Skip to content

Princeton Conference XXIV (2017)

Implications of the Election for the Health Care System
May 23-25, 2017

Speaker Biographies

Conference Report

Presentations

Session I: Repairing or Replacing the ACA Insurance Market: Why Do It?

Tom Miller, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

Stephen Zuckerman, Co-director and Senior Fellow, Urban Institute Health Policy Center

Charles N. Kahn III, President and CEO, Federation of American Hospitals

Session II: Implications of Proposed Financing Changes and Added State Flexibility to Medicaid

Michael Doonan, Associate Professor, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University Executive Director, The Massachusetts Health Policy Forum

Matt Salo, Executive Director, National Association of Medicaid Directors

Sandra R. Hernández, MD, President and CEO, California Health Care Foundation

Stuart M. Butler, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution

Session III: Possible Medicare Changes: Impact on Beneficiaries, Payers, and the Federal Budget

Murray Ross, Vice President, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

G. William Hoagland, Senior Vice President, Bipartisan Policy Center

Tricia Neuman, Senior Vice President; Director, Program on Medicare Policy, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Lina Walker, Vice President, Health Security, AARP Public Policy Institute

Session IV: Prescription Drug Costs: What Is Likely Moving Forward?

Elizabeth J. Fowler, Vice President, Global Health Policy, Johnson & Johnson

Steve Miller, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Express Scripts

Peter B. Bach, MD, Director, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Center for Health Policy and Outcomes

Lori M. Reilly, Executive Vice President, Policy, Research and Membership, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Session V: Pros and Cons of Changing the ACA's Essential Benefit Requirement

Audrey Shelto, President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

Rodney Whitlock, Vice President, ML Strategies

Sabrina Corlette, Research Professor, Center on Health Insurance Reforms, Georgetown University

Richard Frank, Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Session VI: Health Care Delivery System Reforms: Where Should We Be Heading?

Karen Wolk Feinstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jewish Healthcare Foundation

Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, Chief Innovation Officer, UPMC

Nancy Gagliano, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Culbert Healthcare Solutions

Christopher Gibbons, MD, Chief Health Innovation Adviser, Federal Communications Commission

Session VII: The Changing Payment Environment on Physician Practice

Robert Berenson, MD, Institute Fellow, The Urban Institute

Richard A. Deem, Senior Vice President, Advocacy American Medical Association

Francis J. Crosson, MD, Chairman, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)

Session VIII: Expanded State Activities to Lower Overall Health Spending

Christopher Koller, President, Milbank Memorial Fund

Donna Kinzer, Executive Director, Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission

David Seltz, Executive Director, Massachusetts Health Policy Commission

Anya Rader Wallack, Acting Secretary, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, State of Rhode Island