Senior vice president and chief innovation officer
President, Consumer Aware

MaryAnn Stump, senior vice president and chief innovation officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and president, Consumer Aware, is a recognized leader in health care consumerism, inviting health care providers and stakeholders to work collaboratively toward providing consumers with the information they need to make meaningful health care decisions. A passionate advocate for health care reform, she has engaged employers, health care providers and policy makers in viewing health care from the consumer’s perspective and encouraging innovations in health care delivery.

A former cardiac critical care nurse, Ms. Stump was the lead architect of the Blue Cross Cardiac Center of Excellence Program, as well as Minnesota’s first community-based residential treatment facility for eating disorders. She serves on the Blue Cross Foundation Board and the Yale College of Nursing Advisory Board. Additionally, she is past president of Minnesota Healthcare Quality Professionals, was on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Advisory Board and is actively involved in statewide and national health care quality, patient safety and consumer health information initiatives. She was recognized in 2008 as one of the “Top 100” most influential people in Minnesota Healthcare by Minnesota Physicians and in 2009 as a “Women in Business Industry Leader” by the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.