Improving Access to Affordable Behavioral Health

Behavioral health, including mental health and substance abuse services, is notoriously underserved across the U.S., but disproportionately affect individuals living below the poverty line, minority groups, and rural populations. This panel engages individuals from all sides of care delivery, including payers, providers, and even technology companies, to facilitate a dialogue on innovative approaches to improving access to and affordability of behavioral health services for all impacted populations.

Eva Borden (Moderator)

Cigna, Managing Director for behavioral & medical solutions

As Managing Director for Behavioral and Medical Solutions, Eva Borden leads the design and development of Cigna's health care solutions for U.S. employers. In this role, she drives innovation across medical and behavioral health benefits, Employee Assistant Programs, and health care spending accounts, as well as addressing social determinants of health to improve health and well-being.

 With more than two decades of health care experience at Cigna, Eva’s expertise spans product development, actuarial pricing, client informatics, risk management and integrated health services. Prior to her current role, she served as Chief Risk Officer for Cigna's individual business during the launch of the Affordable Care Act and led the market development of integrated behavioral health and medical services. Eva is a graduate of Lafayette College with a degree in Math and Spanish Literature and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. 

Aaron Gani

Founder & CEO, BehaVR

Aaron Gani is the founder and CEO of BehaVR, LLC, creating digital therapeutics for behavioral health through the unmatched psychological power of Virtual Reality. Mr. Gani has been creating applications and experiences with technology throughout his career in healthcare and financial services, up to and including serving as Chief Technology Officer of Humana, a Fortune 50 managed care organization.

After more than a decade in healthcare leading technology development of population health, utilization management, disease management programs, pharmacy, primary care, urgent care, Health IT, and clinical analytics, and constantly working on ways to improve and empower consumer health with technology, data and analytics, Mr. Gani identified the crucial gap between knowledge, tools, and activation of healthy behavior, and believes Virtual Reality experiences can close that gap.

Mr. Gani is a founding member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Digital Medicine (DiMe) Society, and a founding advisory board member of the International Virtual Reality Healthcare Association (IVRHA). Gani holds a Master’s in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University, an MBA, General Management and Health Sector Management from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and a BS in Management/CIS from the University of Louisville.

Trip Hofer

Ableto, CEO

Trip Hofer is CEO of AbleTo, a leader technology-enabled provider of behavioral health care. AbleTo has pioneered consistent, structured behavioral therapy that’s designed to improve clinical outcomes and deliver proven results. AbleTo works with payers to improve access to high-quality care through consumer friendly digital and virtual programs. Mr. Hofer has more than 20 years of experience in the health care industry. Prior to his current position he served in several positions such as a General Manager at NovoLogix, Vice President of Product Development at CVS Specialty or COO and General Manager of Wellness and Wellbeing at OptumHealth. Mr. Hofer holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University and a Master of Business Administration from Yale School of Management.

Katherine Suberlak

Oak Street Health, Vice president of clinical programs

Katherine Suberlak serves as Vice President of Clinical Programs at Oak Street Health, a firm with a mission to build a primary care delivery platform that directly addresses rising costs and poor outcomes, two of the most pressing challenges facing the United States healthcare industry. Her role includes overseeing for clinical programs including social work, behavioral health, complex care, and advanced care planning.

Previously, Ms. Suberlak was Chief Population Health Officer at PCC Community Wellness Center, a nonprofit firm focused on improving health outcomes for the medically underserved community through the provision of high quality, affordable, and accessible primary health care and support services.

Ms. Suberlak earned a BS in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan College of Literature and a Master of Arts from The University of Chicago.