Jenny Bogard, MPH
Jenny has over twenty years of experience in health behavior change, strategy development, and program design across the managed care, nonprofit, and public arenas. She’s held leadership roles in health insurance at Humana, in worksite wellness at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in community health as the director of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthcare Access and Equity Strategy. Through her work to expand obesity prevention and treatment healthcare coverage, Jenny has partnered with over 40 private payers, public payers, self-insured employers and healthcare provider associations. Jenny has a BA in Health Administration from Florida Atlantic University and an MPH from the University of Miami. She also serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Payer Advisory Board, is a member of two Roundtable on Obesity working groups, and is part of the Prescription for Activity Taskforce Advisory Board.
Jaime Murillo, MD, FACC, FASE
Dr. Jaime Murillo is a Senior VP at OptumLabs and the Chief CardioMetabolic Officer at UnitedHealth Group, with a focus on early detection of CV disease, predictive analytics, prevention at a population level as well as research in health equity.
He is a cardiologist from Yale University with an extensive background in computer sciences, AI, and research both in basic sciences as a Harvard Medical School fellow as well as outcomes research at Yale University. He practiced general cardiology with subspecialty in imaging at Sentara Healthcare System for almost 20 years. In addition to clinical practice he played several executive roles with a focus on leadership development and consumer strategies.
He spent 3 years collaborating with IBM Watson on machine learning technology development. Prior to his current role at OptumLabs (formerly UHG R&D) he spent 2 years at UnitedHealthcare as the national lead for cardiovascular services focused on simple innovation and value-based transformation of cardiovascular care and affordability.
Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN
Dr. Commodore-Mensah is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Schools of Nursing, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. As a nurse scientist and cardiovascular disease epidemiologist, her program of research seeks to advance cardiovascular health among African-descent populations locally (United States) and globally (sub-Saharan Africa) through implementation science and community-engaged methods. She is the Principal Investigator of the LINKED-BP Program and co-PI of the LINKED-HEARTS Program, two cluster-randomized controlled trials, which are testing the implementation of multi-level interventions to improve hypertension control and the management of multiple chronic conditions in primary care. She is the co-PI of the Addressing Hypertension Care in Africa (ADHINCRA) Study, a cluster-randomized control trial which tested the effectiveness of a nurse-led, mobile health intervention to improve hypertension control in Ghana. She is a National Hypertension Control Roundtable Steering Committee member and serves on the Advisory Boards of the National Hypertension Control Initiative and Target: BP. She is a Board member for the American Heart Association Baltimore and Greater Maryland area and the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association.
Janet Wright, MD, MACC
Dr. Wright was appointed director in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in July 2021, following a two-year detail in the Office of the Surgeon General as Director of Science and Policy and almost eight years as the inaugural executive director of Million Hearts. She received the 2020 Surgeon General’s Award for Exemplary Service. Before federal service, Dr. Wright led the Science and Quality Division at ACC and practiced cardiology in Northern California for 23 years.
Dr. Wright received her MD from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and completed her internal medicine residency at Children’s Hospital and Adult Medical Center and her fellowship in cardiology at San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco.