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Presenters

​​​​​​​Session I: Fool Me Once ​

Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope is a nationally recognized expert in risk, forensic accounting and white-collar crime research and an award-winning educator, researcher, author and documentary filmmaker. At DePaul, Pope teaches managerial and forensic accounting, and she is the author of Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2023), which was named one of the "40 Nonfiction Books to Watch Out for in 2023" by the Next Big Idea Book Club. 
 
In 2020, the American Institute of CPAs and the CPA Practice Advisor named Pope among the top 25 most powerful women in accounting. Her areas of expertise are in understanding and identifying financial fraud risk within financial statements, assessing corporate culture, and compliance systems designed to confront internal control challenges. Pope's research on executive misconduct culminated in directing and producing the award-winning documentary, "All the Queen's Horses," which explores the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. Pope's TED Talk, "How Whistle-blowers Shape History," has been viewed more than 1.6 million times, was translated into 20 languages, and serves as a resource to help organizations and individuals embrace internal whistleblowing. 
 
Pope is a frequent international speaker for numerous corporations, nonprofits and government agencies, and she has been interviewed by CNBC, the BBC and WGN-TV on fraud, risk and ethics. Additionally, she has discussed fraud and the need for sound internal controls in publications that include Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, CFO Drive, Accounting Today, Forbes, The Washington Post, and The Daily Beast.  
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Session II: Considerations for Responsible Generative Artificial Intelligence in Health Care   


Nakis Urfi provides thought leadership in the areas of ethical AI; environmental, social and governance (ESG); and compliance and ethics. He previously served as the compliance officer and ESG leader at Babylon, a global digital health company that provides AI and digital health products, telehealth and value-based care services. Nakis has worked in various health care capacities throughout his career, including contracting as a federal regulator and consultant to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chief compliance officer, privacy officer and as a health care attorney. 

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Session III: Physician Relationships and Stark/AKS 

Bob Wade has more than 25 years of experience in the health care industry and counsels clients on fraud and abuse issues, fair market value, commercial reasonableness, and developing, monitoring and documenting effective health care compliance programs. He serves clients nationally as a compliance professional and assists in negotiating and implementing corporate integrity agreements and in documenting and defending financial arrangements being of fair market value and commercially reasonable between health care providers. Wade has represented health care providers, including hospitals, large health systems and referring physicians in such matters and has also represented health care clients under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Inspector General.   
 
Previously, Wade served as a general counsel and organizational integrity officer for a multi-hospital system, giving him firsthand experience working on the challenges faced across their organization. As a result, he is able to provide valuable and practical insight to his clients in complex health care legal matters that also is from an operational and regulatory perspective. Wade is a frequent speaker at many national and regional health care legal, compliance and regulatory conferences, including conferences sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association and Health Care Compliance Association. He also provides his professional insight as the host of the “Stark Integrity: The Stark Law and Compliance Podcast.” 
 
Gabriel Imperato’s personal practice includes representing individuals and organizations accused of health care fraud and assisting and advising health care organizations on corporate governance and compliance matters. Imperato is board certified as a specialist in health law by the Florida Bar and is certified in Health Care Compliance by the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association (SCCE/HCCA). This national accreditation reflects a professional level of competence and experience in compliance processes sufficient to assist health care business organizations to understand and address legal obligations and to promote organizational governance and integrity through the operation of effective compliance programs.  
 
Previously, Imperato served as interim general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, the tenth largest health system in the United States. He also was the deputy chief counsel for the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the General Counsel in Dallas. He has served as a longtime member of the Board of Directors and past president of the SCCE/HCCA. Imperato has criminal and civil trial and appellate experience in federal and state courts and administrative forums, and he has personally handled leading national cases concerning criminal and civil health care fraud and abuse and health care law and policy. He has vast experience in the defense of allegations involving the False Claims Act against health care organizations and has litigated and settled many of these cases with the Department of Justice and the Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, as well as state Medicaid fraud control units.  Imperato also has handled numerous matters involving the formation of integrated delivery systems and managed care organizations. He is considered a national leader in health care fraud, abuse and compliance, as well as health care reform matters. He lectures and publishes numerous articles on these subjects. 

Session IV: Office of the Inspector General Fiscal Year 2024 Review  ​

Isela Arellano initially joined the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services in 2018 as counsel to the inspector general. Prior to that, she served as an administrative appeals hearing officer for the departments of Healthcare and Family Services and Human Services. Arellano has a long history working in public interest law, having worked as an associate for a Wisconsin-based firm, championing the legal rights of workers, families and labor unions.  She is a certified inspector general auditor with the Association of Inspectors General and a certified coder with the American Association of Professional Coders.  
As bureau chief of Medicaid for the Office of Inspector General, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (OIG HFS), Lisa Castillo oversees the daily operations of four distinct Medicaid compliance units: Audits, Peer Review, Quality Control and Long-Term Care Asset Discovery. She also manages a breadth of complex external Medicaid audits including the Unified Public Integrity Contractor and the Recovery Audit Contractor. Before becoming bureau chief, Castillo served in Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ Office of Counsel to the Inspector General where she litigated administrative actions for recovery and terminations. Castillo also has served as a Healthcare and Family Services administrative law judge and a Cook County assistant state’s attorney. She has credentialing from the American Association of Professional Coders as a certified medical coder and certified professional medical auditor, and she is a certified inspector general auditor with the Association of Inspectors General. 
 
Anthony Florio joined Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services in 2022 as the deputy Inspector general for investigations after working in the City of Chicago’s Office of Inspector General for 17 years. Florio worked his way from investigator I to chief investigator, leading a team in complex investigations involving comprehensive data analysis, surveillance, extensive interviewing and high-profile criminal and administrative allegations. He is a certified inspector general and a certified inspector general investigator with the Association of Inspectors General. 
 

As chief legal officer of the Office of Inspector General, Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (OIG HFS), Nathan Kipp oversees the agency’s Office of Counsel to the Inspector General. He joined OIG HFS in 2022 after serving in the offices of inspectors general for City of Chicago sister agencies: first, as an assistant inspector general for the Chicago Board of Education and then as both the deputy inspector general and interim inspector general for the Chicago Park District. An accomplished litigator, Kipp previously practiced law as a member of the global litigation groups in Mayer Brown LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP, where he handled complex and class action lawsuits and appellate matters. Before entering private practice, he served as a staff attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit before transitioning to the role of a judicial clerk for the Honorable Michael S. Kanne. Kipp is a certified inspector general with the Association of Inspectors General. 

​​Session V: Updates in Privacy and Security and AI Implications within Health Care 

Melissa Mitchell currently serves as the chief privacy officer for Phreesia where she leverages her extensive experience as an attorney, as well as a compliance and privacy professional, to advise on data privacy matters and administer Phreesia’s global privacy policies.   
 
Prior to joining Phreesia, Mitchell served as the chief of privacy for Amazon Health Services, where she supported several different domestic and international businesses and projects in the health care space. She also previously served as the compliance and privacy officer at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, an inpatient rehabilitation facility, and in the same role at Sinai Health, a multi-specialty safety net system in southwest Chicago.  

Jen Mitchell's career includes a blend of clinical expertise and privacy regulatory experience within the health care industry. Mitchell’s professional path started in clinical practice, where she held roles such as occupational therapy supervisor and director of rehabilitation services at Paradise Valley Hospital in San Diego. She then pivoted to health care privacy, first as a privacy officer at Paradise Valley Hospital, then as a health care privacy analyst with Amazon Health Services. As of March 2024, she has taken on the role of Privacy Manager at Phreesia. 

Session VI: Interactive Panel on How to Create an Effective Compliance 

Ahmed Salim is experienced in regulatory compliance, investigatons, assessments, and auditing and monitoring. Salim has served as a compliance officer for years, most recently as chief compliance officer at iRhythm Technologies. In this role, he was tasked with implementing new audit and monitoring processes, overseeing all investigations, coding and billing audits, and exclusion screening.  
 
Salim has worked to help create compliance programs by implementing and creating new policies and procedures for current regulations. He served as privacy officer tasked with conducting privacy investigations, creating policies and procedures, completing privacy work plan items, and conducting privacy assessments and audits, and he has served as chair of multiple privacy and security committees. Salim also has worked directly with the Office of Civil Rights on investigations and has helped implement multiple electronic health record access monitoring systems to oversee daily privacy activity. 
 
Salim is an author and frequent speaker on health care compliance, and he has published and spoken on the topics of compliance program effectiveness and privacy. He is certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Privacy Compliance (CHPC), Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP) and a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP). 

David Rapasadi leads Medline’s Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Program, focusing on third party due diligence and monitoring within the scope of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He has over a decade of practice experience in civil litigation, Social Security Disability and Administrative law, and regulatory health care law. 

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