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Thursday, December 3, 2020 7:00 PM
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The Annual Kenneth B. Schwartz Compassionate Healthcare Dinner

2019

Dinner Chairs

Michael L. Blau, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP

Michael Carson, President & Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

Ann-Ellen Hornidge, Esq, Board Chair, Beth Israel Lahey Health

Dinner Event Committee

Ellen R. Cohen, MSW, President, Schwartz Center Board

Robert K. Coughlin, President and CEO, MassBio

Kerry Flynn, Vice President, Chief IP Counsel, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Betsy Pingree Frawley and James M. Litton

Ruth Kilduff, Member, Schwartz Center Board

Sharon McNally, President, Camp Harbor View Foundation; Chief of Staff, Connors Family Office

Marjorie and Paul Stanzler

Lynn Wiatrowski, Executive Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Sponsors

NCCY Award Supporters
American Diabetes Association
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
Community Foundation of East Central Illinois
In honor of Gloria Valenti
Mann Family Foundation
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Dinner Program Underwriter
CRICO

Founder
Greater New York Hospital Association
Massachusetts General Hospital

Champion
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo

Trustee
Beth Israel Lahey Health
The Connors Family Office

Benefactor
Boathouse Group, Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
The Chartis Group
Coverys
CVS Health
Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc.
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
McLean Hospital
The MENTOR Network
NTT Data, Inc.
PFM
Prime Buchholz
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Supporter
Baystate Health
Beaumont Financial Partners
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan
Boston Red Sox
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Choate Hall & Stewart LLP
Citibank
The Colony Group LLC
Commonwealth Care Alliance, Inc.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Epic Insurance Brokers
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
Foley Hoag
Foley & Lardner LLP
Freedman Healthcare
KPMG LLP
Liberty Mutual & Ironshore
Marsh USA
Massachusetts Medical Society
MassBio
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
MERGE Boston
Middleton & Company, Inc.
Murphy & Riley
Pierce & Mandell, PC
Rasky Partners, Inc.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Simplify Healthcare
South Shore Health System
State Street Corporation
Sunstein Kann Murphy & Timbers
Thermo Fisher
Tufts Medical Center
Tufts University
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Verrill Dana, LLP
Wellforce
Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
WS Development Associates LLC & WS Asset Management, Inc.

Friend
Alliance Health and Human Services
AllWays Health Partners
Barrett & Singal, PC
Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Dept. of Nursing & Patient Care
Cambridge Health Alliance
Edenbridge Health
Emerson Hospital
Main Line Health System
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
MGH Department of Psychiatry
MGH Institute of Health Professions
MGH Nursing and Patient Care Services
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center

2019 dinner photos

2018

Keynote Speakers

Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts

Patrick Downes, PsyD, Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor

Chairs

Troyen Brennan, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, CVS Health

Clare Reilly

Mark E. Reynolds, President, CRICO

Peter L. Slavin, MD, President, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dinner Event Committee

Ellen R. Cohen, MSW, President, Schwartz Center Board

Jack Connors, Jr.

Robert K. Coughlin, President and CEO, MassBio

Andrew Dreyfus, President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Kerry Flynn, Vice President, Chief IP Counsel, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Betsy Pingree Frawley and James M. Litton

Ruth Kilduff, Chair, Schwartz Center Board

Sharon McNally, President, Camp Harbor View Foundation; Chief of Staff, Connors Family Office

James and Catherine Stanzler

Marjorie and Paul Stanzler

Lynn Wiatrowski, Executive Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

2018 dinner photos

2017

Guest Speaker

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker

Dinner Co-Chairs

Fangli Chen, PhD, Partner, Vice Chair, Life Sciences Patent Practice, Proskauer Rose

Kevin Tabb, MD, CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dinner Event Committee

Ellen R. Cohen, MSW, President, Schwartz Center Board

Jack Connors, Jr.

Robert K. Coughlin, President and CEO, MassBio

Andrew Dreyfus, President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

The Honorable Michael and Kitty Dukakis

Kerry Flynn, Vice President, Chief IP Counsel, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Betsy Pingree Frawley and James M. Litton

Ruth Kilduff, Chair, Integro USA

Thomas J. Lynch, MD, Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, R&D, Bristol Myers-Squibb

Sharon McNally, President, Camp Harbor View Foundation; Chief of Staff, Connors Family Office

Brooke Meltzer, Schwartz Center New York Advisory Council

Mark E. Reynolds and Claire Reilly

Eric Schultz, President and CEO, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

James Stanzler, Managing Director, Highfields Capital Management LP

Marjorie and Paul Stanzler

Tony and Kathy Starr

Lynn Wiatrowski, Executive Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

2017 dinner photos

2016

Co-Chairs

Glen Curley, Senior Vice President, Healthcare Underwriting Practice Group Leader, CNA Insurance

Kerry A. Flynn, CLP, Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Vertex

Thomas H. Grape, Chairman and CEO, Benchmark Senior Living

Larry Renfro, Vice Chairman, UnitedHealth Group; CEO, Optum

Dianne Savastano, BSN, MBA, Founder and President, Healthassist

Event Committee

Robert K. Coughlin, President and CEO, MassBio; Schwartz Center Board

Brooke Meltzer, Schwartz Center New York Advisory Council

Sharon McNally, Chief of Staff, Connors Family Office; Schwartz Center Board

2016 dinner photos

2015

Featured Speaker

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, Award-winning author

Dinner Chairs

Marna Borgstrom, President and CEO, Yale-New Haven Hospital Health System; CEO, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Ruth Kilduff, Chairman, Integro Insurance Brokers; Vice Chair, Schwartz Center Board of Directors

Stacey Lucchino

Clare Reilly

Mark E. Reynolds, President, CRICO

Event Committee

Robert K. Coughlin, President & CEO, MassBio; Schwartz Center Board

Trish Hannon, FACHE, President and CEO, New England Baptist Hospital

Kerry Flynn, Vice President, Chief IP Counsel, Vertex; Schwartz Center Leadership Council

George Gilpin, President & CEO, EasCare

Brooke Meltzer, Schwartz Center New York Advisory Council

2015 dinner photos
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