* Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, MBA, President and CEO, National Quality Forum

* Daniel M. Fox, PhD, President Emeritus, Milbank Memorial Fund


* Mark Gibson, Deputy Director, Center for Evidence-Based Policy, Oregon Health and Science University; Program Officer, Milbank Memorial Fund

* James A. Guest, JD, President and CEO, Consumers Union

* Thomas A. Gustafson, PhD, Senior Policy Advisor, Arnold & Porter, LLP

* Mark D. Hayes, Health Policy Director and Chief Health Counsel-Minority Staff, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

* John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor, Health Affairs

* Allan M. Korn, MD, Senior VP, Clinical Affairs, Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

* Peter V. Lee, JD, Executive Director, National Health Policy, Pacific Business Group on Health

* Jeffrey C. Lerner, PhD, President and CEO, ECRI Institute

* Jack Lewin, MD, CEO and Executive VP, American College of Cardiology

* J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP, Senior Scholar, Institute of Medicine

* Arnold Milstein, MD, PhD, U.S. Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer; Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health

* Peter J. Neumann, Sc.D., Director, Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy; Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

* Carmen Hooker Odom, President, Milbank Memorial Fund

* David B. Pryor, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Ascension Health

* Steve E. Phurrough, MD, MPA, Director, Coverage and Analysis Group, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

* Murray N. Ross, PhD, Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan; Director, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy

* Sanford Schwartz, MD, Professor of Medicine, Health Care Management, and Economics, School of Medicine and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

* Cary Sennett, MD, PhD, FACP, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Clinical Analysis, American
Board of Internal Medicine, Vice-Chair, AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement

* Allison W. Shuren, JD, MSN, Partner, Arnold & Porter, LLP

* David M. Steinhaus, MD, Medical Director and Vice President, CRDM Strategy and Professional Relations, Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management, Medtronic

* Barry M. Straube, MD, CMS Chief Medical Officer, Director, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

* Jed Weissberg, MD, Associate Executive Director, Quality and Performance Improvement, the Permanente Foundation

* Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Project Hope

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). ECRI Institute is accredited by ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. ECRI Institute designates this entire education activity for a maximum of 10.0 AMA Physician's Recognition Award Category 1 credits. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity. The conference has also been approved for 10 substantive Continuing Legal Education credits by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board and 10 continuing education clock hours from the Commission for Case Manager Certification, approval # CM459-A200.