Bio Type: Advisory Board

Roy Rosin is Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine, working to rapidly design, test and implement high impact health care delivery practices. His team reimagines interventions to achieve dramatically improved patient outcomes, experience and high value care. In the past seven years they have driven measurable progress in readmission rates, reducing length of stay in the hospital, medication adherence, behavioral health, opioid management, screening rates, antibiotic stewardship and guiding patients to optimal care settings.

Previously, Roy served as the first VP of Innovation for Intuit, a leading software company best known for Quicken and TurboTax. In this role, he led changes in how Intuit managed new business creation, allowing teams to experiment quickly at low cost. After five years of redesigning entrepreneurial practices, the company delivered shareholder returns 33x the S&P 500. Intuit now consistently appears on Forbes list of the most innovative companies in the world.

Prior to leading innovation, Roy’s Quicken team achieved record profitability and product leadership while growing to 14 million consumers. Roy’s 18 years with Intuit spanned the early years in software to their emergence as a leading SaaS provider.

Outside of his Penn role, Roy advises startups and Fortune 100 companies building new businesses focused on making a meaningful difference in people’s lives.  He also serves as a Board Member for the Lenfest Institute of Journalism, working to strengthen and find sustainable business models for local journalism.

Roy received his MBA from Stanford and graduated with honors from Harvard College.

Theodore W. Ruger, J.D.
Dean, Law School
Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania

Theodore W. Ruger is the Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Bernard G.
Segal Professor of Law. He is a scholar of constitutional law, specializing in the study of judicial
authority, and an expert on health law and pharmaceutical regulation.

Ruger holds an A.B. from Williams College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and he was a
law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Michael
Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Prior to joining the Law School, Ruger practiced law at Ropes & Gray in Boston and Williams &
Connolly in Washington, D.C., and began his academic career at Washington University School
of Law in St. Louis.

Ruger joined Penn Law in 2004 and previously served as Deputy Dean of the Law School. He
has taught a wide range of classes in constitutional law, health law and regulation, legislation,
and food and drug law and policy. He has also served in a variety of critical roles in the school,
including three terms as a member of the faculty appointments committee, one as chair and
another as co-chair. He also served as an advisor to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

His scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of
Constitutional Law, the Northwestern Law Review, and as the centerpiece of a symposium in
Perspectives on Politics, a leading peer-reviewed political science journal.

His current research draws on his broader work on judicial power and constitutionalism, and
addresses the manner in which American legal institutions — including the U.S. Supreme Court
— have shaped the field of health law over the past two centuries.

Benjamin Sun, MD, MPP, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University Pennsylvania. He is broadly interested in improving the safety and value of emergency department care. His research portfolio has included evaluation of syncope in the emergency department, identification organizational best practices to mitigate emergency department crowding, and evaluation of policy interventions to improve opioid prescribing. He is currently the principal investigator on an NIH funded study to assess the comparative effectiveness of testing and disposition strategies for the evaluation of suspected acute coronary syndrome. This is a prospective multisite study of over 100,000 patients who received an emergency department evaluation for chest pain within an integrated health system.

Dr. Sun and a multispecialty leadership team implemented the “HUP ED 2.0” initiative, which resulted in dramatic improvements in quality, safety, and access to emergency care. HUP ED 2.0 has been recognized by Penn Medicine’s “Patient Experience Team Award” and “HUP Quality and Safety Operations Award.”