCA and the Post-Acute Compliance Consortium. She also served as a compliance expert on the Passport Health Plan Board Audit and Compliance Committee from 2011 to 2019. She was board chair of Girls on the Run Louisville from 2016 to 2017 and also served on the Women 4 Women and Botanica boards.

Betsy received her Master’s in Public Health from the University of Kentucky College of Public Health in 2005 and her Bachelor of Arts in Communications from UK in 1991. She passed her Kentucky boards in 2018 and became a CNA. She and her daughter live in Louisville, Ky. Betsy can be reached at bwade@signaturehealthcarellc.com.

As the VP of Legislative Affairs for Signature HealthCARE, Kathy Gallin has been working on legislative affairs, healthcare issues and health policy impacting long term care at the state and federal levels for 15 years, with a healthcare career that spans 30+ years.

She is extremely well versed in the complexities of long- term care issues and is highly regarded and respected by not only her colleagues, but legislators in multi-state and federal government venues as she has proven to be a leader in healthcare advocacy and policymaking.

She is on the American Health Care Association’s (AHCA)Council for Post Acute Care (CPAC) and Legislative Committee actively working in Washington, D.C. on behalf of Signature HealthCARE. Currently, she is on the executive Board of the Florida Health Care Association (FHCA) and is the past Chair of the FHCA’s Legislative Committee, serves on FHCA Budget Committee, FHCA Media/PR and FHCA Quality Committees, and also serves as an executive Board member of Our Florida Promise. She is the recipient of the Florida Health Care Association’s prestigious Arthur B. Harris Government Services Award for 2016. Kathy serves on the Georgia Health Care Association (GHCA) legislative and reimbursement committees, is an active Board member of Health Facilities Association of Maryland (HFAM) and has served on the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Legislative Committee for many years.

She is on the Indiana Health Care Association’s (IHCA) Board of Directors and IHCA’s Legislative Committee, Tennessee Health Care Association Legislative Committee and was a previous Board member of Kentucky Association of Health Care Facilities (KAHCF) as well as a member of KAHCF’s Legislative Committee and reimbursement committee.

She earned a Bachelors’ degree from C.W. Post College and has been actively involved in healthcare her entire career. Check out her blog at http://blogs.ltcrevolution.com/the-legislative-lady/

Dr. Arif Nazir is the Chief Medical Officer for Signature HealthCare and the President for SHC Medical Partners a post-acute practitioner company. Previously, Dr. Nazir was a faculty member at Indiana University and excelled in research, education and leadership in the post-acute and long-term care setting. As a recipient of a Geriatric Academic Career Award through Health Resources and Services Administration and as a John A. Hartford scholar, Dr. Nazir led several research projects to evaluate impact of innovative care delivery models for post-acute patients. Most notably, he provided leadership as the medical director of a unique CMS Innovations project, OPTIMISTIC, that significantly reduced the avoidable hospitalizations of long-stay nursing home patients in 19 Indiana facilities. Dr. Nazir is the President-elect of AMDA, Society of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and is also the Chair of the Innovations Platform Advisory Council for the association. Dr. Nazir has received many professional awards, most notably the Louisville Business First’s 20 People to Know: Healthcare award in 2018, and the Indiana Hulman Health Achievement Award for Public Health in 2015. He has published his research in several peer-reviewed journals and frequently presents at regional and national platforms on geriatric care issues.

Bharath Bynagari is a serial entrepreneur in healthcare IT. With a mission of- “Innovative solutions with a human touch”, Bharath was the inventor behind Diagnotes, a single secure platform for all Healthcare Communications. Bharath created and developed the health information technology behind Diagnotes in 2010.

Bharath founded DigiBiomarkers in 2016. DigiBio is a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based mobile and web platform which reduces the time it takes to design, implement and manage clinical trials while reducing trial cost and enhancing data quality. DigiBio simplifies the collection of patient-reported outcomes.

Bharath received a Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Texas at Tyler. Since then, Bharath has more than 26 years of IT and Healthcare experience with Eli Lilly, Stanley Works and First DataBank.

Prasanth is a seasoned leader experienced in bringing Consumer Electronics (CE) products into the market. He’s a recognized expert in guiding engineering teams to deliver complex CE products into the market. Prasanth also worked with enterprise customers to migrating their applications to public Cloud Platforms.

Prasanth has extensive experience in Consumer Electronics industries including Home Automation, Telecom, Wireless, Video and Data communications. He was involved in development of IoT devices, 2G/3G wireless products, Smart WiFi devices, Set-top Boxes, high speed data modems. Prasanth ran Software Development teams for some of the industry giants like Qualcomm, Panasonic, Siemens and STMicro. He has to his credit a patent awarded for his work in WiFi arena.

Prasanth holds Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

Mr. Javorka has more than 20 years of experience in consulting in and working in the healthcare arena for various providers. For the past 14 years, he has worked as an executive operations leader for hospital and physician practices. He primarily works with executive leaders to engage their focus on the physician enterprise to maximize financial and operational performance.

Blue & Co., LLC, Director 2017 to Present

Tony has consulted on all aspects of healthcare management including strategy execution between the hospital and physician enterprise, performance management, development of a physician enterprise risk portfolio and physician compensation strategy, design and compliance.

Community Health Network, Ambulatory Care Services - President 2015 to 2017

Mr. Javorka was responsible for the network’s multi-specialty group consisting of more than 900 providers, as well as operations and strategy for behavioral health services, urgent care, outpatient imaging services, cancer centers, physical therapy/rehab services, home health and hospice services and surgery centers with over 200 sites of care, 2.8M outpatient visits, 5,200 employees and profit and loss responsibility of $900M in net revenue as well as the development of network service lines for growth, quality and satisfaction.

Community Physician Network, Chief Operating Officer 2011 to 2015

Mr. Javorka served as the Senior Operations executive for Community Physician Network, the network’s multi-specialty physician group with more than 500 physicians providing comprehensive care at more than 100 locations throughout Central Indiana.