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Cristina guides the strategy of Vizient's Environmental Sustainability Program while accelerating Vizient's leadership in sustainability practices across healthcare. She is responsible for collaborating across a wide set of functions to employ solutions and insights to reduce negative human and environmental health impacts while empowering smart, sustainable and resilient choices.
With approximately 15 years of experience, she has held various leadership roles in healthcare. Prior to joining Vizient, Cristina led a number of support departments and programs including sustainability at Yale-New Haven Hospital, a 1,541 bed non-profit medical center in New Haven, CT. Cristina holds a Master of Science degree in Health Systems Administration from Georgetown University and lives outside of Dallas with her husband, two children and two huskies.

Associate Vice President, Core Tenet Programs, Environmental Sustainability

Cristina Indiveri, MS

Dan leads the Vizient pharmacy program, which assists customer hospitals in transforming their pharmacy program into a central point of integrated care with solutions that help manage cost and improve quality outcomes for patients. Under his direction, the program supports more than half the nation&rsquo;s health systems and a robust portfolio of 12,000 contracted pharmaceutical products, providing access, choice and value across acute, specialty, non-acute, home infusion and long-term care facilities.
Dan has been an active voice on behalf of Vizient customers. He regularly updates government leaders and elected and federal officials, including the Food and Drug Administration, on issues and trends related to drug price increases, shortages and the need for more transparency across the pharmaceutical supply chain.
Dan also oversees Vizient&rsquo;s highly successful, 30-year Novaplus private label pharmacy program. Under his leadership, the program has expanded to include an Enhanced Supply program that helps ensure the availability of essential medications in the supply chain.
Under Dan&rsquo;s leadership, the Vizient pharmacy team has published important analysis of the hidden costs of drug shortages and pricing practices for existing drugs after receiving regulatory approval. His team also published a list of essential medicines, the absence of which could threaten hospitals&rsquo; ability to provide care.
With a doctor of pharmacy from St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Dan joined Vizient through the MedAssets integration, where he previously served as general manager of pharmacy. He has a diverse background in the pharmaceutical industry that includes experience in benefits management, retail, hospital, specialty and mail order.
Dan is a frequent industry speaker and has been interviewed and quoted in numerous publications such as NBC, CNN, Bloomberg News, Politico, Modern Healthcare, Becker&rsquo;s Hospital Review, Drug Topics, Managed Healthcare and The Center for Biosimilars. He has been recognized in the industry as a NextGeneration Pharmacist award finalist and as the 2022 Change Maker of the Year for the work he has led on ending drug shortages.

Group Senior Vice President, Pharmacy Solutions

Dan Kistner, PharmD

As Senior Principal, Margaret directs strategic planning, category management and consulting for the Indirect Spend team at Vizient, specifically around outsourced services and self-op programs. She is responsible for ensuring the team delivers significant value and operational improvement for these services. Margaret also has oversight of both the Food and Environmental Services Member Councils.
In October 2020, Margaret was named one of the <a href="https://www.jhconline.com/people-to-watch-in-healthcare-contracting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Top 10 People to Watch in Healthcare Contracting</a> by The Journal of Healthcare Contracting and highlighted again in December of 2022 as one of <a href="https://www.jhconline.com/women-leaders-in-supply-chain-margaret-steele.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">10 Women Leaders in Supply Chain</a>. Prior to her role on the Medical/Surgical team, Margaret led the Accelerated Contracting Expertise team in Purchased Services. The team featured deep expertise in Food &amp; Nutrition Services, Environmental Services, Clinical Equipment Maintenance, Laundry and Linen Services and Plant Operations.
Margaret previously served on the HIDA Supply Chain Collaborative Steering Committee as well as Federation of American Hospitals&rsquo; Advisory Committee. She received her Bachelor of Science from University of Texas at Dallas with a Major in Business Administration and a Minor in Marketing.

Margaret Steele

Molly leads the product team, development and execution of Vizient's data and digital product strategy for new markets, including: suppliers, distributers, service firms, non-governmental organizations, employers and payers. With internal and external partners, she advances and aligns Vizient&rsquo;s comprehensive product portfolio to industry needs and opportunities, Vizient's managed services as well as customer goals and objectives.
Most recently, Molly led a team focused on the strategic alignment of spend management services with health system and supplier strategies through all areas of non-labor expense across the entire healthcare supply chain. Her scope included programs focused specifically on sustainability, supply assurance, price assurance and insights/intelligence.
Through Vizient Member Networks, Molly was previously responsible for connecting more than 320 provider organizations, including system-level executives and clinical leaders in supply chain and Vizient's Large Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) Supply Network (LISN), representing 20-25 of the nation's largest health systems and more than 500 acute care facilities, to share leading practices and data, and develop high-value solutions.
Molly's work in strategy and operations includes leveraging analytics and sourcing strategies to deliver an average of $27 million in recognized annual value to three healthcare organizations within the supply chain network she was responsible for. She also established the network's clinical leadership council, comprised of chief medical officers and supply chain executives, enabling collaboration of 40 physician leaders in clinical variation reduction.
In the provider sector, Molly was responsible for the clinical program development of a network of clinically integrated, enterprise-wide service line advancing full-continuum trauma/injury care across 900+ locations. Molly served as a co-investigator on a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) clinical research study in partnership with clinical research teams and launched an original cross-continuum program evaluation strategy to demonstrate a positive impact on clinical process and outcome metrics through clinical guidelines. Her efforts inspired a North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services research initiative. Molly also developed trauma outreach strategies, including an mTBI feature during Super Bowl XLVII.
As a two-time grad of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Molly minored in English, received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and later completed her Master of Healthcare Administration. She now serves on the Next Generation Committee of the Board of UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and a member of the 100 Women initiative.

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