About Us
Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC) is the pre-eminent non-profit consortium for patient-centric healthcare supply chain resiliency standards and best practices. Our mission is to increase resiliency and transparency in healthcare supply chains through collaboration, standards, and best practices for continuity of patient care.
In 2019, a group of health systems and trading partners came together led by Mayo Clinic and Corewell Health. This group focused on cross-industry collaboration tied to creating a more resilient supply chain centered on partnership and transparency.
Today, HIRC has grown to more than 90 health systems, suppliers and industry partners. HIRC is a non-competitive, non-exclusive and member-driven organization where leaders in this space convene to improve supply chain resiliency for the industry.
Our Impact
- Simplify path to resilience.
- Align operationally to reinforce common industry goals.
- Deliver programs that support member adoption of resiliency practices.
- Drive broad industry adoption of standards to accelerate healthcare resiliency.
Our Results
- Clear measures and incentives for sustainable resilient operations. Less fracturing and duplication.
- Industry norms to drive proactive risk management.
- Reduction in supply chain disruption frequency and impact. Increased coordination and efficiency.
A Clinician’s Perspective
As global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution of medical supplies have grown over the last several decades, the vulnerability of these supply chains has concomitantly increased.
Shortages of critical medications and medical supplies have unfortunately become commonplace as limitations in supply chain resiliency have been repeatedly exposed. The issues stemming from medical supply chain vulnerability did not develop overnight. Rather, narrow margins in healthcare have led to price sensitivity and cost reductions. These cost reductions have driven value stream vulnerability. Unfortunately, the supply chains and their vulnerabilities have largely been invisible to purchasers. Healthcare organizations have compensated for medical supply chain vulnerability by stockpiling or risk incurring adverse patient outcomes in the event of a shortage. Both of these are expensive propositions which could have been averted if the products were purchased in a manner that incentivized a resilient supply chain.
In order to reverse these trends, the Healthcare Industry Resilience Collaborative (HIRC) was founded to champion standards and best practice under a partnership model.
Thank you to our continuing founding members:
Providers: AdventHealth, BJC HealthCare, Corewell Health, Mayo Clinic, Northwestern Medicine, and Stanford HealthCare.
Suppliers: Baxter Healthcare, Cardinal Health, Johnson & Johnson, Medline, Medtronic, and Stryker.
HIRC is uniquely positioned to create a common place for suppliers, providers, GPOs, industry forums, and academics to work in transparent and open dialog. This is how we collectively will change and improve healthcare resiliency.
Tom Harvieux
CSCO BJC Health
2026 Board of Directors
Jeremy How
Corporate Vice President Sales Operations
B Braun
Scott Blankenship
Executive Director, Order Fulfillment and Service Optimization
BJC Health
Geoff Gates
Senior Director, SCSS P2P & Technology
Cleveland Clinic
Noah Hechimovich
Regional Vice President of Supply Chain Operations & Implementation
CommonSpirit Health
Andrea Poulopoulos
Senior Vice President, Supply Chain
Corewell Health
Jeromie Atkinson
Chief Supply Chain Officer
Intermountain Health
Eric Tichy
Division Chair
Mayo Clinic
Tom Beilby
Director, Strategy & Transformation
Medtronic
René Gurdián Jr.
Assistant Vice President, Supply Chain Finance and Strategy
Ochsner Health
Marcus Lumpuy
Vice President, US National Account Management Lead
Pfizer
Dustin Slodov
Associate Vice President
Rush University Medical Center
Heather Hanson
Vice President, National Accounts, Advanced Wound Management
Smith+Nephew
Masai Sung
Senior Director
Stanford Health Care
Kevin Steed
Vice President/General Manager
Stryker
Travis Barkel
Director of Purchasing and Stock Control
Sutter Health
Kyle MacKinnon
Senior Director, Operational Excellence
Premier, Inc.
Mittal Sutaria
Senior Vice President, Contract & Program Services
Vizient
2026 Officers
Geoff Gates
Chair
Dustin Slodov
Chair-Elect
Jeremy How
Treasurer
Marcus Lumpuy
Secretary
2026 Supplier Advisory Council
Jeremy How
Corporate Vice President Sales Operations
B Braun
Alan Mavis
Senior Director, National Accounts
Baxter
Tanvi Narang
Sr. Director, Procurement– Resilience, Strategy Execution & Governance
BD
Travis DeWolfe
Supply Chain Solutions Manager
Cook Medical
Hilarie Letson
Executive, Business Continuity & Resiliency
GE Healthcare
Lars Thording
Vice President, Marketing & Public Affairs
Innovative Health
John Clarke
Director Global Deliver Value Chain Risk Management
Johnson & Johnson
Kevin Steed
Vice President/General Manager
Stryker
Mike Cazzaniga
Director of Strategic Accounts
VIVIT Supply
Staff
Jesse Schafer
Executive Director
Tarek Alhariri
Resiliency Assessment Senior Director
Amy Kenninger
Program Director
Rachele French
Customer Success Manager
