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Behavioral Health

• What's Behind the Explosion & Use of Psychotropic Medication?
  Chair: Haiden Huskamp, Harvard University

Child Health

• Childhood Immunization Policies
  Chair: Gray Freed, University of Michigan

Comparative Effectiveness & Technology Assessment

• Issues, Advocacy & Opposition: Incentives, Gaps & Barriers to Moving Ahead
  Chair: Paul Wallace, Case Management Institute

           
Consumer Choices in Health Care

• Value Based Insurance Meets Consumer Engagement
  Chair: Judith Hibbard, University of Oregon

Coverage & Access

• Evidence that Coverage for Financial Costs Makes a Difference in Access: Does Affordability Really Matter?
  Chair: Catherine McLaughlin, University of Michigan

Disparities

• Cultural Competency Framework in Health Care Organizations: Measurement, Practices & Impact on Patient Experiences with Care
  Chair: Robert Weech-Maldonado, University of Florida

• Effectiveness of Community-Based Approaches to Eliminating Disparities: Where's the Evidence?
  Chair: Daniel Blumenthal, Morehouse School of Medicine

• Health/Hospital System-Level Approaches to Eliminating Health Disparities
  Chair: Marshall Chin, University of Chicago

Gender & Health

• Breast Cancer: Where are We Now vs. 25 Years Ago in the Detection & Treatment of Breast Cancer?  Changes in Mortality & Morbidity Rates
  Chair: Carol Weisman, Penn State College of Medicine

Health Care Markets, Competition & Payment

• The Provision of Specialty Services at General Hospitals: The Relationship Between Financial Viability & Access
  Chair: Tamara Konetzka, University of Chicago

Health Information Technology

• Who Should Pay for HIT?
  Chair: Jon White, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

International Policy Innovations

• Redesigning the Hospital for the 21st Century: International Perspectives
  Chair: Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Long-Term Care

• Inadequate Savings, Falling Housing Values & Increasing Long Term Care Costs: Implications for Financing Care for the Baby Boomers
  Chair: Chritine Bishop, Brandeis University

Medicare

• Improving Medicare for the Long Haul: How Can We Improve Medicare's Performance for Its Current & Future Beneficiaries?
  Chair: Marilyn Moon, American Institutes of Research

Military & Veterans Health Care

• War, Its Aftermath & U.S. Health Care Policy
  Chair: Sara Rosenbaum, The George Washington University

Obesity Prevention & Treatment

• What Works in Obesity Prevention & Treatment?
  Chair: Tracy Orleans, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Organizational Performance & Management

• Redesigning Hospitals & Medical Groups to Improve Qualtiy & Efficiency
  Chair: Martin Charns, Veterans Affairs, Boston and Boston Universiry School of Public Health

Pay for Performance

• Pay for Performance, Public Reporting & Disparities: What Do We Know?
  Chair: Larry Casalino, University of Chicago

Prevention & Treatement of Chronic Illness

• Epidemiology & Management of the Complex Co-Morbid Patient/Managing Chronic Illness: Connecting Clinicians & Patients
  Chair: Kevin Weiss, Veterans Affairs, Hines and Northwestern University

Public Health & Preparedness

• Surge Capacity & Health Care Prepardeness: New Research on Surge Capacity
  Chair: Kristine Gebbie, Columbia University
  

Quality

• Patient-Targeted Approaches to Pay for Performance & Value Based Insurance Design
  Chair: Allison Rosen, Univeristy of Michigan

• Patient Care Safety: Where are We Now?
  Chair: Ashish Jha, Harvard University

• The Role of Quality in Health Policy: From the RAND Health Insurance Experiment to Today
  Chair: Elizabeth McGlynn, RAND

Research Translation

• International Organizations as the Target of Research Translation Efforts
  Chair: Lucy Savitz, Intermountain Health Care

State Health Initiatives

• Updates on What States Are Doing: Lessons Learned for State Health Reform
  Chair: Len Nichols, New America Foundation

• The Role of Evidence in Medical Policy & Coverage Decision Making
  Chair: Jeffrey Thompson, State of Washington

Workforce

• What are the Causes & Consequences of the Shift Away from Primary Care?
  Chair: Gary Hart, University of Arizona

Special Sessions

• Reflections on the Field of HSR: Where We’ve Been & What Questions We Left Unanswered
  Chair: Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University

• Questions & Challenges for the Next Generation of Health Services Researchers
  Chair: Anthony Lo Sasso, University of Chicago

• Perspectives on Presidential Candidates’ Health Policy Proposals
  Chair: Susan Dentzer, PBS