The 4th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality and Pay-for-Performance presents the nation's best practices in achieving and rewarding provider quality. The conference agenda is designed to address the market forces and specific challenges of employers and other purchasers, provider organizations (health systems, hospitals and group practices) and health plans and payers.

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Timothy Murphy Secretary, Executive Office of Health and Human Services Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Payer Thought Leaders
Gail Amundson, MD, FACP Medical Director Quality, Measurement and Provider Incentives HealthPartners Health Plan	Dennis Batey, MD SVP & CMO Fallon Community Health Plan
Victoria Bloodworth Director of Network Design and Development Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida	Troyen Brennan, MD Chief Medical Officer, Aetna, Inc.
Catherine Egan Director, Quality Management /Clinical Innovations Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ	James Geraughty, MD Chief Quality Officer, Senior Medical Director HealthSpring
Jeffrey Kang, MD Chief Medical Officer, CIGNA President, eHealth Initiative	Allan Korn, MD, FACP Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Lance Lang, MD Vice President & Senior Medical Director Quality Improvement & Clinical Informatics Health Net, California	Lisa M. Latts, MD, MBA, MSPH Vice President, Programs in Clinical Excellence WellPoint, Inc
Zak Ramadan-Jradi, MD, MBA Medical Director, Clinical Performance Measurement The Regence Group	Mark C. Rattray, MD Consultant, CareVariance; former National Medical Director, UnitedHealthcare
Carol Wilhoit, MD, MS QI Medical Director Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
Hospital / Health System / Group Pratice Thought Leaders
Ron Bangasser, MD Director, Wound Care Department, Redlands Community Hospital; Director, External Relations, Beaver Medical Group	Howard Beckman, MD, FACP Medical Director, RIPA Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester
Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Lifespan Corporation	Thomas Fritz Chief Executive Officer Inland Northwest Health Services
John Glaser, PhD Vice President and CIO Partners HealthCare	Robert A. Greene, MD, FACP Associate Medical Director Rochester Individual Practice Association, Inc.
James Hereford Executive Vice President, Strategic Services & Quality Group Health Cooperative	Richard Norling President and CEO Premier
Barbara Walters, DO, MBA Medical Director Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic
Government Thought Leaders
Jody Blatt Senior Research Analyst and Project Officer, Division of Payment Policy Demonstrations, Medicare Demonstration Programs Group/Office of Research Development and Information Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services	Irene Fraser, Ph.D Director, Center for Delivery, Organization and Market AHRQ
James L. Hardy Deputy Secretary, Medical Assistance Programs Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare	Arnold Milstein, MD Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; National Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Health and Benefits; Chair, IHA P4P Steering Committee
John Pilotte Senior Analyst, Medicare Demonstrations Program Group 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
Mark Wynn, PhD Director of Payment Policy Demonstrations Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Coalition / Association / Think Tank Leaders
Bruce Bagley, MD Medical Director, Quality Improvement American Academy of Family Physicians	Michael F. Cannon Director of Health Policy Studies CATO Institute
Francois de Brantes, MS, MBA National Coordinator Bridges To Excellence	Catherine Eikel Director, Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program The Leapfrog Group
Donald W. Fisher, PhD, CAE President and CEO American Medical Group Association	Peter Lee President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health; Board member, National Quality Forum; Co-chair, Pilot Expansion Work Group, AQA/HQA
B. Dale Magee, MD, MS President-Elect Massachusetts Medical Society	Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer eHealth Initiative and Foundation
Nancy Nielsen, PhD, MD Speaker, AMA House of Delegates American Medical Association Co-Chair, AQA Reporting Workgroup	Margaret E. O'Kane President National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Cary Sennett, MD, PhD, FACP Senior Vice President, Research and Development American Board of Internal Medicine	Janice A. Singer Director of Operations Massachusetts Health Quality Partners
Stephen A. Somers, PhD President Center for Health Care Strategies	John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP Executive Vice President/ Chief Executive Officer American College of Physicians
Paul J. Wallace, MD Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs; Senior Advisor, The Care Management Institute and KP-Healthy Solutions The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente	Andrew Webber President and CEO, National Business Coalition on Health Board of Directors for the National Quality Forum, the Leapfrog Group, and Bridges to Excellence
Tom Williams President Integrated Healthcare Association	Janet S. Wright, MD, FACC Trustee American College of Cardiology
Academic / Other Thought Leaders
George Bennett Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Health Dialog	Michael Costa Associate, Health Business Greenberg Traurig
Kathleen Curtin Senior Vice President for Client Services MedVantage, Inc; former Vice President for Practitioner Performance Excellus Health Plan	R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy University of California San Francisco
Antonio Legorreta, M.D., MPH President and CEO Health Benchmarks, Inc	Maureen Mangotich, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, Senior Director, Clinical Outcomes McKesson Health Solutions
Dr. James Pope Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Healthways	Lonny Reisman, MD Chief Executive Officer ActiveHealth Management
Prof Martin Roland Professor University of Manchester Director National Primary Care Research and Development Centre (NPCRDC)	James L. Rosenzweig, MD Director, Disease Management Joslin Diabetes Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Josie R. Williams, M.D., M.M.M. Co-Chair, AMA Physician's Consortium; Director, Rural and Community Health Institute: Quality & Patient Safety Initiatives (QPSI), Assistant Professor of Internal and Family Medicine, A&M; System Health Science Center, Texas A&M;	Solomon J. Zak, M.D. VP Business and Medical Intelligence ikaSystems