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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.

Doug Owens is the Chief Information Officer of Signature Healthcare. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the leading regional skilled nursing providers in the US. As a member of the executive leadership team, Doug’s responsibilities cover both strategic and tactical leadership of all corporate hardware and software technology, including clinical and back-office systems, business intelligence, information security, and telecommunications.

Before joining Signature HealthCARE, Doug served as CIO and Vice President of Information Technology at Prestige Healthcare and Golden Living, as well as Senior Vice President / Chief Information Officer for Atria Senior Living. Prior to his time at Atria, Doug was co-founder and owner of INTRAcare, a technology company serving assisted living providers, physician practice management groups, and managed healthcare companies. Doug was also Vice President of Information Systems with Alterra Healthcare (now Brookdale Senior Living) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Doug has a Master’s in Science in Software Engineering from Colorado Technical University and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix. Doug is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

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 B. Reddy 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 platform for Healthcare Communications. Bharath created and developed the health information technology behind Diagnotes. Bharath is president, CEO and founder of MavenSphere Inc, a consulting services company since 2007.

Bharath received a Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Texas at Tyler. Since then, Bharath has more than 22 years of IT and Healthcare experience with Eli Lilly, Stanley Works and First DataBank.