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Drew E. Altman
President and CEO, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Drew Altman, PhD, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit, private operating foundation which develops and runs its own research and communications programs, often in partnership with outside organizations. An innovator in the world of foundations, Altman has led the Kaiser Family Foundation to its standing today as a leader in health policy and communications. A former Commissioner of the Department of Human Services for the state of New Jersey, Altman has held leadership positions at several foundations and has served in a senior position in the Health Care Financing Administration in the Carter administration. He earned his doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, did his post-doctoral work at the Harvard School of Public Health, and taught at MIT before moving on to public service.
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Donald M. Berwick
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, IHI is a catalyst for change, cultivating innovative concepts for improving patient care and implementing programs for putting those ideas into action. Berwick is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School; professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health; an Associate in Pediatrics at Boston’s Children’s Hospital; and a Consultant in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital. Among his numerous awards are the first Alfred I. DuPont Award for excellence in children’s health care from Nemours; and the “Award of Honor” from the American Hospital Association for outstanding leadership in improving health care quality.
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Jack O. Bovender
Chairman and CEO, HCA, Inc.
Jack O. Bovender is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nashville, Tennessee-based Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), the nation’s leading provider of health care services. Bovender is a 38-year veteran of the health care industry and has worked at HCA for 29 years. He was appointed to HCA’s Board of Directors in 1999 and was named President and CEO in 2001. He became Chairman and CEO of HCA in January 2002. Bovender served on the Board of Governors of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), and in 2007, he was bestowed ACHE’s Gold Medal Award, recognizing his significant career-long contributions to the health care profession. Bovender was lauded by Institutional Investor magazine as “Best CEO in America” for health care facilities in 2003, 2004 and 2005. He received his master’s degree in hospital administration from Duke University.
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Angela F. Braly
President and CEO, WellPoint, Inc.
Angela Braly is President and Chief Executive Officer for WellPoint, Inc., and a member of the company’s board of directors. She assumed those responsibilities June 1, 2007, following several high-profile roles for the company, including executive vice president, general counsel, and chief public affairs officer. In January 1999, Braly joined the company as general counsel for RightCHOICE (currently Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri). During that time, she managed the legal strategy resulting in the creation of The Missouri Foundation for Heath. She later became president and CEO of the Missouri plan. Prior to that, Braly was a partner in the St. Louis law firm of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C. She received her juris doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law. She was named one of Modern Healthcare’s “Top 25 Women in Healthcare” in 2007.
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Richard T. Clark
Chairman, President and CEO, Merck & Co., Inc.
Richard T. Clark is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc., a global research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative vaccines and medicines. In a career spanning more than 35 years with Merck, Clark has held a broad range of senior management positions, including most recently, President of the Merck Manufacturing Division, with responsibility for Merck’s manufacturing operations for 31 plants in 25 countries. In this capacity he also was responsible for Merck’s information services and operational excellence organizations worldwide. Among his many positions at Merck, Clark served as Chairman, President, and CEO of the newly named Medco Health Solutions, overseeing plans to prepare that organization to become a publicly traded company. He returned to the Merck Manufacturing Division as President in June 2003. Clark earned his MBA from American University.
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Susan Dentzer
Health Correspondent, PBS
Susan Dentzer is an on-air correspondent with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, leading a unit that provides in-depth coverage of health care, health policy, and Social Security reform. Dentzer and the health unit are the recipients of multiple awards. Prior to joining The NewsHour in 1998, Dentzer was chief economics correspondent and economics columnist at U.S News and World Report, where she reported extensively on the debate over Social Security privatization and such health policy issues as the regulation of managed care. Before joining U.S. News, Dentzer was a senior writer at Newsweek. Dentzer’s work in television has included regular appearances on ABC’s Nightline, CNN, and The McLaughlin Group.
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David M. Eddy
Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Archimedes, Inc.
David Eddy is a physician-mathematician living in Aspen, Colorado. Starting more than 30 years ago he has done seminal work in guidelines, mathematical modeling, cost-effectiveness, coverage decisions, medical necessity, and performance measurement. He is one of the founders of the “evidence-based” movement, being the first to use and publish the term “evidence-based”, and developing the original concepts and methods for evidence-based guidelines, coverage policies, performance measures and medical necessity. A prolific author, he has received numerous awards and has served on more than forty national and international boards. He was Professor of Engineering and Medicine at Stanford, and then the J. Alexander McMahon Professor of Health Policy and Management at Duke University. He is the founder and co-inventor of the Archimedes model and is currently the Medical Director of Archimedes, Inc.
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Linda F. Golodner
President, National Consumers League
Linda Golodner, President of the National Consumers League, has been with the League for 24 years. Golodner also serves on the Board of Directors of the American National Standards Institute, and chairs its Consumers Interest Forum. She is a member of numerous councils and committees, including the Public Interest Council, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists; the steering committee of the Centers for Education and Research in Therapeutics; the HHS steering committee for the collaborative development of a long-range action plan for the provision of useful prescription drug information; and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Post-market Surveillance of Pediatric Medical Devices. Among her many awards is the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner’s Special Citation. Previously, Golodner was president of her own public affairs firm and worked on the staff of former U.S. Congressman James G. O’Hara of Michigan.
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George C. Halvorson
Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
George Halvorson was named chairman and chief executive officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, headquartered in Oakland, California in March 2002. Kaiser Permanente is the nation’s largest nonprofit health plan, serving more than 8.4 million members. Mr. Halvorson has more than 30 years of health care management experience. He was formerly President and CEO of HealthPartners and has held several senior management positions with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. He is the author of numerous articles and widely acclaimed books on the U.S. health care system such as the recently released Health Care Reform Now! and Strong Medicine and Epidemic of Care. Widely credited with supporting the successful rollout of Kaiser’s multi-billion dollar information technology initiative, Halvorson has won numerous awards for his commitment to health technology.
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Joseph M. Hogan
President and CEO, GE Healthcare
Joseph Hogan is President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Healthcare, a position he has held since November, 2000. Formerly U.S.-based GE Medical Systems, GE Healthcare is now a $17 billion global business and is currently the only GE business headquartered outside the United States. During his tenure at GE Healthcare, the business has more than doubled in revenue and has been transformed into the leading diagnostics, information technology, and life sciences company worldwide. Hogan began his career at GE in 1985, and in March, 1998 was named President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Fanuc Automation North America, Inc., a global supplier of industrial controls systems. Hogan, who resides in London, earned a bachelor of science degree in Business Administration from Geneva College and an MBA from Robert Morris University.
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John P. Howe III
President and CEO, Project HOPE
John P. Howe, III, M.D., became President & CEO of Project HOPE on May 1, 2001. Project HOPE is an international health education and humanitarian assistance foundation which operates more than 70 programs in 35 countries on 5 continents. Before coming to Project HOPE, Howe was a Distinguished Chair in Health Policy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and served as the Center’s chief executive for fifteen years. Howe is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiovascular disease and a tenured professor in the University’s Department of Medicine. He has a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and earned his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He served two years in the Army Medical Corps and later completed the Health Systems Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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John K. Iglehart
Founding Editor, Health Affairs
For the last 25 years, John Iglehart has held two editorial leadership positions in the world of health policymaking. In 1981, under the aegis of Project HOPE, Iglehart founded Health Affairs, which he developed into the leading journal of health policy. Over this same period, Iglehart has written more than 100 essays as a national correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine. Before 1981, Iglehart served for two years as a vice president of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and director of its Washington, D.C. office and served as editor-in-chief of the National Journal. Elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine and to the National Academy of Social Insurance, Iglehart also serves on the Advisory Board of the National Institute For Health Care Management. He recently received the AcademyHealth’s Chair Award and a “Special Life Achievement Award” from his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he received his degree in journalism.
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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving health and health care for all Americans. Lavizzo-Mourey joined RWJF in 2001 as senior vice president and director of the health care group. Previously, at the University of Pennsylvania, she was the Sylvan Eisman Professor of medicine and health care systems and director of Penn’s Institute on Aging. In Washington, D.C., she was deputy administrator of what is now the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. Lavizzo-Mourey earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Always a physician as well as an agent for wide-scale social change, she still treats patients at a community health clinic in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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Mark B. McClellan
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution; Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform; Leonard D. Schaeffer Director's Chair in Health Policy Studies
In July 2007, Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, Senior Fellow, became Director of the Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform at the Brookings Institution. In addition, McClellan is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies. The former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, McClellan also was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for health care policy at the White House. In these positions, he developed and implemented major health policy reforms, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit; the FDA’s Critical Path initiative; and public-private initiatives to develop better information on the quality and cost of care. McClellan earned his M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, his medical degree from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, and his doctorate in economics from MIT.
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William D. Novelli
CEO, AARP
A recognized leader in the international practice of social marketing, Bill Novelli is CEO of AARP, a membership organization of 38 million people age 50 and older. Co-Founder and President of Porter Novelli, one of the world’s largest public relations agencies, Novelli retired from the firm in 1990 to pursue a second career in public service. He was President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and he remains chairman of the board. Novelli has served as Executive Vice President of CARE, the world’s largest private relief and development organization. He has written extensively on marketing management, communications and social marketing and is the author of 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America.
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Uwe E. Reinhardt
Professor, Princeton University
Uwe Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also chairman of the Coordinating Committee of The Commonwealth Fund’s International Program in Health Policy and Practice. A native of Germany, he has taught at Princeton University since 1968. Although his research interests have centered mainly on health economics and policy, his work has also included topics in corporation finance. A member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences, Reinhardt served on IOM’s Governing Council and currently serves on its Committee on Technical Innovation in Medicine and Committee on the Implications of a Physician Surplus. He has served on numerous government committees and commissions, including three consecutive three-year terms on the Physician Payment Review Commission, and on many journal editorial boards, including Health Affairs.
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James C. Robinson
Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs
James Robinson, PhD, became Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs in September 2007. Prior to assuming leadership of the journal, he served as a Contributing Editor and was The Kaiser Permanente Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Chair, Division of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. A prolific author, Robinson’s research includes the restructuring of health insurance benefits, networks, and medical management in the consumer era; information technology, pay-for-performance, and chronic care management in physician organizations; and capital financing for capacity and technology in the hospital sector. Robinson earned a doctorate in economics and a master of public health degree from UC, Berkeley.
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Leonard D. Schaeffer
Chairman, Surgical Care Affiliates; Senior Advisor, TPG Capital
Leonard D. Schaeffer is the founding Chairman and CEO of WellPoint, the nation’s largest health benefits company. He is currently Chairman of Surgical Care Affiliates and a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital. Under his leadership, WellPoint was selected by Fortune as America’s “Most Admired Health Care Company” for an unprecedented six consecutive years; named by BusinessWeek as one of the fifty best performing public companies for three consecutive years; and identified by Forbes as America’s best large health insurance company. Schaeffer was selected by BusinessWeek as one of the “Top 25 Managers of the Year” and by Worth as one of the “50 Best CEOs in America.” As President and CEO of WellPoint’s predecessor, Blue Cross of California, he managed the first Blue conversion to for-profit status and the IPO creating WellPoint. In the federal government, Schaeffer served as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, and as Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, Schaeffer served in leadership positions in the State of Illinois, including Director of the Bureau of the Budget.
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Cheryl M. Scott
COO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Scott oversees the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Legal, Security, Human Resources, Foundation Advocacy, Finance & Administration, Financial Analysis & Planning, Information Technology, and Impact Assessment & Improvement teams. She joined the foundation in June 2006. Before joining the foundation, Scott served for seven years as president and CEO of the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative, one of the oldest and most respected integrated health care systems in the United States. She had also served as that organization’s executive vice president and chief operating officer. Scott is also a clinical professor in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington, where she teaches a graduate seminar on leading complex adaptive systems.
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Mark D. Smith
President, California HealthCare Foundation
Mark Smith, MD, MBA, is the President and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation. The Foundation, an independent philanthropy in Oakland, California, is dedicated to improving the health of the people of California through its three program areas: Innovations for the Underserved, Better Chronic Disease Care, and Market and Policy Monitor. He is a member of the University of California, San Francisco clinical faculty and an attending physician at the Positive Health Program for AIDS Care at San Francisco General Hospital. Smith has served as Executive Vice President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and Associate Director of the AIDS Service and Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University. He received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
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Andrew L. Stern
International President, Service Employees International Union
Andrew Stern is International President of the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union, the fastest-growing union in North America. Stern is a leading voice and aggressive advocate for practical solutions to achieve economic opportunity and justice for workers; to ensure affordable, quality health care; to promote quality public services; and to guarantee that globalization benefits working people. He is known for spearheading new partnerships to advance common goals, and he has helped elect officials of both major parties.In 2005, Stern founded Change to Win, a six-million member federation of seven major unions dedicated to restoring the American Dream in the 21st century: a paycheck that can support a family, affordable health care, a secure retirement, and dignity on the job.
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Gail R. Wilensky
Senior Fellow, Project HOPE
Gail Wilensky, an economist and a Senior Fellow at Project HOPE, analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and to ongoing changes in the health care environment. Dr. Wilensky is a Commissioner on the President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors, the WHO’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, is co-chair of the Department of Defense task force on the Future of Military Health Care, is Vice Chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission, and serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America and the National Opinion Research Center. She served as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, directing the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and as Deputy Assistant to President (GHW) Bush for Policy Development.
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Ronald A. Williams
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Aetna Inc.
Ronald A. Williams is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna Inc., a leading diversified health care benefits company. Joining Aetna in 2001, Williams has focused on creating innovation in the industry, especially through information technology, and bringing new levels of transparency to the health care system. In September 2001, Aetna became the first national insurer to offer a consumer-directed health plan. In August 2005, Aetna’s launch of a new online consumer tool to view physician-specific price information was widely recognized as the beginning of a new era of transparency. More recently, Aetna led the effort to develop industry standards for electronic personal health records. Prior to joining Aetna, Williams was Group President of the Large Group Division at WellPoint Health Networks Inc. and President of the company's Blue Cross of California subsidiary. A graduate of Roosevelt University, he holds a master of science degree in Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Elias A. Zerhouni
Director, National Institutes of Health
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency. Transforming medicine and health through discovery, this federal agency is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. At NIH, Zerhouni initiated the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, led the effort to transform the medical research enterprise, supported trans-NIH initiatives in obesity and neuroscience research, launched the NIH Pathway to Independence Awards, established and supported initiatives to reduce health disparities, and ensured public access to NIH-funded research results. Previously, Zerhouni served as executive vice-dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree at the University of Algiers School of Medicine, completing his residency in diagnostic radiology at Johns Hopkins. He won a Gold Medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society and two Paul Lauterbur Awards. His research led to advances in computerized axial tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. |
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