The World Congress 9th Annual Health Care Quality Congress convenes the nation's top visionaries and thought leaders to address the evolution health care quality by discussing such topics as incentives, pay-for-performance, bundled payments, global reimbursement strategies, physician/hospital alignment, patient centered medical home, accountable care organizations, and measurement to improve the delivery of care.

The Congress agenda is designed to assemble over 200 representatives from all sectors of health care, including hospital/health system/group practice providers; health plan/payer executives; government officials; association/coalition leaders; academic thought leaders; and employer/purchaser decision-makers who strive to drive quality improvement initiatives and innovations across the industry.

Just Confirmed!
	Cary Sennett, MD, PhD, FACP Fellow, Economic Studies and Managing Director, Health Care Finance Reform Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform Brookings

Health Plan Thought Leaders
Babette Apland Senior Vice President, Health and Care Management HealthPartners	Mark E. Austin Senior Vice President, Provider Network Management Blue Cross BlueShield of Tennessee
Thomas G. Lundquist, MD, MMM, FAAP, FACPE Vice President, Performance Measurement & Improvement BlueCross BlueShield Tennessee	Augustine Manocchia, MD Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Provider Relations Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Greg Pawlson, MD, MPH, FACP Executive Director, Quality Innovations Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA),	Richard Salmon, MD, PhD National Medical Executive, Performance Measurement and Improvement CIGNA HealthCare
Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Practice Officer UnitedHealth Group
Hospital/Health System/Group Practice Thought Leaders
Scott A. Berry, MS Senior Director, Value Performance, Measurement, and Patient Safety, Dartmouth Hitchcock	Michael E. Brown , MD, MS, MHCM Chief Information Officer Harvard University Health Services
John R. Butterly, MD, FACP, FACC Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health	Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Lifespan Corporation Assistant Professor, Medicine and Public Health The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Carole Cotter Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Lifespan Corporation	Mary O. Cramer, MBA, CPHQ Process Improvement Program Director and the Director of the Ambulatory Management and Performance Team, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
Charles DeShazer, MD Vice President of Medical Informatics and Transformation Dean Health System	Pat Folcarelli, RN, PhD Director, Patient Safety, Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Brent C. James, MD, MStat Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research Intermountain Healthcare	John P. Kane Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety and Quality, Catholic Health (NY)
Kevin E. Lofton, FACHE President and Chief Executive Officer, Catholic Health Initiatives	Melanie P. Mastanduno, MPH Director, Population Health Measurement, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice Integrating Clinical Best Practices into Workflow (NH)
Kevin J. O'Brien President and Chief Executive Officer Partners In Care	Harold A. Picken, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, Bliss Health Care
Michael Pinnolis, MD Chief of Healthcare Improvement Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates	Ashok Rai, MD President and Chief Executive Officer Prevea Health
Eyal Zimlichman, MD, MSc (MHCM) Lead Researcher, Department of Clinical Affairs Partners Health Care System, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Government Thought Leaders
Melinda Karp Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) (MA)	Thomas B. Valuck, MD, MHSA, JD Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships National Quality Forum
Association/Coalition Thought Leaders
Karen Bell, MD, MMS Chair Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT)	Leah Binder Chief Executive Officer The Leapfrog Group
Bruce A. Boissonault President and Chief Executive Officer Niagara Health Quality Coalition	Catherine Davis, MD President and Chief Executive Officer Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium
Alfred J. Fortin, PhD Senior Vice President Hawaii Medical Service Association	Mukesh Hariawala, MD, MBA Cardiac Surgeon and Healthcare Economist; Chief Executive Officer American Healthcare International
David S. P. Hopkins, Ph.D. Director of Quality Measurement, Pacific Business Group on Health	Stephen F. Jencks, MD, MPH Senior Fellow Institute for Health Care Improvement
William F. Jessee, MD, FACMPE, FACPM, FACPE President and Chief Executive Officer Medical Group Management Association	Jeff Lemieux Senior Vice President, Center for Policy and Research America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Gwendolyn Lohse Deputy Director and Managing Director, Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) CAQH	Elizabeth Mitchell Chief Executive Officer Maine Health Management Coalition
Nancy Nankivil Senior Vice President, Wisconsin Medical Society	Marjorie Rallins, DPM Director of Quality Measure Specifications, Standards and Informatics, American Medical Association
Michael Vittoria Vice President, Human Resources, Sperian Protection; President, Rhode Island Business Group on Health	Charlotte S. Yeh, MD, FACEP Chief Medical Officer AARP
Lynda M. Young, MD President- Elect Massachusetts Medical Society
Academic/Other Thought Leaders
Jeffrey C. Bauer, PhD Health Futurist and Medical Economist	William J. DeMarco, MA, CMC President and Chief Executive Officer DeMarco and Associates, Inc.
R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy; Associate Director for Research Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)	Mukesh Hariawala, MD, MBA Cardiac Surgeon and Healthcare Economist; Chief Executive Officer American Healthcare International
Daniel Lemberg Senior Principal Engineer ViPS, a General Dynamics Information Technology Company	Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA President Sherlock Company
Gary Young, JD, Ph.D Professor and Director, Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research Northeastern University