Pilot Shark Tank – Sharks

Dr. Karen Conley has served as the associate chief nurse for the Connors Center for Women and Newborns since July 2012. Karen holds a B.S.N from Boston College, a M.S. in Nursing Administration from Northeastern University and a DNP from MGH Institute for Health Professions. Dr. Conley has been a leader in patient and family centered care, systems improvement and patient safety. She also has focused her work and research on the development of nurse leaders and has expanded that interest internationally to projects in both Haiti and China. She is has advanced certification in both Oncology Nursing (AOCN) and Nurse Executive practice (NEABC).

As Chief Medical Officer for the Brigham and Women’s Physician’s Organization, Dr. Dudley is responsible for overseeing the contracting efforts on behalf of the BWPO and leading the medical management team in developing and implementing programs designed to meet pay for performance targets related to efficiency and quality. Additional responsibilities include addressing physician work-life issues and collaboration and development of physician leadership and volunteerism programs.

Previously, as Associate Medical Director for Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. (PCHI), and Team Leader for the High Performance Medicine Trend Management Team, Dr. Dudley was responsible for developing and coordinating system wide approaches to address areas of increasing resource utilization. The targets included physician utilization of pharmaceuticals and high cost imaging tests. Approaches included use of electronic ordering platforms by physicians at the time of ordering, development and deployment of guidelines to support physician decision making, and feedback of practice patterns to physicians.

Previously, Dr. Dudley was Medical Director for Partners Human Resources. Dr. Dudley supported the Human Resources team in the development and management of the pharmacy benefit for Partners employees and their dependents including contracting and on-going formulary management. Dr. Dudley was also responsible for working with insurers and other vendors to develop and deploy disease management programs for employees. Prior to this position, Dr. Dudley had worked as Associate Medical Director and prior to that, Assistant Medical Director, for PCHI. In these roles, Dr. Dudley was responsible for providing clinical support for negotiating risk and pay for performance arrangements with local insurers on behalf of the PCHI Network. Dr. Dudley was also responsible for the development and ongoing management of PCHI’s Pharmacy Management Program.

Dr. Dudley received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She completed her internship and residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Allen Kachalia is a member of the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.  He is clinically active as an academic hospitalist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, regularly teaching and attending on the hospital wards with medical students and residents.  He is also a member of the BWH leadership team as the Associate Chief Quality Officer for the hospital, with his administrative activities focusing on the quality and safety of patient care in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Allen also has a law degree, and teaches and maintains research interest in legal issues in medicine, including malpractice system reform and disclosure, and how they relate to the quality and safety of medical care.

Dr. Calum MacRae is a cardiologist, geneticist and developmental biologist who graduated from Edinburgh and London before coming to Boston in 1991. After postdoctoral fellowships in human genetics with Drs. Christine and Jon Seidman and developmental biology with Dr. Mark Fishman, as well as additional clinical training in internal medicine and cardiology, he joined the Division of Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2001. His research is focused on understanding the genetic contribution to common cardiovascular disease using human studies and complementary high-throughput biology in the zebrafish. His clinical interests include the management of inherited heart disease and cardiac involvement in systemic diseases. Dr. MacRae also is the Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Program and is responsible for Physician Scientist training initiatives at the CVRC.

Sanjay Pathak, MBA, MPH, oversees Surgical Services and Imaging programs at BWH. His responsibilities include directing all Surgical Service lines, Peri-operative services, Anesthesiology, Radiology and Dermatology, as well as collaborating with BWH department chairs to develop and advance the strategic priorities of the organization. Pathak also serves as co-chair of the Dana Farber/ Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center Operations Cabinet.

Prior to joining BWH in 2007, Pathak served as corporate director of Business Planning and Market Development at Partners HealthCare, where he and his team analyzed and directed major strategic and capital projects for PHS. Pathak also spent more than 12 years in management consulting for Cap Gemini and Deloitte, where he directed performance improvement, clinical information systems and strategic projects for large academic and integrated delivery systems across the country.  Pathak earned his MBA and MPH from Boston University.

Dr. Stuart Pollack is the Medical Director, Brigham and Women’s Advanced Primary Care Associates, South Huntington. He is a practicing general internist currently medical directing an academic patient-centered medical home. The practice is designed around building a culture of integrated multi-disciplinary teamwork, patient activation, continuous learning, and proactive population management. Previously, he was Chairman of General Internal Medicine at Fallon Clinic. He served as a resident at Barnes Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine.