The 5th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Health Care Quality and Pay-For-Performance

The 5th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality and Pay-for-Performance leads efforts to provide the nation's best practices in achieving and rewarding provider quality. The conference addresses the most current and emerging issues in creating sustainable pay-for-performance programs and driving quality improvement across the continuum of care.

Previous Thought Leaders Included

	Gail Amundson, MD, FACP Medical Director Quality, Measurement and Provider Incentives HealthPartners Health Plan

	Bruce Bagley, MD Medical Director, Quality Improvement American Academy of Family Physicians

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

	Dennis A. Batey, MD Vice President & Chief Medical Officer Fallon Community Health Plan

	Howard Beckman, M.D. Medical Director Rochester Individual Practice Association (RIPA)

	George Bennett Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Health Dialog

	Jody Blatt Senior Research Analyst and Project Officer, Division of Payment Policy Demonstrations, Medicare Demonstration Programs Group/Office of Research Development and Information Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

	Victoria Bloodworth Director of Network Design and Development Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida

	Francois de Brantes National Coordinator Bridges To Excellence

	Troyen Brennan, MD Chief Medical Officer Aetna

	Michael F. Cannon Director of Health Policy Studies CATO Institute

	Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Vice President and Chief Quality Officer New York - Presbyterian Hospital

	Michael R. Costa, JD, MPH Senior Associate Greenberg Traurig, LLP

	Kathleen Curtin Senior Vice President for Client Services MedVantage, Inc; former Vice President for Practitioner Performance Excellus Health Plan

	R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy University of California San Francisco

	Catherine Egan Director, Quality Management /Clinical Innovations Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ

	Catherine Eikel Director, Leapfrog Hospital Rewards Program The Leapfrog Group

	Donald W. Fisher, PhD, CAE President and CEO American Medical Group Association

	Irene Fraser, Ph.D Director, Center for Delivery, Organization and Market AHRQ

	Thomas Fritz Chief Executive Officer Inland Northwest Health Services

	James Geraughty, MD Chief Quality Officer, Senior Medical Director HealthSpring

	John Glaser, PhD Vice President and CIO Partners HealthCare

	Robert A. Greene, MD, FACP Associate Medical Director Rochester Individual Practice Association, Inc.

	James L. Hardy Deputy Secretary, Medical Assistance Programs Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

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

	Jeffrey L. Kang, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer and SVP CIGNA HealthCare

	Allan Korn, MD, FACP Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

	Lance Lang, MD Vice President & Senior Medical Director Quality Improvement & Clinical Informatics Health Net, California

	Lisa M. Latts, MD, MBA, MSPH Vice President, Programs in Clinical Excellence WellPoint, Inc

	Peter Lee President and CEO, Pacific Business Group on Health; Board member, National Quality Forum; Co-Chair, AQA/HQA

	Antonio Legorreta, M.D., MPH Professor, Health Services Research Department UCLA School of Public Health

	B. Dale Magee, MD, MS President-Elect Massachusetts Medical Society

	Maureen Mangotich, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, Senior Director, Clinical Outcomes McKesson Health Solutions

	Janet Marchibroda Chief Executive Officer eHealth Initiative

	Arnold Milstein, MD Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; National Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer Health and Benefits

	Timothy Murphy Secretary, Executive Office of Health and Human Services Commonwealth of Massachusetts

	Nancy Nielsen, PhD, MD Speaker, AMA House of Delegates American Medical Association Co-Chair, AQA Reporting Workgroup

	Richard Norling President and CEO Premier

	Margaret E. O’Kane President NCQA

	John Pilotte Senior Analyst, Medicare Demonstrations Program Group Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

	Dr. James Pope Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer Healthways

	Zak Ramadan-Jradi, MD, MBA Medical Director, Clinical Performance Measurement The Regence Group

	Mark C. Rattray, MD Consultant, CareVariance; former National Medical Director, UnitedHealthcare

	Lonny Reisman, MD CEO ActiveHealth Management

	Martin Roland Director, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre University of Manchester, UK

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

	Cary Sennett, MD, PhD, FACP Senior Vice President, Research and Development American Board of Internal Medicine

	Janice A. Singer Director of Operations Massachusetts Health Quality Partners

	Stephen A. Somers, PhD President Center for Health Care Strategies

	Barry M. Straube, MD Acting Director & Chief Clinical Officer, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

	John Tooker, MD, MBA, FACP Executive Vice President/ Chief Executive Officer American College of Physicians

	Paul J. Wallace, MD Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs; Senior Advisor, The Care Management Institute and KP-Healthy Solutions The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente

	Barbara Walters, DO, MBA Medical Director Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

	Andrew Webber President and CEO National Business Coalition on Health

	Carol Wilhoit, MD, MS QI Medical Director Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois

	Josie R. Williams, M.D., M.M.M. Co-Chair, AMA Physician's Consortium; Director, Rural and Community Health Institute: Quality & Patient Safety Initiatives (QPSI), Assistant Professor of Internal and Family Medicine, A&M; System Health Science Center, Texas A&M;

	Tom Williams President Integrated Healthcare Association

	Janet S. Wright, MD, FACC Trustee American College of Cardiology

	Mark Wynn, PhD Director of Payment Policy Demonstrations Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

	Solomon J. Zak, M.D. VP Business and Medical Intelligence ikaSystems