The 6th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality convenes the nation's top visionaries and thought leaders to address the next stage of healthcare quality by exploring the evolution of such topics like pay-for-performance, value-based purchasing, the personalized medical home, high performance networks, public reporting and data exchange to achieve optimal care. This conference agenda is designed to assemble over 400 representatives from all sectors of healthcare, including hospital/health system/group practice providers; health plan/payer executives; government officials; society and coalition leaders; and employer/purchaser decision-makers who strive to drive quality improvement initiatives and innovations across the industry.

Advancing the Quality Agenda: State and National Approaches to Achieving High-Quality, Patient-Centered Care (Tuesday, August 5th from 4:15pm – 5:00pm) State Perspective JudyAnn Bigby, MD Secretary, Health and Human Services The Commonwealth of Massachusetts  View Biography National Perspective Carolyn Clancy, MD Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  View Biography

Hospital/Health System/Group Practice
James E. Barr, MD Medical Director Partners in Care, Inc.	Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President Practice Advocacy and Improvement, Governmental Affairs and Public Policy American College of Physicians
Howard Beckman, MD, FACP Medical Director, RIPA Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester	Kent Bottles, MD Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Iowa Health System
Francis X. Campion, MD, FACP Director of Complex Chronic Care, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates; Clinical Informatics Research Group, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention; Harvard Medical School	Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, Lifespan Corporation; Assistant Professor, Medicine and Public Health, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Francis J. (Jay) Crosson, MD Senior Fellow, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy; Chair, Council of Accountable Physician Practices	Michael Edbauer, DO Medical Director Catholic Independent Practice Association of Western New York (CIPA)
Robert Eidus, MD, MBA Family Practitioner Cranford Family Practice	Donald W. Fisher, PhD, CAE President and CEO American Medical Group Association
Kathleen Forbes, MD EVP, Clinical Affairs and Business Development University of North Texas Health Science Center Former SVP, Medical Affairs and Chief Quality Officer TriHealth, Inc.	Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA President Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bruce Hamory, MD, FACP Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Geisinger Health System	Paul Harkaway, MD President Huron Valley Physician Association
Trent T. Haywood, MD, JD Senior Vice President, Clinical Performance and Chief Medical Officer, VHA Inc.; former Deputy Chief Clinical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)	Arthur J. Hopkins, MD Medical Director Montefiore Medical Group
Mark A. Kelley, MD Executive Vice President, Henry Ford Health System; Chief Executive Officer, Henry Ford Medical Group	Jeremy A. Lazarus, MD Speaker, House of Delegates American Medical Association (AMA)
Ginger Lyons de Neufville Executive Director Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association (MACIPA)	Tami Merryman, RN, MSN, FACHE Vice President, Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Russell Munson, MD Medical Director, Southeast Region Boston Medical Center HealthNet Plan	Robert E Nesse, MD President and Chief Executive Officer, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare Mayo Health System
Philip M. Oravetz, MD, MPH, MBA Vice President and Senior Medical Director Mills-Peninsula Medical Group	Xavier Sevilla, MD, FAAP Chief of Pediatrics, Manatee County Rural Health Services Inc.; Steering Committee of Quality Improvement and Management, American Academy of Pediatrics
Bill Spooner Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Sharp HealthCare	James O. Taylor, MD President and Chief Medical Officer East Boston Neighborhood Health Center
John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer American College of Physicians	Jim Weinstein, DO Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Chairman, Department of Orthopedics, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center; Founder, Center for Shared Decision Making
Edward Westrick, MD, PhD Vice President Medical Management UMass Memorial Health Care	Gregory R. Wise, MD Vice President, Medical Affairs Kettering Medical Center
Scott Wooten Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Alegent Health
Health Plan/Insurer
Dawn Bazarko, RN, MPH SVP, Clinical Innovation UnitedHealthcare	Marylou Buyse, MD President and Chief Executive Officer Massachusetts Association of Health Plans (MAHP)
John A. Fallon, MD, MBA Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts	Jeff Flick Regional VP, Network Management for Government Products, Blue Cross of CA; Former Regional Administrator, San Francisco Regional Office, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Allen J. Hinkle, MD Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Health Value Tufts Health Plan	Harold A. Picken, MD, MPH Associate Chief Medical Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
James Roosevelt Jr. President and CEO Tufts Health Plan	Dana Gelb Safran, Sc.D. Vice President for Performance Measurement and Improvement Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts
David A. Share, MD, MPH Senior Associate Medical Director, Health Care Quality Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan	Donald D. Storey, MD Former National Medical Director Aetna
MaryAnn Stump, RN President, Consumer Aware; Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota	Carol Wilhoit, MD, MS QI Medical Director Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Employer/Purchaser
Gaye Fortner Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer HealthCare 21 Business Coalition	Robert Galvin, MD Director, Global Health Care General Electric
Jarvio A. Grevious Deputy Executive Officer, Benefits Administration California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)	Peter Hayes Director of Associate Health & Wellness, Hannaford Bros.; Board of Governance, Care Focused Purchasing Initiative Board member, The Leapfrog Group; Executive Board Member, Maine Health Management Coalition
Marsha Manning Manager, Community Health Care Initiatives General Motors	Dolores L. Mitchell Executive Director Group Insurance Commission
Eva Powell, MSW, CPHQ Director, Health Information Technology Project National Partnership for Women & Families	Delia Vetter Senior Director, Benefits and Programs EMC Corporation
Government/Policy
Melinda K. Abrams, MS Senior Program Officer The Commonwealth Fund	JudyAnn Bigby, MD Secretary, Health and Human Services The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Carolyn Clancy, MD Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality	Stuart Guterman Senior Program Director, Medicare's Future The Commonwealth Fund
Melinda Karp Director of Programs Massachusetts Health Quality Partners	William J. Kassler, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, New England Regional Office Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Jerod M. Loeb, PhD Executive Vice President, Quality Measurement and Research The Joint Commission	Linda M. Magno Director, Medicare Demonstrations Group Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH Executive Vice President National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)	Stephen C. Schoenbaum, MD, MPH Executive Vice President for Programs The Commonwealth Fund
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) United States Senate
Academic/Coalitions/Other
Richard Bankowitz, MD, MBA Medical Director, Healthcare Informatics Premier	Michael Chernew, PhD Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Co-Editor, The American Journal of Managed Care
Francois de Brantes, MS, MBA Chief Executive Officer, Bridges To Excellence; National Coordinator, PROMETHEUS Payment®	William J. DeMarco President & CEO DeMarco and Associates, Inc.
Gregory H. Dorn, MD, MPH Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Zynx Health; Executive Chairman, Map of Medicine, LLC, UK	Tom Evans, MD President and CEO Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., PhD President Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making	Dianne Hasselman, MSPH Associate Vice President Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)
Jerilyn Heinold, MPH Healthcare Consultant Massachusetts Health Data Consortium	Maulik S. Joshi, Dr.PH President and CEO Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI)
Bob King Founder and Chief Executive Officer Goal/QPC	Antonio Legorreta, M.D., MPH President and CEO Health Benchmarks, Inc
Jack Needleman, PhD, FAAN Associate Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health University of California, Los Angeles	Joseph C. Nichols, MD Medical Director, Healthcare Informatics ViPS, Inc.
Jonathan M. Niloff, M.D., MBA President and CEO MedVentive	Michael W. Painter, JD, MD Senior Program Officer Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Joshua Seidman, PhD President Center for Information Therapy	Janice A. Singer Director, Operations Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP)
Jack Steele Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ActiveStrategy, Inc.	Jay S. Sultan Director, Client Services MedAlign
Bert White, MBA, DMin Project Director, National Evaluation Team, Rewarding Results Boston University School of Public Health	Gary Young, JD, Ph.D Chair, Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health Associate Director, Center for Organization, Leadership and Management Research Department of Veterans Affairs; Principal Investigator, Rewarding Results

Purchasers and Provider Relationships: Discovering the Power of Performance-Based Contracting Facilitator: William J. DeMarco President and Chief Executive Officer DeMarco and Associates, Inc.  View Biography Additional Industry Leaders TBA