Dianne B. Love, PhD, program chair, is a healthcare consultant specializing in the development and strategic management of physician organization. She has developed over 75 physician organizations both multi-specialty and single specialty. Since forming DB Love & Associates in 2000, Dr. Love has developed Group Practices Without Walls (GPWW), physician owned ambulatory surgery centers, and physician-owned short-stay surgical hospitals. Dr. Love is also an Associate Professor of Healthcare Administration at the University of Houston, Clear Lake where she instructs advanced degree students in Managed Care, Group Practice Management, as well as the financial aspects of the healthcare business. She is also the founder, and served as the director, of the MBA for Physicians Program at the University of Houston, Clear Lake. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Auburn University Physician Executive MBA program and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Richard Deem is the Senior Vice President for Advocacy at the American Medical Association. In this capacity, he directs the AMA’s federal, state and private sector advocacy efforts as well as the health policy functions. The Advocacy team also includes AMPAC, AMA’s Political Action Committee, rated as one of the most effective political action committees in the country and a political staff that directs physician grassroots activists and a network of patient activists totaling over 1.2 million voters. Mr. Deem has served in numerous capacities in his 23 year career at the AMA. Prior to joining the AMA, he served as a Special Assistant to former HHS Secretary Richard S. Schweiker and worked in Sec. Schweiker’s Senate office for five years. He is a graduate of American University and resides in Arlington, Va.
Kenneth H. Cohn, MD, MBA, FACS is a board-certified general surgeon who, since joining the Cambridge Management Group, has led change-management initiatives for physicians at affiliated hospitals within the Yale New Haven, Banner Colorado, Cottage Santa Barbara, and Sutter Sacramento Health Systems. He was Assistant Professor of Surgery at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn and later moved to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Oncology at the VA Hospital at White River Junction. Dr. Cohn remains clinically active, covering surgical practices in New Hampshire and Vermont. His writing experience includes 40 published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, as well as a book, Better Communication for Better Care: Mastering Physician-Administration Collaboration, published by Health Administration Press, March 2005. He has written a sequel, Collaborate for Success! Breakthrough Strategies for Engaging Physicians, Nurses, and Hospital Executives, published September 2006 and is co-editing a three-volume set, entitled The Business of Healthcare, due to be published September 2007.
Alain Enthoven, PhD is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and a core faculty member at the Center for Health Policy and Primary Care Outcomes Research. Known as the "Father of Managed Competition," he was one of the founders of the Jackson Hole Group, a national think-tank on healthcare policy. His research focuses on the financing and delivery of healthcare in the United States and other industrialized nations, and cost-benefit analysis in medical care. In his numerous publications he has advocated a financially integrated healthcare delivery system that relies on market-based incentives to reduce medical costs and increase economic accountability and quality of care. He is currently working on a proposal for a "Market-Based Universal Health Insurance System," being developed for the Committee for Economic Development. In addition to many honors, in 1963, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from John F. Kennedy. He received a BA from Stanford, a master's degree from Oxford and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in economics.
Sarah Freymann Fontenot, BSN, JD is a lawyer and a nurse. Ms. Fontenot taught Hospital Law and Public Health Law in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale Medical School for two years and has been an Adjunct Faculty Member at Trinity University in San Antonio since 1997. She was selected "Most Outstanding Professor" by the Trinity Executive MHA Class of 2000. Ms. Fontenot is also the Instructor of Health Law for the Business Administration for Physicians program[s] jointly sponsored by Southern Medical Association and Auburn University. Sarah teaches extensively for SMA as well as Texas Medical Association, Arkansas Medical Society and other provider groups. Most recently, Ms. Fontenot has been added to the faculty of the American College of Physician Executives [ACPE], and the American College of Healthcare Executives [ACHE].
Margaret Garikes is the Director of Federal Affairs for the American Medical Association. In this role, Ms. Garikes directs the AMA’s Division of Federal Affairs in its advocacy and liaison efforts with the executive branch of the federal government and other national health organizations. The AMA’s Division of Federal Affairs focuses on a broad range of health policy issues including: Medicare, Medicaid, quality, patient safety, prescription drugs, public health, liability and the uninsured. She became involved in health care issues while serving as a domestic policy analyst for the 1988 Bush-Quayle Campaign. After the campaign, Ms. Garikes chaired the Transition Team for the Department of Health and Human Services. Following the Transition, she worked for a year and a half in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Ms. Garikes then returned to the Department of Health and Human Services where she served as Chief of Staff to the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. In her role as Chief of Staff, Ms. Garikes directed the development of policy, reports, conferences, press events, and speeches for the Surgeon General. Ms. Garikes is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
Stanley Harris, PhD, is the Torchmark Professor of Management and Director of the Physicians Executive MBA Program at Auburn University. He teaches in the areas of organizational behavior and management skills at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD levels. Dr. Harris received his BS degree in Psychology from North Georgia College and his MA and PhD degrees in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. His research has appeared in a wide array of both academic and professional journals. In recent years, Dr. Harris has provided consulting services for over 15 companies and not-for-profit organizations.
Julius W. Hobson, Jr, is Director of Division of Congressional Affairs for the American Medical Association (AMA), where he manages the AMA’s interaction with the U.S. Congress. Prior to assuming his current role, he was Assistant Director in the Division, where he was primarily responsible for lobbying the House Republican Leadership and covering the activities of the House Committees on Commerce, Ways and Means, Rules, and Armed Services, as well as the House and Senate Appropriations Committees Budget Committees, and the Senate Armed Services Committee. In addition to his full-time duties at the AMA, Mr. Hobson is Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Management, Graduate School of Political Management, George Washington University, where he teaches courses on lobbying.
Craig E. Holm, FACHE, CHC is Senior Vice-President of Health Strategies & Solutions, Inc. in Philadelphia. Craig directs physician-hospital integration and physician practice consulting services. He has over 25 years of healthcare administration and consulting experience and is an expert in medical staff planning, physician-hospital relationships and joint ventures, and ambulatory care planning. Craig is a frequent speaker for national and state healthcare associations and societies. His second book, Allies or Adversaries: Revitalizing the Medical Staff Organization, was published in 2004 by Health Administration Press. He also wrote a column on physician-health system relationships for the Journal of Healthcare Management, and is a regular contributor to HFMA's Managing the Margin.
Robert E. Moffit, PhD. is the Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Dr. Moffit has over two decades of professional experience in Washington, focused heavily on federal health policy. He served in President Ronald Reagan’s Administration, where he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Before his service at HHS, he was appointed by the Reagan Administration as an Assistant Director of the United States Office of Personnel Management, with responsibilities for both federal personnel policy and Congressional relations. After federal service, Dr. Moffit was a Senior Associate of the Capitol Resources Group International, where he assisted clients primarily in the field of federal health care policy. He joined the Heritage Foundation in 1991. Dr. Moffit has worked closely with federal and state lawmakers in designing and drafting health care reform legislation including, most recently, certain features of the heath insurance market reforms enacted in 2006 in Massachusetts.
Congressman Tom Price was first elected to Congress in 2004, representing the Sixth District of Georgia and re-elected with broad support in 2006. Congressman Price received a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan and completed his Orthopaedic Surgery residency at Emory University. Price established an orthopaedic clinic just north of Atlanta. After nearly twenty years of private practice he returned to Emory University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor. Before coming to Congress, Price was Medical Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, teaching resident doctors in training. In Washington, Price has been an outspoken advocate for patient-centered health reform and finding solutions for covering the uninsured. His credits include legislative efforts to move the nation’s health care delivery system toward a defined contribution plan, allowing for greater patient access and choice. Congressman Price has also spearheaded efforts to cover the uninsured by co-authoring the bipartisan Health Partnership through Creative Federalism Act. This innovative approach to covering the uninsured would accelerate state initiatives. In order to preserve access to quality care for all Americans, including seniors, Price has fought for appropriate physician reimbursement for treating patients.
William Rogers, MD is the Medical Officer for the Office of the Administrator and the Director of the Physicians Regulatory Issues Team at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is also the Director of the Emergency Department at Greater Southeast Community Hospital in Washington, DC, a member of the medical staff of Virginia Hospital Center, Sibley Memorial Hospital, and Greater Southeast Community Hospital, and runs the Medical Clinic at the Carpenter’s Homeless Shelter in Alexandria, VA. As a Commander in the US Navy, Dr. Rogers served with the 1st MEF in Operation Iraqi Freedom returning to reserve duty with the 4th CEB in July 2003. Dr Rogers is also the Operational Medical Director for the National Park Service, National Capital Area. Before joining CMS, Dr. Rogers served as the Regional Director for an ED staffing company responsible for four EDs in Virginia employing 50 physicians with a budget of $10 million.
Sara Rosenbaum, JD, is Hirsh Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy, the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Professor Rosenbaum has devoted her career to issues of health law and policy affecting low income, minority, and medically underserved populations, and the health care safety net. Between 1993 and 1994, Professor Rosenbaum worked for President Clinton, directing the legislative drafting of the Health Security Act and developing the Vaccines for Children program. She has authored more than 250 articles and studies focusing on all phases of health law, as well as health care for medically underserved populations, and is co-author of Law and the American Health Care System (Foundation Press, NY). Professor Rosenbaum serves on numerous organizational boards, including the National Board of Medical Examiners, and was named one of the country’s most influential health policy makers, receiving many national awards.
Rear Admiral Penelope Slade Royall, PT, MSW, was appointed the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion on March 31, 2004. She directs the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). RADM Royall is a Commissioned Corps Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. As the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, RADM Royall is responsible for strengthening the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of the Department within the collaborative framework of the HHS agencies. She is a senior health advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health and to the Secretary of HHS. The Secretary’s Prevention Priority is focused on the fact that the risk of many diseases and health conditions is reduced through preventive actions. In leading this priority for the Secretary, RADM Royall, through the HHS agencies and within OPHS, builds on HHS policy and programs based on the best available evidence on how to prevent or mitigate chronic disease through promotion of healthy lifestyle choices, medical screenings, and avoidance of risky behaviors.
Victoria A. B. Willis, JD, is an attorney who practices primarily in healthcare and matters impacting healthcare providers. Mrs. Willis has experience in the implementation and assessment of compliance programs, and the design and implementation of medical privacy protocols in accordance with the Health Insurance and Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She is a principal in the firm DurretteBradshaw, PLC in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She earned her law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law in 1986 and is an Adjunct Professor of Business at Mary Washington College.
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