Roger Stark
Health Care Policy Analyst; Author, The Patient-Centered Solution
Biography
Dr. Roger Stark is a health care policy analyst at WPC and a retired physician. He is the author of the book The Patient-Centered Solution: Our Health Care Crisis, How It Happened, and How We Can Fix It. He has also authored numerous in-depth studies on health care policy, including "State Abuse of the Medicaid Program", "A Review of the Medicaid Program: Its Impact in Washington State and Efforts at Reform in Other States", "What Works and What Doesn't: A Review of Health Care Reform in the States", and "Health Care Reform that Works: An Update on Health Savings Accounts." Dr. Stark graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and moved to the Pacific Northwest where he completed his general surgery residency in Seattle and his cardiothoracic residency at the University of Utah. After practicing in Tacoma he moved to Bellevue and was one of the co-founders of the open heart surgery program at Overlake Hospital. He has served on the hospital's governing board. He retired from private practice in 2001 and became actively involved in the hospital’s Foundation, serving as Board Chair and Executive Director. Dr. Stark has been a member of many local and national professional societies. He currently serves on the Board of the Washington Liability Reform Coalition and is an active member of the Woodinville Rotary. He and his wife live on the Eastside and have children and grandchildren in the area.
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Robert Laszewski
Robert Laszewski speaks widely on the topic of health care policy and market change. He was awarded a "Top 5 Speaker" award on the health care topic from Speaker.com. Laszewski is president of a policy and market place consulting firm specializing in assisting its clients through the significant health policy and market change afoot. Before forming his own company in 1992, Mr. Laszewski was Executive VP and COO, Group Markets, for the Liberty Mutual Insurance Group. For ten years he also served as National Advisor on Health Policy Issues for Ernst & Young. The majority of Mr. Laszewski’s time is spent being directly involved in the marketplace as it comes to grips with the health care cost and quality challenge. Bob is active in the purchase and divestiture of health care and insurance businesses. He has participated extensively in the nation's health care debate, especially on health insurance reform and the impact it will have on existing health insurance programs, the insurance industry, and the evolving role between payers and providers. He has offered his perspective on health care reform in testimony before several committees of both the House and Senate of the U.S. Congress.
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David Nash, MD
David B. Nash, MD MBA, is a board certified internist who is internationally recognized for his work in public accountability for outcomes, physician leadership development, and quality-of-care improvement. He is the Founding Dean Emeritus of the Jefferson College of Population Health and now serves as the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy. Dr. Nash is regularly on Modern Healthcare's list of Most Powerful Persons in Healthcare and is a principal faculty member for quality of care programming for the American Association of Physician Leaders. Dr. Nash has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and edited 23 books, including Connecting with the New Healthcare Consumer, The Quality Solution, Demand Better, and most recently Population Health: Creating a Culture of Wellness (3rd edition).
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•One of the earliest advocates of the computerization of American medicine •Instrumental in the creation of four healthcare information organizations •Speaks on how the changes in Washington affect the daily operations of healthcare organizations
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Susan Frampton
For over a decade, Susan Frampton has been the President of Planetree, a not-for-profit advocacy and membership organization that works with a growing international network of healthcare provider organizations across the continuum of care to implement comprehensive patient-/person-centered models of care. Dr. Frampton, a medical anthropologist, has authored numerous publications, the most recent including the third edition of the edited collection Putting Patients First. Dr. Frampton was appointed co-chair of the National Priorities Partnership, a collaborative of 52 major national organizations convened by the National Quality Forum working to identify strategies for improving safety, quality and patient-centered outcomes for the U.S. health care system. In addition to speaking internationally on culture change, quality, safety, and the patient experience.
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