2023 Annual Health Equity Summit

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mary I. O’Connor, MD
Founder, Vori Health
Chair, Board of Directors, Movement is Life

Health Equity: How Medicine and Medical Education Needs to Change to Achieve True Health Equity
Pedro “Joe” Greer Jr., MD, FACP, FACG
Founding Dean, Roseman University of Health Sciences
Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009) and MacArthur Fellow (1993-1998)

Pause on Purpose: Sustaining High Performance with Unapologetic Self-Care
Ariel Belgrave
Founder, Gym Hooky

Closing America's Death Gap: Solutions for Leaders
David Ansell, MD, MPH
Michael E. Kelly Presidential Professor of Internal Medicine, Senior Vice President/Associate Provost for Community Health Equity Rush University Medical Center
Author, “The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills”

Social Capital as a Catalyst to Health Equity
Bree Jones
Founder, Parity Homes
Fellow, Fund for New Leadership

California Surgeon General: Opportunities for Cross-Collaborative Partnerships 
Diana Ramos, MD, MPH, MBA, FACOG
California Surgeon General

Food as Medicine: How Kroger is Improving Health in Vulnerable Communities
Marc Watkins, MD, MScPH, FACOEM
Chief Medical Officer, Kroger Health

Health Equity: Why It Matters and How We Get There 
Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, FASA
20^th United States Surgeon General (2017-2021)
Presidential Fellow, Executive Director of Purdue's Health Equity Initiatives, and Distinguished Professor of Practice, Purdue University