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FIRST NATIONAL CONGRESS ON HEALTHCARE CLINICAL INNOVATIONS, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND COST CONTAINMENT
October 26 - 28, 2011
ONSITE
Grand Hyatt
Washington, DC
ONLINE
In your own office or home live via the Internet with 24/7 access for six months
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NATIONAL CONGRESS ON HEALTHCARE CLINICAL INNOVATIONS,
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND COST CONTAINMENT
October 26 - 28, 2011
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ONSITE
Grand Hyatt
Washington, DC
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In your own office or home live via the Internet
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FEATURING PRESENTATIONS |
- Bipartisan Approaches to Clinical Innovations, Quality Improvement and Cost Containment
- What Hospitals and Physician Organizations are Doing to Cut Costs, Improve Quality and Implement Clinical Innovations
- Innovative Strategies to Control Health Care Costs at a State Level
- Innovative Solutions to the Cost Conundrum: Perspective from the Payers in the Private Market
- How Hospitals and Physician Organizations Can Use Comparative Effectiveness Research to Facilitate Clinical Innovations, Quality Improvement and Cost Containment
- The Impact of Value-Based Insurance Design on Clinical Innovation, Quality Improvement and Cost Containment
- Living Well at the End of Life: A National Conversation
- The Potential of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to Control Costs and Improve Quality
- The Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB): Pro's, Con's and its Potential Influence on the Future of Medicare
- Innovation in Healthcare: National Problems, Local Solutions
- The Role Clinical Innovations and Cost Containment Efforts in Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
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A PRECONFERENCE SESSION |
- Health Reform and the New Healthcare Environment: Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare Boards of Directors and Executives

Sponsored by the American Health Lawyers
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AND MINI SUMMITS |
- Cost Containment Case Studies I
- Law, Ethics, Cost Containment and Quality
- Cost of Transforming a System
- Cost Containment Case Studies II
- Role of Mental Health in Cost, Quality and Value
- Cost Containment and Consumer-Directed Health Care
- Payment Reform Trends
- Alternative Settings for Cost Containment: The Role of Drugs and Home Based Monitoring
- Cost Containment Case Studies III
- Patient Responsibility and Cost Containment
- Aspen Institute Health Innovation Project
- Cost Containment Case Studies IV
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
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Philip Norman "Phil" Bredesen Jr., Former Governor of Tennessee (D), Former Mayor of Nashville, Nashville, TN |
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Tom Daschle, Co-Founder, Bipartisan Policy Center, Former Majority Leader, United States Senate, Washington, DC |
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James H. Douglas, Executive in Residence at Middlebury College; Former Governor of Vermont (R); Former Chairman, National Governors Association, Middlebury, VT |
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Mark B. Ganz, President and Chief Executive Officer, Regence BlueCross BlueShield; Chair, Health Stewardship Project, Aspen Institute, Portland, OR
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Steven H. Lipstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, BJC HealthCare, Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Chairman, Board of Directors, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, MO |
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Samuel R. Nussbaum, MD
Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy and Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint, Indianapolis, IN |
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Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
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Marc Roberts, Professor of Political Economy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA |
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Christine Todd Whitman, President, The Whitman Strategy Group, Co-Chair, Republican Leadership Council, Member, Steering Committee, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Former Governor, NJ |
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CO CHAIRS |
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Julie Barnes, JD, Director of Health Policy, Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC |
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Elisabeth Belmont, Esq., Corporate Counsel, MaineHealth, Chair, AHLA Pre-Conference Program Planning Committee, Past President, American Health Lawyers Association, Portland, ME |
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John Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs, National Correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine, Washington, DC |
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Franmarie Kennedy, PhD, Acting Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Policy Program, The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO |
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Kavita Patel, MD, MSHS, Fellow, Economic Studies and Managing Director for Clinical Transformation and Delivery Reform, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC |
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FEATURED PLENARY SESSION PANEL
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Reports from the Field: What Hospitals and Physician Organizations are doing
to Cut Costs, Improve Quality and Implement Clinical Innovations
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Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH, Chief Innovation Officer, UCLA Health System, Los Angeles, CA |
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David Hunter, Senior Managing Director and Principal, Hunter Partners, St. Petersburg, FL |
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Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs, Health Policy Analyst, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Bethesda, MD (Moderator) |
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PRECONFERENCE: HEALTH REFORM AND THE NEW HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT:
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEALTHCARE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVES FEATURING |
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Elisabeth Belmont, Esq., Corporate Counsel, MaineHealth, Chair, AHLA Pre-Conference Program Planning Committee, Past President, American Health Lawyers Association, Portland, ME (Chair) |
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Mark Browne, MD, MMM, FACPE, CPE, Principal, Pershing Yoakley & Associates, Knoxville, TN |
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Douglas A. Hastings, Esq., Partner and Chair, Board of Directors, Epstein, Becker & Green, Past President, American Health Lawyers Association, Washington, DC |
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Robert Homchick, Esq., Partner and Chair, Health Law Practice, Davis, Wright Tremaine LLP, Seattle, WA
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Rex P. Killian, Esq., Trustee, Providence Hospital, Washington, DC, President, Killian & Associates, LLC, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, PC, Indianapolis, IN |
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Robin Locke Nagele, Esq., Partner, Post & Schell, PC, Philadelphia, PA |
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Lewis Morris, Esq., Chief Counsel, Office of the Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC |
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William J. Oetgen, MD, MBA, FACC, FACP, Board Member, MedStar Health, Inc., Co-editor: Nash DB, Oetgen WJ, Pracillio VP, eds. Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership. New York, N.Y: Productivity Press, 2008, Washington, DC
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Michael W. Peregrine, Esq., Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP, Chicago, IL |
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Michael Wirth, President, The Governance Institute, San Diego, CA |
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FEATURED FACULTY |
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Joseph R. Antos, PhD, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute, Commissioner, Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, Washington, DC |
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Jerry Avorn, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA |
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Burke Balch, Esq., Director, Powell Center for Medical Ethics, Former Director, Department of State Legislation, National Right to Life Committee, Former Attorney-Advisor, US Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC |
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Joshua S. Benner, PharmD, ScD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Crimson Health, McLean, VA
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Marc M. Boutin, JD, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, National Health Council, Washington, DC |
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Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD, Distinguished Chair in Health Care Services, RAND, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Santa Monica, CA |
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Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, PhD, Director, Office of Economic Analysis and Modeling, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, DHHS, Washington, DC |
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Kathleen Carey, Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management, Boston University School of Public Health, VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford, MA
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J. Brian Cassel, Senior Analyst, VCU Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
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Basit Chaudhry, MD, PhD, Senior Researcher, Clinical Transformation, Healthcare Analytics, IBM Research, Los Angeles, CA |
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Ceci Connolly, Senior Adviser, McKinsey Center for US Health System Reform, Former National Staff Writer, Washington Post, Washington, DC |
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Donna R. Cryer, JD, Chief Executive Officer, CryerHealth, Washington, DC
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Steve ErkenBrack, JD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Grand Junction, CO |
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Paul Fishman, PhD, Associate Investigator, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA |
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Stephen Forney, FACHE, FHFMA, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lovelace Health System, Albuquerque, NM |
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John L. Gerdes, PhD, Associate in Psychiatry, Department of Service Quality, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
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Carole Roan Gresenz, PhD, Director, Economics, Finance, and Organization Program, RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA |
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Judith H. Hibbard, MPH, DrPH, Senior Researcher, Institute for Policy Research and Innovation, Professor, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
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Randall Hutchison, MBA, Director, Customer Service and Performance Enhancement, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA |
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Joe Hutter, MD, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT
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Anjali Jain, MD, Managing Consultant, Federal Health Group, The Lewin Group, Washington, DC |
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David Johnson, JD, President and Chief Executive Officer, BioCrossroads, Indianapolis, IN |
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Paul M. Katz, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Intelligent Healthcare LLC, Santa Monica, CA |
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Sarah Klein, Editor, Quality Matters, Chicago, IL
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Jeffrey Kluger, JD, Senior Writer, TIME Magazine, New York City, NY |
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Leslie Lenert, MD, MS, FACMI, Principal, Leslie Lenert MD, LLC, Former Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Decatur, GA |
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Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, The Mark Ravitch Chair in Surgery, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Outcomes Research, Baltimore, MD |
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Janet M. Marchibroda, Chair, Health Information Technology Initiative, The Health Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, DC
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John Martin, MPH, Senior Director, Research Operations, Premier, Inc., Washington, DC |
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Edward G. Murphy, MD, Towerbrook Capital Partners, President and Chief Executive Officer, Carilion Clinic, Professor of Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA |
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Daniel L. Newton, PhD, Director of Behavior Economics, WellPoint, Redmond, WA |
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David Orentlicher, JD, MD, Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law, Co-director, William S. and Christine S. Hall Center, for Law and Health, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis, IN
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Brent Parton, M.Ed., Director of Health Policy and Programs, SHOUTAmerica, Washington, DC |
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L. Gregory Pawlson MD, MPH, FACP, Executive Director Quality Innovations, Office of Policy and Representation, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Washington DC |
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Bill Phillips, FACMC, CHC, Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Revenue Strategies, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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James E. Pope, MD, Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer, HealthWays, Nashville, TN
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James C. Robinson, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Professor or Health Economics, School of Public Health, Director, Berkeley Center for Health Technology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
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Barbara J. Safriet, JD, LLM, Visiting Professor of Health Law, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, OR |
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H. Scott Sarran, MD, MM, Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield IL, Chicago, IL |
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Cary Sennett, MD, PhD, Fellow, Economic Studies and Managing, Director for Health Care Finance Reform, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
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Edward Shahady, MD, President for Medicine NF SG Chapter ADA, Medical Director, Diabetes Master Clinician Program FAFP/F, Florida Academy of Family Physicians, Fernandina Beach, FL |
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Robert C. Spahr, MD, Senior Vice President of Quality, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA |
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Neera Tanden, JD, Chief Operating Officer, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC |
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Grace-Marie Turner, President, Galen Institute, Founder and Facilitator, Health Policy Consensus Group, Alexandria, VA
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Myrl Weinberg, President, National Health Council, Washington, DC |
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Steven Weinberger, MD, FACP, Executive Vice President and CEO, American College of Physicians, Washington, DC |
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Jay Want, MD, Principal, Want Healthcare, LLC, Board Chair, Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), Denver, CO |
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Kenneth B. Wells, MD, MPH, Community Partners in Care Steering, Senior Scientist, RAND, Santa Monica, CA
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