Speaker Profile
M.D., Operating Partner, Khosla Ventures
Biography
Dr. Paz has served as an executive and board member across providers, payers, and med-tech. He was EVPCMO of CVS Health Aetna; ChancellorCEO of Ohio State Wexner Medical Center; and CEO of Penn State Health and Stony Brook Univ Medicine. He sits on the boards of Envision Healthcare and Research America and previously served on Select Medical, USPI, Vyteris, and seven health-system boards. He advises Curai Health and previously advised Johnson Johnson and USPI. He has served on committees of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academies. A former medical school dean and investigator in sepsis, A RDS, and medical devices, he has authored over 100 publications. Dr. Paz earned his BA and MD at the University of Rochester and an MS in life science engineering at Tufts, trained at Northwestern, and completed fellowships at Johns Hopkins in pulmonary and critical care and in environmental health sciences.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Hal Paz, Khosla Ventures
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Victor Dzau, National Academy of Medicine (Luminary)
Featured Speakers
• Victor Dzau, National Academy of Medicine
• Hal Paz, Khosla Ventures
• David Feinberg, Oracle
• Dan Knecht, EmblemHealth
• Mike Montalto, Amgen
• Michael Pfeffer, Stanford
• Burns Blaxall, Cincinnati Children's
• Peter Hulick, Endeavor Health
• Hilary Gee Goeckner, ACS CAN
• Gary Marchant, Arizona State University
• Connie Lehman, Clairity
Operating Models That Actually Work
What it takes to run precision medicine across a health system.
What Gets Covered and Why
Coverage, payment pathways, and the evidence payers act on.
CDS That Clinicians Will Use
Putting the right guidance in front of the right clinician at the right time.
From Biomarker to Standard of Care
The evidence and operations that move a test into routine use.
What Will the Next Generation of Health Systems Build?
The precision-medicine roadmap for the decade ahead.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
