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The 9th Annual World Health Care Congress
The World Health Care Congress Inaugural Health Care Investor Summit

The World Health Care Congress Inaugural Health Care Investor Summit is a two day Summit co-located with the World Health Care Congress and comprised of five sessions that will provide an opportunity for investors (private equity, venture capital, analysts and investment bankers) and health care leaders to uncover the latest trends and investment opportunities in health care’s post-reform market. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from leading investors, analysts and entrepreneurs and will leave with investment insight on some of the most promising health care investments and fastest growing sectors in health care.

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Chair:
Carleen Hawn Carleen Hawn
Co-founder & CEO
healthspottr
Former Associate Editor
Forbes
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Monday, April 16, 2012
1:15 pm -
2:10 pm
Key Industry and Investment Trends 2012 and Beyond—Insights from Investment Innovators
  • Overview of the healthcare services sector and deal-making trends and subsector opportunities
  • Health Reform’s implications on deal making in health care - which industry's are most affected? Which provisions provide the best opportunities?
  • New opportunities in pharmaceuticals, hospitals and other direct to consumer sectors
Raymond A. Cooper Raymond A. Cooper
Managing Director
Citi HealthCare Investment Banking
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Christopher W. Kersey Christopher W. Kersey, MD, MBA
Managing Partner,
Camden Partners;
Chairman of the Board,
Johns Hopkins Medicine International
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2:15 pm -
3:05 pm
Deal Making in Health Care – Market Trends Influencing Investments
  • Identifying growth opportunities, access to new markets and fresh ideas in health care made possible through innovative M&A; deals
  • Detailing long-term investment growth opportunities - What makes an attractive deal for investing in large business enterprises
  • Innovative M&A; deals in the health insurance space - Successful business diversification models that expand growth beyond the health plan core business
Buddy Gumina Buddy Gumina
Partner, Co-Head Healthcare
Apax Partners
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Charles E. Saunders Charles E. Saunders, MD
President, Strategic Diversification
Aetna
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Vishal Agrawal Vishal Agrawal, M.D.
Partner
McKinsey & Company
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
10:45 am -
11:35 am
Investing in Solutions for the Emerging Health Care Consumer
  • A VC’s perspective on the entrepreneurial companies best poised to bring the next wave of consumer-focused innovation in health care
  • Top 5 lessons learned for successful business models in consumer and IT health care services
  • Consumer-based innovations that offer strategies to improve health and drive behavior change
  • An entrepreneurs view of building truly consumer-centric companies to support consumer driven health care
Bijan Salehizadeh Bijan Salehizadeh, M.D.
Managing Director
NaviMed Capital
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Kyle Rolfing Kyle Rolfing
President/Founder
RedBrick Health
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11:40 am -
12:30 pm
Mergers and Acquisitions in Health Care -- Innovative Partnership Growth Models
  • Overview of the health care services sector - M&As; and deal-making trends
  • Hospital strategies to build scale to existing markets and help build the continuum of care
  • Innovative hospital/physician partnership models and future plans for provider alignment and integration
Edward Levine Edward Levine, MD
Principal
McKinsey & Company
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2:35 pm -
3:25 pm
Investing in Health Care Start Ups—Innovations in New Consumer & Physician Technologies
  • Review of the most promising areas for investment in health services, health IT and cost reduction solutions
  • Key examples of health care's wave of next generation innovations emerging at the "start-up" company level
  • New apps and consumer technologies that leverage the use of health data to educate and engage consumers and users
  • The potential to aggregate data and leverage data in new applications e.g. individual physician data collected by Doximity
  • Outlining opportunities and challenges for established companies to identify compelling start up companies and entrepreneurs to generate a return
Bob Kocher Bob Kocher, MD
Partner, Venrock;
Former Principal, McKinsey and Company;
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Engleberg Center for Health Reform, Brookings Institution;
Former member, National Economic Council
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Jeff Tangney Jeff Tangney
Founder and CEO, Doximity
Former President and COO, Epocrates