National Healthcare Continuum Conference

Dr. Dan Davis serves in multiple medical leadership roles within Advocate Health. As Vice President and Physician Lead of Continuing Health, Dan has medical oversight responsibility for multiple home and community-based care programs within Advocate Health including Advocate Health Hospital at Home, Advanced Care at Home, Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care and others. Under his leadership the Continuing Health strategies are being aligned and integrated to create a seamless care continuum experience for patients and providers in the ambulatory space. In leading Advocate Health Hospital at Home, Dan has been instrumental in building and scaling the largest Hospital at Home program in the nation supporting 16 waivered facilities in 4 major metropolitan areas across 3 states with an enterprise average daily census of 150 patients and caring for more than 26,500 patients since inception.

Sarah Schenck, MD, FACP

Dr. Sarah Schenck currently serves as the Medical Director, Specialty Care for Devoted Health. As a seasoned primary care physician leader, she has a track record of driving successful clinical care transformations. Dr. Schenck's expertise lies in the delivery of comprehensive, patient-centered care in a collaborative team-based environment.

Alex Binder is a long-time member of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine (AAHCM), with more than 20 years of involvement in the Academy.
He has served as a board member for seven years and currently holds multiple leadership roles, including Treasurer and Vice Chair of the Academy’s Public Policy Committee.

Professionally, Alex serves as Vice President of the Parker Advanced Care Institute, overseeing operations that help patients with late-stage chronic illnesses stay home comfortably with the support of Visiting Physician Services and a palliative care team.

His responsibilities include enhancing and expanding the delivery of home-based primary care as well as broadening the reach of palliative medicine in hospital, post-acute, and community settings. Prior to joining the VNA Health Group, Alex was the Practice Manager for Visiting Physician Services for over 15 years.

Dr. Chiang served as the Medical Director for HomeCare Physicians (HCP), a suburban Chicago practice focused on delivering care to medically complex patients in their homes. The HCP house call program has made more than 142,000 house calls to more than 10,000 home-limited patients since its founding in 1997. Personally, Dr. Chiang has made over 38,000 house calls to more than 3,900 patients in his 24-year career. His practice and work have been featured on ABC News Chicago and in northeast Illinois’ Daily Herald. In 2014, Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital named him as one of 50 Unsung Heroes. In October 2019, Dr. Chiang received the “House Call Doctor of the Year” award from the American Academy of Home Care Medicine. In 2024, Dr. Chiang received the Community Leadership Award from the Chicago Health Executive Forum.

Dr. DeCherrie has a professional passion for home based medical care. She is the Vice President for Clinical Strategy and Care Delivery at DispatchHealth, the nations largest provider and enabler of in home acute care. Previously she was the at Mount Sinai Health system for 18 years and was the Clinical Director of Mount Sinai at Home, the home based service line. Dr. DeCherrie is a Clinical Professor in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. DeCherrie graduated from University of Chicago in 1995 with a major in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Medicine (HiPSS) and then continued at Pritzker School of Medicine graduating in 1999. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Boston University where she was named chief resident.

Dr. Konstantinos “Kosta” Deligiannidis is the Medical Director of Northwell Health's House Calls program, a home-based primary and palliative care program within the largest health system in New York, and a participant in the Independence at Home demonstration program.
Eighteen years ago, he began his career as a full-spectrum family physician in a small-town health center in Central Massachusetts, caring for patients in inpatient, labor and delivery, nursing home, and outpatient settings. At UMass Medical School, he taught learners the benefits of home visits and inspired many to pursue this work. He was an inaugural member of UMass’s Quality Scholars program, where he developed a passion for quality improvement and system-based change. As a quality improvement director, he led projects presented at state and national conferences.

Katie Heimbichner, PMP, is a business development and sales leader with deep experience driving growth across healthcare and financial services. As Head of Business Development Operations at MedArrive, she leads sales strategy, market and industry research, and logistics planning to support scalable growth. She is known for cultivating and expanding multi-level partnerships across business lines to unlock new opportunities and deliver measurable outcomes.

Patricia Kentgen is a transformational healthcare executive with more than 20 years of experience building, scaling, and optimizing clinical operating companies. She has led organizations through high-growth phases, M&A integrations, and clinical innovation, consistently delivering improved patient outcomes alongside sustainable business expansion. Her 40+ year background as a professional registered nurse brings a strong clinical understanding of the healthcare ecosystem.

Most recently at Medically Home, she helped pioneer the healthcare-at-home model, forging strategic partnerships with leading health systems and payers to drive over $50M in growth and expand national clinical operations.

Dr. Leff is Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on novel models of care delivery for older adults with an emphasis on home and community-based models of care, issues related to multi-morbidity and serious illness, risk prediction, and quality measurement and improvement. He Co-leads the HaH Users Group and the National Home-Based Primary Care Learning Network. He is Founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Advanced Home Medicine, past -President of the American Academy of Home Care Medicine, and currently serves as a Trustee of the ABIM Foundation.

Dr. Zeev Neuwirth is a healthcare executive with over 15 years of clinical experience as an internal medicine physician and nearly 20 years of experience in clinical operations, population health and strategic services. He most recently served as the CEO of a Medicaid Managed Care Organization. Prior to that he served in a number of roles at Atrium Health (now Advocate Health) including Chief of Clinical Care Transformation, Senior Medical Director of Population Health, Chief Clinical Executive for the Medical Group, and Chief Medical Officer for the Medical Group.

In 2017, Zeev launched an award-winning podcast, 'Creating a New Healthcare'. This podcast has over 200 posts and is one of the longest lasting healthcare industry podcasts.

Hank Ross is the founder of Physician Housecalls, a company that has provided more than 300,000 housecall visits in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.
He also founded and served as CEO of Ross Health Care, a home care company serving Oklahoma.

Mr. Ross spent fourteen years in hospital leadership and was a member of the Oklahoma National Guard, including a tour in the Gulf region during Operation Desert Storm. Most recently, he has been integrally involved in REACH High Needs ACO models serving some of the most expensive and frail patients in the Medicare system. He currently serves on ACO boards and is the point person for the Academy REACH HN ACO dedicated to housecall providers.

Dr. Singh provides strategic and leadership direction to Gentiva’s team of medical professionals in our mission to deliver the highest quality and compassionate care for the people we serve. His responsibilities include advancing the company’s clinical capabilities and modernizing our approach to patient care.

He has more than 25 years of clinical experience, including serving as chair of the department of cardiovascular medicine, Phelps Hospital, and assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr Singh is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He earned his bachelor of science in biomedical engineering from Boston University and his MD from Drexel University, College of Medicine.

Dan Shields is the Chief Executive Officer of Digital Medicine at Ochsner Health. With over 20 years of experience in healthcare, Dan brings deep expertise in digital health strategy, innovation, go-to-market execution, and scalable care models.

A vocal advocate for transforming healthcare delivery through technology, Dan emphasizes collaboration among health systems, payers, and employers to drive better outcomes and reduce costs. He works closely with Ochsner’s executive team, including CEO Pete November and Chief Digital Officer Denise Basow, to advance the organization’s mission of innovation, equity, and excellence in care.

With over 25 years of experience in continuing medical education (CME) and health care quality improvement, Melissa Singleton has held senior staff positions at medical specialty societies and has also served as an executive consultant to health care organizations at national and state levels. She has a graduate degree in adult professional education/human resource development and brings extensive knowledge and expertise in educational design, research, quality measurement, and health care outreach.

In her role as chief operating officer at the Home Centered Care Institute, Ms. Singleton oversees the development, implementation, and evaluation of all educational programming, research initiatives, and a wide range of projects, services, and outreach aimed at expanding access to high-quality home-based primary care (HBPC) for patients who need it.

Dr. Nathan Starr has led Intermountain's Hospital at home program since it's inception in March of 2020. In September 2020 he became Medical Director
of Home Services for Castell, over the Hospital at Home and Home Primary Care programs. Dr. Starr has led the Intermountain TeleHospitalist program
since November 2020.