The 7th Annual American Health Care Congress (AHCC) is an intensive, two-day educational and networking forum, designed for senior health care executives from all industry sectors to address critical implementation challenges post-reform. The AHCC agenda and networking event offers senior executives strategies to decrease the cost of care, drive delivery innovation, develop aligned incentives, redesign effective operations and leverage health care IT. By convening over 900 diverse thought leaders, AHCC identifies innovative integration strategies to improve the overall delivery of health care and the critical steps to adapt our health system to operate more efficiently post health reform.

Employer Perspective
David Lansky, PhD President & Chief Executive Officer Pacific Business Group on Health
Health Plan Perspective
Paul Markovich Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer Blue Shield of California
Government Perspective
Herb K. Schultz Director, Region IX – San Francisco U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Academic/Research Perspectives
James C. Robinson, PhD, MPH Kaiser Permanente Professor of Health Economics Director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) University of California, Berkeley	Tom Williams, MBA, MPH Executive Director Integrated Healthcare Association
Group Practice/Physician Perspective
Jay J. Cohen, MD, MBA President and Chairman Monarch HealthCare
Hospital/Health System Perspectives
C. Duane Dauner President and CEO California Hospital Association	Frederick L. Galusha Chief Operating Officer & Chief Information Officer Inland Northwest Health Services
Gary Gunderson Senior Vice President for Faith & Health Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare	James Hereford Executive Vice President, Group Practice Division Group Health Cooperative