Dr Richard Milani currently serves as the Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Ochsner Health System and Professor of Medicine, at Ochsner Clinical School – The University of Queensland School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also Medical Director of innovationOchsner (“iO”), an innovation lab and accelerator founded by Ochsner Health System in 2015 to reimagine and revolutionise the experience and delivery of healthcare in a way that dramatically enhances quality and access, decreases cost, and improves patient satisfaction and engagement and caregiver efficiency.

After receiving his Internal Medicine training at the University of Florida, Dr Milani completed fellowships in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Florida, Preventive Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at Harvard University (Massachusetts General Hospital) and Cardiovascular Diseases at Ochsner Clinic Foundation. Dr Milani’s research interests involve healthcare delivery, information systems, clinical decision support and chronic disease management and prevention. He is the author or co-author of over 500 medical publications, including 20 book chapters and serves as a frequent lecturer for healthcare systems and Fortune 500 companies.

Synopsis - Reengineering Healthcare Delivery
We will discuss the growing gap in the prevalence and impact of chronic disease compared to our current capabilities in treating chronic disease.  We will review the importance of health habits and the social determinants of health and the role that healthcare delivery systems must take in order to effectively manage this growing epidemic.  Finally we will describe the potential for new technologies combined with new models of health delivery to dramatically change the course of chronic disease management.