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Cristina Indiveri spearheads the strategy for Vizient’s Sustainability Program. With a commitment to aligning innovation with organizational goals, Cristina develops scalable, data-driven solutions that enhance operational excellence, financial performance, and responsible stewardship.
Under Cristina’s leadership, Vizient has emerged as a trailblazer in healthcare sustainability. The company has been recognized as a Co-Chair of the Collaborative for Healthcare Action to Reduce MedTech Emissions and actively participates in the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector.
With approximately 15 years of healthcare leadership experience, Cristina brings a deep understanding of operational excellence, program optimization and sustainability strategy. Before joining Vizient, she led multiple support departments and programs at Yale New Haven Hospital, a 1,541-bed non-profit medical center, where she advanced sustainability initiatives in one of the country’s largest healthcare systems.
Cristina’s expertise is bolstered by her educational achievements, including an Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Health Systems Administration from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut.

Associate Vice President, Core Tenet Programs, Sustainability

Cristina Indiveri, MS

Dan Kistner leads Vizient spend management and strategic programs for pharmacy, medical-surgical, laboratory and capital equipment product categories. Under his direction, Vizient supports more than half the nation’s acute care providers with an industry-leading portfolio of over 243,000 contracted products, providing access, choice and value across acute, specialty, non-acute, home infusion and long-term care facilities.
Since joining Vizient in 2012, Dan has played a critical role in helping hospitals transform into integrated centers of care, optimizing costs while improving quality outcomes for patients. As part of this work, Dan regularly meets with government leaders and elected officials, including at the Food and Drug Administration, on issues related to product price increases, supply disruptions and the need for more transparency across the healthcare supply chain.
Dan is a frequent industry speaker and has been interviewed and quoted in numerous publications such as NBC News, CBS News, CNN, Bloomberg News, Politico, Modern Healthcare, Becker's Hospital Review, Drug Topics, Managed Healthcare and The Center for Biosimilars.
He has been recognized in the industry as a <a href="https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/pharmacy-times-and-parata-systems-announce-the-2021-next-generation-pharmacist-finalists" target="_blank" aria-label="NextGeneration Pharmacist award finalist - open in a new tab">NextGeneration Pharmacist award finalist</a> and as the <a href="https://www.angelsforchange.org/news-updates/angels-for-change-announces-their-2022-change-maker-of-the-year" target="_blank" aria-label="2022 Change Maker of the Year - open in a new tab">2022 Change Maker of the Year</a> for the work he has led on ending drug shortages.
Dan has a diverse background in the pharmaceutical industry that includes experience in benefits management, retail, hospital, specialty and mail order and earned his Doctor of Pharmacy from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

Senior Vice President/ General Manager, Spend Management

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 Zmuda champions Data & Digital client relationships as a trusted partner to academic health system executives, including clinical, quality, operations and strategy decision-makers. She guides the adoption of ROI-driven, automated and interoperable solutions to systematically tackle high-value performance opportunities, leveraging AI and Vizient’s integrated data platform, combining quality, clinical, procedural, cost and market insights to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and strategic growth.
Most recently, Molly led 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, advancing and aligning Vizient’s comprehensive product portfolio to industry needs and opportunities, Vizient's managed services as well as customer goals and objectives.
In her previous role in Spend Management, Molly led teams focused on the strategic alignment of managed 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, as well as spend management delivery and account management.
Through Vizient Member Networks, Molly was 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 expense management 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.
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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