Mayo Clinic Health Policy Symposium
Sunday, March 9th, 2008The Mayo Clinic will hold its 2008 Health Policy Symposium Monday, March 10 in Lansdowne Resort near near Leesburg, Va.
Registration is closed, but a blog will link to streaming (and archived) video of the plenary sessions:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthpolicycenter/
Moderator of the opening panel, “Building a Mandate for Change,” will be former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw. Panel members include James Guest, president and CEO, Consumers Union; Gary Kaplan, M.D., president and CEO Virginia Mason Medical Center; Ian Morrison, Ph.D., Institute for the Future; and Michael Porter, Ph.D., Harvard University.
To see the day’s agenda, go to:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthpolicycenter/2008-agenda.html
Joanne Silberner, NPR health correspondent, will moderate a second session, “In Their Own Words: What Patients Want in a New Health Care System.”
Panel members include Nancy Davenport-Ennis, president and CEO, National Patient Advocate Foundation; Harold Freeman, M.D., The Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention, Harlem, N.Y.; M. Cass Wheeler, chief executive officer, American Heart Association, Inc.; Sanne Magnan, M.D., Minnesota Commissioner of Health; and Melissa Ortega, patient.
In an evening session Cokie Roberts, correspondent for National Public Radio and ABC News, will moderate a panel examining the health care platforms of the presidential candidates. Her panelists include Karen Davis, Ph.D., Commonwealth Fund; Elizabeth McGlynn, Ph.D., RAND Health; and Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post.
A session on Tuesday, March 11 will be moderated by Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, and will include, among others, Aaron Brown, former CNN anchor; Ceci Connolly of the Washington Post and Shannon Brownlee, author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer and Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation.