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Life Sciences & Health Care
Participants will evaluate trends and key challenges that may shape their organization’s strategy in the year ahead.
Key takeways
Host: Kulleni Gebreyes, Vice Chair and US Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Leader
Presenters:
Jay Bhatt, Managing Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and Deloitte Health Equity Institute
Alicia Janisch, Vice Chair and US Health Care Sector Leader
Pete Lyons, Vice Chair and US Life Sciences Sector Leader
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
Life sciences and health care organizations appear to be expressing a positive outlook for 2025. There are also ways organizations can contribute even more toward health and well-being for all. Focusing on growth strategies, addressing uncertainties and competitive challenges, prioritizing health equity, investing in digital transformation and technology, and having a consumer focus are all likely to be important in the new year. We’ll discuss:
- Key issues transforming the life sciences and health care ecosystem
- Understanding of recent trends in how organizations are addressing health equity
- Potential changes and challenges in 2025
Kulleni Gebreyes
Deloitte - United States
Dr. Kulleni Gebreyes is Vice Chair and US Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Leader in which she leads a team of over 15,000 diverse professionals who are focused on advancing the industry by improving patient outcomes and developing financially sustainable strategies for LSHC organizations. Kulleni is a physician leader with over 25 years of experience across the commercial and public sectors. She is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Her work focuses on driving care delivery transformation for health care organizations pursuing financially sustainable strategies for consumer-centric care models that are data driven and digitally enabled. She has also developed strategies for population health management and value-based care that address payment reform, physician alignment and patient activation. Trained at Johns Hopkins Hospital System, she is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and a Six Sigma Green Belt. She holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, a BA in biology from Princeton University and an MBA from Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Jay Bhatt
Deloitte - United States
Dr. Jay Bhatt is a physician executive, primary care physician, and public health innovator. As managing director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions and the Deloitte Health Equity Institute, Bhatt directs the firm's research and insights agenda across the life sciences and health care industry. Dr. Bhatt continues to practice medicine in the Chicago area while serving in his leadership role at Deloitte.
Alicia Janisch
Deloitte - United States
Alicia Janisch is a Deloitte Tax partner with more than 20 years of experience serving clients in the health care industry. Her main focus is providing advice and expertise to tax-exempt health care provider organizations on many issues including executive compensation, corporate structuring and joint ventures, intermediate sanctions, unrelated business income tax, tax planning, ASC740, and hospital community benefit and charity care. She also has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, tax due diligence, and large scale tax compliance engagements for health systems. Alicia leads Deloitte Tax's marketplace efforts for her Health Care Provider tax practice nationwide. Alicia graduated in 2003 from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in Accounting. She is a CPA and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Pete Lyons
Deloitte - United States
Pete, a principal in Deloitte Consulting LLP, is the national sector leader for Deloitte’s Life Sciences practice. In this role, he leads a multi-disciplinary team who serves clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical technology, and consumer health care segments through consulting, advisory, audit, and tax services. Pete is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the Life Sciences practice as well as its go-to-market strategies and resources. He also serves in the role as Life Sciences Consulting Leader. His past roles include US Consulting Client Excellence leader where he led the group of Consulting Account Leaders across our 400+ Advantages Client Portfolio clients and focused on how we more effectively bring our services to market through our client leaders. Pete has 25 years of consulting experience focused primarily on helping Life Sciences drive significant transformations across the strategy, operations, and technology spectrum. In addition, Pete also has an extensive background in finance, project, and resource management. Pete earned a B.S. in Economics and Information Systems from Boston College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
