Speaker Bios
Intermountain Healthcare-Stanford Medicine Researchers’ Symposium
Lloyd Minor
Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, a position he has held since December 2012. He also is a professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University.
As dean, Dr. Minor plays an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. With his leadership, Stanford Medicine has established a strategic vision to lead the biomedical revolution in Precision Health, a fundamental shift to more proactive and personalized health care that empowers people to lead healthy lives. His book, “Discovering Precision Health,” published in 2020, highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases.
Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Johns Hopkins University. Prior to his appointment as provost in 2009, Dr. Minor served as the Andelot Professor and director (chair) of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and otolaryngologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders. In the medical community, Dr. Minor is perhaps best known for his discovery of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms.
In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Marc Harrison
Marc Harrison, M.D., president and CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, is a pediatric critical care physician with a proven track record as a top operations executive on a global scale. He is a national and international thought leader on transformation and innovation—ranking in Fortune’s Top 50 World’s Greatest Leaders in 2019. He also ranked second among Modern Healthcare’s Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders and tied for second on its list of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2018.
Dr. Harrison is leading Intermountain’s 38,000 employees —who are all called caregivers—to embrace bold new approaches to improve health, re-define value-based care, and serve people in new ways. For example, Intermountain launched Civica Rx, a not-for-profit generic drug manufacturer and distributor, to make generic medications more available and affordable in hospitals across the nation. Intermountain is also a founding member of the Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health, which is a collaboration of community partners designed to proactively address forces that affect people’s health well before they come to a clinic or a hospital.
Dr. Harrison also served as CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, chief of international business development at Cleveland Clinic, and chief medical operations officer at Cleveland Clinic.
He received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, completed a pediatric residency and pediatric care fellowship at Intermountain’s Primary Children’s Hospital, and a Master of Medical Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Harrison is an all-American triathlete and represented the U.S. at the 2014 World Championships. He is also a two-time cancer survivor, with his sights currently on completing an Ironman.
Robert Wachter
Robert Wachter, MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is often considered the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine. He is a former president of the Society of Hospital Medicine and former chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Thirteen times, Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked him as one of the 50 most influential physician-executives in the U.S.; he was #1 on the list in 2015. His 2015 book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, was a New York Times science bestseller. In 2016, he chaired a blue-ribbon commission advising England’s National Health Service on its digital strategy. In 2020, his tweets on Covid-19 were viewed over 30 million times by 111,000 followers and served as a trusted source of up-to-date information on the clinical, public health, and policy issues surrounding the pandemic.
David Larson
David B. Larson, MD, MBA, Professor of Pediatric Radiology in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University, currently serves as the Department’s Vice Chair for Education and Clinical Operations. He is a national thought leader in radiology quality improvement and patient safety, and a regular speaker regarding topics ranging from pediatric CT radiation dose optimization to radiologist peer review. He is the executive director of Stanford’s Realizing Improvement through Team Empowerment (RITE) program and co-director of the Clinical Effectiveness Leadership Training (CELT) program. He also leads the Stanford Medicine Improvement Capability Development Program.
Dr. Larson is the Founder and Program Chair for the Radiology Improvement Summit held annually at Stanford, now in its fifth year. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Radiology, overseeing quality and safety, and on the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Radiology.
Prior to his position at Stanford, Dr. Larson was the Janet L. Strife Chair for Quality and Safety in Radiology and a faculty member of the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University and MD and MBA degrees from Yale University. He completed his residency and fellowship training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Larson practices pediatric radiology at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. He and his wife, Tara, live in Portola Valley, California and have four children.
Mark Ott
Dr. Ott received his medical degree from the University of Utah School Of Medicine. He trained in general surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Subsequently he completed a Society of Surgical Oncology fellowship also at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He practiced surgical oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and was a faculty member of the Harvard School of Medicine (1997 – 2002) prior to being recruited to Intermountain Healthcare.
He has received multiple teaching awards for his efforts in educating medical students and residents. He has also received multiple community awards for his contribution to excellence in patient outcomes and healthcare delivery.
In addition to his administrative, leadership, and educational responsibilities; he is also a practicing surgical oncologist specializing in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic tumors, Sarcoma, as well complex upper gastrointestinal surgery, and other rare tumors.
His leadership interests center on recruiting physician to participate in clinical program building and healthcare value improvement. He has led corporate wide initiatives across the 23 hospitals in the Intermountain Healthcare system to reduce the cost of surgical procedures by 100 millions of dollars from 2012 - 2015. In addition to overseeing and improving healthcare delivery in Intermountain Healthcare's seven Central Region hospitals, he leads multiple trials using wearable devices to improve patient outcomes.
He has served as the physician champion for Intermountain Medical Center’s participation in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. He also has a strong interest in workplace wellness and served as a Board Member for the Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA) for 10 years.
Raj Srivastava
Raj Srivastava, MD, FRCP(C), MPH, is the Assistant Vice President of Research at Intermountain Healthcare, a large, not-for-profit organization that provides care for approximately 800,000 patients in Utah and southeastern Idaho at 24 hospitals and 185 outpatient clinics. He also directs Intermountain’s Healthcare Delivery Institute where he oversees the care delivery science team. He is a Professor of Research at Intermountain Healthcare and also serves as Medical Director of the Office of Research there. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Srivastava has joined other investigators to provide safe access to experimental therapies for COVID, is a member of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee and has led the Research Guidance Council and research operations to pivot to COVID studies.
Additionally, Dr. Srivastava is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah in the Division of Inpatient Medicine and is a practicing hospitalist at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.
Dr. Srivastava serves on the Executive Board of the Stanford-Intermountain Collaboration, co-chairs the Collaborative Committee, and is Co-Director of the Stanford-Intermountain fellowship program. The collaboration focuses on advancing clinical care best practices, education and training, and clinical research. The fellowship leverages the two institutions’ synergies in research, system implementation design, and strong desire to deploy effective, evidence-based interventions in both healthcare systems.
Nigam Shah
Dr. Nigam Shah is Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford University, and serves as the Associate CIO for Data Science for Stanford Health Care. Dr. Shah's research focuses on combining machine learning and prior knowledge in medical ontologies to enable the learning health system. Dr. Shah was elected into the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 2015 and is inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) in 2016. He holds an MBBS from Baroda Medical College, India, a PhD from Penn State University and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University.