The 4th Annual World Health Care Congress

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Employers and Purchasers

	Craig R. Barrett Chairman, Intel Corporation; Co-chairman, National Innovation Initiative; Member, American Health Information Community (AHIC); Chair, UN Alliance

	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 VP and General Manager, Airplane Production Boeing Commercial Airlines

	Michael Critelli Chairman and CEO Pitney Bowes

	Jeff Cava EVP, 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 Dow Chemical

	Jill Berger VP, Health and Welfare Plan Management and Design, Marriott International; Board member, The LeapFrog Group

	Adam Bosworth Vice President Google, Inc.

	Peter Hayes Director of Associate Health & WellnessHannaford 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

	Andrew N. Liveris President, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman; Member of the Board of Directors, The Dow Chemical Company

	Sean P. Madix Fund Administrator ECA & Local 134 IBEW Employee Benefit Plans

	Robert Moroni Independent Consultant; former Director - Health Care Plans, General Motors

	Peter Neupert Corporate Vice President for Health Strategy Microsoft Corp

	Leonard Quadracci, MD President QuadMed and QuadMed Corporate Health Services, a subsidiary of QuadGraphics

	Dennis W. Wootan, CEBS Corporate Director, Benefits Analytic Services and International Programs, Northrup Grumman Corporation

Health Plan and Insurers

	Ronald A. Williams CEO and President Aetna Inc.

	Larry Glasscock Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer WellPoint Inc.

	Troyen Brennan, MD Chief Medical Officer Aetna

	Reed Tuckson, MD SVP, Consumer Health and Medical Care Advancement 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.

	Gail Boudreaux EVP for External Operations Health Care Service Corporation

	Charles M. Cutler, MD Chief Medical Director, National Accounts Aetna, Inc.

	George C. Halvorson Chairman and CEO Kaiser Foundation Health Plans and Hospitals

	Stephen J. Hemsley President UnitedHealth Group

	Roberta Herman, MD Chief Medical Officer and SVP Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

	Daniel J. Hilferty President and Chief Executive Officer AmeriHealth Mercy

	Michael B. McCallister President and Chief Executive Officer Humana

	Peter Meade Executive VP Corporate Affairs at Blue Cross Blue Shield MA

	Richard Migliori, MD CEO United Resource Networks

	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

	Scott P. Serota President and CEO Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

	Christine Skelly Vice President and Head of Health-Related Financial Solutions Aetna, Inc.

	Simon Stevens President UnitedHealth Group International

	Elizabeth Bierbower Vice President of Innovation Humana

Government

	Alex M. Azar, II Deputy Secretary Department of Health and Human Services

	Ron Wyden, (D-OR) United States Senator

	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

	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

	Jon Kingsdale Executive Director, Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority

	Michael Kussman, MD Acting Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

	Leslie Norwalk Acting Deputy Administrator Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

	Thomas B. Valuck, MD, JD Medical Officer & Senior Advisor, Center for Medicare Management, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Technical Advisory Committee, TransforMed National Demonstration Project

	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 CEO, Johns Hopkins School of 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

	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 Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Health Care

	David Abelson, MD VP and Chief Medical Information Officer Park Nicollet Health Services

	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

	Beth Hartquist, MD Chief, Primary Care Administration Park Nicollet Health Services

	James Hereford Executive Vice President, Strategic Services & Quality Group Health Cooperative

	Gary Kaplan, MD Chairman and CEO Virginia Mason Medical Center

	John Rex-Waller CEO National Surgical Hospitals

	James L. Rosenzweig, MD Director, Disease Management Joslin Diabetes Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

	Pat Skarulis CIO Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

	Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD President and CEO Geisinger Health System

	Hugh Straley, MD President, Group Health Permanente; Medical Director, Group Health Cooperative; Vice-Chair, Puget Sound Health Alliance; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington

	Paul Terry, PhD President and CEO Park Nicollet Institute

	Warner L. Thomas President and COO Ochsner Health System

	Daniel W. Varga, MD Senior Vice President and CMO Norton Healthcare

	John Wade Vice President; former CIO, St. Luke’s Health System

	Stephen Williams President and CEO Norton Healthcare

Group Practices

	Mark A. Kelley, MD Executive Vice President, Henry Ford Health System; Chief Executive Officer, Henry Ford Medical Group

	Ron Bangasser, MD Director, Wound Care Department, Redlands Community Hospital; Director, External Relations, Beaver Medical Group; former President, California Medical Association

	Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President Practice Advocacy and Improvement American College of Physicians

	Francis J. (Jay) Crosson, MD Executive Director, Permanente Federation; Chair of the Governing Board, AMGA; Chair, Council of Accountable Physician Practices

	Larry S. Fields, MD President American Academy of Family Physicians

	Douglas Allen, MD, MMM Chief Medical Officer Greater Newport Physicians IPA (Newport Beach, CA)

Pharma, Medical Device and PBM

	Edward J. Ludwig Chairman, President and CEO, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company); Chairman of the Board, AdvaMed

	Joseph M. Feczko, MD Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Pfizer Inc

	Judith A. Cahill, CEBS Executive Director Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy

	Joseph M. Hogan President and CEO GE Healthcare

	Mesfin Tegenu, RPh, MS SVP, Pharmacy Services AmeriHealth Mercy/PerformRx

	Ed Weisbart, MD, C.P.E. Chief Medical Officer Express Scripts, Inc.

International

	Tadataka Yamada, MD President, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

	Tedros Adhanom Ghebeysus Minister of Health, Ethiopia

	Jerry L. Doctrow Managing Director Stifel Nicolaus

	Joseph M. Feczko, MD Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Pfizer Inc

	Jean Luc Poncelet, MD Area Manager, Area on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief, Pan American Health Organization

	Alexander S. Preker Lead Economist World Bank

	Sangita Reddy Executive Director (Operations) Apollo Hospitals Group

	Tom Sackville Chief Executive, International Federation of Health Plans; former British Minister of Health

	Curtis J. Schroeder Group CEO Bumrungrad International (Thailand)

	Simon Stevens President UnitedHealth Group International

Research, Public Policy, Media and others

	Michael E. Porter Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Harvard Business School

	Carolyn Clancy, MD Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

	John Wennberg, MD Director, Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School; Principal Investigator, Dartmouth Atlas Project

	William D. Novelli CEO, American Association of Retired Persons (AARP); Board of Directors, National Coalition on Health Care

	Elizabeth H. Bradley, PhD Professor of Public Health; Director, Health Management Program; Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine

	Karen Davis President The Commonwealth Fund; 2006 AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award

	Justin Fox Editor At-Large FORTUNE

	John C. Goodman, PhD President National Center for Policy Analysis

	Stuart Guterman Senior Program Director, Medicare's Future, The Commonwealth Fund

	Richard A. Kahn, PhD Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, American Diabetes Association

	Arnold Milstein, MD Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; National Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

	Robin Osborn, MBA Vice President and Director, International Program in Health Policy and Practice The Commonwealth Fund

	Franklin D. Raines Vice Chairman of the Board, Revolution Health; former Chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae; former Director, Office of Management and Budget for President Clinton

	David A. Shore, PhD Director, Forces of Change Program and Founding Director, Trust Initiative, Harvard School of Public Health

	Alden Solovy Executive Editor, Hospital & Health Networks and H&HN;’s Most Wired Magazine; Associate Publisher, Journals of the American Hospital Association