Kevin Lee Smith, DNP, FNP, FAANP Andrew Turitz, MBA
Chief Medical Information Officer
Zipnosis, Inc. Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
Teladoc
Kevin Lee Smith is Chief Medical
Information Officer at Zipnosis, a
virtual care software and technology
company. He has been at the
vanguard of developing disruptive innovations focused
on improving access and quality of care for patients.
He helped to develop QuickMedx (which became
MinuteClinic), the first retail clinics in the country, where
he served in leadership roles contributing to EHR design
and integration of evidence-based content. In his current
role, Dr. Smith provides strategic leadership for the
development and implementation of evidence-based
clinical guidelines for virtual care services and clinical
informatics. He is adjunct faculty at the University of
Minnesota School of Nursing, a Fellow of the American
Association of Nurse Practitioners, an Education
Committee Chair for the American Telemedicine
Association, and an inaugural member of the Clear Health
Quality Institute (CHQI) Telemedicine Accreditation
Standards Committee.
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Drew Turitz serves as Senior Vice
President of Corporate Development
for Teladoc. He is responsible
for identifying, evaluating and
executing growth opportunities for Teladoc Health
through partnerships, acquisitions, joint ventures and
other third-party relationships. Mr. Turitz has nearly
15 years of experience in healthcare transactions,
including the management of all phases of acquisitions,
investments and partnerships—from analysis, diligence
and transaction structuring to product integration, go-
to-market strategies and operational implementation.
He has advised on M&A transactions for Fortune 500
Companies, and led investments in and served on the
board of directors for venture-backed companies. He
is also an entrepreneur whohas launched or joined
numerous early-stage businesses. Mr. Turitz holds a
bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a Master of
Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of
Management at Northwestern University.
Linda Waldorf, BS, CPMSM, CPCS
Gigi Sorenson, RN, MSN
Chief Clinical Officer/Vice President of
Operations
GlobalMed
Gigi Sorenson is the Chief Clinical
Officer / Vice President of Operations
of GlobalMed. Prior to joining
GlobalMed in 2017, she was System Director of Telehealth
& Community Connected Care for Northern Arizona
Healthcare (NAH), where she was responsible for the
inception of the program, strategic planning, and global
operational oversight, with NAH acting as both hub
and spoke site. She has developed programs in remote
patient monitoring, prehospital, direct to consumer,
outpatient and inpatient care delivery models, and
transitions planning using connected care programs.
NAH’s remote patient monitoring (RPM) program, Care
Beyond Walls & Wires™, is nationally recognized for its
impact and outcomes. Ms. Sorenson has published on
RPM and has presented a national case study on RPM
at the Brookings Institution. She is actively involved in
the American Telemedicine Association, as an Executive
Committee member and past chair of the Business &
Finance Special Interest Group, and is a member of the
Arizona Telemedicine Council. Ms. Sorenson is a graduate
of Northern Illinois University with a Master of Science in
Nursing.
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Director of Centralized Credentialing Office and
the Office of Medical Staff Services
University of North Carolina Health Care
System
Linda Waldorf is the Government
Relations Liaison for the National
Association Medical Staff Services (NAMSS). She has
served in various roles with NAMSS, including President
in 2015. She is currently participating on a workgroup
with NAMSS and the American Telemedicine Association
to create a telemedicine guidebook for credentialing
by proxy. Other current NAMSS initiatives include the
expansion of NAMSS PASS (Practitioner Affiliation Sharing
Source), development of a national hospital and payer
credentialing application, and exploring use of Blockchain
for credentialing. Ms. Waldorf also is the Director of
the Centralized Credentialing Office for the University
of North Carolina (UNC) Health Care System and the
Medical Staff Office for UNC Hospitals, with credentialing
oversight for approximately 6,000 providers. Prior to
joining the UNC Health Care System, she worked for
Johns Hopkins Medicine as Director of the Medical Staff
Office for Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD. She has
written and presented on credentialing topics such as
collateral consequences, going paperless, impact of
ethics on organizational performance, the goodness of
change, and the NAMSS ideal credentialing standards.