200+
Executive-Level Attendees
50+
Total Speakers
2 Days
of Sessions
Attending Becker's Perioperative Summit
Drive surgical excellence — join the leaders shaping what works next.
Perioperative performance shapes patient flow, experience, and financial health. This summit brings together C-suite and perioperative leaders to pressure-test strategies for OR efficiency, workforce models, case mix and scheduling, and technology that reduces waste while protecting quality, so you leave with clear next steps, not theory.
Top reasons to join us
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Improve OR throughput, raise on-time starts, reduce cancellations with proven scheduling and flow tactics
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Strengthen workforce performance with pragmatic models for nursing, anesthesia, and techs, built for retention and coverage
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Drive cost discipline across implants, supplies, and preference cards, protect quality while improving margin
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Optimize block time and access, align case mix, surgeon utilization, and downstream capacity
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Apply peer benchmarks and practical playbooks, learn what moved results at leading systems
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Leverage analytics and automation for scheduling, turnover, sterilization, and supply management, focus on measurable impact
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Leave with actionable next steps and governance guardrails, ready for 30, 60, and 90 days
Speakers
Join 50+ executive and perioperative leaders from leading health systems, sharing what works in surgical performance. Join peers driving measurable improvement.
Celebrity Keynote Livestreams
Featured Speakers

Neil Tanna
MD, MBA, FACS
Senior Vice President, System Perioperative Services and Strategy
Northwell Health

Michael C. Lewis
MD, FASA
Chair, Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine Department, Henry Ford Health System; Professor and Chair, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Anesthesiology Professor, Wayne State University
Jeffrey B. Matthews
MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief, Dallas B. Phemister Distinguished Service Professor
The University of Chicago Health System

Scott James
MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Growth Markets Provider Network
Parkview Health

Jill Cohen
DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Vice President, Perioperative Services
Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health

Laurie Antonik
MD, MBA
Associate Chief Medical Officer & Medical Director of Perioperative Services
Johns Hopkins Hospital

Brian R. Kann
MD, FACS, FASCRS
Surgeon-in-Chief and Chair, Department, Colon and Rectal Surgery
Ochsner Medical Center

Elizabeth Ninan
MBA, PA-C
Associate Vice President, Procedures & Therapeutics Ops
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Marisa M. Clifton
MD, FACS
Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Medical Affairs
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

John Alm
DO, MHA
Chairman, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, WVU Health System and WVU Medicine; Medical Director, Rehabilitation Services
WVU Medicine and J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

Ivy So
MBA, MAcc, BSN, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC
Director, PeriOperative Services
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

Bipan Chand
MD, MBA
Chair, Department of Surgery, St. Joseph Medical Center; Professor, Surgery
University of Illinois, Chicago

Nikki Washington
DNP, MSN, MBA-HCM, RN, CNOR, CSSL
Director, Perioperative Services
Kaiser Permanente Central Valley Area Stockton/Manteca/Modesto
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Keynote Highlights
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