Sanford leaders join panel discussions at Becker’s meeting
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Jon Berg
Sanford Health Media Relations
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Emerging forces reshaping health care – including AI, innovation, workforce challenges and financial sustainability – are driving rapid transformation, and two Sanford Health leaders will bring their perspectives to keynote panel discussions at the upcoming Becker’s Healthcare 16th Annual Meeting.
The four-day conference takes place April 13-16 in Chicago. Sanford Health’s Tommy Ibrahim, M.D., MBA, MHA, executive vice president and chief transformation officer and Brad Reimer, chief technology and digital officer, will join executives from the nation’s top health systems.
Ibrahim will join a keynote panel discussion, C-suite Reboot: What Health Systems Need for the Next 5 Years focused on how C-suite leaders are reimagining strategy, structure and leadership to meet the demands of the next five years.
“The next five years will require health system leaders to fundamentally rethink how we structure our organizations, develop our workforce and lead through rapid transformation,” said Ibrahim. “At Sanford Health, that means building an AI-ready workforce, putting strong governance in place to earn trust and staying disciplined about solving the right problems – so we can move forward with innovation while keeping the human connection at the center of care.”
The panel will be moderated by Molly Gamble, vice president, editorial at Becker’s Healthcare. Other confirmed speakers include Ramin Davidoff, M.D., co-chief executive officer at The Permanente Federation; Stephen Motew, M.D., MHA, FACS, president and chief executive officer at UF Health and Munjal Shah, co-founder and chief executive officer at Hippocratic AI.
Reimer will participate in an opening keynote panel called Predicting AI’s Impact as Healthcare Continues Big Shifts. He will be joined by Jeff Gautney, senior vice president and chief information officer for Rush University System for Health and Sunil Dadlani, executive vice president, chief information & digital officer and chief cyber security officer for Atlantic Health System. Reimer’s panel discussion will be moderated by Laura Dyrda, editor-in-chief at Becker’s Healthcare.
“As health care undergoes rapid change, the real opportunity with AI is to apply it in ways that meaningfully improve both the patient and clinician experience,” said Reimer. “That requires balancing speed with discipline – ensuring strong governance, aligning every investment to our mission and building the capabilities, including forward-deployed engineering and agentic platforms, to scale innovation responsibly and effectively.”
This is the fifth consecutive year Sanford Health leaders have taken part in the Becker’s Annual Meeting.
About Sanford Health
Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization has 55,000 employees and serves more than 2 million patients and nearly 415,000 health plan members across the upper Midwest including South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The integrated nonprofit health system includes a network of 58 hospitals, 289 clinic locations, 145 senior care communities, 4,500 physicians and advanced practice providers and 1,100 active clinical trials and studies. The organization’s transformational virtual care initiative brings patients closer to care with access to nearly 80 specialties. More than 400 residents and fellows are trained each year through graduate medical education with Sanford Health fully funding and supporting 29 of the 40 available programs. Sanford Health also includes Lewis Drug, a pharmacy and retail chain with 60 locations in three states and nearly 190 pharmacists. Learn more about Sanford Health’s commitment to shaping the future of rural health care across the lifespan at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.
