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AHRMM Spring Summit 2026

The AHRMM Spring Summit: Empowering Tomorrow's Supply Chain is a dynamic virtual event happening April 15 that brings together innovators, problem-solvers and forward-thinking leaders to explore trends and solutions shaping the future of the health care supply chain.

Next-Generation Workforce Dynamics
 
Forward-Looking Financial Strategies
 
Innovative Solutions and Synergies
 

Lead with Vision, Transform with Purpose

The AHRMM Spring Summit: Empowering Tomorrow's Supply Chain
is a curated, future-oriented experience exploring the trends, innovations and coming disruptions in the health care supply chain landscape. This virtual event will include unique educational content to inspire change and propel the field and your organization into a new era. Take part in this program to:

  • Evaluate your organization’s next steps
  • Be a part of the conversation that inspires change
  • Build future-facing partnerships & foster collaboration

AHRMM members can save on registration! Organizational members receive 15–25% off the member price. Not a member? Join AHRMM today.

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Sessions

  • Session Details

    This session explores how to redesign value analysis through strong governance, embedded sourcing workflows, and transparent performance metrics to drive enterprise-wide alignment, cost discipline, and high-quality clinical outcomes.

    Learning Objectives

    • Identify key components of a high-functioning, clinically integrated value analysis model.
    • Evaluate how embedding sourcing within value-based management workflows accelerates contract alignment, reduces variation, and prevents post-approval cost creep.
    • Outline steps to build transparency through dashboards and performance metrics to sustain cost discipline and ensure quality outcomes are maintained.

    Speaker Bio

    Meredith James Baker is a health care leader, Registered Nurse, and Certified Value Analysis Professional with over 20 years of clinical and leadership experience. As Director of Value-Based Management at Stanford Health Care, she is leading the transformation of the Value Analysis Program (VBM) into an enterprise-wide strategy, aligning clinicians and supply chain to reduce variation and improve outcomes.

    Moderator: Doug Rees, AVP Supply Chain, Vizient

  • Session Details

    Hospitals are expected to pivot quickly during supply disruptions, yet most lack visibility into product origin, supplier dependencies and clinically acceptable substitutes. This session explores how connected product data across item masters, contracts and purchasing systems enables health systems to respond faster to shortages, maintain clinical confidence and protect margin before, during, and after disruptions.

    Learning Objectives

    • Assess how disruptions such as cyber incidents, geopolitical instability and climate events expose gaps in product data visibility, including country of origin, supplier dependencies and substitute availability.
    • Evaluate how standardized identifiers, enriched product attributes and clinically validated substitute mapping enable faster, more confident decision-making during supply disruptions.
    • Examine how connecting item master, contract and purchasing data across systems supports supply chain agility, contract compliance and margin protection.

  • Session Details

    This session reveals why traditional costsaving efforts often fail to deliver lasting margin improvement and demonstrates how advanced negotiation strategies, governance controls, and organizational discipline can transform onetime wins into lasting financial performance.

    Learning Objectives

    • Diagnose why many costsavings initiatives become “oneanddone” events and fail to generate lasting financial impact.
    • Apply advanced negotiation strategies that convert onetime savings into durable outcomes by emphasizing control, accountability, and value protection—not just price concessions.
    • Use governance as a practical financial control mechanism to reinforce negotiated value and prevent postimplementation cost erosion.
    • Build an organizational capability that shifts from isolated cost-cutting projects to a long-term margin improvement discipline that withstands leadership turnover and operational complexity.

    Speaker Bio

    Joseph is currently a Partner at Pathstone, an advisory firm that drives and sustains margin improvement for health care organizations. Joseph has over 15 years of experience partnering with over 40 health care organizations to drive over $500M+ margin improvement through total non-labor cost reduction and revenue enhancement initiatives in purchased services, pharmacy, lab, finance, revenue cycle, IT and clinical supplies.

    Moderator: Sara Friedmann, MHSA, Communications Manager, Bon Secours Mercy Health | Advantus Health Partners

    Sara is a health care strategy and communications leader supporting Bon Secours Mercy Health and Advantus Health Partners, where she drives enterprise initiatives across supply chain, governance, and operational transformation. She specializes in aligning executive strategy with frontline execution to advance performance and mission impact.

  • Session Details

    This session will highlight the way Northwestern Medicine solved a critical problem with the use of technology. We struggled with the manual processes of product conversions and needed a solution for automation. By partnering with a 3rd party, we were able to accomplish our organizational goals.

    Learning Objectives

    • Examine and identify areas of opportunity in current product conversion & supply standardization processes.
    • Measure current process inefficiencies and the impact to overall savings.
    • Apply technology to design an enhanced process.

    Speaker Bios

    • Alisha Beringer is Director of Supply Chain Distribution & Logistics at Northwestern Medicine. With a background in psychology and extensive health care supply chain experience, she focuses on bridging clinical and supply chain teams to improve workflows, reduce waste, and enhance patient care. Beringer leads strategic initiatives in automation, data visibility, and inventory management, helping health systems strengthen operational efficiency, financial stewardship, and resilience in today’s evolving health care supply chain environment.
    • Matt Romani brings 12 years of experience, beginning his career at Cardinal Health in distribution inventory management supporting large-scale supply operations. Since 2020, he has served as an Operations Analyst at Northwestern Medicine, leading key product conversions and systemwide standardizations; he holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Arizona State University.
    • Sarah Kerin is the Founder/CEO of efficientSC. She has held various supply chain roles across the health care and technology industries - at UChicago Medicine, Apple & Kindbody. Sarah holds a Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a Bachelor of Science in Management degree from Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business.

    Moderator: Mark Terranova, MBA, CMRP, AVP Supply Chain | University Hospital at Downstate

  • Session Details

    Join us for an interactive walkthrough of Gallion’s modern approach to bill only management. This demo will show how Gallion eliminates the most persistent pain points in perioperative and supply chain bill-only operations, including documentation discrepancies, contract compliance, and slow purchase order cycles.

    Attendees will experience the full end to end workflow and learn how real time data validation and automated routing accelerate PO creation and ensure financial accuracy.

    Learning Objectives

    • Visualize the full lifecycle of a bill only case within Gallion.
    • Understand how integrated and automated bill sheet creation, clinical validation, and discrepancy resolution drive accuracy and speed.
    • Recognize which operational bottlenecks Gallion removes and how that impacts revenue integrity and staff efficiency.
    • Explain how Gallion reduces manual work and supports a faster, cleaner PO and charge capture process.
    • Learn how to use Gallion’s reporting tools to identify bottlenecks, measure operational efficiency, and track improvements in case to PO lag, accuracy, and vendor compliance.

Hear What Past Attendees Have Said

 

“LOTS of information included! Speaker was extremely knowledgeable and astute in how all of these changes and future changes can impact Supply Chain.”

 

“This was both practical and inspiring...the best of both worlds. This hits so closely on real struggles for all of us in the health care supply chain!”

 
 

“One of the BEST education sessions I can ever remember attending!”

 
 

“I thought the presentation was excellent. When they discussed measuring savings it made think of how when I have worked on savings projects.”

 
 

“Very well put together and thought provoking information. Gave me a lot of great ideas to bring to our current initiatives.”

 

Speakers

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AHRMM Spring Summit 2026: Empowering Tomorrow's Supply Chain

Supply the Spark, Elevate Excellence

Be part of an evolving learning experience focused on the future of the health care supply chain profession. Don’t miss the opportunity to gain insights that will help you navigate disruptions and drive positive transformation.

  • Forge new partnerships and alliances
  • Develop skills to navigate current and future disruptions
  • Revitalize tactics and strategies for your organization
  • Access the range of knowledge from subject matter experts and thought leaders

Learn from expert thought leaders

Hear from thought leaders and futurists with expertise on the coming disruptions impacting suppliers, providers and distributors.

Expertise

Gain insights into the latest trends

Preview the needs of the next generation of health care supply chain and discover emerging best practices.

Trends

Discover innovative solutions

Learn strategies for cost management, utilizing A.I., workforce planning and partnership building.

Innovations

Connect, Innovate and Inspire Change

Attend AHRMM's Spring Summit and advance excellence in your organization.

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