Chirag Patel is a Vice President in Kaufman Hall’s strategy practice, where supports client needs related to organizational strategy development, program/service business development, and mergers and acquisitions. His work of late has focused on assessing and preparing organizations for changes in the healthcare business environment. Prior to joining Kaufman Hall, Chirag was a Consultant at Sg2, where he supported client engagements related to corporate planning, clinical technology assessment and acquisition planning, and business development for some of the firm’s largest and most complex domestic and international clients. Chirag has assisted in developing white papers and other thought leadership materials and has been quoted in Crain's Chicago Business.

Chirag has an M.A. in the Learning Sciences with a focus in organizational cognition and strategy development and a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, both from Northwestern University. During his undergraduate tenure, he was a researcher in an NSF-funded engineering education study that led to the publishing of academic papers, presentation in national symposia and the developing of a science education module adopted by magnet and neighborhood schools within the Chicago Public Schools.

: I graduated from Northwestern University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering. Upon graduating, I took a job at a boutique health care management strategy consulting firm called Health Care Futures. I enjoyed the work that I was doing, but I wanted to experience consulting life at a larger firm, so I transitioned to a similar role in Accenture’s Health and Life Science strategy practice. While in consulting, I worked on a myriad of projects serving health care providers, medical device and healthcare IT companies. The scope of my work involved market assessments, financial valuations, and due diligence for M&A and LBO transactions. While at Accenture, I had an exciting opportunity to work for Adams Street Partners in their Venture Capital/Growth Equity team, which not only provided me with an amazing buy-side opportunity, but enabled me to put my skills that I learned in consulting to more use by working with companies from the ground-up. I was hired as their first associate and worked to develop several analytical models to automate their deal sourcing capabilities. I worked with their Data and Analytics team to understand the firm’s internal and external data resources, as well as the Venture Capital team to understand their investment strategies, ultimately developing a tool to be used for deal-sourcing activities. After completing my role at Adams Street Partners, I decided to get back into healthcare by joining Northwestern Memorial Hospital in their Business Development and Strategy group. As a member of this team, I've had the opportunity to author business plans, outline key strategic and financial initiatives for various startup entities housed within the hospital. I've also created market projections and financial valuations for several NMH business ventures, modelling various ownership scenarios and exit strategies.

Urvi Shah is a Consultant in the Strategic Technology Solutions Group of Ingenix Consulting. She is responsible for service delivery and for aiding in the development of new project methodologies. She is working on roadmap strategies for payers and providers around their "eHealth Space" as well as participating in and leading the selection, testing and implementation of various systems within the organization. These systems include help desk solutions, clinical EHR solutions and even administrative tools.
Currently, Urvi works on a consumer clinical information system selection for an organization that provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities. It is one of the largest in New York state and she has helped make recommendations around how business processes can be improved and what future state business models should look like. Urvi and her team serve as the intermediary between the client and all vendors and they facilitate the selection of vendor of choice. They also capture business and technology requirements and create and issue a request for proposal on their behalf.
Previously, Urvi was involved in an eHealth Roadmap Strategy project for a prominent community hospital system. She worked on a team that conducted an organization-wide assessment of current state capabilities. Her team involved all major departments and groups in the planning of the future state direction, and from there, developed a three-year roadmap to help them get from where they were today to where they wanted to be. She conducted interviews, facilitated future state sessions and developed their plan moving forward. Using the knowledge that the team gathered, they also presented an ROI case for each of the projects recommended to the organization.
Prior to joining Ingenix Consulting, Urvi worked for the Revere Group where she was a consultant. She was responsible for developing and presenting deliverables and building methodologies around roadmaps. She also helped create educational materials for her team around health information exchanges and the ICD-10 conversion. She helped develop their roadmap and ICD-10 preparedness project methodology. Urvi participated in implementations, conducted user acceptance testing, conference room pilots and integrated systems tests. She built and executed use case scenarios. She also conducted and presented ROI studies for organizations embarking on new projects. Urvi conducted focus groups with C-level executives and physicians to facilitate the development of a future state vision and strategy for their business. Finally, she also conducted vendor selections and was responsible for request for proposal responses.
Urvi has a BS in biomedical engineering and an undergraduate leadership certificate from Northwestern University.

Yuanjia Zhu is currently a third year undergraduate student in the Biomedical Engineering department at Northwestern University. She is a Co-President of Northwestern University Student Chapter of Biomedical Engineering Society and the Cultural and Educational Chair of Sigma Psi Zeta Sorority Inc., Alpha Beta Charter. In previous years, Yuanjia was the Patient & Outreach Committee Chair of Hepatitis B Alliance in Chicago and a volunteer at the Chicago Chinatown Clinic. She was also an International Peer Advisor at Northwestern University in Fall 2009. Yuanjia is currently a research assistant in Professor Vadim Backman’s Laboratory in the Biomedical Engineering department. She is investigating a novel optical technique, Partial Wave Spectroscopic (PWS) Microscopy, which measures the statistical properties of cellular nanoscale organization in terms of disorder strength.