| 2008
Health Care Forum |
| Thursday,
April 24, 2008 |
America's Ballroom
at America's Center
701 Convention Plaza, St. Louis
| Doors Open: |
11:10 a.m. |
| Luncheon / Program |
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. |
Tables of 10 $1000 Individual
Reservations $100
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| Featured Speakers |
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| Newt Gingrich |
| Former
Speaker Newt Gingrich is the founder of the Center
for Health Transformation, a collaboration of
leaders dedicated to the creation of a 21st Century
Intelligent Health System that saves lives and
saves money. He is also the founder of the Gingrich
Group, a communications and consulting firm specializing
in transformational change, and serves as a political
analyst for FOX News Network.
Gingrich served as a Member of Congress
for twenty years and as Speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives from 1995-1999.
Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare
reform, the first balanced budget in a generation,
and the first tax cuts in sixteen years.
So far-reaching was his impact that The Washington
Times called him “the indispensable
leader,” and Time magazine, in naming
him Man of the Year for 1995, said, “Leaders
make things possible. Exceptional leaders
make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs
in the category of the exceptional.”
Widely recognized for his commitment to
a better system of health for all Americans,
Gingrich’s leadership helped save Medicare
from bankruptcy, prompted FDA reform to help
the seriously ill and initiated a new focus
on research, prevention and wellness. A leading
advocate of increased federal funding for
basic science research, in 2001 he was the
recipient of the Science Coalition's first
Science Pioneer award, given to him for his
outstanding contributions to educating the
public about science and its benefits to
society. Most recently, for his dedication
to bringing quality health care to all Americans,
Gingrich received the 2005 Health Quality
Award from the National Committee for Quality
Assurance.
Gingrich currently serves with former U.S.
Senator Bob Kerrey as co-chair of the independent
National Commission for Quality Long-Term
Care. He also serves as a political analyst
for FOX News Network and most recently authored
Real Change: From the World that Fails to
the World that Works.
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| Jeanne
Lambrew, Ph.D. |
| Jeanne
M. Lambrew joined the Lyndon B. Johnson School
in the summer of 2007 as associate professor
of public affairs. She specializes in health
care and policy and conducts research on the
uninsured, Medicaid, Medicare, and long-term
care. Dr. Lambrew is also a senior fellow at
the Center for American Progress.
Previously, Dr. Lambrew was an associate professor
at the Department of Health Policy at The George
Washington University School of Public Health
and Health Services. From 1997 to 2001, Dr.
Lambrew worked on health policy at the White
House as the program associate director for
health at the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) and as the senior health analyst at the
National Economic Council. In these roles,
she helped coordinate health policy development,
evaluated legislative proposals, and conducted
and managed analyses and cost estimates with
OMB, the Department of Health and Human Services,
the Treasury Department, the Labor Department
and other relevant agencies. She was the White
House lead on drafting and implementing the
Children's Health Insurance Program and helped
develop the president's Medicare reform plan,
initiative on long-term care, and other health
care proposals. She also worked at the Department
of Health and Human Services during the 1993-1994
health reform efforts, and coordinated analyses
of budget proposals in 1995. Prior to serving
at the White House, Dr. Lambrew was an assistant
professor of public policy at Georgetown University
(1996).
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| U.S.
Representative Kenny Hulshof |
Kenny
Hulshof is currently serving his sixth term
as the U.S. Representative for Missouri’s
9th Congressional District. Hulshof has served
with distinction on the House Ways and Means
Committee, where he is a member of the Trade
and Health subcommittees.
As a member of the committee with jurisdiction
over Medicare, Hulshof has been at the center
of federal health policy in recent years, including
the Medicare Modernization Act. Hulshof has
been a leader in telemedicine and remote medical
monitoring policy. He also led the 75% Rule
fix for inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
Agenda items for the subcommittee this year
include the physician payment and physical
therapy cap legislation.
Hulshof’s legislative record reflects
the diverse interests of the people he represents.
Among his many accomplishments, Hulshof has
written tax policy that promotes renewable
fuels like ethanol and biodiesel. He co-authored
legislation to expand Education Savings Accounts,
which gives families another tax tool to save
for their children’s education. He has
also been the primary sponsor to eliminate
the job-killing federal Death Tax. From the
Ticket to Work program to the Farm and Ranch
Risk Management Act, Hulshof’s political
career is one of meaningful solutions and real
results.
Hulshof has a degree in Agriculture Economics
and is an active farmer in southeast Missouri.
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| Missouri Representative
Sam Page |
| State
Rep. Sam Page, D-Creve Coeur represents part
of St. Louis County
(District 82) in the Missouri House of Representatives.
He was elected to the House in November 2002.
In addition to his legislative duties, Rep. Page
is a practicing physician who is board certified
in anesthesiology and pain management. He was
appointed in 2000, by the late Gov. Mel Carnahan
to the Missouri Senior Rx Program and is a former
city council member in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
Rep. Page is a member of the following organizations:
St. Louis Rotary International; Missouri Chamber
of Commerce; president, St. Louis Beta Theta
Pi Alumni Club; American Medical Association;
American Society of Anesthesiologists; Missouri
State Medical Association; St. Louis Metropolitan
Medical Society; Missouri Society of Anesthesiologists;
and the St. Louis Society of Anesthesiologists.
Rep. Page received the Service Excellence
Award from the Brain Injury Association of
Missouri.
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| Susan
Dentzer |
| Susan
Dentzer will become the editor-in-chief for
Health Affairs and its publisher Project
HOPE on May 1, 2008. Dentzer, one of the nation’s
most respected health policy journalists, is
currently an on-air
correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on
PBS. She heads The NewsHour’s health
unit, which she helped create in 1998, and appears
frequently on other
programs such as Nightline and The
McLaughlin Group. Her nearly three decades
of journalistic experience span both broadcast
and print media
and include service as the chief economics correspondent
at U.S. News & World Report and
a senior business writer at Newsweek. Dentzer
will continue to be an on-air contributor to
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. |
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