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Panelists:

Joseph Antos, Ph.D.

Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute

Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He also is a member of the Panel of Health Advisers for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and a Commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission. Prior to joining AEI, Antos was Assistant Director for Health and Human Resources at the CBO, and he held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Antos has written, lectured, and testified before Congress on the economics of health policy, including Medicare and broader health system reform, health care financing, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured. His articles have appeared in the American Economic Review, Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, National Tax Journal, and other scholarly publications.

Denis A. Cortese, M.D.

Foundation Professor and Director, Health Care Delivery and Policy Program, Arizona State University; Emeritus President and CEO, Mayo Clinic; Board President, Healthcare Transformation Institute

Denis A. Cortese, M.D.Denis Cortese, former President and CEO of the Mayo Clinic, is a Foundation Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) in the W. P. Carey School of Business and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, as well as the Director of ASU's Health Care Delivery and Policy Program. He also is president of the newly launched non-profit Healthcare Transformation Institute based in Phoenix, Ariz. Cortese is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (US) where he chairs the Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care. He is a member of the health advisory board of RAND. He has been a member, and served as the chair of the board, of the Health Care Leadership Council in Washington, D.C. Cortese was a member of the Harvard/Kennedy Health Policy Group and the Division on Engineering and Physical Science (DEPS) of the National Academy of Engineering. He is an honorary member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina (Mexico) and the Royal College of Physicians (London). He received an Ellis Island Award in 2007 and the National Healthcare Leadership Award in November 2009.

Helen Darling

President, National Business Group on Health

Helen Darling, M.S.Helen Darling is President of the National Business Group on Health, a national non-profit, membership organization. Helen was the 2009 recipient of WorldatWork’s Keystone Award and also received the President’s Award by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 2010. She was given a lifetime appointment in 2003 as a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences for her work for the Institute of Medicine.

Darling serves on the Committee on Performance Measurement of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (co-chair for 10 years); the Medical Advisory Panel, Technology Evaluation Center, (Blue Cross Blue Shield Association); the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care, the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, and the National Advisory Council of AHRQ. She is on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum and the Congressionally-created Reagan-Udall Foundation.

James N. Weinstein, D.O., M.Sc.

Director, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School; President, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

James N. Weinstein, M.D.James N. Weinstein is Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), home of the Dartmouth Atlas, in 2007. He also is President of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, the largest academic medical center in New Hampshire. He currently serves on the Institute of Medicine standing Committee of Medical Experts to Assist Social Security on Disability Issues and the IOM’s Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care’s Value Incentives Learning Collaborative. Weinstein was a member of the 2009 IOM committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research. He is a member of the National Quality Forum’s Resource Use Committee focused on establishing measures for health outcomes and productivity. On an ongoing basis, Weinstein works with the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC), especially in the area of meaningful use and quality measures. He established the Center for Shared Decision-Making, wherein patient preferences and values affect diagnostic and treatment decisions, and he founded the multidisciplinary Spine Center at Dartmouth.

Moderator

Michael Crow

President, Arizona State University

Michael M. CrowMichael M. Crow became the 16th president of Arizona State University on July 1, 2002. He is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation's leading public metropolitan research universities, one that is directly engaged in the economic, social, and cultural vitality of its region. Under his direction the university pursues teaching, research, and creative excellence focused on the major challenges and questions of our time, as well as those central to the building of a sustainable environment and economy for Arizona. He has committed the university to global engagement, and to setting a new standard for public service.

Since he took office, ASU has marked a number of important milestones, including the establishment of major interdisciplinary research initiatives such as the Biodesign Institute; the Global Institute for Sustainability; and MacroTechnology Works, a program integrating science and technology for large-scale applications, including the Flexible Display Center, a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army. Under his direction ASU has initiated a dramatic research infrastructure expansion to create more than one million square feet of new research space, and has announced naming gifts endowing the W. P. Carey School of Business, the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.

Prior to joining ASU, he was executive vice provost of Columbia University, where he also was professor of science and technology policy in the School of International and Public Affairs. As chief strategist of Columbia's research enterprise, he led technology and innovation transfer operations, establishing Columbia Innovation Enterprises (now Science and Technology Ventures), the Strategic Initiative Program, and the Columbia Digital Media Initiative, as well as advancing interdisciplinary program development.

He played the lead role in the creation of the Columbia Earth Institute (CEI), and helped found the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO) in Washington, D.C., a think tank dedicated to linking science and technology to desired social, economic, and environmental outcomes. In 2003 CSPO was reestablished at ASU as the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes.

A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, he is the author of books and articles relating to the analysis of research organizations, technology transfer, science and technology policy, and the practice and theory of public policy.




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