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The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center,
Washington, D.C.
Registration, Continental Breakfast & Exhibits: 7:00 am
Summit: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm New start time
Gala Reception, Dinner & Program: 6:30 pm
- Just added: New 8 am session with Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on SCHIP and bipartisan policy making. Health Affairs will present both senators with an award for excellence in bipartisan health policy collaboration.
Health Affairs is convening this health policy summit to bring together many of the nation's most prominent health care leaders to share their vision for the future of health care. Speakers will include industry CEOs; government policy leaders; foundation presidents; leading consumer and labor representatives; and top scholars. This high-level meeting will focus on bold new reform proposals and examples of innovation and collaborative efforts to achieve real improvements in the health system.
The summit agenda will include:
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Plenary speeches from NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation COO Cheryl M. Scott, top scholars and other health industry leaders |
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CEO roundtable discussion moderated by Susan Dentzer,
Health Correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS |
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Panel of advisers responsible for leading the Presidential candidates’ health reform plans |
The Anniversary Gala will honor John K. Iglehart, Health Affairs Founding Editor, as he steps down after 25 years of leading the journal. Funds raised from the gala and anniversary events will form the basis of an endowment to support the John K. Iglehart Chair to acknowledge his contribution to the field and secure the long-term future of the journal.
Health Affairs provides a highly respected, nonpartisan forum for the best thinking of researchers, policy analysts and private-sector decision-makers with a stake in domestic and international health care. The Washington Post has called Health Affairs “the bible of health policy.” The journal is highly cited in both academia and in national media outlets and is read more often on Capitol Hill than any other health care journal, according to an independent survey. Through the worldwide reach of the Internet, Health Affairs is read over 16 million times per year.
Health Affairs is published by Project HOPE, the international nonprofit that works to make health care available for people around the globe, through educating health professionals and volunteers, providing medicines and supplies, strengthening health facilities, training community health workers, and fighting communicable diseases such as TB and AIDS.
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