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Closing Keynote Address: Health Care in America
Tuesday April 24, 2007 | 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Lee Scott
President and CEO
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
The 4th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2007 conference will convene over 1,800 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agencies.

Peruse an Unmatched Speaker Faculty of Over 140 Thought Leaders from All Industry Sectors Including: Employers/Purchasers, Health Plan/Insurers, Government, Health System/Hospitals, Group Practices, Pharma/Medical Device/PBM, International, Media, and Research/Public Policy

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Employers and Purchasers
 
Lee Scott
President and CEO,
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
 
Craig R. Barrett
Chairman, Intel Corporation
Co-chairman, National Innovation Initiative
Member, American Health Information Community (AHIC);
Chair, UN Alliance
 
Steven A. Burd
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Safeway Inc.
 
Gerald L. Shaheen
Group President
Caterpillar Inc.
Chairman of the Board of Directors
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
 
Linda Dillman
EVP, Risk Management, Benefits, and Sustainability (former CIO)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; Fortune’s 2006 List of 50 Most Powerful Women
 
Carolyn Corvi
Vice President and General Manager, Airplane Programs
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
 
Michael Critelli
Chairman and CEO
Pitney Bowes Inc.
 
Jeff Cava
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Wendy's International
 
Sally S. Welborn
Senior Vice President - Corporate Benefits
Wells Fargo & Company
 
Randall L. Johnson
Director, Human Resources Strategic Initiatives
Motorola
 
Catherine M. Baase, MD
Global Director of Health Services
The Dow Chemical Company
 
Lawrence Becker
Director, Benefits
Xerox Corporation
 
Scott H. Beeken
Divisional Vice-President, Human Resources, Great American Insurance Company; Director, Human Resources, American Financial Group, Inc.
 
Jill Berger
VP, Health and Welfare Plan Management and Design, Marriott International;
Board member, The Leapfrog Group
 
Adam Bosworth
Vice President
Google, Inc.
 
Raymond J. Brusca, JD
Vice President, Benefits
The Black & Decker Corporation
 
George Chedraoui
President,
Bridges to Excellence;
Global Well Being Services Leader, IBM Corporation
 
John Engler
President and CEO
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
former Governor
State of Michigan
 
Tom Feitel
SVP, eCommerce & Chief Web Officer,
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
 
Tim Fliss
Executive Vice President of Human Resources,
Schneider National, Inc.
 
James (Jim) H. Goodnight, Ph.D
CEO, SAS; Listed in Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" for all 10 years the ranking has existed
 
Bob Hartley
Vice President, Global Compensation & Benefits
Applied Materials Inc.
 
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
 
Frederick A. (Fred) Hessler
Managing Director, Health Care Group
Citigroup
 
Julie Fasone Holder
Corporate VP, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion and Public Affairs
The Dow Chemical Company
 
Jon Kessler
Chairman and CEO, WageWorks
 
Dan Levin
Vice President and General Manager, Quicken Health Group
Intuit
 
Andrew N. Liveris
President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman;
Member of the Board of Directors
The Dow Chemical Company
 
Luis Machuca
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Kryptiq Corporation
 
Sean P. Madix
Fund Administrator
ECA & Local 134 IBEW Employee Benefit Plans
 
Jack Mahoney, MD
Corporate Medical Director
Pitney Bowes Inc.
 
Janet Marchibroda
Chief Executive Officer
eHealth Initiative and Foundation
 
Roger C. Merrill, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Perdue Farms Incorporated
 
Robert Moroni
Independent Consultant; former Director - Health Care Plans
General Motors
 
Peter Neupert
Corporate Vice President for Health Strategy
Microsoft Corp
 
Paul Prickett
Director, Corporate Benefits
Snap-on Incorporated
 
Leonard Quadracci, MD
President
QuadMed and QuadMed Corporate Health Services, a subsidiary of QuadGraphics
 
Matt Quinn
Healthcare Alliance Manager
NCR Corporation
 
Lonny Reisman, MD
Chief Executive Officer
ActiveHealth Management
 
Dennis Rivera
President, 1199SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East; Chair, SEIU’s Healthcare Division
 
Charles E. Saunders, MD
Chairman and CEO
Broadlane
 
David H. Sensibaugh
Director, Integrated Health
Eastman Chemical Company; Board of directors, CareSpark (RHIO of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia)
 
Ken Shachmut
Senior Vice President,
Safeway, Inc.
 
Robert Steffel
Executive Director,
HealthBridge
 
Rob Tazioli
Executive Vice President & Chief Development Officer, Connextions Health
 
  Glen E. Tullman
Chief Executive Officer
Allscripts
 
Andrew Webber
President and CEO, National Business Coalition on Health;
Board of Directors, National Quality Forum, the Leapfrog Group, and Bridges to Excellence
 
Dennis W. Wootan, CEBS
Corporate Director, Benefits Analytic Services and International Programs, Northrup Grumman Corporation
 
Lynn Zonakis
Director, Health Strategy & Resources,
Delta Airlines
 
Health Plan and Insurers
 
Ronald A. Williams
Chairman, CEO and President,
Aetna Inc.
 
Larry Glasscock
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
WellPoint Inc.
 
Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP
EVP and Chief of Medical Affairs
UnitedHealth Group
 
Mark B. Ganz
President and CEO
The Regence Group
 
Mary Beth Bolton, MD
SVP and CMO
Health Alliance Plan
 
Tracy L. Bahl
CEO
Uniprise, a UnitedHealth Group Company
 
Mark T. Bertolini
EVP and Head of Aetna Regional Businesses
Aetna, Inc.
 
David Cochran, MD
SVP, Strategic Development
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
 
Charles M. Cutler, MD
Chief Medical Director, National Accounts
Aetna, Inc.
 
Darnell Dent
CEO
Community Health Plan of Washington
 
George C. Halvorson
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals
 
Troyen Brennan, MD
Chief Medical Officer,
Aetna, Inc.
 
Bruce Bodaken
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Blue Shield of California
 
Rick Click
Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Molina Healthcare Inc.; Global Technology Leader, eBay; former CIO, Commercial Avionics Division, Honeywell International
 
Thomas A. Curtin, Jr.
Vice President, Marketing, Sales & Business Development
Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States Region
 
Martin G. Foster
President
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas
 
Alissa Fox
Vice President, Legislative and Regulatory Policy
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
 
Robert S. Gregory, RPh, MS, MBA
Head of Clinical Programs, Aetna Pharmacy Management
Aetna, Inc.
 
Roberta Herman, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Health Services
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
 
Daniel J. Hilferty
President and Chief Executive Officer
AmeriHealth Mercy
 
Thomas Kempa
VP, Health Strategies
CIGNA Healthcare
 
Charles D. Kennedy, MD
VP, Health Information Technology & Research, WellPoint, Inc.
Founding Commissioner, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology
 
Peter Meade
Executive VP
Corporate Affairs at Blue Cross Blue Shield MA
 
Richard J. Migliori, M.D.
Executive Vice President, Commercial Services Group (an affiliate of UnitedHealth Group)
 
Rose Mongillo, RPH
Manager Pharmacy Services, ConnectiCare Inc. & Affiliates
 
Sam Nussbaum, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
WellPoint, Inc.
 
John Prince
Chief Executive Officer
Exante Financial Services
 
Tom Sackville
Chief Executive, International Federation of Health Plans;
former British Minister of Health
 
Andrew M. Slavitt
CEO
Ingenix
 
Simon Stevens
CEO, OVATIONS, A UnitedHealth Group Company;
former President, UnitedHealth Group International
 
MaryAnn Stump, RN
President
Consumer Aware;
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
 
Brian Sweet
Chief Clinical Pharmacy Officer,
WellPoint, Inc.
 
Elizabeth Bierbower
Vice President of Innovation
Humana
 
Government
 
Ron Wyden, (D-OR)
United States Senator
 
Phil Bredesen
Governor
State of Tennessee
 
Linda Springer
Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management;
Member, American Health Information Community (AHIC)
 
Andrew von Eschenbach, MD
Commissioner,
Food and Drug Administration
 
William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
U.S. Department of Defense; Member, American Health Information Community (AHIC)
 
Nancy Atkins
Commissioner, Bureau of Medical Services, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources; Chair of the Executive Committee, National Association of State Medicaid Directors; Voting Member, Medicaid Commission
 
Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH
Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Administrator
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
 
Carl Hendricks
Chief Information Officer, Military Health System
Department of Defense
 
Steve Hill
Administrator
Washington State Health Care Authority
 
Barbara S. Hoffman
Division Director, Chronic Care Improvement Program
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 
  B. Tilman Jolly, MD
Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Readiness, Office of the Chief Medical Officer
Department of Homeland Security
 
Jon Kingsdale
Executive Director
Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector
 
Herb B. Kuhn
Acting Deputy Administrator
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 
Michael Kussman, MD
Acting Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
 
Gerald W. Parker, DVM, PhD, MS
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 
Michael T. Rapp, MD, JD
Director, Quality Measurement & Health Assessment Group, Office of Clinical Standards & Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
 
Barry M. Straube, MD
CMS Chief Medical Officer and Director, Office of Clinical Standards & Quality,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 
Thomas Valuck, MD, JD
Director, Special Program Office for Value-Based Purchasing
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
 
Gary Christopherson
former Senior Advisor for the Under Secretary for Health, Veterans Health Administration; former Senior Advisor to COO, CMS; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, DoD
 
Health System and Hospitals
 
Delos (Toby) Cosgrove, MD
Chief Executive Officer and President
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
 
Edward D. Miller, MD
Dean of the Medical Faculty; CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine;
Rated #1 Hospital by U.S. News & World Report since 1990
 
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP
Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice-President - Quality, HCA Healthcare; Co-Chair Electronic Health Record Workgroup, American Health Information Community (AHIC), Department of Health and Human Services; Commissioner, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
 
Robert E Nesse, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Franciscan Skemp Healthcare
Mayo Health System
 
Brent C. James, MD
Vice President for Medical Research and Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare
 
David Abelson, MD
VP and Chief Medical Information Officer
Park Nicollet Health Services
 
David M. Barrett, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Lahey Clinic
 
William F. Bria II, MD
CMIO, Shriners Hospitals for Children; President, Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems; Editorial Boards of Healthcare Informatics and Modern Healthcare
 
E. Dale Collins, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery and Director, Comprehensive Breast Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
 
Larry Goodman, MD
CEO
Rush University Medical Center;
President, Rush University
 
Gerard Van Grinsven
President and CEO, Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital;
former VP and Area General Manager, Ritz Carlton Hotel