Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:45 am - 1:45 pm
The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, Partnership for Prevention, Divided We Fail and the Emory Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions hosted a half-day event to discuss why health reform is critical to re-building America’s economy and how reform can be achieved.
Welcome Remarks:
Corinne Husten, M.D., Interim President, Partnership for Prevention
Lisa Davis, Senior Vice President, AARP, Divided We Fail
Fred Sanfilippo, M.D., Ph.D., Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
Keynote Address:
Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D., Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease; Executive Director, Emory Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions; Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
(Above) PFCD Executive Director Ken Thorpe
Panel One: The Appetite & Atmosphere for Health Sector Transformation
John Harwood, Chief Washington Correspondent of CNBC and Political Writer for New York Times (Moderator)
David Broder, Columnist, Washington Post
John Castellani, President, Business Roundtable
Lisa Davis, Senior Vice President, AARP, Divided We Fail
Karen Ignagni, President & CEO, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
Jeffrey Kindler, Chairman & CEO, Pfizer, Inc.
Todd Stottlemyer, President & CEO, NFIB
(From left) Todd Stottlemyer; Lisa Davis; John Castellani; Karen Ignagni; Jeffrey Kindler; David Broder; and John Harwood
Panel Two: Achieving Reforms in Cost, Quality and Coverage in the Current Evnironment
Mary Agnes Carey, Associate Editor, CQ Healthbeat (Moderator)
Robert Bixby, Executive Director, Concord Coalition
Chris Dawe, Professional Staff, Senate Finance Committee
Kavita Patel, Professional Staff Member, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee
Erik Rasmussen, Professional Staff Member, House Ways and Means Committee
(From left) Chris Dawe; Kavita Patel; Robert Bixby; Erik Rasmussen
(Above) Mary Agnes Carey, Panel Two moderator
Panel Three: Real Health Reform Starts With Prevention
Jonathan Fielding, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., Director of the Department of Public Health and Health Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (Moderator)
Alan Aviles, President, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
Corinne Husten, M.D., Interim President, Partnership for Prevention
Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., Chair, National Commission on Prevention Priorities
Joe Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., Arkansas Surgeon General
Steven Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
(From left) Corrine Husten; Steven Woolf; Joe Thompson; Eduardo Sanchez; Alan Aviles
(Above) Jonathan Fielding, Panel Three moderator
Watch video of the event:
- Welcome Remarks and Keynote
- Keynote (Continued) and Panel One
- Panel One (Continued)
- Panel One (Continued) with Q&A
- Panel Two
- Panel Two (Continued) with Q&A
- Panel Three
- Panel Three (Continued) with Q&A and Closing Remarks
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Press release:
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