Clayton Anderson
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Clayton Anderson is driven by a deep personal connection to end sepsis following the loss of his wife, Krystal Anderson, due to maternal sepsis following the stillbirth of their daughter Charlotte Willow. Residing in the Kansas City metro, Clayton is an advocate for sepsis awareness, stillbirth prevention, and maternal health. In his free time, Clayton enjoys spending time with his dogs, Sprocket and Louie, watching the local sports teams, and continuing to bring joy to those in his community.
Al Cardillo
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Al Cardillo has worked over four decades in the health field in health services development, administration, legislation, budget, policy, health association management and education. He is the President and CEO of the Home Care Association of New York State (HCA), a statewide association comprised of several hundred organizations providing home and community-based health and support services to hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.
Al served as Executive Director for Health in the New York State Senate, directing the Senate Health Committee in all health program, legislative and budget areas, as well as directing the Council on Health Care Financing. Prior to that, he was Coordinator for Long Term Care in the Senate, addressing all related areas of service, finance, catastrophic health and health personnel recruitment and retention.
Al has served on numerous state and national professional and governmental committees and advisory boards in health care and is an adjunct faculty member teaching in the Public Health Program at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Albany NY, and in the MSW Program at the State University of New York at Albany, where he is also a member of the MSW Program Curriculum Committee.
Al holds a Master of Social Work Degree in Direct Practice from the University at Albany and is a New York State Licensed Master Social Worker.
Mitchell L. Levy, MD
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Mitchell M. Levy, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Brown University. He is Past President of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (2009). His current research interests include translational research in sepsis, clinical trial design, and end-of-life care in the ICU. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Dr. Levy is very active in the field of quality and safety. He is a founding and current member of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) executive committee, and has been extensively involved in the New York State Sepsis Initiative, a mandated public reporting initiative in New York.
Upon receiving his medical degree from the University of Buffalo, Dr. Levy completed his residency training at the University of Colorado Health System. He is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the American College of Chest Physicians.
Imrana Malik, MD, MPHMD, DABSM, FCCP
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Dr. Imrana Malik, MD, DABSM, FCCP, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) in Houston, Texas. She has clinical practice responsibilities in direct patient care in the medical and surgical intensive care units. Her clinical research and quality improvement interests involve sepsis in cancer patients. At MDACC, Dr. Malik is the Clinical Lead of the Institutional Sepsis Program, which aims to improve outcomes for cancer patients with sepsis. Dr. Malik also serves as an Executive Committee member of the Global Sepsis Alliance, a member of the Steering Committee for World Sepsis Day, and as the Chair for the GSA Advance program, which is a coalition of sepsis experts and supporters.
Dr. Malik received her medical degree from Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine and a BS in Biochemostry from University of California, Riverside.
Brian McGlinchey
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Brian McGlinchey is a government affairs professional with almost a quarter of a century of experience in federal, state and local affairs in the mid-Atlantic. He was prominently involved in the 2020 Joe Biden for President campaign, serving as National Fundraising and acting as a political advisor to the campaign on battleground state strategy, providing insight on economic development, infrastructure and labor policy. Previously, Brian served as the Projects Director for Joe Biden during his time as a United States Senator. He is currently a member of the Democratic National Committee. A political veteran, Brian has managed more than 25 political campaigns and has held several positions of considerable leadership in the Democratic Party.
Before joining McCarter, Brian served as Director of the Laborers – Employers Cooperation and Education Trust where he forged economic policies that promoted growth in the construction industry in the eastern region. He was the Past-President and founding member of Delawareans For Economic and Environmental Development (DEED).
An advocate for diversity and inclusion, Brian is a lifetime member of the NAACP. He is also the recipient of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists’ Person of the Year Award, the Organization of Minority Women’s Martin Luther King Annual Award, and The King Center’s MLK Man of the Year Award.
Brian is a graduate of the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame.
At the SEPSIS Center, Dr. Rhee leads a CDC-, AHRQ-, and NIH-funded research program that uses large-scale electronic health record data and rigorous population-based methods to advance sepsis care and prevention. His work has helped shape national approaches to sepsis surveillance and quality measurement, generated important insights into sepsis epidemiology and outcomes, and informed clinical practice, public health, and health care policy.
Dr. Rhee has also played a longstanding leadership role in sepsis quality improvement at Mass General Brigham, helping develop and implement system-wide initiatives to improve recognition, treatment, and outcomes. Nationally, he has participated in numerous committees and collaborative efforts focused on sepsis, including chairing the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Sepsis Advisory Panel and leading multisociety efforts to define evidence-based strategies for hospital sepsis programs and practices.
Dr. Rhee received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University, his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, and his MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his postgraduate clinical training at Stanford University Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Peter Silver, MD
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Peter Silver, MD, is Northwell Health’s senior vice president, chief quality officer and associate chief medical officer, responsible for system-wide initiatives in quality and safety. Dr. Silver was previously medical director for Cohen Children’s Medical Center where he managed the delivery of care at the nationally ranked children’s hospital. He joined the faculty of Cohen Children’s Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine in 1993, and was chief of the division from 2009-2016, when he assumed the role of medical director.
Dr. Silver is a fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians and American Academy of Pediatrics. He led Cohen Children’s initiatives in early recognition and treatment of sepsis and the prevention of central-line associated bloodstream infections, which earned a Northwell Health President’s Award in 2009.
Dr. Silver has participated in leadership roles in several quality initiatives at the national level, including those from the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and Children’s Hospital Association. He serves on the Board of Governors of Northwell Health Physician Partners and participates in several other Physician Partner committees.
Holding a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, Dr. Silver earned his medical degree from the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and a master’s in healthcare administration from the Hofstra University Zarb School of Business.
