Traci Archibald serves as Deputy Director of the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), within the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality. Previously, she held division leadership roles in both the Quality Improvement Group and Information Systems Group at CMS. Throughout her career, she has led numerous cross-cutting projects, with a particular focus on improving care transitions through community coalition interventions. Ms. Archibald earned her BS in Occupational Therapy from Boston University's Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and an MBA from the University of Baltimore. Before joining CMS, she accumulated 17 years of clinical experience as an Occupational Therapist across various healthcare settings.

Christine Bailey, MSN, RN, CSSGB, serves as a Senior Executive Director at Health Services Advisory Group, Inc. (HSAG). Over the past twelve years, she has led Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quality improvement contract tasks and special innovation projects. For the 13th Scope of Work (SOW), Ms. Bailey is currently the hospital lead for the Region 7 Quality Improvement Network – Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO). In the 12th SOW, she lead the CMS Hospital Quality Improvement Contract (HQIC) supporting 298 hospitals in 29 states and supported healthcare improvement tasks within the QIN-QIO for Arizona and California. Ms. Bailey has more than 30 years of experience in the health care industry including critical care/cardiovascular intensive care nursing. She spent the last 20 years in quality improvement roles.

Amy Carter holds a Master’s degree in Adult and Community Education, is a Registered Dietitian, and a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. As a healthcare leader, she has extensive experience managing teams of skilled nutrition and wellness professionals across prevention, acute care, outpatient care, and chronic disease management. Over ten years ago, Amy implemented Diabetes Self-Management and Education Support (DSMES) at Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) sites, laying the groundwork for lifestyle interventions. Her programs have since expanded to include hypertension, pediatric lifestyle, produce incentives, and the National Diabetes Prevention Program, offering over 65 group series annually across eight FQHC sites. Additionally, she is a co-author of the DSMES national standards and served a term on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Nutrition Services Payment Committee.

Laura Coleman has been with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid since 2015. A Registered Nurse with over 30 years of leadership in health care, she specializes in medical management, regulatory compliance, case management, and quality improvement. Before CMS, Laura developed consumer-focused programs across various health plans, including Medicare and Medicaid. She is now Director for the Division of Beneficiary Reviews and Care Management, overseeing the BFCC Program and Contractor performance.

Colleen serves as the Director of CMS' Division of Community & Population Health. She leads a program that directs Quality Improvement Organizations to assist hospitals, nursing homes, and physician practices in enhancing care quality and promoting optimal health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries. A Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, Colleen holds a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from Oakland University and a Master's Degree in Nursing Business & Health Systems with an Informatics Concentration from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining CMS, she worked in a private sector healthcare system dedicated to serving underserved populations.

Dora Hughes, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CCSQ is primarily responsible for executing all national clinical, quality, and safety standards for healthcare facilities and providers, as well as establishing coverage determinations for items and services that improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries. Previously, Dr. Hughes served as Chief Medical Officer at the CMS Innovation Center. She led the Center’s work on addressing challenges for underserved communities, advised on care delivery, payment and data collection strategies for the Center’s models and initiatives, and represented CMS on clinical and cross-agency working groups within HHS.  Earlier in her career, Dr. Hughes served as the Counselor for Science & Public Health at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. In this role, she helped implement the Affordable Care Act and provided oversight and guidance on priority issues regarding public health and prevention; workforce and the safety net; food, drug and device regulatory matters; and biomedical research innovation. In addition to federal service, Dr. Hughes was an Associate Research Professor at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, where her work focused on the intersection of clinical and community health, social determinants of health, and healthcare delivery, as well as teaching. Dr. Hughes also has served as senior policy advisor at a law firm, where she focused on regulatory and legislative matters in the life science industry.  Dr. Hughes began her career in health policy as Senior Program Officer at the Commonwealth Fund, and subsequently served as Deputy Director for the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and health policy advisor in the United States Senate. Dr. Hughes received a B.S. from Washington University, M.D. from Vanderbilt and M.P.H. from Harvard. She completed internal medicine residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and is licensed and board certified.

Dr. Oz serves as the 17th Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr., and President Donald Trump. He is a Professor Emeritus at NY Presbyterian-Columbia Medical Center and has won nine Daytime Emmy® Awards. Dr. Oz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and obtained a joint MD and MBA from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He is the author of eight New York Times Best Sellers and was a founder of a lifestyle magazine with a focus that extends well beyond health and wellness to relationships, beauty, food and home. In 2003, Dr. Oz founded a national non-profit which emulates the Peace Corps by putting energetic recent college graduates into high schools around the country to teach diet, fitness and mental resilience. He has raised $100 million to help 3 million teens with this nationwide program. In addition to belonging to every major professional society for heart surgeons, Dr. Oz has been named Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Forbes’ most influential celebrity, Esquire magazine’s 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, Harvard’s 100 Most Influential Alumni, AARP 50 Influential People Over 50, and received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star. Dr. Oz resides in Pennsylvania with his wife Lisa Oz and is a proud father of four and grandfather of five children.

Emily Teachout is a health scientist at the CDC, specializing in implementation science, program evaluation, and chronic disease prevention. She has over a decade of experience in scaling evidence-based interventions to enhance physical activity and/or nutrition. At CDC, Ms. Teachout chairs an agency-wide sub-committee on Implementation Science and leads the Lifestyle Change Implementation Research Network. Her work emphasizes collaboration to identify gaps in knowledge and opportunities for action in a way that promotes efficiency in public health and reduces duplicative efforts. Ms. Teachout received a Master of Public Health from Emory University, where she was a Merit Scholar and Paul D. Coverdell Fellow. Prior to her role at the CDC, she worked for organizations like Peace Corps and the American Cancer Society, shaping her community-focused approach to public health programming.

Jessica Wallace has been involved in the integration of clinical care and public health for over two decades. Part of that integration has involved providing primary care across the lifespan as a family medicine Physician Assistant (PA), as well as implementing public health programs to prevent chronic diseases before they occur. She is an unwavering advocate for the power of lifestyle change interventions to improve the health and quality of life of patients, families, and communities. Despite significant challenges to adopting these programs, her professional experience has proven that integration is both feasible and impactful. Dr. Wallace received her Master’s in Public Health and a PA degree from George Washington University and earned her Doctorate in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, focusing on strategies to reduce provider burnout.