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CareScience 2002 National Conference Keynote Speakers   David J. Brailer, M.D., Ph.D. Chairman & CEO, CareScience Opening Address: "The 'Clinical Vertical' of Healthcare Comes of Age" Closing Remarks David J. Brailer, M.D., Ph.D. has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CareScience since January 1993. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Healthcare Systems at The Wharton School of Business, Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the American College of Physicians. His scientific work focuses on physician decision-making, outcomes measurement, practice-style evaluation and operations strategies. He is the author of numerous articles about healthcare management for publications including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Harvard Business Review, Medical Care and Health Affairs. He has also written several books and chapters about health management. Dr. Brailer earned his Ph.D. in Management Science at The Wharton School of Business while he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at The University of Pennsylvania. Molly Coye, M.D. Founder and CEO, Health Technology Center Presentation: Disruptive Technologies in Healthcare: The Future of Patient Care and Clinical Practice Dr. Molly Joel Coye is the founder and CEO of the Health Technology Center, a non-profit organization sponsored by the Institute for the Future that is dedicated to advancing the use of beneficial technologies for healthier people and communities. Until this year, Dr. Coye was the Director of the West coast office for The Lewin Group, a leader in healthcare policy, strategic planning and management consulting, and served as an advisor to venture capital firms in their investment planning for health technology and communications. Dr. Coye has also directed product development and marketing for HealthDesk Corporation, a developer of consumer software for interactive health communication and disease management, and was EVP for Managed Care in the Good Samaritan Health System, a non-profit integrated healthcare system and the largest provider system in the Santa Clara Valley. From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Coye was the Director of the California Department of Health Services, managing a budget of more than $16 billion, 5,000 employees, and 160 branch and field offices throughout the State. Dr. Coye also directed the Division of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New Jersey from 1986 to 1990. Dr. Coye is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and served on the IOM Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America. She is also a member of the Strategic Framework Board of the National Quality Forum. A former trustee of the China Medical Board, Dr. Coye is fluent in Spanish and Chinese and has consulted extensively in Latin America and Asia. John Glaser, Ph.D. CIO, Partners Healthcare Systems, Inc. Presentation: "Lessons from Bringing Information to the Point of Care" John Glaser is Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Previously, he was Vice-President, Information Systems at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Prior to Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr. Glaser managed the Healthcare Information Systems consulting practice at Arthur D. Little. Dr. Glaser was the founding Chairman of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and is past President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He was the founding Co-Chair of the Affiliated Health Information Networks of New England and he is a fellow of HIMSS, CHIME and the American College of Medical Informatics. He has been awarded the John Gall award for Healthcare CIO of the year and Partners HealthCare has received several industry awards for its effective and innovative use of information technology. Dr. Glaser has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences studies on the role of the Internet in healthcare and healthcare confidentiality and security. He is on the editorial boards of CIO Magazine, Healthcare Informatics and Topics in Health Information Management. He has published over sixty articles and a book on the strategic application of information technology in healthcare. He holds a Ph.D. in Healthcare Information Systems from the University of Minnesota. Janlori Goldman, Ph.D., J.D. Director, Health Privacy Project, Assistant Research Professor, Georgetown University Presentation: "Inside HIPAA: What Comes Next?" Janlori Goldman directs the Health Privacy Project at Georgetown University's Institute for Health Care Research and Policy. Ms. Goldman created the Project in December, 1997. The Project is dedicated to ensuring that people's privacy is safeguarded in the healthcare environment. Ms. Goldman is also an Assistant Research Professor at Georgetown University. In 1997, Ms. Goldman was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center. In 1994, Ms. Goldman co-founded the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit civil liberties organization committed to preserving free speech and privacy on the Internet. Ms. Goldman also worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1994. From 1986 to 1994, Ms. Goldman was the staff attorney and Director of the Privacy and Technology Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). While at the ACLU, Ms. Goldman led the effort to enact the Video Privacy Protection Act and led efforts to protect people's health, credit, financial and personal information held by the government. She was also the Legislative Director of the Minnesota affiliate of the ACLU from 1984-1986. Jeff Goldsmith President, Health Futures, Inc. Presentation: "The Future of Information Technology and Healthcare" Jeff Goldsmith is a futurist healthcare change speaker who owns and operates Health Futures, Inc., a firm specializing in forecasting future healthcare trends. For 20 years Health Futures has tackled issues in the healthcare industry, including the future of information technology and healthcare; implications of new biotechnology developments; healthcare trend analysis; the Internet's impact on medicine; the future of managed care and of integrated health systems. Health Futures is a leader in this new field, and Jeff Goldsmith is known internationally as a vocal supporter of healthcare change and as a public speaker addressing health conferences. Health Futures helps healthcare management see the future as it develops, staying abreast of newly available medical and information technologies, and helping institutions adapt their policies to these changes. As a futurist, Jeff Goldsmith's forte is healthcare trend analysis. Many management teams in healthcare delivery, financing, products, and services have benefited from Health Futures' forecasting expertise and Jeff Goldsmith's healthcare change vision and strategies. Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H. President and CEO of The National Quality Forum Presentation: "Molding the Quality Improvement Initiative" Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The National Quality Forum (formally incorporated as the National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting), a private, not-for-profit, open membership public benefit corporation whose mission is to increase the provision of high quality healthcare by developing voluntary consensus about standardized healthcare performance measures and reporting mechanisms, national goals for healthcare quality and a national strategy for healthcare quality improvement. Among his other positions, Dr. Kizer serves as Senior Associate with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, Massachusetts; as Director of The California Wellness Foundation in Woodland Hills, California; and as the medical advisor to various companies. Prior to taking his current position, Dr. Kizer served for five years as the Under Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this capacity, he was the highest ranking physician in the federal government and the CEO of the Veterans Healthcare System, the largest integrated healthcare system in the nation with a budget of over $20 billion, approximately 200,000 staff, and over 1,100 sites of care delivery. Dr. Kizer is widely credited as being the chief architect and driving force behind the greatest transformation of VA healthcare since the system was created in 1946. Dr. Kizer is an honors graduate of Stanford University and UCLA. He is board certified in six medical specialties and/or subspecialties, and has authored over 350 original articles, book chapters and other reports in the medical literature. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society, the Delta Omega National Honorary Public Health Society, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Arnold Milstein, M.D., Ph. D. Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) National Health Care Thought Leader, Worldwide Partner, William M. Mercer Presentation: "Employers and Patient Safety: The Leapfrog Initiative " Dr. Milstein is the Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and a National Health Care Thought Leader and Worldwide Partner at William M. Mercer, a large benefits consulting firm. PBGH is the largest healthcare purchasers coalition in the United States. Dr. Milstein's work focuses on improving healthcare programs for large purchasers, providers and government. His thirty book chapters and published articles have centered on healthcare program design. A member of the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA’s) national committee to develop HEDIS and a Leapfrog Group co-founder, Business Insurance magazine selected him as “one of the 20 people who has made a difference in employee benefits management in the past 20 years.” The New England Journal of Medicine’s series on employer sponsored health insurance described him as a “pioneer” in efforts to advance quality of care. Dr. Milstein received is B.A. in economics at Harvard University, his M.D. from Tufts University and an M.P.H. in Health Services Planning at University of California-Berkeley. He is an associate clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center. Robert K. Ross, M.D. President and Chief Executive Officer, The California Endowment Presentation: Multicultural Healthcare Delivery Robert K. Ross, M.D., is President and Chief Executive Officer for The California Endowment, a $3.4 billion health foundation established in 1996 to address the health needs of Californians. Prior to his appointment in September 2000, Dr. Ross served as Director of the Health and Human Services Agency for the County of San Diego and was on The Endowment’s Board of Directors for three years. Dr. Ross has an extensive background as a clinician and public health administrator. His service includes: Commissioner, Philadelphia Department of Public Health; Medical Director for LINK School-Based Clinic Program, Camden, New Jersey; Instructor of Clinical Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and faculty member at San Diego State University’s School of Public Health. Dr. Ross received his undergraduate, masters in Public Administration and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.