MPOG 2026 Retreat Welcome
Sachin Kheterpal, MD MBA
Executive Director, MPOG
Virtual Participant
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Thank you to our amazing team!
*New to MPOG Coordinating Center since 2025
Madhumita Balaji
Peter Bow
Kate Buehler
Mike Burns
Mei Calabio
Ruth Cassidy
Megan Charette*
David Clark
Chelsea Cloyd
Robert Coleman
Douglas Colquhoun
Mark Dehring
Leanna Delhey
Nick Douville
Nicole Eyrich
Chris Heiden
Melanie Herren*
Alex Hoffman
Allison Janda
Jeremy Jared
Jay Jeong
Elizabeth Jewell
Tory Lacca
Xinyi Liu
Erik Lytle
Tiffany Malenfant
Mike Mathis
Graciela Mentz
Kam Mirizzi
Diana O'Dell
Rebecca Pantis
Ronnie Riggar
Michelle Romanowski
Aqsa Sarwar*
Robert Schonberger
Nirav Shah
Anik Sinha
Frances Guida Smiatacz
Alexis Stanczuk
Rachel Stumpf
Brooke Szymanski
-Bogart*
Kevin Tremper
John Vandervest
Shelley Vaughn
Meridith Wade
Serena Wang
Charlie Wang
Rayann Yassine
Yuan
Yuan
Zhe Zhang
Xinyi Zhao
Andrew Zittleman
Thank you to the broader MPOG Village
• MPOG chairs, PIs , ACQRs, quality champions, and software
developers
• All the clinicians, IT staff, researchers, QI specialists, and
administrators out there
• Departments, BCBSM, PCORI, NIH, Industry funders for your
financial belief in the mission
Dr. Nathan L. Pace
A Career Celebration
50 Years
• ~47 Health Systems, with ~168
hospitals and 159 ASCs
• 28 states
• 3 countries
2026 in review
Achieved balance across research, QI, education, and informatics missions
Financial stability in an uncertain anesthesiology environment
Continued impact growth – breadth and depth
Technology modernization underway and impacting daily experience
Introspection and reflection needed
2026 Introspection
Organizational resiliency achieved
MPOG’s unique value is not just volume or quality of data
Constantly growing mission is now stabilizing
Not all sites leverage MPOG equally deeply
A unique combination
Integrating research, QI, and
education
High-quality data
science
Collaborative
Community
MPOG Innovation
Our way forward
Take on challenges that only MPOG can overcome
Continue focusing on data + community in all missions
Engage more clinicians, researchers, educators, and informaticists at MPOG sites
Weave MPOG impact into the daily fabric of each department
Thank you! Next… Dr. Keyvan Karkouti