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The 6th Annual World Health Care Congress is the most prestigious meeting of chief and senior executives from all sectors of health care. The 2009 conference will convene over 2,000 CEOs, senior executives and government officials from the nation's largest employers, hospitals, health systems, health plans, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and leading government agencies.

Recently Confirmed!

	Catherine M. Baase, MD Global Director of Health Services The Dow Chemical Company

	Lori Beer Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer WellPoint, Inc.

	Troyen Brennan, MD EVP and Chief Medical Officer CVS Caremark

	John H. Cochran, MD, FACS Executive Director The Permanente Federation

	Elizabeth Cohen Anchor/Medical Correspondent CNN

	William E. Gerardi, MD Enterprise Clinical Programs, Policy and Technology Health Care Service Corporation/BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas

	C. Martin Harris, MD, MBA Chief Information Officer and Chairman, Information Technology Division Cleveland Clinic Foundation

	David L. Lacey, MD Senior Vice President, Discovery Research Amgen

	Nicholas F. LaRusso, M.D. Charles H. Weinman Endowed Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Innovation Mayo Clinic

	John W. Loonsk, MD Director, Office of Interoperability and Standards Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Department of Health and Human Services

	Anthony Rosenberg Global Head of Business Development and Licensing Novartis Pharma AG

	Peter Salgo, MD Host of the PBS series Second Opinion Clinical Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology Columbia University Practicing physician, Intensive Care Medicine, Surgical and Open Heart ICU New York Presbyterian Hospital

	Michael Taylor Medical Director, Corporate Medical and Health Promotion Caterpillar

	Brenda Wilson Correspondent and Editor, Science Desk National Public Radio

	Robert E. Worthington Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

	Dan Ariely, PhD James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics, Duke University; Visiting Professor, Media Laboratory, MIT; Author, *Predictably Irrational*

	Bruce Bodaken Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Blue Shield of California

	Angela F. Braly President and Chief Executive Officer WellPoint, Inc.

	Will Cavendish, PhD Director, Health and Wellbeing UK Department of Health

	Carolyn Clancy, MD Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

	Jim Clifton Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gallup Organization

	Susan Dentzer Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs; On-Air Health Policy Analyst, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS

	Charles P. Friedman, MD Deputy National Coordinator Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Department of Health and Human Services

	Robert S. Galvin, MD Director, Global Healthcare General Electric Company

	Jim Guest President and Chief Executive Officer Consumers Union (publisher of Consumer Reports)

	George C. Halvorson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; Partners in Care Foundation, 2008 Mathies Award Recipient

	Edward Hanway Chairman and Chief Executive Officer CIGNA Corporation

	Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD Chairman CCHIT, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology

	Henrick H. Lund, PhD Professor, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moeller Institute for Production Technology, University of Southern Denmark; Head, AdapTronics Group; Founder, LEGO Lab

	Edward D. Miller, MD Dean of the Medical Faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Chief Executive Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine

	Bradley Perkins, MD, MBA, Capt, USPHS Chief, Officer of Strategy and Innovation, Office of the Director Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

	Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, FACMI President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer HCA, Inc. / Hospital Corporation of America

	Tim Rothwell Chairman, Pharmaceutical Activities, sanofi-aventis, US; Board of Directors, PhRMA; Member, Evidence-Based Medicine Roundtable at The Institute of Medicine and the CEO Roundtable on Cancer

	Devi Shetty, MD Chairman Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospitals (India)

	Shivinder Mohan Singh Managing Director Fortis Healthcare Limited and Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre

	Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA President and Chief Executive Officer California HealthCare Foundation

	Charles W. Sorenson, Jr, MD Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Intermountain Health Care

	Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs UnitedHealth Group

	Daniel L. Vasella, MD Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Novartis AG

	Andrew Webber President and Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health; Board of Directors, National Quality Forum, the Leapfrog Group, and Bridges to Excellence

	Anne Wojcicki Co-Founder 23andMe

	Muhammad Yunus Founder and Managing Director Grameen Bank and Grameen Health (Bangladesh); (Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize)

Confirmed Speaker List

	Joanne Armstrong, MD, MPH Senior Medical Director Aetna

	Naomi Aronson, Ph.D. Executive Director Blue Cross Blue Shield Technology Evaluation Center

	Mara G. Aspinall former President, Genzyme Genetics; Visiting Lecturer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School

	Linda Avey Co-Founder 23andMe

	Elizabeth (Betsy) Barbeau, ScD, MPH Senior Vice President, Health and Wellness Health Dialog

	Bonita Lynn Beattie, PT, MPT, MHA Vice President, Injury Prevention, Center for Healthy Aging National Council on Aging

	Elizabeth L. Bewley President and Chief Executive Officer, Pario Health Institute; former Vice President, Strategic Planning, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc.

	Elizabeth Bierbower Vice President of Product Innovation Humana

	Colonel Lorne H. Blackbourne, MD, FACS Commander U.S. Army Institute for Surgical Research

	Stephen J. Boccuzzi, PhD, MBA, FAHA Vice President - Evidence Based Medicine sanofi-aventis - US

	Captain Raquel Cruz Bono MC, Chief of Staff, Deputy Director, TRICARE Management Activity Medical Corps, United States Navy

	Jack E. Bruner, FSA Executive Vice President, Strategic Development and Marketing CVS/Caremark Corporation

	Charles M. Campbell Chief Information Officer Military Health System

	Richard Campbell Consultant Humana Inc. and Humana UK

	Michael Cheng Senior Vice President, Provider Services, HMSA/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii

	Jennifer Christian-Herman, PhD Vice President, National Integrated Health Improvement Health Net

	Richard Chung, MD Senior Vice President, Health Services Division Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA)/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii

	John M. Clymer President Partnership for Prevention

	Simon P. Cohn, MD, MPH Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Federation, Kaiser Permanente; Former Chair, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics; Member, Board of the American Health Information Community (AHIC)

	Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Vice President and Chief Quality Officer Lifespan Corporation

	Samuel Cramer, MD, MBA Vice President, Clinical Programs Health Management Corporation

	Timothy J. Crimmins, MD Vice President and Director, Health, Safety and Environment General Mills

	Andrew A. Croshaw Senior Executive Advisor, Value-Driven Healthcare Initiative U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

	Kathleen Curtin, RN, MBA Chief Clinical Officer Kaleida Health System

	Charles M. Cutler, MD, MS Chief Medical Director, National Accounts Aetna, Inc.

	Karen Davis, PhD President, The Commonwealth Fund; Board of Directors, Geisinger Health System; Panel of Health Advisors, Congressional Budget Office; 2006 AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award

	Sharon S. Dunn, RN, BSN, MAS Practice Leader, Healthcare Behavioral Science Technology, Inc.

	Robert Epstein, MD Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer Medco Health Solutions, Inc

	Colin Evans President and CEO, Dossia Consortium; former Director, Digital Health Policy and Standards, Intel

	John A. Fallon, MD, MBA Senior Vice President and Chief Physician Executive Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

	Steven J. Fox Vice President, Provider Network Management Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

	Nirmal Kumar Ganguly, MD Director General, Indian Council for Medical Research, India; Member, Scientific Board, Grand Challenges in Global Health

	Patrick Geraghty President and CEO Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

	John Glaser, PhD Vice President and CIO Partners HealthCare

	Julian M. Goldman, MD Director, CIMIT Program on Interoperability and the MD PnP Program Massachusetts General Hospital

	Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research U.S. Food and Drug Administration

	David Green Vice President Ashoka

	Jeffrey Gruen, MD, MBA Director PRTM

	Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM Director, Healthcare Transformation, IBM; Chairman, Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative

	Amir Hannon, MD General Practitioner, Strategy Group Member Map of Medicine, NHS Connecting for Health Programme

	Robert J. Henkel, FACHE President, Healthcare Operations and COO Ascension Health

	Roberta Herman, MD Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Health Services Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

	Benjamin Heywood Co-Founder, President and Director PatientsLikeMe

	Jeffrey L. Kang, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer CIGNA

	Paul Keckley, Ph.D. Executive Director Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

	Joan Kennedy President, Health Management Corporation (HMC); Senior Vice President, Wellpoint, Inc.

	Sir Bruce Keogh, MD Medical Director National Health Service

	Beth Keyser Vice President, Employer Market Healthways

	Jon Kingsdale Executive Director Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector

	J.D. Kleinke Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Omnimedix Institute Author, Bleeding Edge: The Business of Health Care in the New Century and Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System

	Steve Lampkin, FACHE Vice President, Benefit Services and Strategic Initiatives Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

	Steven M. Lash President and Chief Executive Officer Satori World Medical former EVP, Institutional Care Sharp Healthcare

	Peter Lee, JD Executive Director of National Health Policy Pacific Business Group on Health

	Ben R. Leedle, Jr President and Chief Executive Officer Healthways

	Alfred (Al) Lewis, JD Founder and President Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International

	Richard Magnuson Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Group Health Cooperative

	Will McKinney Vice President, Consumer Directed Health Systems Regence

	Matthew J. Narrett, MD Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Erickson Health

	Sam Nussbaum, MD Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer WellPoint, Inc.

	Tony Paquin Founder and Chief Executive Officer The Paquin Healthcare Group

	John M. Parrish Executive Director The Erickson Foundation

	Ronald A. Paulus, MD, MBA Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Geisinger Ventures, Geisinger Health System

	Joel S. Policzer, MD, FACP, FAAHPM Senior Vice President and National Medical Director VITAS Innovative Hospice Care

	Dr. Prathap C. Reddy Chairman Apollo Hospitals Group

	Joshua Riff, MD, MBA Medical Director, Clinics Target Inc.

	Dennis Rivera Chair, SEIU Healthcare Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

	Vice Admiral Adam M. Robinson, Jr. Surgeon General Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery US Navy

	Michael Robkin Principal Enterprise Architect Kaiser Permanente Information Technology

	Lieutenant General James G. Roudebush, MD Surgeon General United States Air Force