HCQ '09 has an Unmatched Speaker Faculty of 100+ Visionaries, Thought Leaders and Topic Experts Across All Industry Sectors, Including: Health Systems/Hospitals/Group Practices, Health Plans/Insurers, Employers/Purchasers, Government/Policy and Academic/Coalition/Other

Hospitals/Health Systems/Group Practices
Joel T. Allison President and Chief Executive Officer, Baylor Health System; Board Member, National Quality Forum; #15 Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare 2008	Bruce Bagley, MD Medical Director, Quality Improvement American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)	Cynthia Bero, MPH Chief Information Officer Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. (PCHI)
Julie Blehm, MD Clinic Director, Internal Medicine Resident Clinic MeritCare Health System	Dean C. Bliss Lean Improvement Specialist Iowa Health System	William F. Bria II, MD Chief Medical Information Officer Shriners Hospitals for Children
Alide L. Chase, MS Senior Vice President, Quality and Service Kaiser Permanente	E. Dale Collins, MD Medical Director, Comprehensive Breast Oncology Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Director, Center for Informed Choice, The Dartmouth Institute (TDI) for Health Policy and Clinical Practice	Mary Reich Cooper, MD, JD Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer, Lifespan Corporation; Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research), The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
William E. Corley President and Chief Executive Officer Community Health Network	Kathleen Curtin, RN, MBA Chief Clinical Informatics Officer Kaleida Health System	William A. Dolan, MD Member, Board of Trustees American Medical Association (AMA)
Kathleen Forbes, MD Executive Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Business Development, UNT Health Science Center President and Chief Executive Officer, UNT Health	Patricia A. Gabow, MD Chief Executive Officer, Denver Health; Recipient, 2008 National Center for Healthcare Leadership Award	Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA President Brigham and Women's Hospital
Bruce Hamory, MD, FACP Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Emeritus Geisinger Health System	Brent C. James, MD Chief Quality Officer and Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research Intermountain Healthcare	Gary Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Virginia Mason Medical Center
Mark Keroack, MD, MPH Vice President and Chief Medical Officer University Health System Consortium	Mark S. Kestner, MD, FACS Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Alegent Health	Robert Margolis, MD Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HealthCare Partners, LLC; Immediate Past Chairman, Board of Directors, National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
Richard Maxwell, MD Director, Shared Medical Appointment Project Cleveland Clinic	Tami Merryman, RN, MSN, FACHE Chief Quality Officer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP, FACMI President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer HCA, Inc.
Craig E. Samitt, MD, MBA Chief Executive Officer Dean Health System	Mark C. Shields, MD, MBA, FACP Vice President, Medical Management, Advocate Health Care; Senior Medical Director, Advocate Physician Partners	Nicholas Wolter, MD Chief Executive Officer, Billings Clinic; Former Commissioner, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC); Member, Board of Trustees, American Hospital Association (AHA)
Health Plans/Insurers
Kirsten Anderson, MD Senior Medical Director of Informatics Aetna	Charles D. Baker President and Chief Executive Officer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.	Deborah Devaux Executive Director, Community Transformation Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)
David Hanekom, MD Medical Director, Medical Management Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota	Robert M. Hayes, JD Senior Vice President, Health Quality, Universal American Corp.; Former President and General Counsel, Medicare Rights Center (MRC); Member, Commission on a High Performance Health System, The Commonwealth Fund	John Kelly Director, IT Operations Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Allen Naidoo, PhD, CHES Director, Medical Informatics BlueCross and BlueShield of Tennessee (BCBST)	Harold A. Picken, MD, MPH Vice President Health Operations Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island	Charles (Chad) Pomeroy Vice President, eBusiness and Consumer Innovation WellPoint
Dana Gelb Safran, ScD Senior Vice President Measurement and Improvement Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)	Paul Thompson Vice President, Product Development CIGNA Healthcare
Employers/Purchasers
Leah Binder Chief Executive Officer The Leapfrog Group	George Chedraoui Well-Being and Health Benefits Leader IBM	Cristie Travis Chief Executive Officer Memphis Business Group on Health
Mike Vittoria Vice President, Human Resources, Sperian Protection; President, Rhode Island Business Group on Health	Dennis White Senior Vice President, Value-Based Purchasing National Business Coalition on Health
Government/Policy
Anne-Marie J. Audet, MD, MSc Vice President, Quality Improvement and Efficiency The Commonwealth Fund	James B. Battles, PhD Senior Service Fellow for Patient Safety, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)	Helen Burstin, MD, MPH Senior Vice President, Performance Measures National Quality Forum (NQF)
Wendy Everett, ScD President New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI)	Irene Fraser, PhD Director, Center for Delivery, Organization and Market Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)	Reed Gelzer, MD, MPH, CCHC Member, Privacy & Compliance Expert Panel, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT); Co-founder, Advocates for Documentation Integrity and Compliance
Deidre S. Gifford, MD, MPH Independent Consultant and Co-Director, Rhode Island Chronic Care Sustainability Initiative Quality Partners of Rhode Island	Stuart Guterman Senior Program Director, Medicare's Future The Commonwealth Fund	Nilsa Gutierrez, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer (Region II) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Mat Kendall Director, Operations, Primary Care Information Project, Healthcare Access & Improvement New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene	Heidi B. King, MS, CHE Deputy Director, Patient Safety Program Department of Defense	William B. Munier, MD, MBA Director, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Phyllis Torda Senior Executive, Strategic Initiatives National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)	Micky Tripathi, PhD President and Chief Executive Officer Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)
Academic/Coalition/Other
Gail Amundson, MD, FACP President and Chief Executive Officer Quality Quest for Health	Karen M. Bell, MD, MMS Senior Vice President of Health Information Technology Services, Masspro; Former Director, Office of the National Coordinator, US Department of Health and Human Services	Robert Brooks, MD, PhD, MBA Medical Director Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care
Jim Chase Executive Director Minnesota Community Measurement	Nancy Davenport-Ennis Founding Executive Director, National Patient Advocate Foundation (NPAF); Commissioner and Co-Chair of the Consumer Empowerment Working Group, American Health Information Community (AHIC)	Pat Ford-Roegner, MSW, RN, FAAN Chief Executive Officer American Academy of Nursing (AAN)
Jeff Goldsmith, PhD President, Health Futures Inc.; Associate Professor, Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Virginia	Paula Griswold, MS Executive Director Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors	Dianne Hasselman, MSPH Associate Vice President Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS)
Patrick Horine, MHA Executive Vice President, Accreditation DNV Healthcare	Melinda Karp Director, Strategic Planning and Business Development Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP)	Marilyn Schlein Kramer Executive Director The Partnership for Healthcare Excellence
Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN Executive Director, Case Management Society of America; Project Director, National Transitions of Care Coalition (NTOCC)	Gwendolyn Lohse Managing Director, Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE); Deputy Director, Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH)	Harold D. Miller President and Chief Executive Officer, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement; Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform
Jeremy Nobel, MD, MPH Adjunct Lecturer Harvard School of Public Health	James Parish Executive Vice President, Healthcare Practice RWD Technologies	Kimberly Pierce-Boggs Executive Director Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers
Barbra G. Rabson Executive Director Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP)	James Reynolds Healthcare Economist, President and Founder Reynolds & Company	Daniel T. Roble, JD Partner, Health Care Group, Ropes & Gray; Counsel, The Leapfrog Group
Stephen M. Shortell, PhD Dean and Professor, School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley	Dolores Yanagihara, MPH Program Director, Pay for Performance Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)