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T H E S T A T E O F W E L L - B E I N G I N A M E R I C A : A N I N N O V A T I O N L A B B i o g r a p h y P u r p o s e : t o c h a l l e n g e p a r t i c i p a n t s t o B o o k r e - i m a g i n e w a y s t o a l l o c a t e e x i s t i n g p u b l i c a n d p r i v a t e r e s o u r c e s t o c h a n g e West Creek Ranch w e l l - b e i n g o u t c o m e s f o r t a r g e t e d J u n e 2 4 - 2 8 , 2 0 1 9 p o p u l a t i o n s . T h e A r t h u r M . B l a n k F a m i l y F o u n d a t i o n Internet to create a destination for consumers, healthcare institutions and physicians to find trustworthy medical information. Prior to WebMD, Jeff Arnold Jeff founded Quality Diagnostic Services (QDS), a cardiac arrhythmia monitoring company, one of the s h a r e c a r e first companies to use the concept of telemedicine F O U N D E R , C H A I R M A N A N D over 25 years ago. C H I E F E X E C U T I V E O F F I C E R Jeff has been widely recognized for his innovative Jeff Arnold is Chairman and CEO of Sharecare, a contributions to media, healthcare and technology digital health company he founded with Dr. Mehmet throughout the years, including being named a Oz to help people manage all their health in one Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic place, and enable health plans, employers and Forum. He also was inducted into the American providers to effectively scale outcomes-based health Academy of Achievement and recognized by Ernst & and wellness solutions across their entire Young as Entrepreneur of the Year, Southeast Region; populations. Sharecare’s platform provides each and Johns Hopkins University presented him with the person – no matter where they are in their health Blumenthal Award in recognition of his exceptional journey – with a comprehensive and personalized ability to bridge business and technology. He was health profile where they can easily connect to the inducted into the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma information, evidence-based programs and health Theta Tau International, as an honorary member. His professionals they need to live their healthiest, achievements and leadership also are widely happiest and most productive life. recognized across his home state of Georgia, where he received the prestigious Phoenix Award. Previously, Jeff was Chairman and CEO of Additionally, Jeff was inducted into the Technology HowStuffWorks.com, an award-winning online Hall of Fame of Georgia; named a Health Care Hero resource used by millions of people each month, by Atlanta Business Chronicle; presented with a which he sold to Discovery Communications, where Groundbreaker Award by Atlanta Magazine; and he served as Chief Digital Strategy Officer, and Chief honored by the Atlanta chapter of the IndUS Architect of The Curiosity Project until December Entrepreneurs with a Lifetime Achievement Award. 2011. Currently chairman of Forbes Travel Guide, Arnold In 1998, he founded and served as CEO of WebMD, the also has served on numerous boards for public, first healthcare company to harness the power of the private and charitable organizations. Contact j e f f @ s h a r e c a r e . c o m Don Baylor, Jr. t h e a n n i e e . c a s e y f o u n d a t i o n S E N I O R A S S O C I A T E An eight generation Texan, Don Baylor, Jr. is a senior Baylor previously worked as a senior consultant for program officer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, KPMG Consulting’s public sector practice and as where he oversees the Foundation’s portfolio to legislative director for New York Association of improve household financial security, including the Community Organization for Reform Now. Baylor was Southern Partnership to Reduce Debt. a founding board member for RAISE Texas, Texas Match the Promise Foundation, and the Consumer Prior to joining Casey, Baylor was a senior associate Financial Protection Bureau’s Consumer Advisory at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., where he Board. focused on expanding economic opportunity through JPMorgan Chase, Citi, MacArthur and Gates He currently serves as a board member for the Asset Foundation projects analyzing policy and data trends Funders Network, Earn.org and Equal Measure. He across dozens of cities. He also worked as director of holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and M.A. OpportunityTexas at the Center for Public Policy from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Priorities (CPPP) in Austin, where he built new data platforms, consulted with regional stakeholders, and worked to pass legislation to increase household savings, curb predatory lending, and integrate financial education into the K-8 math curriculum. Contact d b a y l o r @ a e c f . o r g Medical Association Board of Trustees. Other past board memberships included the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kaiser Family Foundation Regina Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Catholic Health Association, and Morehouse School of Medicine. Benjamin u n i t e d s t a t e s o f a m e r i c a Dr. Benjamin is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family 1 8 T H S U R G E O N G E N E R A L Physicians. She has been chosen as a Kellogg National Fellow and Rockefeller Next Generation Leader. Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA is the Founder and CEO of BayouClinic, Inc., as well as the NOLA.com/Times In 1998 Dr. Benjamin was the United States recipient Picayune Endowed Chair of Public Health Sciences at of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health Xavier University of Louisiana, and from 2009-2013, and Human Rights. She received the 2000 National served as the 18th United States Surgeon General. She Caring Award, which was inspired by Mother Teresa specializes in prevention policies and health and was recognized with the Papal honor Pro Ecclesia promotion among individuals as well as large et Ponticifice from Pope Benedict XVI. populations, especially concerning obesity, childhood obesity, and children’s health. She has special interest In 2008, she was honored with a MacArthur Genius in rural health care, health disparities among socio- Award Fellowship. In 2011, Dr. Benjamin became the economic groups, suicide, violence, and mental recipient of the Chairman’s Award at the 42nd NAACP health. Image Awards. In May 2013, Reader’s Digest, ranked her #22 of the “100 Most Trusted People in America." From her early days as the founder of a rural health clinic in Alabama to her leadership role in the Benjamin has a B.S. in chemistry from Xavier worldwide advancement of preventive health, Dr. University, New Orleans, attended Morehouse School Regina Benjamin has forged a career that has been of Medicine, earned an MD degree from the University recognized by a broad spectrum of organizations and of Alabama at Birmingham, and an MBA from Tulane publications. In 1995, she was the first physician University. She is the recipient of 24 honorary under the age of 40 and the first African-American degrees. woman to be elected to the American Contact b e n j a m i n . r e g i n a @ g m a i l . c o m Kristen Berman i r r a t i o n a l l a b s C O - F O U N D E R Kristen Berman studies how people actually act in the workbooks called Hacking Human Nature for Good: A marketplace, as opposed to how they should or practical guide to changing behavior, with Dan Ariely. would perform if they were completely rational. These workbooks are being used at companies like Google, Intuit, Netflix, Fidelity, Lending Club for Kristen co-founded Irrational Labs, a behavioral business strategy and design work. product design company, with Dan Ariely in 2013. Irrational Labs helps companies and nonprofits Before designing, testing and scaling products that understand and leverage behavioral economics to use behavioral economics, Kristen was a Senior increase the health, wealth and happiness of their Product Manager at Intuit and startup, Lytro. She users. She also co-founded Common Cents Lab, a built product management and marketing systems Duke University initiative dedicated to improving the for small businesses and consumers, for domestic and financial well-being for low to middle Americans. international markets. The core thread throughout Under Kristen's leadership, Common Cents launched this all is a deep passion for understanding why over 50 experiments with companies, touching tens people behave the way they do and then building of thousands of people. Kristen's work has been solutions that make their lives better.

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