"The United States cannot effectively address escalating health care costs without addressing the problem of chronic diseases,” declared the CDC.

World Congress is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Chronic Care Congress scheduled for June 1-3, 2008 in Alexandria, VA. The 2nd Annual Chronic Care Congress will bring together major stakeholders – employers, healthcare plans, providers and government agencies - in an executive networking environment to discuss best practices and partnership initiatives for the management of chronic disease and the implementation of prevention and wellness strategies.

This three day event will feature visionary keynote addresses, controversial debates, case studies, workshops, summits, seminars, tracks and informal roundtable discussions addressing:

• Patient Centered Care and Self Management Initiatives: The Role of the Medical Home and the Coordinated Care Management Team
• How Employers are Engaging Employees in Wellness Initiatives to Enforce Behavior Change
• National and Regional Initiatives on Closing the Gap in Healthcare Disparities
• Improving Outcomes by Aligning Reimbursement Models and Financial Incentives
• The Role Predictive Modeling and Secondary Management Tools to Transform Healthcare into Actionable Data
• Implementing Evidence Based Medicine Protocols to Improve Patient Safety and Quality
• How to Utilize Electronic Medical Records and Other IT Support Tools in the Management of Chronic Care Patients
• Measuring Economic Outcomes Beyond Healthcare: Aligning Reimbursement Models and Financial Incentives
• Executive Congress Summits on Innovations in Chronic Care Quality
• Best Practices in the Management of Chronic Diseases – Diabetes, Co-Morbidities, Obesity/Weight Management, Heart Failure, COPD: Patient/Consumer Education, Outcomes and Reporting, Technology Application, and Socio-Psychological Support

Keynotes
Diane Holder Executive Vice President, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; President, UPMC Health Insurance; Division President and CEO, UPMC Health Plan; Co-Chair, Chronic Care Management, Reimbursement and Cost Reduction Commission, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania	Margaret E. O'Kane President National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Ken Thorpe, PhD Professor and Chair, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
Conference Co-Chairmen
Michael H. Samuelson President and CEO The Health & Wellness Institute	Warren Todd Executive Director International Disease Management Alliance (IDMA)
Payers/Providers/Health Systems
John Bachman, MD Saunders Professor of Primary Care Mayo Foundation	Jan Berger, MD, MJ Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer CVS Caremark
Mark Casmer Manager, Provider Partnerships Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan	Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Chief Quality Officer and Vice President Lifespan Corporation
John R. Butterly, MD Vice Chair, Department of Medicine & Executive Medical Director Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center	Donald R. Fischer, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Integrated Clinical Services Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Pittsburgh
Henry DePhillips, MD Chief Medical Officer Medem, Inc.	Cornelius Erbe, MD Senior Vice President and Head of BU Product Management Deutsche Angestellten Krankenkasse (DAK)
Hali Hammer, MD Medical Director, Family Health Center San Francisco General Hospital	Joseph C. Kvedar, MD Director, Center for Connected Health, Partners HealthCare System, Inc.; Past President, American Telemedicine Association
Don Liss, MD Regional Medical Director Aetna	Rob Muscalus, D.O. Medical Director for Clinical Client Relationships Highmark Blue Shield
Lucy Savitz, PhD, MBA Senior Scientist Intermountain Healthcare	Judith Schaefer, MPH Director, New Health Partnerships Learning Community Research Associate MacColl Institute, Group Health Cooperative
Patricia Sodomka, FACHE Director, Patient and Family Centered Care Medical College of Georgia; Senior Vice President, Patient and Family Centered Care, MCG Health, Inc.	Robert Stroebel, MD Consultant in the Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
David Swieskowski, MD Vice President for Quality Mercy Clinics	Steven Towner, MD Internal Medicine, Adult Primary Care Clinical Programs Leader Intermountain Healthcare
Sidna Tulledge-Scheitel, MD, MPH Consultant in Primary Care, Internal Medicine; Assistant Professor, Mayo Medical College, Mayo Clinic
Government/Policy
Dr Mike Bainbridge, B.Med.Sci., BM, BS, MRCGP, FBCS, CITP Clinical Architect NHS Connecting for Health	Anne Beal, MD, MPH Assistant Vice President for the Program on Quality of Care for Underserved Populations, Commonwealth Fund
Jeff Beard, MBA, MA Program Integrity Division Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services	Karen M. Bell, MD, MMS Director, Office of Health It Adoption; Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health & Human Services; Member, Chronic Care Working Group American Health Information Community (AHIC)
Cindy Ehnes, Esq. Director, Department of Managed Health Care State of California	Garth Graham, MD, MPH Deputy Assistant for Minority in the Office of Minority Health Department of Health and Human Services
Christopher Koller Heath Insurance Commissioner State of Rhode Island	Linda M. Magno Director, Medicare Demonstration Group Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Soeren Mattke, MD, DSc Senior Scientist The RAND Corporation	George A. Mensah, MD, FACC, FAHA Chief Medical Office and Associate Medical Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Sharon Moffatt, RN, MSN Commissioner of Health Vermont Blueprint for Health	Shirley Munkberg Clinical Consultant for Chronic Care Management, Division of Healthcare Services Washington Department of Social & Health Services
Sarah Hudson Scholle, MPH, DrPH Assistant Vice President for Research National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)	Herb Schultz Senior Health Policy Advisor Office of the Governor, State of California
Ann Torregrossa, Esq. Deputy Director & Director of Policy, Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform Prescription for Pennsylvania
Academia/Association
Gerard F. Anderson, PhD Professor and Director, Center for Hospital Finance and Management, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, John Hopkins University School of Medicine; Former National Program Director, Partnership for Solutions, Better Lives for People with Chronic Conditions	Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President Practice Advocacy and Improvement, Governmental Affairs and Public Policy American College of Physicians
Joseph F. Coughlin, PhD Founder and Director Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab	Christopher Ewin, MD, FAAFP Immediate Past President Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design (SIMPD)
Wendy Graham, MD, CCFP, FCFP President and Board Member, Association of Family Health Teams; Lead Physician, Blue Sky Family Health Team	Liz Helms Chair, California Chronic Care Coalition; Patient Advocate and Co-Founder, TMJ and Orofacial Pain Society of America (TOPS America)
John (Jack) C. Lewin, MD Chief Executive Officer American College of Cardiology (ACC)	Jonathan Linkous Executive Director American Telemedicine Association
Nancy McCall, ScD Chief Scientist, Division for Health Services and Social Policy Research RTI International	Kathleen Nolan Director, Health Division, Center for Best Practices National Governors Association
Malinda Peeples, RN, MS, CDE Vice President, Healthcare Integration, WellDoc Communications, Inc; Immediate Past President, American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE);	Hoangmai (Mai) Pham, MD, MPH Senior Health Researcher Center for Studying Health System Change
Michael H. Samuelson President and CEO The Health & Wellness Institute	Julie Sanderson-Austin, RN Vice President, Quality Management and Research American Medical Group Association
Sarah Hudson Scholle, MPH, DrPH Assistant Vice President for Research National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)	Joshua Seidman, PhD President Center for Information Therapy
Dr Manuel Serrano President Education Health and Society Foundation	Greg Simon President FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions
Jay Srini, MS, MBA, FHIMSS Vice President of Emerging Technologies University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)	Victor Strecher, PhD, MPH Professor and Director, Center for Health Communications Research Department of Health Behavior and Health Education University of Michigan School of Public Health
Warren Todd Executive Director International Disease Management Alliance (IDMA)
Employers/Consultants/Other
Susan Butterworth, PhD Vice-President Health Management Services	George Chedraoui Global well Being Services Leader, IBM Corporation Treasurer, Bridges to Excellence
Chris Delaney Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Insignia Health	Ian Duncan, FSA, MAAA President Solucia Consulting, Inc.
Jeffrey Gruen, MD, MBA Chief Medical Officer Revolution Health	Ricardo Guggenheim, MD, MBA Vice President - Clinical Content Design and Development, Products and Services McKesson Health Solutions
Paul Hedtke Senior Director, Health & Life Sciences QUALCOMM	Cara V. James, PhD Senior Policy Analyst and Director, Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program Kaiser Family Foundation
Marty Kunz, SPHR Director, Human Resources Newpark Resources, Inc.	Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA Principal Better Health Technologies, Inc
Doug Layman Executive Vice President Gilsbar	Michelle McGovern Vice President, Human Capital General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP)
Richard Millard, PhD Group President Harris Interactive	Eric Parmenter Senior Consultant, Health & Welfare Consulting Towers Perrin
Minalkumar Patel, MD, MPH Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Care Management International, Inc.; Medical Advisor, New York Business Group on Health	Russell D. Robbins, MD, MBA Principal and Senior Clinical Consultant Mercer
Tyndall Traversa Senior Analyst for Strategy, Planning, and Business Analysis Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)	Agostino (Tino) Villani, DC President and Chief Executive Officer Triad Healthcare, Inc.
David Whitlinger Chairman, Continua Health Alliance; Director, Healthcare Device Standards, Intel Digital Health Group	Terry Womack Fellow Center for Health Transformation

The 2nd Annual Chronic Care Congress will gather major stakeholders from both the private and public sectors interested in managing chronic disease programs and implementing prevention and wellness initiatives.

Employers: Corporate Medical Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Medical Directors, Vice Presidents of: Wellness & Prevention, Human Resources, Workforce Health & Productivity, Benefit Design, Employee Benefits, Human Resources and Health Promotion

Hospitals, Health Systems and Physicians: Chief Executive Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Medical Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Executive Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents of: Business, Care Management, Case Management, Disease Management, Pharmacy, Pharmacy, Quality and Outcomes Management

Health Plans: Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Medical Officer, Vice Presidents of: Quality, Outcomes Management Case Management, Prevention & Wellness, Disease Management and Pharmacy

Other Groups: Government Officials from the Federal, State, Local level, academia, pharmaceutical companies, disease management companies and care and wellness vendors.