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The Capstone Conference: Fresh-Thinking on Health Care Reform

Conference Information and Summary

The Capstone Conference: FRESH-Thinking on Health Care Reform brought together over 175 health care reform professionals from academia and industry for a day of presentations and discussion. The Conference represented the culminating activity of the FRESH-Thinking Project at Stanford University, which conducted eight workshops over two years on health care reform.

Held on Thursday, May 14, 2009

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Program

9:30 - 10:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 10:20 am Opening and Welcoming Remarks

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Crystal Hayling

President and CEO, Blue Shield of California Foundation

Claude M. Steele, PhD

Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavorial Sciences;
Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Stanford University

10:20 - 11:00 am Universal Coverage: How to Pay for It?
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John B. Shoven, PhD

The Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University;

The Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

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11:00 - 11:40 am Organizing Health Care for Higher Quality and Lower Cost
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Stephen Shortell, PhD, MPH

Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management;

UC Berkeley, School of Public Health

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11:40 - 12:20 am Value-Conscious Bio-Medical Innovation: Why? How? When?
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Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD

Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University;

Director, CHP/PCOR

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1:00 - 1:30 pm The Future of Health Care Reform
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Leonard Schaeffer

Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair and Professor at the University of Southern California;

Former Administrator of the federal Health Care Financing Administration

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1:30 - 2:30 pm Employers and Reform
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Click the image above to view a short video interview with Dr. Alain Enthoven

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Moderator:

Alain Enthoven, PhD

Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Panel Participants:

David Lansky, PhD

President, the Pacific Business Group

Dorian Rinella

Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Facilities, Nektar Therapeutics

Sally Welborn

Senior Vice President, Corporate Benefits, Wells Fargo & Company

2:30 - 3:30 pm Physicians and Reform
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Sharon Levine, MD

Associate Executive Director, the Permanente Medical Group

Panel Participants:

Robert Feldman, MD

Cardiologist, Hill Physicians Medical Group

Phillip A. Pizzo, MD

Pediatrician; Dean of the School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Richard Slavin, MD

General thoracic and vascular surgeon; CEO of Camino Medical Group

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3:45 - 4:45 pm The Public and Reform
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Click the image above to view a short video interview with Dr. Harold Luft

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Moderator:

Harold S. Luft, PhD

Caldwell B. Esselstyn Professor Emeritus of Health Economics and Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute

Panel Participants:

Gilbert Ojeda

Director, the California Program on Access to Care, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health

Sandra Shewry, MPH, MSW

President and Chief Executive Officer, The California Center for Connected Health

Lucien Wulsin, JD

President, Insure the Uninsured Project

4:45 - 5:30 pm Health Care Reform: What is Needed? What is Likely? Why the Chasm?
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Victor R. Fuchs, PhD

Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor, Emeritus, Stanford University;

Director, FRESH-Thinking Project

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