Here are a list of upcoming conferences I will be attending – perhaps you can join me there.
| Date | Conference |
| Sept 14-16, 2010 | 24th National Conference on Health, Productivity & Human Capital |
| This presentation will examine proven methods for eliminating waste, drawing from Thomson Reuter’s client experience and other literature. It will highlight specific actions that can tackle identifiable waste in health care spending. | |
| Sept 20-22, 2010 | National Healthcare Reform Conference™ |
| This session will discuss how healthcare reform affects both hospitals and healthcare providers. It will examine healthcare reforms effect on payments from Medicare and Medicaid, and also on payments from insurance companies and employers. | |
| Sept 26-28, 2010 | 23rd Annual Benefits Forum & Expo |
| I will be a participant in the Keynote panel presentation entitled Health Care Reform: The Next Horizon for True Change. | |
| Oct 26, 2010 | NASHO Annual Leadership Summit |
| I will speak about the impact that health care reform will have on the specialty health marketplace. | |
I have recently attended the following conferences:
| Date | Conference |
| Feb 3-5, 2010 | 5th Annual Employer Health & Human Capital Congress |
| My presentation will feature benchmark efforts in building cultures of health inside organizations and corporations. | |
| Dec 9, 2009 | American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Webinar |
| I will be presenting with Drs. Bruce Sherman of Goodyear and Paul Grundy of IBM. | |
| Nov 5-6, 2009 | 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy |
| Chaired by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, this year’s topic is Health Care Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for Behavioral Health Care. I will be a respondant speaker representing primary care. | |
| Sept 30-Oct 1, 2009 |
Walgreens Pharmacy Deans School in Chicago |
| I will be presenting on the Promise of Wellness: Leveraging Constituencies to Build Population Health Excellence and Cultures of Health. | |
| Sept 21-22, 2009 | 2009 DMAA: The Care Continuum Annual Conference |
| I will be sharing the stage with Nico Pronk and speaking to the implementation and impact of population based efforts to improve health status. | |
| July 11-25, 2009 | 2009 ACPE & People to People Delegation to China and Mongolia |
| To study their cultures and health care systems through the sharing of ideas and methodologies with their physician executives. | |
| July 6-7, 2009 | The Carter Center Symposium |
| This summit will invite experts in health policy, prevention, behavioral health and primary care to help shape the future of integrated care delivery in this country. Emphasis will be placed on the intersection of prevention, mental health and primary care – resiliency – primary preventive behavioral health. | |
| May 2009 | The Lansdowne Group |
| This is a think tank of invited experts in the fields of wellness, population health, corporate health, primary care, health and productivity and behavioral health. The focus of this conference was on the emerging medical home movement, improving the health status of populations and future models of care delivery. | |
| April 26-29, 2009 | American Occupational Health Conference 2009 |
| This conference is the best one to attend for those interested in the best application of health care services to the workforce. The focus extends beyond traditional occupational health and medical surveillance and offers curriculum in health & productivity and corporate wellness. Additionally there is coursework in travel medicine, disability management, emergency preparedness and population health. | |
| April 8, 2009 | 9th Annual International Health & Productivity IHPM Conference |
| This conference focused on all efforts to make the workforce healthy and productive. Highlights included discussions on evidence based benefit design, employee engagement, communities of health, population health, workplace health, retail clinics and the corporate athlete. | |
