WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2009 — The Center for Business Intelligence (CBI), a division of Advanstar Communications, is pleased to announce the full program agenda for The 9th Annual Strategic Medicare Policy Summit, which includes a keynote address from Mark B. McClellan, M.P.A., M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Director, Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform, The Brookings Institution; former Administrator, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); former Commissioner, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The conference will take place at the Fairfax at Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. on February 11 – 12, 2010.
CBI's speaker faculty always includes the country's leading experts, and this event is no exception. Speakers include:
- G. Lawrence Atkins, Ph.D., Senior Director of Public Policy and Reimbursement, Schering-Plough Corporation
- Dea Belazi, Practice Leader, Managed Markets Practice, Wolters Kluwer
- Kathy Buto, Vice President of Public Policy, Johnson & Johnson
- Nancy Featherstone, Senior Director of Medicare and Quality Strategy, AstraZeneca
- Larry S. Fields, M.D., former President, American Academy of Family Physicians
- W. Bradford Gary, former Vice President of Policy, Allergan
- Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Leading Authority on Healthcare, Forbes Columnist, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; former Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Glenn Hackbarth, Chairman, MedPAC
- Tim Hermes, former Executive Director of Government Affairs, Sepracor; Principal, GRQ, LLC
- Steven Kelmar, Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Aetna
- Bob Kocher, M.D., Special Assistant to the President, National Economic Council, The White House (Invited)
- Demetrious L. Kouzoukas, Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
- Anna D. Kraus, Of Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
- Anthony J. Magnetti, Vice President, Government Affairs, Sepracor Inc.
- Mark B. McClellan, M.P.A., M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Director, Engelberg Center for Healthcare Reform, The Brookings Institution; former Administrator, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); former Commissioner, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Eleanor Perfetto, Ph.D., MS, Senior Director, Reimbursement & Regulatory Affairs, Federal Government Relations, Pfizer Inc
- John Rother, Senior Vice President of Public Policy, AARP
- Tom Scully, former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Bruce Steinwald, former Director of Health Care, U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Kenneth Thorpe, Ph.D., Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
- Bonnie Washington, Vice President, Avalere Health
- Kerry Weems, former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Featured sessions include:
— MedPAC Address
The Changing Role of MedPAC and What It Means for Medicare – Glenn Hackbarth, Chairman, MedPAC
— Reform and the Opportunity to Enhance Access to Healthcare and to Ensure the Affordability of Medicines – Kathy Buto, Vice President of Public Policy, Johnson & Johnson
The 2010 event is sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions and Covington & Burling LLP. For sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Taylor Shields at 339-298-2108 or Email.
For more information on this event, please visit http://www.cbinet.com/Medicare, call 800-817-8601 or email Email. For media partnership opportunities, please contact Lauren Donoghue at 339-298-2262 or Email.
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