Harriet Shriver Rogers Lecture 2025

"Helping Healthcare Work As It Should"

This endowed lectureship was established in 1991 by the late Dr. William H.B. Howard ’59 in honor of his mother, Harriet Shriver Rogers, whose support made it possible for him to matriculate at Johns Hopkins following his military service. The goal of this lecture is to feature an accomplished individual to share their experiences at Johns Hopkins, the path their career took after graduation, and to offer advice to students as they embark on the same journey.

The Lecture will take place from 3:00-4:00pm, which a reception following. This year's featured speaker is Stephen N. Kahane, MD, MS ’88. He is the the Operating Partner at Advent International. Stephen is also a member of the Whiting School Advisory Board.

Stephen Kahane is a physician technology business executive that has focused on building and running businesses focused on “helping healthcare work as it should.” A 1988 WSE graduate and former Hopkins Medical School faculty member, he currently serves as executive chairman at several companies including Groups (the largest and fastest growing tech-enabled opiate addiction treatment provider), On Belay (a primary care value based care enablement company) and Iodine (a leader in AI-enabled revenue cycle management software). In addition to the executive chair roles, he is a board member at Suki (AI-driven ambient clinical documentation tech), Kyruus (patient access tech) and Fullscript (whole person care delivery tech & fulfillment).
 
Kahane also serves as operating partner at Advent International, a large global private equity firm. Over the past few years, his work has included significant engagements with several other ventures including two companies with very recent exits – revenue cycle leader, Cloudmed (June 2022 $4B sale to R1 (NASDAQ RCM)) and home care tech-enabled service provider, Signify Health (NASDAQ SGFY) taken public and then sold to CVS Health for $8B) – both with excellent investor returns. Dr. Kahane has done work with other private equity and venture capital firms including serving as an operating/venture partner at both Bessemer Venture Partners and SV Health.
 
Previously, Kahane served as a president at publicly traded athenahealth. During his eight years, athenahealth grew revenues from $250m to over $1.4B and delivered market cap expansion from under $1B to almost $6B. Prior to that, he was the chairman and chief executive officer of publicly traded AMICAS, Inc., an image and information management solutions company that grew revenues fourfold in four years with dramatic margin and market cap expansion (~10x) – the company was acquired by publicly traded Merge Healthcare.
 
Early in his career, Kahane served as medical director and development director of IT at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution and was on the faculty of the medical school. Kahane completed his residency and received his MS in computer science from Johns Hopkins and his MD from Emory University. Kahane serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Kahane has been married to his wife, Christine, for 40+ years – they have five children together and live in the Back Bay of Boston, MA.