World Congress 9th Annual Medicare Congress

2013 Speaking Faculty

Featured Keynote and Workshop Faculty for Co-Located Summits

	Joel S. Ario Managing Director Manatt Health Solutions Former Director, Office of Health Insurance Exchanges Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

	Thomas Betlach Director State of Arizona Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

	Robb Cohen Chief Government Affairs Officer XL Health

	Krista Drobac Policy Advisor DLA Piper Former Director, Center for Best Practices, Health Division National Governor's Association (NGA)

	Joyce Dubow Principal, Health Policy and Strategy AARP

	Kay Ghahremani Associate Commissioner for Medicaid/CHIP Texas Medicaid CHIP Director

	Julie Hamos Director Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

	Diane Hollie Senior Consultant Gorman Health Group

	Heather Howard Director State Health Reform Assistance Network Former Commissioner of Health and Senior Services State of New Jersey

	Rhys W. Jones, MPH Vice President of Medicare Policy and Product Development Amerigroup

	MaryAnne Lindeblad, RN, MPH Director, Division of Healthcare Services, Washington Department of Social & Health Services

	Len M. Nichols, PhD Healthcare Economist Director, Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics George Mason University

	Elena Nicolella Medicaid Director Rhode Island Department of Human Services

	Ron Pollack Founding Executive Director Families USA

	Monica Popp Professional Staff Member Majority House Energy and Commerce Committee

	Eugene Scanzera Vice President, Medicare UPMC Health Plan

	Timothy Schwab, MD Chief Medical Officer Scan Health Plan

	William H. Shrank, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Associate Physician, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Brigham and Women's Hospital Former Director, Rapid Cycle Evaluation Group Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

	Mary Kaye Thibert Vice President Gorman Health Group

	Andrew Thorrens Head of Reimbursement and Market Access Durata Therapeutics

	Richard L. Trembowicz Vice President Business Development Celtic Insurance Company

	James Verdier Senior Fellow Mathematica Policy Research

Medicare Summit Faculty

	Ashish Abraham Co-Founder Altruista Health and Past Senior Vice President of AmeriChoice United Health

	Joseph R. Antos Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy American Enterprise Institute Health Advisor Congressional Budget Office Former Commissioner Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission

	Andrew Beltz, MBA, MPH Business Analyst Star Program Tufts Health Plan, Medicare Preferred

	Eric J. Berman, DO, MS, Regional Chief Medical Officer AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan

	Brian Biles, MD, MPH Professor of Health Policy The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

	Tara Canty Chief Operating Officer, Accountable Care Senior Vice President Government Relations, OSF Healthcare System

	Stella Catalan Senior Director Clinical Operations AlohaCare

	Paul Cotton Director, Federal Affairs National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

	Jane Galvin Managing Director, Regulatory Affairs Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

	William Golden , MD, MACP Medical Director Arkansas DHS/Medicaid

	Mary R. Grealy President Healthcare Leadership Council

	Debra K. Gribble Executive Vice President Essence Healthcare

	Stuart Guterman Vice President, Payment and System Reform; Executive Director, Commission on a High Performance Health System The Commonwealth Fund

	Jim Gutman Vice President and Managing Editor Atlantic Information Services, Inc

	Herb Haigh President AmeriPlus

	John Holahan, PhD Director, Health Policy Research Center Urban Institute

	Diane Hollie Senior Consultant Gorman Health Group

	Austin Ifedirah Vice President of Medicare Gateway Health Plan

	Gretchen Jacobson, PhD Principal Policy Analyst, Medicare Policy Project Kaiser Family Foundation

	Leonard Kirschner Former President AARP Arizona

	Amy Lotven Editor and Reporter Inside Health Policy

	Thomas Miller Resident Fellow Healthcare Policy and Regulation The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

	Stacy Sanders Federal Policy Director The Medicare Rights Center

	H. Scott Sarran, MD, MM Chief Medical Officer Government Programs Health Care Service Corporation

	Jay Sultan Associate Vice President, Product Manager for Value Based Reimbursement The TriZetto Group, Inc

	Stephen Wood Senior Vice President, Corporate Development Universal American Corporation

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