June 17, 2002
9:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Edward Hundert, PhD, MA
Organizing Committee Co-Chair, and Dean and Professor
School of Medicine
University of Rochester

Dr. Edward Hundert is the Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities. For the three years before his appointment as Dean in 2000, Dr. Hundert was the University of Rochester's Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, leading the medical school's faculty and student effort to create the Double Helix Curriculum: a sweeping integration of the basic and clinical sciences across the four year medical school experience. During the years before he came to Rochester, Dr. Hundert served as Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School, as well as the Assistant Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at McLean Hospital. He taught medical ethics and psychiatry in the curriculum, and was active in ethics as the Chairman of the Ethics Committees of both McLean Hospital and the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. His pioneering research on the informal curriculum in medical education helped shape the national discussion of professionalism in medicine. Dr. Hundert was voted the faculty member who did the most for the class by the Harvard Medical School graduating class for six successive years. On August 1, 2002, Dr. Hundert will assume the position of President at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN
Organizing Committee Co-Chair, and Director
Center for Rural Health
School of Medicine and Health Sciences
University of North Dakota

Dr. Mary Wakefield is the Director for the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences. Previously, Dr. Wakefield served as the Professor and Director of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics at George Mason University and as Chief of Staff for two United States Senators. During her tenure on Capitol Hill, she co-chaired the Senate Rural Health Caucus Staff Organization. In this capacity she was directly involved with a wide range of rural health policy issues including recruitment and retention of health care providers, reimbursement, emergency services, telemedicine, rural research, and interdisciplinary education. Dr. Wakefield currently serves as a member of both the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Advisory Committee to the Office of Rural Health Policy, Department of Health and Human Services. In 1997 she served as a member of President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. Dr. Wakefield has previously served as a member of the IOM technical panel on Communication of Quality of Care Information, the committee on Quality of Health Care in America, and the subcommittees on Community Effects of Uninsured Populations and Building the 21st Century Health System.

Sam Shekar, MD, MPH
Associate Administrator for Health Professions and Assistant Surgeon General
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. Sam S. Shekar is the Associate Administrator for Health Professions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Dr. Shekar is also an Assistant Surgeon General with the rank of Rear Admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS).Dr. Shekar heads HHS/HRSA endeavors to address workforce supply challenges such as the national nursing shortage and to increase health care access through appropriate workforce distribution and diversity. Dr. Shekar previously served as HRSA's Associate Administrator for Field Operations. In that capacity, he restructured HRSA's field operations to focus on state and community health needs. Prior to this assignment, he was the USPHS Regional Health Administrator for New England (HHS Region I). Before joining HRSA, Dr. Shekar served as the Executive Director of the Practicing Physicians Advisory Council and head of the HCPCS medical coding system at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) headquarters. He was a Preventive Medicine resident and Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Shekar is a Public Health Leadership Institute alumnus, a former PHS Primary Care Policy Fellow, and has received two Secretary's Distinguished Service Awards. He is a Board-Certified Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.

Carolyn Clancy, MD
Acting Director
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Carolyn Clancy, a clinical researcher and a practicing internist, serves as the Acting Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Until recently, she directed AHRQ's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research. From 1984 to 1990, Dr. Clancy was an assistant professor of medicine and Director of the Medical Clinic at the Medical College of Virginia, and currently is Associate Clinical Professor at George Washington University's Department of Medicine. Her health services research priorities include issues such as quality, access, and the impact of delivery system changes. Her medical specialties include primary care medicine and women's health. Dr. Clancy serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, and the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, and is a Senior Associate Editor for Health Services Research. Dr. Clancy has held leadership positions in multiple professional organizations, including the Society of General Internal Medicine and is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Harry Kimball, MD
President and CEO
ABIM Foundation

Dr. Harry Kimball is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a position he has held since 1991. Dr. Kimball was elected to the ABIM Board of Directors in 1983 and served as ABIM Chair in 1989-1990. Following a residency and chief residency in medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Dr. Kimball spent seven years with the late Dr. Sheldon Wolff in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and served as Senior Investigator, Deputy Clinical Director, and Head of the Inflammatory Disease Section. Moving from clinical investigation to patient care, he practiced internal medicine and was an infectious disease consultant for 14 years. Dr. Kimball was also Professor of Medicine at Tufts University and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the New England Medical Center. Dr. Kimball is a Master of the American College of Physicians; distinguished Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; and distinguished Fellow of the European Federation of Internal Medicine.

Janet Corrigan, PhD, MBA
Director
Board on Health Care Services
Institute of Medicine

Dr. Janet Corrigan is the Director of the Board on Health Care Services at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which is responsible for projects relating to health care quality, safety, insurance and benefits coverage, organization, delivery, and financing. Dr. Corrigan is also the director of IOM's Quality Initiative, an IOM-wide initiative designed to provide leadership, a strategic direction and analytic tools that will contribute to a threshold improvement in quality over the next decade. Reports produced by this initiative include: To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Prior to joining the IOM, she was the Executive Director of the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, a one-year commission responsible for producing the Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities and a comprehensive report on the quality of health care. From 1991 to 1995, Dr. Corrigan was Vice President for Planning and Development with the National Committee for Quality Assurance, where she was responsible for the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS 2.0 and 2.5), the National Report Card Pilot Project, and state and community quality measurement projects.

Kenneth Shine, MD
President
Institute of Medicine

Kenneth Shine is President of the Institute of Medicine and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine. He is UCLA School of Medicine's immediate past Dean and Provost for Medical Sciences. Currently he is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. A cardiologist and a physiologist, most of his advanced training was at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where he became Chief Resident in Medicine in 1968. Following his postgraduate training at MGH, he held an appointment as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He moved in 1971 to the UCLA School of Medicine and became Director of the Coronary Care Unit, Chief of the Cardiology Division, and subsequently, Chair of the Department of Medicine. As Dean at UCLA, Dr. Shine stimulated major initiatives in ambulatory education, community service for medical students and faculty, mathematics and science education in the public schools, and the construction of new research facilities funded entirely by the private sector. Dr. Shine's research interests include metabolic events in the heart muscle, the relation of behavior to heart disease, and emergency medicine. He participated in efforts to prove the value of cardiopulmonary resuscitation following a heart attack, and in establishing the 911 emergency telephone number in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Dr. Shine is the author of numerous articles and scientific papers in the area of heart physiology and clinical research.

William Richardson, PhD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Dr. Richardson is President and Chief Executive Officer of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. Before joining the Foundation in August 1995, Dr. Richardson was President of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, a position he had held since 1990. In addition, Dr. Richardson was Professor of Health Policy and Management at the university. He has been appointed Professor and President Emeritus. Dr. Richardson was Executive Vice President and Provost of The Pennsylvania State University from 1984 to 1990; and from 1981 to 1984, he was Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Research of the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr. Richardson has been active with numerous foundations, non-profit institutions, and the corporate and public sectors. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Public Health Association. He serves on the boards of the Council of Michigan Foundations and the Council on Foundations (trustee and chairman). He also serves on the boards of directors of the Kellogg Company, CSX Corporation, and The Bank of New York. He serves as chair of the Committee on Quality of Health Care in America for the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.

J. Lyle Bootman, PhD
Dean and Professor of Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health
College of Pharmacy
University of Arizona

Dr. Bootman is Dean and Professor of Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health at The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy. He is also the founding and Executive Director of The University of Arizona Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic (HOPE) Research, one of the first such centers developed in the world. Dr. Bootman is a former President of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Dr. Bootman has received numerous outstanding scientific achievement awards, most notably from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Pharmaceutical Association. He was also the recipient of the George Archambault Award, the highest honor given by the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and the Latiolais Honor Medal, the highest honor in managed health care. His research regarding the outcomes of drug-related morbidity and mortality receives worldwide attention by the professional and public media. He serves as an advisor to leading pharmaceutical companies, universities, and health care organizations throughout the world. In 1998, Dr. Bootman was elected to the IOM, where he currently serves on the Board of Health Care Services.

Robert Galvin, MD
Director Global Health
General Electric

Dr. Robert S. Galvin is the Director of Global Health Care for General Electric. He is in charge of the design and performance of GE's health programs, totaling over $2B annually, as well as responsible for GE's medical services, encompassing over 1 million visits in GE Clinics in over 20 countries. Dr. Galvin has focused on issues of market-based health policy and financing, with a special interest in developing a business case for quality. He is a past member of the Strategic Framework Board, and a current member of the Strategic Advisory Committee to the National Quality Forum. He is currently on the Board of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and is Vice-Chairman of the Washington Business Group on Health. He is a founding member of the Leapfrog Group, sponsored by the Business Roundtable in Washington, DC. Dr. Galvin is widely published on issues affecting the purchaser side of health care, and is an Associate Professor Adjunct of Medicine at Yale, where he directs the seminar series on the Private Sector for the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars fellowship. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor in Gerontology Nursing
School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania

Mary Naylor, is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. From 1986 through 1998 she served as Associate Dean and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Dr. Naylor is Co-Faculty Director of LIFE (Living Independently For Elders); LIFE is part of a national model health care delivery program, the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). She is also a Senior Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. While completing a Kellogg National Fellowship, Dr. Naylor served as a staff member with the US Senate Special Committee on Aging. She also served as a Leonard Davis Institute Legislative Health Policy Fellow.Since 1989, Dr. Naylor has led an interdisciplinary program of research designed to improve outcomes and reduce costs of care for vulnerable community-based elders. To date, Dr. Naylor and her research team have completed three National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)-funded randomized clinical trials focusing on discharge planning and home follow-up of high risk elders by advanced practice nurses.

William Stead, MD
Director of the Informatics Center
Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
Vanderbilt University

William W. Stead is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Director of the Informatics Center, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, at Vanderbilt University. In addition, Dr. Stead is Assistant to the Chancellor for Informatics and Chief Information Architect. Dr. Stead is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He is a Founding Fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Institute for Engineering in Biology and Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. He has served as President of the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics and is the immediate past President of the American College of Medical Informatics. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr. Stead is a Director of HealthStream, Director of NetSilica, and Chief Technology Officer of EBMsolutions.

Myrl Weinberg, MA
President
National Health Council

Myrl Weinberg is President of the National Health Council, an umbrella organization rerpresenting national organizations and leading voluntary health agencies representing approximately 100 million people with chronic diseases and/or disabilities. Ms. Weinberg has a long history of board and committee service, including serving as a past member of the Health Sciences Policy Board and current member of the Clinical Research Roundtable of the Institute of Medicine and the Commission on Life Sciences of the National Academies. She also has served on the Roche Genetics Science and Ethics Advisory Committee and as chair of the American Medical Association's Ethical FORCE initiative. In addition, Ms. Weinberg serves as immediate past chair of the American Society of Association Executives' Ethics Committee; as vice chair of the Governing Board of the International Alliance of Patients' Organizations; and serves on the consumer advisory committee of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. Ms. Weinberg was honored to be selected to serve on the Congressionally-mandated Institute of Medicine Committee created to assess how research priorities are established at the National Institutes of Health, and was invited to become a voting member of the NCQA Committee on Performance Measurement.

Don Berwick, MD, MPP
President and CEO
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Dr. Donald Berwick is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Dr. Berwick is also Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Berwick was chair of the Health Services Research Review Study Section of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research from 1995–1999, and Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1999 to 2001. Dr. Berwick was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry in 1997 and 1998. He also served from 1989 through 1991 as a member of the Panel of Judges for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award program. He is a member of several editorial boards, including that of The British Medical Journal. He is a past president of the International Society for Medical Decision-Making and is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on the IOM Council.

June 18, 2002
1:45 p.m.

G. Ross Baker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto

Dr. Ross Baker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. His current research focuses on the incidence of medical error and factors influencing patient safety in Canadian healthcare, and on the development and use of performance measurement and balanced scorecards in healthcare organizations. Ross is a member of the Patient Safety Task Force initiated by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Ross serves on the editorial board of the Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, and Quality Management in Health Care. He is also the Chair-Elect of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and serves as a board member of the newly created (US) National Center for Healthcare Leadership. In November 2000 Ross Baker was awarded the Regent's Award of the American College of Healthcare Executives for contributions to excellence in healthcare management.

Dan Duffy, MD.
Executive Vice President
American Board of Internal Medicine

Dr. Dan Duffy is the Executive Vice President of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). He also holds an adjunct Professorship at the University of Pennsylvania in Internal Medicine. Dr. Duffy has previously served as the Senior Vice President for General Internal Medicine at ABIM. Before joining ABIM, Dr. Duffy held several positions in the American College of Physicians––Oklahoma Governor for the College from 1988-1991, Chair of the Board of Governors from 1991-92, and Regent for the College from 1992-98. Previous to this, Dr. Duffy served as faculty, Chair of the Department of Medicine, and Program Director for the Residency Program at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. While at the University, Dr. Duffy was honored with the prestigious Stanton L. Young Master Teacher Award in 1989 and received several Aesculapian awards, a recognition given by students for excellence in teaching each year. Dr. Duffy has been an active participant in the Society of General Internal Medicine, in particular, with a group on the medical interview. He helped with the formation of the American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP), is a fellow of the Academy, and is a past Chair of the Board of Directors. He served as a member, and ultimately as Chair, of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine from 1991-97. For his contributions to internal medicine, he was awarded a Mastership by the American College of Physicians in 1999.

Robert Berenson, MD.
Senior Advisor
Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy

Dr. Robert Berenson is currently Senior Advisor at the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy. He is also adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Most recently, he served as the Director of the Center for Health Plans and Providers (CHPP) and Acting Deputy Administrator at HCFA. Dr. Berenson came to HCFA from The Lewin Group, where he was a Vice President. Prior to joining Lewin, he completed a ten-year tenure as a founder, board member, and Medical Director of the National Capital Preferred Provider Organization (NCPPO), a rental-model PPO that served as many as 150,000 persons in the Washington, D.C. area. Dr. Berenson is a board-certified internist who practiced for 12 years in a Washington, D.C. group practice. Prior to starting his medical practice, Dr. Berenson spent three years on the Carter White House Domestic Policy staff, working on national health policy issues, including hospital cost containment and national health insurance. In 1993, Dr. Berenson co-chaired two working groups as part of the Clinton White House Task Force on Health Care Reform and has served on numerous medical panels and committees, including member of the Health and Public Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians; chair of the Managed Care Panel on Health Care Quality of the Institute of Medicine; and the National Program Director of IMPACS—Improving Malpractice Prevention and Compensation Systems—a grant program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Colleen Conway-Welch, PhD, CNM, FAAN
Professor and Dean
School of Nursing
Vanderbilt University

Dr. Conway-Welch is Professor and Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and is a nationally recognized leader in nursing education. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt as Dean in 1984, she served as Professor of Nursing and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado. Dr. Conway-Welch has served on a number of national committees related to health care including the Bipartisan Committee on the Future of Medicare, and President Regan's Commission on the HIV Epidemic. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and president of the Committee on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in AIDS of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Conway-Welch serves on several corporate boards: RehabCare Group, Quorum Health Group, Inc., American Physicians Network, Get Well Centers, and Pinnacle Bank of Tennessee.

Charles Inlander
President
People's Medical Society

Charles B. Inlander is President of the nonprofit People's Medical Society. Since its founding in early 1983, Mr. Inlander has guided the People's Medical Society to its status as one the most influential consumer health advocacy organizations in the United States. Mr. Inlander is also a faculty lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, an adjunct faculty member at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and a Fellow of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a health commentator on Public Radio International's MARKETPLACE, heard throughout the country on public radio stations He is a founder of the Civil Justice Foundation and serves, or has served, on the board of directors of Consumers for Civil Justice, the National League for Nursing, the Pennsylvania League for Nursing and the Lehigh Valley Business Conference on Health Care. He is on the advisory boards of the Citizen Advocacy Center, the Primary Care Management Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, HealthMarket, and Bottom Line/Personal publications. Prior to joining the People's Medical Society, Mr. Inlander established a national reputation as an advocate for the rights of handicapped citizens and was a columnist in Nursing Economics and a contributing editor for Medical Self-Care magazine.

Joey Ridenour, MN, RN
President, Board of Directors
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
and Executive Director
Arizona State Board of Nursing

Joey Ridenour is the current President of the Board of Directors of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, as well as the Executive Director of the Arizona State Board of Nursing, a position she has held since October 1995. Prior to joining the board of nursing, Ms. Ridenour worked for Maricopa Health System in Phoenix for over 20 years, where she held positions of Chief Operating Officer/Director of Nursing, Chief Nursing Officer, Assistant Director of Nursing and Director of Nursing Education. From 1986-1989 and 1994-1995, she served as President of the Arizona State Board of Nursing. Ms. Ridenour is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International, American Organization of Nurse Executives, Arizona Organization of Nurse Executives, and is adjunct faculty at Arizona State University College of Nursing.