Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD, HEC-C, is a foremost expert on medical law and clinical ethics. He maintains a special focus on patient rights, healthcare decision making, and end-of-life options. Pope is a law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. While he serves in a range of consulting capacities, Pope has been particularly influential through his extensive, high-impact scholarship. Ranked among the Top 20 most-cited health law scholars in the United States, Pope has over 250 publications in leading medical journals, bioethics journals, and law reviews. He coauthors the definitive treatise The Right to Die: The Law of End-of-Life Decisionmaking, and he runs the Medical Futility Blog (with over four million page-views).

Michael is a partner at RoundGlass and the Founder of EOL.community and Deathoverdinner.org. His second book “Let’s Talk About Death” was published by Hachette in the U.S., U.K., and Australia in October of 2018 and Russia, China, Indonesia, Poland and Romania in the fall of 2019. He currently serves as a Board Advisor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts; and in the recent past as Senior Advisor to Summit Series, Theo Chocolate, CreativeLive, Architecture For Humanity, and Mosaic Voices Foundation.

George Couch is a member of the Faculty, teaching health care management and business at Gannon University’s Dahlkemper School of Business.He received his Doctorate in Healthcare Administration and Leadership from the Medical University of South Carolina in May of 2017. His professional background includes serving as Chief Executive Officer of Wetzel County Hospital, New Martinsville, West Virginia; President and Chief Executive Officer of Ohio Valley Health Services and Education Corporation in Wheeling West Virginia; Vice President of Wheeling Hospital, Wheeling, West Virginia; and he was the owner and Administrator of New Martinsville Health Care Center, New Martinsville, West Virginia. He is a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives; a member of the Health Care Financial Management Association and Licensed Nursing Home Administrator. He was a guest lecturer in Health Care Administration at West Liberty University. He has consulted to hospitals and health care organizations. He also owns and operates GeoEquity, Inc. a real estate development and investment company.

• $153 million in improvements to the hospital’s clinical facilities, physical plant, technology and infrastructure to improve patient care, including the construction of the Bayview Centre and the new patient lobby and healing garden.
• More than $25 million annually in community benefits, including charity care and unreimbursed amounts for programs for the poor, community health programs and donations, and medical research and education.
• Recruiting dozens of new physicians and clinical specialists, including those in women’s health, neurosurgery, pediatrics, behavioral health, pain management and critical care, as well as primary care.

Jonathan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Office of The Urban Oasis Project. Jonathan is also the founder and CEO of the D’Silva Law Group, PLLC d.b.a MMI Intellectual Property, an intellectual property boutique law firm located in downtown Erie. Jonathan is a registered patent attorney and registered to practice law in New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. Jonathan received a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and an M.Eng. in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and his J.D. from the University at Buffalo. Prior to attending law school, Jonathan practiced as a consulting civil and environmental engineer for the firm of Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. in the Buffalo, NY area. Jonathan is very involved in the Erie community and is the founder and Lead Curator of TEDxErie, TEDxYouth@Erie, and TEDxErieSalon events. He is also a member of the board of the Innovation Collaborative and the V.P. of the board of the Purple Martin Conservation Association and is a former board member of many other local non-profits. He ran the Innovation Erie Design Competition for five of its seven years of operation. In addition, Jonathan provides lectures and seminars at many regional schools, economic development entities, and local organizations on intellectual property law basics.