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Monday August 1, 2005
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7:00 am
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8:00 am
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8:15 am - 9:15 am
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9:00 am - 9:45 am
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9:45 am
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10:15 am - 11:00 am
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11:30 am
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Carolyn Clancy
MD
Director
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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| Prior to her appointment as Director of AHRQ, Dr. Clancy served as AHRQ's Acting Director since March 2002 and, before that, as Director of AHRQ's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research (COER).Dr. Clancy is a general internist and health services researcher. Following clinical training in internal medicine, Dr. Clancy was a Henry Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond prior to joining AHRQ (then named the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in 1990.She holds an academic appointment at George Washington University School of Medicine (Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine) and serves as Senior Associate Editor, Health Services Research. Dr. Clancy is a member of multiple editorial boards (American Journal of Public Health; Annals of Family Medicine; Journal of General Internal Medicine; and Medical Care Research and Revi ew). Before becoming the Director of COER in 1997, Dr. Clancy served as Director of the Center for Primary Care Research. |
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Margaret E. O’Kane
President
NCQA
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| Since 1990, Margaret E. O’Kane has served as President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and has developed broad support among the employer and health plan communities. About three quarters of the nation’s largest employers use Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) data to evaluate the plans that serve their employees. Ms. O’Kane was named Health Person of the Year in 1996 by the journal Medicine & Health. She also received a 1997 Founder’s Award from The American College of Medical Quality. In 2000, Ms. O’Kane received the CDC’s Champion of Prevention award, the agency’s highest honor. In 2002, Ms. O’Kane was voted by her peers as one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Powerful People in Health Care.” |
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Dennis O'Leary
M.D.
President and CEO
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
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| Under Dennis O’Leary’s leadership as President, Joint Commission has successfully modernized its accreditation process to focus on the actual performance of individual health care organizations and to emphasize the use of measurement to drive continuous improvement in organization performance. In recent years, he has overseen the introduction of cutting-edge standards relating to patient safety, pain management, use of patient restraints, and emergency preparedness, and he has led the formulation of National Patient Safety Goals which have also been incorporated into the Joint Commission’s accreditation process. During Dr. O’Leary’s 18-year tenure as its president, the Joint Commission has expanded its programmatic purview to encompass the mainstream of the U.S. health care delivery system. Prior to joining the Joint Commission, Dr. O’Leary served as dean for Clinical Affairs at the George Washington University Medical Center and vice president of the George Washington University Health Plan, an academic HMO. |
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