Meet HealthNEXT’s world-class NEXTperts.

As part of the Culture of Health program’s subscription, you have access to our team of NEXTperts, including Chief Medical Officers, Chief Health Officers, and specialty experts with years of clinical and executive leadership experience.

Chief Medical Officers

Chief Medical Officers guide the strategic plan and actions of protecting an organization’s most important asset, its people. They are not just credentialed physicians and experienced Chief Health Officers; they are specialty physicians with corporate leadership backgrounds in treating an entire organization as if it was one patient. CMOs can counsel organizations on issues surrounding the high prevalence of hypertension, travel medicine, evidence-based benefit design, pandemic response, and much more.

Cherryl Christensen,
Cherryl Christensen, DO, MS, FACOEM
Cherryl Christensen is the former Corporate Medical Director for the Procter & Gamble Company, where she spent 27 years responsible for 127,000 employees in over 80 countries. She is a board-certified senior physician executive who excels at strategic thought and execution.
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Wayne Rawlins
Wayne RawlinsMD
Dr. Rawlins previously served as the Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at ConnectiCare and served in senior clinical leadership positions at a large national health insurer.
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Ron Brooks
Ron BrooksMD, FACP
Dr. Ron Brooks previously served as senior medical director at Independence Blue Cross and head of patient management at Aetna. He has over 30 years of experience in population health and quality based payment systems.
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 Andrew Crighton
Andrew CrightonMD
Dr. Crighton is CEO of Crighton Consulting Group, designing innovative programs and initiatives to connect individual and corporate health with a special focus on health disparities and mental health in the workplace. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer of the
CEO Roundtable on Cancer and Project Data Sphere®.
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Andy Baskin
Andy BaskinMD
Dr. Andrew Baskin, MD retired from Aetna after 22 years as the National Medical Director for Clinical Policy and Quality. He was responsible for the development and implementation of clinical policy, the national quality strategy, clinical oversight for Quality Management, and Patient Safety.
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Scott Conard
Scott ConardMD, DABFP, FAAFM
Dr. Scott Conard is a practicing family physician passionate about transforming healthcare with the goals of providing more convenience, increased access, significantly improved quality, and lower cost.
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Shane Farrelly
Shane FarrellyMD
Dr. Farrelly has 30 years of experience as an expert in International Occupational Medicine & Health & Well-being Promotion. His leadership skills have enabled the implementation of these programs through transformational leadership in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe, North, Central & South America.
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Dexter Shurney
Dexter ShurneyMD
Dr. Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Zipongo, the San Francisco-based based digital health and wellness company that focuses on enabling healthy eating. He has an extensive background in healthcare management and policy and has distinguished himself as a recognized leader in his profession in numerous ways.
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David Beaumont
David BeaumontMD
Dr. David Beaumont is a Consultant Occupational Physician, a doctor specializing in the health of workers. He is a Past President of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. He provides consultancy services to some of New Zealand’s major employers and also the provision of health and well-being programs through his company, Positive Medicine Limited.
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Mark Cunningham-Hill
Mark Cunningham-HillMB CHB (MD), FFOM, FACOEM
Mark Cunningham-Hill is a transformative senior executive and expert physician who excels at strategic thought and execution. A dynamic and knowledgeable driver of innovative quality employee health services around the world.
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Tom Fariss
Tom FarissMD, MPH
Tom Fariss has served as the VP, Corporate Medical Director for Kimberly-Clark Corporation and has provided Chief Medical Officer services for Target, ArcBest, Keurig-Dr. Pepper, Accenture, Winnebago, among others.
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Faiyaz Bhojani
Faiyaz BhojaniMD
Dr. Bhojani is an accomplished health executive with a record of leading transformative change and delivering results across global employee populations in the Energy, Chemicals, and Manufacturing sectors at both Shell and ExxonMobil.
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Specialty Experts

As the complexity of every organization’s needs grows, our specialty experts are here to support you and your workforce in areas such as behavioral and mental health.

Dan Conti
Dan ContiPhD
Dan Conti spent the majority of his career in corporate behavioral health, serving the JPMorgan Chase workforce and their families for over thirty years ultimately as Managing Director and Global Head of JPMorgan Chase’s Employee Assistance & Work-Life Program.
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Rebecca Kelly
Rebecca KellyPhD, MAE, RDN, LD, FAND
Rebecca Kelly is as CEO and Founder of Element Health, Inc., a nutrition and wellness consulting firm based in Birmingham, Alabama. For over 30 years, Rebecca has served an educator, administrator, leader, and consultant on building and sustaining healthy workforces.
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