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Employer/Purchaser Leaders
 
Thomas J. Donohue
President and CEO
US Chamber of Commerce
 
Ivan Seidenberg
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Verizon Communications
 
Sid Banwart
VP, Human Services Division
Caterpillar, Inc.
Chair, Direct Pharmaceutical Purchasing Coalition
HR Policy Association
 
Jill Berger
VP, Health and Welfare Plan Management and Design, Marriott International;
Board member, The LeapFrog Group
 
William B. Bunn, MD, JD, MPH
Professor, Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University
Vice President, Health, Safety, Security & Productivity
International Truck & Engine Corporation
 
John Butler
EVP Administration and Chief Human Resources Officer
Textron, Inc
 
Jeff Cava
EVP, Human Resources
Wendy's International
 
Susan Chambers
EVP, Risk Management and Benefits Administration
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
 
Susan M. Colburn
Vice President - Benefits Design
AT&T; Inc.
 
Michael Critelli
Chairman and CEO
Pitney Bowes
 
Lisa K. Davis
Acting Director of International Affairs
AARP
 
Tom Emerick
VP, Benefits Design
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
 
John Engler
President and CEO
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
former Governor,
State of Michigan
 
David K. Etheridge
Director, Human Resources
City of Dallas
 
Robert Galvin, MD
Director, Global Health Care
General Electric
 
Paul Grundy, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Global Occupational Health and Well-Being
IBM
 
Cecily Hall
Director, US Benefits
Microsoft Corporation
 
Regina Hitchery
Vice President, Human Resources
Alcoa
 
Bob Ihrie
VP, Compensation and Benefits
Lowe’s
 
  David Kasper
Vice President, Human Resource/Employee Benefits
Waste Management, Inc.
 
  Annette King
Director of Benefits
Starbucks
 
Peter V. Lee
President and Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Business Group on Health
 
John Rother
Policy Director
AARP
 
Michele Schneider
Director of US Benefits
Avon Products, Inc.
 
James T. Schultz
Senior Vice President, Employee and Customer Engagement
Waste Management, Inc.
 
Ron St. Pierre
Leader Benefit Strategy
Center of Excellence
Textron, Inc.
 
Rick Stephens
SVP
Human Resources and Administration
Boeing, Inc
 
Andrew L. Stern
International President
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
 
Steve Wetzell
Vice President, Health Care Initiatives
HR Policy Association
 
Health Care Provider Thought Leaders
 
Robert Pearl, MD
CEO
The Permanente Medical Group
 
Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD
President and CEO
Geisinger Health System
 
Gloria Austin
CEO
Brown & Toland Medical Group
 
Howard Beckman, M.D.
Medical Director
Rochester Individual Practice Association (RIPA)
 
Francis J. (Jay) Crosson, MD
Executive Director, Permanente Federation;
Chair of the Governing Board, AMGA;
Chair, Council of Accountable Physician Practices
 
Herbert Cushing, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Indiana University Hospital
 
Larry S. Fields, MD
President
American Academy of Family Physicians
 
Laura L. Forese, MD, MPH
Vice President/Chief Medical Officer
New York Presbyterian Hospital
 
Mark Frisse, MD, MBA, MSc
Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Director of Regional Informatics Programs
Vanderbilt University Center for Better Health
 
Lillee Gelinas, RN, BSN, MSN, FAAN
Vice President, Clinical Performance
VHA, Inc.
 
John Glaser, PhD
Vice President and CIO
Partners HealthCare
 
C. Martin Harris, MD, MPH
CIO and Chairman of the IT Division
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
 
Michael M. E. Johns, M.D.
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs
CEO, The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Chairman of the Board, Emory Healthcare
Chairman of the Board, EHCA, LLC
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine
Emory University
 
Gary Kaplan, MD
Chairman and CEO
Virginia Mason Medical Center
 
Eric B. Larson, MD, MPH, MACP
Director, Center for Health Studies,
Group Health Cooperative;
Immediate Past Chair, Board of Regents
American College of Physicians
 
Sharon Levine, MD
Associate Executive Director
The Permanente Medical Group
 
Martha Marsh
CEO
Stanford Hospital and Clinics
 
Robert S. Mecklenburg, MD
Chief of Medicine
Virginia Mason Medical Center
 
Edward D. Miller, MD
CEO, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Rated #1 Hospital by U.S. News & World Report since 1990
 
  Franklin G. Moser, MD
Director of Clinical and Interventional Neuroradiology
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
 
Ralph W. Muller
CEO
University of Pennsylvania Health System
Commissioner
MedPAC
 
John C. Nelson, MD, MPH
Immediate Past President
American Medical Association
 
David Paschall
CIO
Northern Arizona Healthcare
 
Wayne Sensor
Chief Executive Officer
Alegent Health
 
Jim Skogsbergh
President and CEO
Advocate Health Care
 
Hugh C. Smith, MD
Chair of the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors
The Mayo Clinic
 
William Stead, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and Director, Informatics Center
Vanderbilt University Medical Center;
Member Commission on Systemic Interoperability
 
Erik N. Steele, DO
Family Physician; Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems
 
Robert Steffel
Executive Director
Greater Cincinnati HealthBridge
 
Paul Tang, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Chair-Elect, AMIA
Chair, Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety
Institute of Medicine
 
John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP
Executive Vice President/ Chief Executive Officer
American College of Physicians
 
Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP
President & Chief Executive Officer
Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative
 
Charles Watts, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
 
David Wessner
President and CEO
Park Nicollet Health Services
 
Janet S. Wright, MD, FACC
Trustee
American College of Cardiology
 
Eric Yablonka
Vice President and Chief Information Officer
University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System
 
Gary Yates, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Sentara
 
Thomas F. Zenty III
President and Chief Executive Officer
University Hospitals Health System (UHHS)
 
Payer/Health Plan Thought Leaders
 
William W. McGuire , MD
Chairman and CEO
UnitedHealth Group
 
Gail Amundson, MD, FACP
Medical Director
Quality, Measurement and Provider Incentives
HealthPartners Health Plan
 
Edward Anselm, MD
Acting Chief Medical Officer, Health Systems Delivery
HIP Health Plan of New York
 
H. R. Brereton (Gubby) Barlow , MBA
President and CEO
Premera Blue Cross
 
Stanley Borg, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
 
Gail Boudreaux
EVP for External Operations
Health Care Service Corporation
 
Bruce M. Bullen
Chief Operating Officer
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
 
James F. Byrne, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer
Priority Health
 
David Cordani
President
CIGNA HealthCare
 
Robin Downey
Vice President and Head of Product Development
Aetna
 
Robert J. Greczyn Jr.
President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina;
Chairman, Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare
 
Vicky Gregg
President and CEO
Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN
 
George C. Halvorson
Chairman and CEO
Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals
 
Edward Hanway
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
CIGNA Corporation
 
Kimberly Horn
President and CEO
Priority Health
 
David Joyner
Senior Vice President, Network Management
Blue Shield of California;
Board member,
Integrated Healthcare Association
 
Jeffrey L. Kang, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer and SVP
CIGNA HealthCare
 
Jacqueline Kosecoff, PhD, EVP
CEO, Ovations Pharmacy Solutions
UnitedHealth Group
 
Antonio P. Linares, MD, FAAFP
Regional Vice President and Medical Director, Anthem National Accounts West Region
WellPoint Inc.
 
Sam Nussbaum, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
WellPoint, Inc.
 
Mark C. Rattray, MD
Consultant, CareVariance;
former National Medical Director, UnitedHealthcare
 
Robert Seidman, PharmD., MPH
Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer
WellPoint Inc.
 
  Scott Spiker
CEO
Destiny Health
 
Donald D. Storey, MD
National Medical Director for Aexcel
Aetna
 
Reed Tuckson, MD
SVP, Consumer Health and Medical Care Advancement
UnitedHealth Group
 
Government Officials
 
John W. Snow
Secretary of the Treasury
 
Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institutes of Health
 
Abby Block
Director, Center for Beneficiary Choices
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 
David J. Brailer
Coordinator, National Health Information Technology
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
 
John B. Breaux
(D-LA) former U.S. Senator;
Senior Counsel, Patton Boggs LLP
 
Siri Childs, Pharm D
Pharmacy Policy Office Chief
Health and Recovery Services Administration
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
 
Carolyn Clancy, MD
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 
Joel Cohen, PhD
Director, Division of Social and Economic Research, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
 
Steven B. Cohen, PhD
Director of the Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
 
Susan K. Cummins, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Drug Safety Oversight Board, CEDR
The Food and Drug Administration
 
David Durenberger
(R-MN 1978-1995) U.S. Senator;
Chair, National Institute of Health Policy
 
Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH
Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Administrator
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry
 
Barbara S. Hoffman
Division Director, Chronic Care Improvement Program
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 
Allan Hubbard
Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director, National Economic Council, The White House
 
Robert M. Kolodner, MD
Chief Health Informatics Officer
Veterans Health Administration
 
Mark B. McClellan , MD, PhD
Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
 
  Julie Sapp
Senior Policy Analyst
Office of the Governor, State of Wyoming
 
Pete Stark
(D-CA) U.S. Representative;
Ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee
 
Barry M. Straube, MD
Acting Director & Chief Clinical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 
Mark Trail
Chief Medical Assistance Plans
Georgia Department of Community Health
 
Andrew von Eschenbach, MD
Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration
 
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD
Director
National Institutes of Health
 
Pharma, Biotech and Device Thought Leaders
 
J.P. Garnier, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
GlaxoSmithKline
 
Pat Kelly
President
Pfizer US Pharmaceuticals
 
Sir William Castell
Vice Chairman of the Board and Executive Officer
General Electric Company
Chairman
GE Healthcare
 
Paulo Costa
President and CEO
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
 
Joseph DiCesare, RPh, MPH
Head, Health Economics & Outcomes Research
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
 
Joseph M. Feczko, MD
Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
Pfizer Inc
 
Dr. Victoria G. Hale, PhD
Founder and CEO
OneWorld Health
 
Timothy J. Heady
CEO
UnitedHealth Pharmaceutical Solutions
 
Russell C. Ring
Senior Vice President - Government Relations
Caremark Rx, Inc.
 
Greg Simon
CEO
FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions
 
Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D.
President & Scientific Director
TGen
 
Chris Viehbacher
President
US Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline
 
International Thought Leaders
 
Sir Michael Rawlins
Chairman
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, UK
 
Hong-Jen Chang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Taiwan Global Biofund;
former Chief Executive Officer and President, Bureau of National Health Insurance
 
John Burns
Senior Vice President, Investment Programs Management
Canada Health Infoways
 
Richard Granger
Director General of Information Technology
National Health Service
United Kingdom
 
Naoki Ikegami, MD, MA
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy & Management, School of Medicine
Keio University
 
David Nabarro, MD
Senior Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza
United Nations
 
Alan O'Dell
Managing Director
Shouldice Hospital (Canada)
 
Prathap C. Reddy, MD
Chairman
Apollo Group of Hospitals
 
Muhammad Yunus
Founder and Managing Director
Grameen Bank
 
Perspectives Outside of Health Care
 
John J. Brennan
Chairman and CEO
The Vanguard Group
 
Scott Cook
Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee
Intuit
 
Ansbert Gadicke, MD
Founder and General Partner
MPM Capital
Board Member
National Venture Capital Association
 
Peter J. Grua
President
HLM Venture Partners
 
Jim Guest
President
Consumers Union
 
William Hamman, MD, PhD
Captain
United Airlines
Co-Director
College of Aviation, Center of Excellence for Simulation Research, Western Michigan University
 
Astro Teller
CEO
Body Media
 
Noel M. Tichy, PhD
Director
Global Business Partnership and Professor
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
 
David C. U’Prichard, PhD
Venture Partner
Care Capital LLC and Red Abbey Venture Partners
 
Public Policy/Research Thought Leaders
 
Scott Wallace
President and CEO
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology
 
Elizabeth McGlynn, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Research on Quality in Health Care
RAND
 
Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., Sol C.
Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy & Management
Brandeis University
 
Gerard F. Anderson, PhD
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management;
Director, Center for Hospital Finance and Management,
Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Johns Hopkins University
 
Joseph R. Antos, PhD
Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy
American Enterprise Institute
 
J. Lyle Bootman, PhD
Dean, College of Pharmacy;
Executive Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic (HOPE) Research,
The University of Arizona
 
Janet Corrigan, PhD, MBA
President and CEO
National Quality Forum
 
Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH
Founder and CEO
Health Technology Center
Board of Directors, Aetna, Inc.
 
Karen Davis
President
The Commonwealth Fund; 2006 AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award
 
Carol Diamond, MD, MPH
Managing Director, Health Program
Markle Foundation
 
Harold (Hank) Gardner, MD
President
Human Capital Management Services
 
  Mark Gibson
Director, Center for Evidence Based Policy
Oregon Health Sciences
 
John C. Goodman, PhD
President
National Center for Policy Analysis
 
Brad Holmes
Vice President, Research Director
Forrester Research
 
Len M. Nichols, PhD
Director, Health Policy Program
New America Foundation
 
Dennis O'Leary, M.D.
President and CEO
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
 
Christopher Queram
President and CEO
Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality
 
Uwe Reinhardt, PhD
James Madison Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics
Princeton Unversity
 
Gail Shearer
Director of Health Policy Analysis; Project Director
Bestbuydrugs.com, Consumer Reports
 
Henry Simmons, MD, MPH, FACP
President
National Coalition on Health Care
 
Humphrey Taylor
Chairman, The Harris Poll
Harris Interactive
 
Marc Volavka
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council
 
Media
 
Susan Dentzer
Health Correspondent and Head of the Health Policy Unit
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, PBS
 
Gerald F. Seib
Washington DC Bureau Chief
The Wall Street Journal
 
Ron Winslow
Deputy Editor, Health and Science
The Wall Street Journal
 
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