Blair previously served as Senior Vice President of Public Affairs and retired from Premier in June 2022.

Blair Childs

Dr. Schweitzer is a clinical expert, specializing in the development of population health alternative payment models such as bundled payments, ACOs, CINs and hospital quality efficiency programs. He provides clinical leadership for Premier’s Integrated Specialty Care Network and has expertise in perioperative surgical care redesign, physician leadership, clinical effectiveness, and negotiation and coordination of value-based payment and managed care contracts.

Principal, Strategy, Innovation and Population Health, Premier

Mike Schweitzer, MD, MBA

Erika leads Premier's efforts in clinical quality consulting and advisory solutions. With nearly 20 years of experience in healthcare quality, safety and performance improvement, she has overseen numerous projects focused on improving the patient experience and transitions in care, while stabilizing per capita costs.

Care Delivery Optimization Solutions, Premier Inc.

Erika Sundrud, MA, LSSMBB, Vice President

Shawn has 20 years of clinical, technical and informatics expertise, and leverages this experience in developing technology to support value-based care, enterprise analytics and ACO reporting for Premier. His objectives are to help expand the integrated clinical and financial aspects of our enterprise analytics platform, and to support physician-oriented quality and value-based reporting growth while assisting members in value-based and accountable care.

Vice President, Clinical Performance Improvement and Applied Analytics

Shawn Griffin, MD

In her role, Aisha Pittman leads NAACOS’ work to promote legislative and regulatory policies that will advance ACOs.

Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, National Association of ACOs

Aisha Pittman, MPH

Sunil has a proven track record of growth and improved profitability in areas of outpatient pharmacy. He provides strategic business decisions support to improve profitability in multiple areas, including retail and specialty pharmacy, long-term care and population health.

Director of Pharmacy Consulting, Premier 

Sunil Patel, RPh, MHA

Senior Director, ProvideGx

Patrick Sudol

As the founder and CEO of Bloodbuy, Chris is responsible for the overall strategic direction and growth of the organization, its technology solutions and its people. Prior to founding Bloodbuy, he focused on a variety of investment activities within healthcare spanning the entire care continuum.

Founder and CEO, Bloodbuy

Christopher Godfrey

James is a dedicated resource on Premier's Disaster Preparedness and Response Team as well as the Supply Chain Disruption Team. He has experience in operational process improvement, supplier relations and crisis management.

Analyst, Strategic Supplier Engagement, Premier Inc.

James R. Moseley

Coleen is an experienced pharmacy leader with more than 30 years of experience in health systems and consulting. She currently manages pharmacy audit solutions for contract management and price verification functions.

Principal, Pharmacy Advisory Services, Premier Inc.

Coleen Cherici, MBA, RPH

Christine Van Dusen has 35 years of experience with healthcare quality measurement. For the past 21 years at Premier, she has served as a quality measure subject matter expert for national measurement and payment initiatives.

Clinical Intelligence Division, QM Program Manager, Premier

Christine Van Dusen, RHIA, CPHQ

Michael works on a variety of supply chain, labor management and healthcare quality projects including forecasting patient volume to help hospitals anticipate staffing needs, estimating demand for medical supplies purchased by hospitals, establishing hospital peer groups to measure similarities in performance, and enabling comparative analysis through probabilistic record linkage and classification of large data sets.

Senior Data Scientist, Premier

Michael Herron

With more than 35 years of experience in business development, strategic contract negotiations and supplier contract management in the healthcare industry, Deborah is the managing lead for Premier’s Supplier Diversity program and plays a central role in Premier’s wider sustainability efforts.

Senior Director, Supplier Diversity & Environmentally Preferred Products, Premier

Deborah Williams, MBA, MSM

Ryan leads a team of clinicians, engineers and data science experts who work together to deliver AI-infused solutions to improve patient care and health costs via a growing client network of over 650 hospitals and 400,000 physicians.

Mr. Nellis is a growth-oriented leader who delivers business value in investor/venture and PE-backed, high-growth, public and private companies. He has developed and executed strategies in the health analytics and real-time clinical decision support solution markets – from both the provider and payer perspectives.

Vice President & General Manager, Premier's Stanson Health

Ryan M. Nellis

As part of the Applied Research team, Laura utilizes the Premier Healthcare Database to facilitate studies that provide information and help answer healthcare questions. She is passionate about research and real-world data analytics, which improve quality, lower costs and benefit patients.

Principal Research Scientist, Applied Sciences, Premier Inc.

Laura L. Schott, PhD

Craig assists in leading the Service Line Analytics (SLA) Operations Team and provides clinical support to new and existing SLA-Pharmacy members. He assists members during implementation and in ongoing support of SLA-Pharmacy and instructs pharmacists on how to best utilize SLA to address clinical variation of their medication utilization using benchmarks and outcomes data.

Director, Clinical Pharmacy Analytics, Service Line Analytics (SLA)

Craig Reeder, PharmD

Marisa leads strategy, design and innovation for Contigo Health’s product portfolio.

VP, Product Development and Management, Contigo Health, LLC

Marisa Boevers

Karen uses her 30 + years of clinical experience in her work with Premier members to support the delivery of patient care and outcomes. She also serves the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Perfessionals as the current President-Elect.

Senior Director, Performance Group and Value Analysis

Karen Niven, MS, BSN, CVAHP

Daniel is responsible for leading the Premier Margin Improvement Technology team to strategically partner with hospitals and health systems. This group’s work addresses escalating expense by providing organizations with a more efficient and automated platform for supply chain and financial transactions, reducing the total cost of care and optimizing workforce.


Vice President, Margin Improvement Portfolio, Premier 

Daniel Carcioppolo, MBA

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John Doe

Dr. Ruffin is a founder and CEO of Progknowse, Inc. (

) and an internist with extensive experience in clinical practice, epidemiology, informatics and analytics. Prior to founding Progknowse he was the Chief Technology and Health Information Officer for the University of Virginia Health System and Chief Technology Officer for the Inova Health System.

Founder and CEO, Progknowse, Inc. 

Marshall Ruffin, MD

Beverly is a Director in Premier’s Advisory Quality and Safety Services. With over 45 years of healthcare experience in the areas of nursing education, administration, senior leadership, risk management and clinical compliance.

Director, Quality and Safety 

Beverly Essick

Jesi is a health systems industrial engineer with more than 15 years of experience in process improvement techniques, and a certified Lean facilitator and Six Sigma green belt. At Premier, Jesi is responsible for the Population Health Management Collaborative benchmarking and claims analytics programs. She enjoys using data analytics to help Premier members improve care and achieve success on their population health journeys.

Director, Strategy, Innovation and Population Health, Premier Inc.

Jesi Malloy, MSHS

Jeff has worked in the healthcare industry for more than 20 years in the nonprofit, managed care, group purchasing and government settings. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for managing costs, implementing systems, optimizing the supply chain, and improving decision support and the budgeting process through the use of technology.

Group Vice President, End-to-End Supply Chain, Nexera

Jeffrey A. Ashkenase, MPA

Roger has more than 20 years of experience leading healthcare transformation through innovative partnerships between health system providers, medical device companies and consulting firms.

Vice President of Advisory Services, Premier Inc.

Roger Weems

Jennifer is a respected policy expert with more than 20 years of advocacy and health policy experience in both corporate and association settings.

Senior Director, State Affairs

Jennifer Flynn, Esq.

Sarah is dedicated to the Medicaid and Managed Medicaid Transformation Consulting service line and has years of experience with Medicaid waiver utilization, population health and quality performance improvement.

Manager, Population Health Management Consulting

Sarah Schauman

Joshua has more than 15 years’ experience in healthcare consulting, population health, quality improvement and care model redesign. At Premier, Joshua works with members to develop cross-continuum care management models for integrated healthcare delivery systems, clinically integrated networks, accountable care organizations and health plans.

Joshua Ison

Erin has over 13 years of experience in health system pharmacy leadership, including clinical coordination and operations management in the acute care setting.

Director, Field Pharmacy Services

Erin M. Wright, PharmD, BCPS

During her consulting career, Kearin has delivered large integrated consulting engagements in community systems, academic health systems and standalone specialty hospitals across the U.S. Her areas of expertise include medical group operations and financial performance, strategic plan development, change management, leadership and organizational structure redesign, and physician governance creation/redesign.

Vice President, Physician Enterprise, Premier Inc.

Kearin Schulte, MS-GSCM, CMPE

Dr. Cao co-leads the Applied Research team, the research and analytics arm of PAS that provides consultation to life science companies, academic institutes and government agencies. She provides oversight to research and analytics staff, and on all aspects of research studies conducted by the Applied Research group.

Senior Principal of Applied Research, Premier Applied Sciences, Premier

Zhun Cao, PhD

Dr. Khan, Co-Chairs PIRC and leads the overall strategy and operation planning for clinical trials and leveraging of real-world evidence for enhancing research, business development, and innovative solutions. He previously served as the American Heart Association’s National Director of Research and Bioinformatics and National Director of Health Informatics and Analytics, and currently also holds adjunct faculty appointments in Public Health and Epidemiology.

Executive Director, Clinical Trials and Real-World Evidence, Premier Applied Sciences, Premier

Yosef Khan, MD, MPH, PhD

Shelley utilizes 18 years of experience in retail and hospital pharmacy to collaborate and partner with members, leading development efforts for all Premier Pharmacy analytics offerings, including CognitiveRx®. In her 10 years with Premier, she has built extensive knowledge of large supply chain data sets, pharmaceutical reimbursement coding, analytics software and customer engagement/success.

Product Director, GPO Technology & Data Solutions

Shelley Scavo

I’ve been working in healthcare for 40 years, specializing in business advisory services, strategy, transactions, mergers, physician partnerships and financial impact analyses.

Vice President, Strategy and Advisory Consulting

Steve Valentine

Wendy provides education and guidance in performance improvement efforts around care redesign, quality measurement, cost reduction, physician engagement and gainsharing. Her expertise enables the successful transition from volume- to value-based care.

Strategy, Innovation and Population Health, Premier Inc.

Wendy Rossi, Principal Performance Partner

Andy is currently the subject matter expert on Premier’s ERP and Supply Chain technologies. He has over 18 years of healthcare IT experience, with multiple roles supporting and implementing healthcare financial software systems across a wide range of customers and care settings. Prior to joining Premier, Andy also worked as a hospital consultant on financial workflow optimization and ERP design and utilization.

National Director, ITS Sales

Andy Cole

Chris has more than 20 years of diverse industry management experience, consulting expertise, and a strong hybrid skill set encompassing leadership of fiscal, sales and marketing operations, and product management.

Chris Murphy, Principal

Soumi, both a pharmacist and a lawyer, leads Premier’s Washington D.C. office. She is responsible for developing and implementing Premier’s advocacy strategy to lead the transformation to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare.

Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Premier

Soumi Saha, PharmD, JD

With more than 30 years of industry experience, Denise leads the Premier Applied Sciences team in partnering with life sciences companies to create solutions to improve quality, lower costs and promote healthier lifestyles.

Group Vice President, Premier Applied Sciences, Premier Inc.

Denise Juliano

Sandy is a CPA and Lean healthcare-certified expert helping healthcare providers create successful value-based care and payment models, achieve optimal margins and improve operational performance.

Director, Performance Partners, Premier

Sandy Michaels, CPA

Crystal supports health systems participating in bundled payment programs by providing education, support on episode development and identification of cost reduction opportunities.

Crystal Miller Moore, Senior Performance Partner

Ben has accountability for security strategy, engineering and operations. He has more than 15 years' experience in various IT disciplines including security, data analytics and infrastructure across the financial services, insurance, and healthcare industries.

Chief Information Security Officer, Premier Inc.

Ben Schwering

Richard Doane is a Director at Premier working as a part of the Strategic Collaboratives team. In this role, Richard has developed subject matter expertise related to all aspects of Medicare ACOs models (Medicare Shared Savings Program, Global/Professional Direct Contracting, ACO REACH) including advocacy, regulatory interpretation, network development, operations, and performance improvement.

Director, Strategic Collaboratives, Premier

Richard Doanne, MHA

Michele has more than 30 years of healthcare experience in quality, safety and performance improvement. She is an expert at delivering consulting solutions to organizations to improve clinical and operational performance by infusing best practices and accountability across the organization.

Principal, Quality Consulting Solutions, Premier Inc.

Michele Back, MSQA, BSN, CPHQ

Mike helps Premier's member health system pharmacy leaders practice high-quality care at the lowest possible cost, including integration of pharmacy services across the care continuum that translates into sustainable financial performance and improved patient care outcomes.

Vice President, Pharmacy Field Services, Premier Inc.

Michael Wascovich, PharmD, MBA, RPh

Nathan has more than 15 years in using analytics to solve data problems and deliver insights. He's led end-to-end analytics development for more than 30 projects in the areas of clinical quality, operational improvement, throughput, supply chain optimization, service line planning and more.

Vice President of Advisory Analytics, Premier

Nathan Cohen

Dr. Rosenthal is lead of the Applied Research team at Premier Applied Sciences. She has over 20 years of research experience in epidemiology and health economics and outcomes research (HEOR). Many of her studies have been presented at national and international scientific conferences and published in top peer-reviewed journals.

Ning Rosenthal, MD, MPH, PhD

John has more than 20 years of research experience with expertise in biostatistics and information technology. He has been with Premier since 2015.

Executive Director of Data Science and Technology, Premier Applied Sciences, Premier

John House, MS

John brings over 35 years of progressive revenue enhancement, prospective payment system reimbursement, coding, and documentation compliance expertise. John has led numerous multi-system high profile engagements, including prospective payment system revenue integrity, operational process improvement, healthcare emerging technology, litigation and compliance engagements.


Principal, Population Health Management & Performance Improvement Advisory Consulting Practice

John Pitsikoulis, RHIA

Misty leads the Improvement Science team within the Premier Applied Sciences division, she oversees deployment and implementation of Improvement Science projects to promote the adoption and integration of evidence-based practices, interventions and policies in routine healthcare settings.


​ Principal Improvement Science, Premier Applied Sciences, Premier

Misty Anderson, MBAHM, BSN, RN, LSSMBB

Drew is a Data Scientist on ITS team, working on a variety of projects with Premier teams across the organization. He leverages Premier’s robust technology suite and data, using ML/AI and other techniques, to develop new methods for products and ways to evaluate member performance.

Data Scientist, Premier

Drew Tatum

Charity leads Remitra® Procure-to-Pay Provider sales efforts and corresponding new business development including the sale of innovative and scalable AP automation solutions to healthcare providers across the continuum, from physician practices to multi-state hospital systems.

National Director, Remitra® Provider Solutions

Charity Bogumill, MHSA

With over 25 years of experience in global healthcare and supply chain management, Jeremy is responsible for leading one of U.S. healthcare’s top-rated ERP SaaS cloud solutions. His mission is to serve leaders in U.S. hospitals, health systems and non-acute enterprises to improve patient outcomes and provider satisfaction, drive margin improvement and increase resiliency.


Vice President, ERP Solutions

Jeremy Padmos

Joseph John is a consultant focusing on perinatal analytics on the Women and Infants team at Premier. His background includes diverse experiences in data-driven improvement initiatives.

Consultant – Advisory Services, Premier

Joseph John

Aden contributes to Premier’s policy development on issues related to artificial intelligence and technology. Aden is a senior at Duke University where he is double majoring in public policy and economics.

Government Affairs Intern

Aden Klein

Andy is a nationally-recognized expert with more than 15 years of healthcare consulting experience, specializing in acute, primary, post-acute and senior care services.

Principal Performance Partner, Population Health Consulting

Andy Edeburn

Dr. Steel trained in anesthesiology at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. He has been director of anesthesia services at White River Health System in Batesville, Arkansas for the past five years. He currently serves as the medical director of the ICU/PCU and the Community Care Network for WRHS; and is the co-director of the perioperative surgical home for WRHS.

Medical Director, PSH Learning Collaborative 2020

Chris Steel, MD

Dr. Ghosh has more than 15 years of experience in healthcare with a focus on the delivery of care, health outcomes, health quality and population health management. She is Program Director for Premier’s Hospital Improvement Innovation Network for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, and is spearheading numerous pilots and initiatives at Premier around the opioid crisis, specifically focused on pharmacy data and quality, safety and quality outcomes, and the patient experience.

VP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Premier Inc.

Roshni Ghosh, MD, MPH

Bekah has more than seven years of experience in the healthcare industry with a focus on facilitating physician decision-making in care practice change to reduce unnecessary variation. Her specific area of expertise includes care variation optimization to improve patient throughput, refine appropriate patient placement and reduce unnecessary testing. She serves as a project manager on large expense reduction and operational transformation engagements with health systems and academic medical centers


Senior Performance Partner, Cost Management, Premier Inc.

Bekah Justus

Amber has more than 30 years of clinical experience in healthcare quality, safety and performance improvement. Her extensive background includes developing strategies for evidence-based solutions and leading hospitals to achieve key clinical benchmarks.


Quality Consulting, Premier Inc.

Amber Oliverio, RN, MSQA, CPHQ, Director

Wayne is responsible for the contracting relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, including manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers, pharmacy technology and services, plasma derived products, vaccines and biosimilars.

Vice President, Pharmacy, Premier

Wayne Russell, RPh, PharmD, FASHP

Connie supports health system leadership teams to develop and implement strategies to address complexities associated with the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care. She has partnered with hospital and industry executives to improve clinical and financial outcomes through data/technology and consulting services.

Vice President, Advisory Services, Premier

Connie D’Argenio, BSN, MSN

Angela is a subject-matter expert in post-acute care, post-acute network development, bundled payments and Medicare Advantage. Over her 25-year career in healthcare, she has worked in all areas of the care continuum, with most of her time spent in acute care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. Angela is a licensed physical therapist with more than 15 years of clinical practice focusing on geriatric care.


Angela Holmes, PT, MMHC

Gerry leads a team of professionals deeply focused on the transition to value, with expertise spanning strategy to operations. His career spans more than 30 years of healthcare roles, from clinician to group practice administrator to leading consulting practices.

Gerry Meklaus, MHSA

David leads the company’s core supply chain business, including sourcing, contract management, operations and business analytics. He also provides executive leadership for the Premier direct sourcing business.

Senior Vice President, Supply Chain, Premier

David A. Hargraves

With more than 15 years of experience in research, development and sustainability, Andrew leads Premier’s Environmentally Preferred Products program and plays a central role in Premier’s wider sustainability efforts.

Manager, Environmentally Preferred Products, Premier

Andrew Knox

Kim provides the expertise and leadership necessary to create and drive strategic engagement with contracted suppliers, maximizing the value of the Premier relationship, capabilities and reach.


Group Vice President, Strategic Supplier Engagement, Premier

Kimberly Anders, MBA

Senior Director, Product, Contigo Health

Heather Ridenoure

Dr. Martin is responsible for providing data science leadership, strategy, program development and business support across all Premier service lines.

Vice President Data Science, ITS Data Science 

John Martin, PhD, MPH

Renae Jones is the Chief Operating Officer at Stanson Health, a Premier Inc. company, and is responsible for streamlining internal and customer operations to align with company goals. She has over 17 years of experience in healthcare SaaS technology implementation, management and leadership.

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