Cheri Blauwet, MD is an Associate Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, the Chief Medical Officer of Spaulding Rehabilitation Network, and the Endowed Chair in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Blauwet is also a former Paralympic athlete in the sport of wheelchair racing, competing for the United States Team in three Paralympic Games (Sydney '00, Athens '04, Beijing '08) and bringing home a total of seven Paralympic medals. She is also a two-time winner of both the Boston and New York City Marathons.

Translating her background as an athlete to the clinical setting, Dr. Blauwet is a change agent in the area of health equity, with a specific focus on sport and physical activity for health promotion and chronic disease prevention. She is deeply committed to ensuring that opportunities for achieving optimal health are equitable and universally accessible to all, including marginalized populations. Her scientific research is focused on injury and illness prevention, with particular focus on athlete mental health, concussion, and the unique needs of the female athlete as well as athletes with disabilities. As evidence of the impact of this work, since joining the Harvard faculty she has been invited to provide 58 national and 29 international lectures on these topics, including multiple keynotes and plenary sessions at major sports medicine and rehabilitation conferences. She has published over 100 peer reviewed papers in distinguished academic journals. In 2021, she was appointed to the National Advisory Board for Medical Rehabilitation Research under the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

She serves as a Member of the International Paralympic Committee’s Medical Committee, the International Olympic Committee Medical & Scientific Commission, and serves on the Board of Directors for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). She additionally serves as Chair of the Board for the Boston Athletic Association (Boston Marathon). In 2016, she was the recipient of the Harvard Medical School Harold Amos Faculty Diversity Award and was named one Boston’s “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders” by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. In 2019 she was named by the Boston Business Journal as one of the “40 under 40” community leaders.

Kimberly Brandt is the Principal Deputy Administrator for Operations and Policy of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In that role she supports the Administrator for all activities necessary for the operation and management of CMS and its programs, including, Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Kim served as Chief Oversight Counsel and General Counsel on the Majority staff of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee from January 2011 – August 2017. Before joining the Finance Committee staff, Kim was a Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird in Washington, D.C. Her previous government service includes serving for seven years as the CMS Director of the Medicare Program Integrity Group. Prior to her first tenure at CMS, Kim worked for five years at the HHS Office of Inspector General as a Senior Counsel.

Kim received her J.D. with a concentration in health law from the DePaul School of Law, an M.A. in legislative affairs and health policy from George Washington University, and her B.A. from Valparaiso University. She is a nationally recognized expert in healthcare compliance and fraud and abuse issues and in 2016 received the Healthcare Compliance and Ethics Professional of the Year award from the Society for Corporate Compliance and Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association.

A multi-disciplinary design leader with over two decades of experience in advertising, television & film, and digital product innovation for global brands and leading storytellers.

With a track record of significant achievements in the media, technology and design sectors, La Mer has served as the Chief Product Officer at ORIGYN Foundation and as a Digital Media Managing Director responsible for building a portfolio of RWA collections that will now be realized with SuperPosition. Prior to his time with ORIGYN, La Mer has extensive experiences as a Digital Creative Director on numerous high-profile advertising, television, and film projects globally.

As a startup entrepreneur, La Mer co-founded Valence, a successful startup incubated with Los Angeles’ largest early stage venture fund Upfront Ventures with anchor investment rounds with GGV Capital, SoftBank, Maveron, and BCapitalGroup among others before the venture was later acquired by Greenwood Bank.

His leadership experience also includes 6 years with Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures (BCGX), where he established and managed the largest cohort of the global practice – digital product designers and marketing communications professionals.

La Mer is also a respected creative career pathway educator, serving as a Graduate Interaction Design Professor at ArtCenter College of Design. Currently, La Mer is channeling his expertise into Sublym Digital, a Web3 marketing consultancy and SuperPosition, a Real-World-Asset venture aiming to integrate blockchain and artificial intelligence to revolutionize digital transactions and asset management.