Physician Leadership Council

Devdutta Sangvai MD, MBA

Council Co-Chair

Devdutta Sangvai, MD, MBA, is Associate Chief Medical Officer for Duke University Health System, where he also leads the Population Health Management Office (PHMO).  In addition, Dr. Sangvai serves as Executive Director of Duke Connected Care, an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) serving patients in Medicare and other health insurance programs.  His work focuses on alternative payment models, care redesign, care management, new models of care, and new models of payment.  In addition, Dr. Sangvai is Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and Vice Chair for Quality and Safety in the Department of Community and Family Medicine.

Michael Steiner MD, MPH

Council Co-Chair

Michael Steiner, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he also serves as Vice-Chair of Pediatrics focused on Outreach and Business Development.  Since joining the UNC faculty, Dr. Steiner has served as Associate Program Director in the residency, as Medical Director for outpatient clinics in the Children's Hospital, as a member of QI faculty group at UNC, on the Board of UNC's clinically integrated network, and on the Access Care of Central Carolina advisory board.

David Cook, MD, MBA

David Cook, MD, is a member of the Novant Health CEO Growth and Strategy Team, Novant Health Medical Group Leadership and a practicing Family Physician. He is founder and Medical Director of Novant Health Lakeside Family Physicians which has expanded from one to 15 sites, including three urgent care facilities and 100 providers, since its inception in 1993. In addition, he was inaugural Chief of Staff and Medical Director at Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center. Dr. Cook is founder and Medical Director of the Lake Norman Community Health Clinic in Huntersville, NC.

Chris DeRienzo MD, MPP, FAAP

Chris DeRienzo, MD, MPP, FAAP,  serves as Chief Quality Officer for Mission Health. In this role, he has senior executive responsibility for quality, safety and service excellence across a $1.8 billion integrated health system. Dr. DeRienzo’s areas of direct accountability include patient safety, applied analytics, patient engagement, performance improvement, clinical/operational redesign, quality reporting, risk management, infection prevention, accreditation, corporate safety, security, parking, and access control. He is also a practicing neonatologist with Mission Children’s Specialists, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics with both the Duke University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and serves on the Board of Directors for Blue Ridge Regional Hospital.

Christy Henry, MD, MHA

Christy Henry, MD, MHA, is the Medical Director for Case Management and Clinical Resource Management as well as an Internal Medicine Hospitalist and Teaching Attending physician at WakeMed Health & Hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina. She also serves as Assistant Clinical Professor in the University of North Carolina Department of Medicine. Dr. Henry’s medical experience includes nearly 20 years of both clinical and administrative positions at WakeMed’s Raleigh and Cary Campuses, Holly Hill Psychiatric Hospital and Sampson Regional Medical Center.

Suzanne Kraemer MD, FACP

Suzanne Kraemer, MD, FACP, is Clinical Professor of General Internal Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Dr. Kraemer served as the 2015 Vidant Medical Center Chief of Staff and joined the Vidant Medical Center Board of Trustees in 2016. During her career, she has been involved in numerous projects and activities related to quality improvement training for physicians. Dr. Kraemer currently serves as Medical Director of the Coastal Plains Network, LLC, a Clinically Integrated Network.

Keung Lee, MD, PhD, MHA

Keung Lee, MD, PhD, MHA, is Medical Director and Attending Physician at Randolph Health Internal Medicine and Consulting Medical Director at Cone Health. In addition, he is a Designated Immigration Civil Surgeon and a Designated Buprenorphine Treatment Physician. Dr. Lee also serves on the board of Piedmont Integrative Health in Asheboro, North Carolina, where he chairs the Operations Committee. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Dr. Lee has practiced medicine since 1999 and has held a variety of clinical and research leadership positions. Much of his work has focused on hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Since 2002, Dr. Lee has served as Honorary Co-Chairman, Physician’s Advisory Board in North Carolina.

Richard Lord, MD, MA

Richard Lord, MD, MA, serves as Vice President of Population Health and Chair of Department of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Lord is passionate about working with patients, providers, community organizations and public health providers to help improve the quality and efficiency of care, as well as the overall health of the individuals Wake Forest Baptist serves. He began his role of Department Chair in 2014 and became Vice President of Population Health in 2016.

Amy Messier, MD

Amy Messier, MD, is Vice President of Clinical Integration and Informatics at New Hanover Regional Medical Center (NHRMC) and serves as Medical Director for Physician Quality Partners (NHRMC’s Accountable Care Organization), and NHRMC Physician Group.  In 2008, she joined New Hanover Medical Group/Carolinas Physician Network as Medical Director for Ambulatory Clinical Informatics and Associated Chief Medical Information Officer, where she gained experience in informatics. During that time, she chaired the Clinical Decision Support Committee, Ambulatory Physicians Advisory Committee, and Physician Quality Partner’s Committee, leading NHRMC Physician Group to top 10th percentile quality scores nationally.

Zeev Neuwirth, MD, SM

Zeev Neuwirth, MD, is Senior Medical Director of Population Health for the Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS). Prior to this, Dr. Neuwirth served as Senior Medical Director for Primary Care Services and Chief Clinical Executive of the CHS Medical Group, which proactively provides medical care to over 1.1 million primary care patients and serves a community of over 2 million people in the greater Charlotte area.  Prior to joining CHS, Dr. Neuwirth served as Chief of Clinical Effectiveness & Innovation at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a 600-physician multi-specialty practice in Eastern Massachusetts.