Arizona Business and Health Summit 2025

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The W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU is hosting the fourth annual Arizona Business and Health Summit on Thursday, Nov. 20, in collaboration with ASU Health, including the College of Health Solutions and the School for Technology for Public Health. As in past years, the summit is a place for researchers, clinicians, practitioners, public policymakers, and community partners to advance business and health throughout Arizona through increased collaboration.

The summit convenes leading minds in health care, business, and technology to address the profound impact of artificial intelligence on the health sector. Participants will engage with real-world case studies, expert panels, and interactive workshops focused on responsible AI adoption, ethical governance, and future-readiness. The summit will spotlight actionable strategies for leveraging AI to enhance patient care, operational efficiency, and community well-being, while preparing for the next wave of agentic AI systems.

Attendees will leave equipped with insights and frameworks to guide investment, implementation, and oversight of AI in health care, ensuring that innovation drives sustainable value and equity across Arizona’s health ecosystem.

The conference is a not-to-be-missed event: A full day focusing on the challenges presented by AI for those engaged in the design for patient care, organizational design, and entrepreneurship in the rapidly changing environment of AI.

Arizona Business and Health Focus

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the health sector — not only as a set of engineered systems to sense, connect, analyze, and interpret data, but also as a transformative force in care delivery, public health, workforce planning, and supply chain resilience. The 2025 Business and Health Summit will convene health care providers, public health leaders, supply chain executives, and workforce strategists to examine how AI can be responsibly harnessed to strengthen resilience, manage disruptions, enhance care, and create broad sustainable value across the healthcare ecosystem.

This Summit will focus on real-world AI applications either in active development or in use today. Presentations, discussions, and three workshops will also address governance, equity, and future-readiness to ensure AI adoption enhances — not fragments — care, workforce well-being, and community resilience. This summit target will focus on real-world AI applications either in active development or in use today.

Key areas of focus include:

Use case-driven insights: Real-world AI applications from hospitals, public health systems, suppliers, and workforce management, including predictive staffing, capacity planning, and supply chain risk management.
AI in clinical, population health, and workforce domains: How AI augments co-management of care, advances precision medicine, supports equitable staffing and training, and enables public health leaders to anticipate and respond to community needs — the evolving division of labor – from who to what.
Resilience and responsibility: Strategies for ethical and sustainable AI integration, aligned with ESG principles, regulatory expectations, and operational continuity across both supply chain and human resources.
Metrics and accountability: Frameworks to measure outcomes, reduce bias, and assure interoperability across organizations, supply networks, and labor systems.
Future horizons: Preparing for next-generation AI — including agentic AI systems capable of autonomous learning and action — and their implications for workforce models, human capital strategies, supply chain adaptability, health equity, and innovation ecosystems.

Takeaways: Participants will gain actionable insights for investment, implementation, and oversight of AI, equipping them to address today’s opportunities in care, supply chain, and workforce management while preparing for the evolving future of health, delivery systems, and community well-being.

Insights will be forthcoming from recognized experts in the field, including:

Kamal Ahluwalia, chief executive officer at Resilinc. Ahluwalia is a highly experienced software executive with deep expertise in artificial intelligence, product innovation, and go-to-market strategy. Ahluwalia most recently served as president of Ikigai Labs, a company specializing in AI-powered forecasting and planning solutions. He was also president at Eightfold.ai, an AI-enabled talent, recruitment, and workforce engagement platform for human resources professionals.

Hitendra Chaturvedi, director of the Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation program and supply chain management professor of practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business. Chaturvedi teaches supply chain management, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Before joining ASU, Chaturvedi had extensive experience as a global business professional with EY, A.T. Kearney, and Microsoft, and subsequently as a successful entrepreneur, where he built a sustainable reverse logistics company.

Leonid "Leo" Chepelev, MD., PhD., associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Banner University Medical Center. Dr. Chepelev comes from a background in computational biochemistry, having completed a PhD in 2011. In 2015, he graduated from the University of Ottawa School of Medicine, followed by a diagnostic radiology residency in 2020 and a fellowship in cardiovascular imaging at Stanford University in 2021. His research work primarily focuses on advanced visualization, 3D printing, medical Semantic Web Technologies, and applying machine learning to enhance the appropriateness, role, and impact of medical imaging in frontline clinical practice.

Denis Cortese, MD, director of ASU's Health Care Delivery and Policy Program, Dr. Cortese Foundation Professor, and emeritus president and CEO of Mayo Clinic. Dr. Cortese was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2005. He also serves as president of the Healthcare Transformation Institute, and his international reach includes being an honorary member of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom and of the Academia Nacional de Medicina in Mexico.

Karen Donohue, PhD, W. P. Carey Distinguished Chair and professor of supply chain management. Donohue's research examines methods for coordinating inventory and distribution chain activities to support more sustainable outcomes.

Stephen Downey, chief supply chain and patient services officer at the Cleveland Clinic. Downey earned his Master of Science in Management of Technology from Lehigh University. Downey’s experience spans over 30 years in various supply chain settings, including management, operations, marketing, business development, sales, account management, and product management. He also has experience working with medical devices, health care providers, group purchasing organizations, pharmaceuticals, and distributors.

Jim Eckler, visiting scholar at ASU. Jim graduated with degrees in mathematics from the University of Waterloo and management science from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He is a founding member, a director, and has served as interim CEO of the Center for Outsourcing Research and Education. He is the co-founder of Healthcare Supply Chain Excellence and a former COO of Health Shared Services BC, the provider of shared services for the health care system across British Columbia. He is a co-author of Strategic Management of the Healthcare Supply Chain.

Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, PhD, assistant professor of information and operations management at the Texas A&M Data Science Institute. He earned his PhD in operations research and a master's degree in statistics from the University of Michigan, as well as a master's degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Iowa State University. Dr. Keyvanshokooh studies the research problems that lie at the interface of statistical machine learning, sequential decision-making, and data-driven dynamic optimization. In particular, he is broadly interested in developing personalized data-driven analytical methods for a wide range of healthcare and business analytics applications to yield insights and new functionality.

Mitzi Krockover, MD, is a nationally recognized leader in the area of women’s health. She earned her bachelor's degree in arts and sciences from Washington University in St. Louis, an MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and residency training in internal medicine at Northwestern University. Dr. Krockover is the founder and CEO of Woman Centered, LLC, a consulting and media company, and the host and producer of the "Beyond the Paper Gown" podcast. Both initiatives reflect her ongoing commitment to inform, inspire, and engage women in achieving optimal health, as well as helping companies succeed in optimizing women’s health. She was the founding medical director of the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center, which was designated a Center of Excellence by the Department of Health and Human Services. Please visit Beyond the Paper Gown to learn more about achieving your optimal health.

Susan Feng Lu, is professor of operations management and statistics at the University of Toronto and the Alan Hudson Chair in Health Policy at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She earned her PhD from the Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern University, and has established herself as a leading researcher at the intersection of health economics, operations, and analytics. Lu’s research explores the operational drivers of health care delivery, focusing on how public policies and technological innovations influence the efficiency, quality, and equity of health care systems.

Jyotishman "Jyoti" Pathak, PhD, dean of the School of Technology for Public Health at ASU. Dr. Pathak is an internationally recognized leader in biomedical informatics and population health sciences. Pathak earned a PhD in computer science from Iowa State University in 2007, after which he became a postdoctoral research fellow in the Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His research focuses on analyzing electronic health records, insurance claims, and social determinants of health data to study mental health service utilization and treatment outcomes for depression, substance use, and suicide.

Priya Radhakrishnan, MD, vice dean of clinical affairs at ASU's School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering and vice president of health equity and chief academic officer at HonorHealth. She earned her MD at Calicut University, now known as Government Medical College in Kozhikode, Kerala, and has completed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). She is an internal medicine physician with an interest in treating patients with chronic, complex illnesses. Dr. Radhakrishnan served on the National Committee for Quality Assurance and has had a strong focus on the role of technology, including the role of telehealth in providing equitable health care to vulnerable patient populations and the extent to which a variety of factors, including uncertainty avoidance, contribute to the adoption of AI in routine medical practice.

Frank J. Rybicki, MD, PhD, FACR, is the chair of Banner Health's Department of Radiology and leads the Banner University Medicine clinical radiology team. Dr. Rybicki specializes in cardiovascular imaging and medical 3D printing, which he uses to evaluate, diagnose, and treat heart disease. His work combines his training in biomedical engineering and medicine to advance the use of innovative technologies. Dr. Rybicki was the first to identify the relationship between first-pass CT arterial enhancement and blood flow, and is widely known as a leader in the implementation of 3D printing in medical centers.

Eugene Schneller, PhD, professor of supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School of Business. Schneller received his PhD from NYU with a focus on medical sociology and sociology of the professions. He joined ASU in 1985 and has been a Dean's Council 100 Distinguished Scholar since 2007. His research and consulting focus on health sector supply chain strategy, group purchasing, distribution models, and talent development. He has written extensively about the medical division of labor, beginning with his early analysis of the physician assistant as an innovation in this field.

Bindiya Vakil, CEO at Assio3D. Vakil is the former chief executive officer of the supply chain risk management company Resilinc, a founding member of the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council, and a member of the Advisory Board of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. She holds a master’s degree in supply chain management from MIT and an MBA in finance.

Kristen K. Will, PhD, MHPE, P-C, associate dean for Interprofessional Education and Community Engagement at the ASU School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering, and executive director of ASU Health.

Natalia Wilson, MD, MPH, is the executive director of ASU's Center for Healthcare Delivery and Policy and an adjunct faculty member at the College of Health Solutions.

Rui Yin, PhD, associate professor and assistant chair of W. P. Carey's supply chain management department. Yin received her PhD degree in operations management from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on downstream demand management issues in retail operations, including pricing, inventory management, and consumer behavior; as well as upstream supply management issues such as sourcing and procurement strategies for firms to manage their multi-tier supply chains. Her current projects include applying AI to procurement contract negotiations.

Geoff Zwemke, director of benchmarking at CAPS Research. Zwemke works at the intersection of business and academia at CAPS Research, where he leads a team that helps Fortune 500 supply management leaders turn data and research into practical insights. He partners with executives across industries to explore challenges, benchmark performance, and co-create tools that make complex information clear and actionable. Geoff holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona and previously worked at the Center for Services Leadership at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business.

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