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*Invited. All others are confirmed. David S. Abernethy is senior vice president, Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, of HIP Health Plans. He is responsible for all issues relating to Federal and State government relations for the health plans and for directing the company’s Washington office. He was appointed to this position in January 1996. Mr. Abernethy is also executive director of Health Insurance Plan Administrators, a HIP-affiliated third-party administrator company located in Hollywood, Florida. Prior to joining HIP Mr. Abernethy worked from 1987 to 1996 for the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives in a variety of positions including staff director of the Subcommittee on Health. As such he was the Committee’s principal staff person for Medicare and for health reform. He was particularly involved in the design of legislation concerning comprehensive health insurance, hospital payment policy, managed care, tax treatment of health care organizations, reorganization of rural health care and related topics. Prior to joining the Committee on Ways and Means, Mr. Abernethy was deputy commissioner of Health for Planning, Policy, and Resource Development for the New York State Department of Health. In that capacity from 1982 through 1987, he directed the Department's planning and policy development division, developing a range of initiatives affecting long-term care financing, hospital reimbursement and capital investment, ambulatory surgery, primary care in under served areas, maternal and child health, and preventive health services in the state of New York. Mr. Abernethy directed New York’s health planning and development activities and coordinated the Department's federal affairs. Mr. Abernethy is the author with David A. Pearson of Regulating Hospital Costs: The Development of Public Policy as well as a number of articles on health policy. He is the former president of the American Health Planning Association (AHPA) and a recipient of the Richard H. Schlesinger Achievement Award given by AHPA and the American Public Health Association (APHA). He is formerly a member of the Governing Council of APHA. He holds teaching positions in health policy at the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University and the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Abernethy has also worked for the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the House Committee on Commerce (1977-1980) and as the administrator of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco (1974-1976). He holds a Master's degree in Public Health (Health Services Administration) from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont Men's College, cum laude in History. Joseph R. Antos, Ph.D. is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent research focuses on Medicare reform (including proposals to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare), health insurance regulation, and the uninsured. He has testified before Congress on federal health policy and has been quoted in the media, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Business Week, CNN, and C-SPAN. Prior to coming to AEI, Dr. Antos was the assistant director for health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office. While at CBO, he directed the analysis of the major legislative proposals affecting Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health programs, as well as proposals affecting Social Security, welfare, employment, and education policies. Previously, Dr. Antos was the director of the Office of Research and Demonstrations and deputy director of the Office of the Actuary at the Health Care Financing Administration, the precursor to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Antos was also deputy chief of staff and the principal deputy assistant secretary for management and budget in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers, and he held other senior-level positions in the executive branch. Dr. Antos received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester. Laurie Flynn directs the Center for Families, Communities & Health Policy and is responsible for the Columbia TeenScreenTM Program. For the 16 years prior to joining Columbia University, Ms. Flynn served as the executive director of National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI). NAMI is the nation's leading grassroots advocacy organization dedicated solely to improving the quality of life for people with severe mental illnesses and their families. W. David Helms, Ph.D., is president and CEO of AcademyHealth, the professional home for health services researchers, policy analysts, and practitioners. Its programs are dedicated to stimulating the development, understanding, and use of the best available health services research and health policy information by public and private decision makers. In addition to leading AcademyHealth, Dr. Helms serves as a senior advisor to several of AcademyHealth’s Programs including the National Health Policy Conference, the Annual Research Meeting, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives program, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality User Liaison Program. Dr. Helms also serves as president and CEO of the Coalition for Health Services, AcademyHealth’s advocacy arm. The Coalition provides a unified voice for enhanced federal funding of health services research and data to inform health policy and practice. Prior to his current position, Dr. Helms founded and directed the Alpha Center from 1976-2000. The Alpha Center was a non-partisan, non-profit health policy center that provided expert technical assistance, objective analysis and research, and comprehensive education and facilitation services. Dr. Helms received his doctorate in public administration and economics in 1979 from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. (Overview of Health Policy and Politics) Christopher Jennings is the president of Jennings Policy Strategies, Inc., a policy, legislative strategy, and communications consulting firm. Mr. Jennings served the Clinton Administration for eight years. As the President’s senior health policy advisor, he was charged with developing and implementing the Administration’s health care policy. In this capacity, Mr. Jennings coordinated and oversaw the health policy work of numerous federal agencies, including the Office of Management and Budget and the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor. He also had lead responsibility for communicating and advocating Administration health policy to the Congress, state and local governments, health care interest groups, and the media. During his
tenure in the White House, Mr. Jennings made significant contributions
toward the enactment of major, bipartisan health legislation. Statutory
achievements include: the Kennedy-Kassebaum insurance reforms, the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Children’s Health
Insurance Program, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and its comprehensive
Medicare reforms, the Mental Health Parity Act, the Food and Drug Administration
Modernization Act, and the Work Incentives Improvement Act. Mr. Jennings was also the chief architect of a wide array of legislative initiatives that have helped set the health care agenda for the new Administration and Congress. These include proposals to: strengthen and modernize Medicare, including the development of a Medicare prescription drug benefit; expand health insurance coverage to an additional five million uninsured Americans; secure passage of a bipartisan and enforceable Patients’ Bill of Rights; and provide financial assistance and services to millions of Americans of all ages who need long-term care and for those who care for them. Before his White House appointment, Mr. Jennings was the senior legislative health reform advisor to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). During his tenure in this position (93-94), he worked closely with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, assisting her in preparing for testimony before five Committees and staffing her for hundreds of meetings with Members of Congress. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Jennings served as committee staff for three United States Senators (Glenn, Melcher, and Pryor) over the course of almost ten years on Capitol Hill. As eeputy staff director of the Senate Aging Committee for Chairman David Pryor (D-AR), he staffed the Senator before the Finance Committee and the “Pepper Commission.” He also coordinated Senator Pryor’s legislative initiatives on prescription drug coverage and cost containment, long-term care, insurance market reform, rural health issues, and small business health coverage and access concerns. Charles N. (“Chip”) Kahn III is president of the Federation of American Hospitals, the national advocacy organization for investor-owned hospitals and health systems. Mr. Kahn became the Federation’s president in June, 2001. Mr. Kahn is one of the nation’s preeminent experts on health policy and Medicare issues, and his leadership on health care issues and in the political arena is well recognized. Since becoming president of the Federation, The Hill newspaper, in March, 2002, selected him as one of the capital’s top “rainmakers” for the second consecutive year. Mr. Kahn also has been acknowledged as one of two “major movers” of an effort sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to bring together a diverse, “strange bedfellows” coalition of often-opposing major national advocacy organizations to seek solutions to extending health coverage to the uninsured. Before coming to the Federation, Mr. Kahn was one of the nation’s top leaders in the health insurance industry. As president of the Health Insurance Association of America (HIAA), he focused national attention on the plight of the uninsured, effectively placing this issue at the forefront of the national public policy agenda. Under his leadership, HIAA dramatically increased its membership and prestige, and was named by Fortune magazine for three consecutive years as the nation’s most influential insurance trade association in its “Power 25” list of Washington, DC-based lobbying organizations. In 1993 and 1994, as HIAA executive vice president, Mr. Kahn was instrumental in mounting the ground-breaking “Harry and Louise” campaign that called into question the Clinton health reform plan, a campaign characterized by Advertising Age magazine as “among the best conceived and executed public affairs advertising programs in history.” In 2000, Mr. Kahn brought back “Harry and Louise” as advocates for the uninsured, a move applauded even by traditional critics of the industry. Mr. Kahn has a long and distinguished career as a professional staff member on Capitol Hill, specializing in health policy issues. During 1995-1998, he played a critical role in passage of significant health legislation while serving as staff director for the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. During this time, his efforts helped bring about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Medicare provisions of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act (BBA). Mr. Kahn also served as minority health counsel for the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee from 1986-1993, where he helped shape every piece of national health entitlement legislation. He also has served as senior health policy advisor to former Senator David Durenberger (R-MN), and legislative assistant of health to former Senator Dan Quayle (R-IN). Early in his career, Mr. Kahn directed the Office of Financial Management Education at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) – where he worked primarily on developing the health care financial management curriculum – after completing an administrative residency with the Teaching Hospital Department of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Mr. Kahn has numerous academic and advisory appointments. He serves as Chairman of the University of Michigan’s Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, on the Board of Directors of the Partnership For Prevention, the Advisory Committee for the Center for Studying Health Systems Change, the Program Advisory Board of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Fellowships Program, and as a member of the Medicare Competitive Pricing Advisory Committee. He also is a member of Delta Omega, the national honorary public health society. In addition to teaching health policy at the Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and Tulane University, Mr. Kahn writes about health care financing. Most recently, his paper, “Building a Consensus for Expanding Health Care Coverage,” co-authored with Ron Pollack of Families USA, appeared in Health Affairs (January, 2001). He also co-authored “Budget Bills as Precedents for Medicare Policy: The Politics of the BBA” (Health Affairs, January/February 1999) and “Why We Should Keep the Employment-Based Health Insurance System” (Health Affairs, November/December, 1999). Mr. Kahn holds a Masters of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, which in 2001 bestowed upon him its prestigious “Champion of Public Health” award. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University. Celinda Lake is the president of Lake Snell Perry & Associates, Inc., a research-based strategy firm. She is one of the Democratic party's leading political strategists. Her most recent areas of concentration have been the changing politics of the Western States, health care in the 1990's, children as a political issue, and the environmental movement. During the 1992 election cycle, Ms. Lake oversaw focus group research for the Clinton/Gore campaign and served as a general consultant throughout the campaign. She is currently the democratic half of the bipartisan polling team for U.S. News and World Report. Prior to joining Lake Snell Perry & Associates, Inc., Ms. Lake was a partner in Mellman, Lazarus, Lake, Inc. Prior to that, she was a partner and vice president of Greenberg-Lake: the Analysis Group. She also served as political director at the Women's Campaign Fund. Jeanne Lambrew, Ph.D., is an associate professor at George Washington University where she teaches health policy. She also conducts policy-relevant research on Medicare, Medicaid and the uninsured, and long-term care. Dr. Lambrew worked on health policy at the White House from 1997 through 2001, as the Program Associate Director for Health at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and as the senior health analyst at the National Economic Council. In these positions, she worked on the creation and implementation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, development of the President’s Medicare reform plan and long-term care initiative, and implementation and oversight of Medicaid and disability policies. Prior to serving at the White House, Dr. Lambrew was an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University (1996) and a special assistant coordinating Medicaid and state studies at the Department of Health and Human Services (1993 through 1995). Dr. Lambrew has her masters and Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jon Lawniczak, M.B.A., is the director of Government Relations for the Coalition for Health Services Research, the advocacy arm of the AcademyHealth. With strong expertise in the health policy arena, Mr. Lawniczak directs all advocacy and government relations activities for the Coalition. Prior to joining the Coalition, Mr. Lawniczak was the federal affairs manager/Health for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). In this position, Mr. Lawniczak was responsible for presenting the views of the state insurance commissioners to Congress and the Administration on all health policy issues. Mr. Lawniczak worked on all health issues of importance to the commissioners including the patients’ bill of rights; health information privacy; ensuring that HMOs are regulated as the business of insurance; developing guidelines regarding shared regulatory jurisdiction over Medicare+Choice plans; developing federal solvency standards for Provider-sponsored Organizations; and ERISA issues. Before working at the NAIC, Mr. Lawniczak was with the National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC). He was hired as a legislative assistant to work on general policy issues. He was promoted to senior health policy analyst where he worked on all health policy issues of importance to senior citizens including Medicare, Medicaid and long-term care. He was promoted to director of Federal Affairs where he oversaw the entire lobbying effort of the NCSC. Preceding his employment with the NCSC, Mr. Lawniczak served as a legislative assistant and press secretary to Congressman Harold Ford, Sr. (D-TN). Representative Ford was a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over several federal health programs. As a legislative assistant Mr. Lawniczak was responsible for health policy. Before joining the staff of Congressman Ford, Mr. Lawniczak was employed as a legislative assistant responsible for health policy for Congressman Les Aspin (D-WI). Mr. Lawniczak holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Eastern Michigan University. He performed graduate studies in International Relations at the University of Virginia. Lawrence S. Lewin, M.B.A., building on more than 30 years’ experience in the health care field, provides personal executive consulting services to senior health executives and trustees, and serves a number of for-profit and non-profit boards as a chair/director/trustee. During his career, Mr. Lewin has worked with a wide range of public and private executives in developing federal, state and local health policies and corporate strategies. He has worked extensively in the application of health services research to major policy and program decisions, and in developing the case for such policies in presentations to governing bodies and the public. He has guided health care and institutions in implementing advances in information technology; currently chairs the Board Committee on Information Services at Intermountain Health Care, where he has been a Trustee since 1984. Mr. Lewin founded The Lewin Group, a national health policy and management consulting firm, in 1970, and, after its purchase by Quintiles Transnational in 1996, continued to serve as CEO and as a director of Quintiles until he retired in 1999. His efforts have included strategic positioning, market analysis, governance, and management studies, with a particular focus on changes in financing, technology, care management, and the organization of health care services. Mr. Lewin’s clients have included governments at all levels, multi-hospital systems, academic health centers, children’s hospitals, health care delivery systems, and medical supply, device and pharmaceutical manufacturers. He has led a number of engagements involving mergers and strategic partnerships among major health care providers. Academic medical centers and public policy have been the principal focus of his efforts as a consultant and as a professional. He has worked with over academic health centers and teaching since the early 1970s, when he led the team that analyzed the cost of educating health professionals for the Institute of Medicine. He is currently a member of the Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers and of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Academic Medical Centers in the 21st Century. He has carried out extensive studies on a variety of public policy issues, including the financing of health care reform, the organization of federal public health agencies, and the financing of indigent health care at federal, state, and local levels. In 1992, Mr. Lewin chaired an advisory work group on health care reform during the Presidential transition. Mr. Lewin is also an elected council member of the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine and a former trustee of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Mr. Lewin holds an A.B. degree, cum laude, from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a MBA with high distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. (Overview of Health Policy and Politics) Marion Ein Lewin, until September, 2001, served as senior staff officer at the Institute of Medicine and headed its Office of Health Policy Programs and Fellowships. In this position, she directed The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowships Program, the Gustav O. Lienhard Award, the IOM/AAN Nurse-Scholar Programs, and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lecture Series. Ms. Lewin has also served as study director for major IOM reports including, “Balancing the Scales of Opportunity: Ensuring Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Health Professions” (1994), “Improving the Medicare Market: Adding Choice and Protections” (1996), and most recently a government-sponsored study on " America’s Health Care Safety Net: Intact but Endangered"(2000). Ms. Lewin’s tenure at the IOM began in 1987. Before coming to the IOM, Ms. Lewin was director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the American Enterprise Institute, where she conducted research and policy studies related to the financing and delivery of health care including indigent care, Medicare and Medicaid, and private sector health cost management efforts. Previous to this assignment she was deputy director of the National Health Policy Forum and worked as a health legislative aide in the Congress. Ms. Lewin has written extensively on a wide range of health care topics. She authors a quarterly "Washington Outlook" section for the Journal of Medical Practice Management. In 1996, she headed a major project for the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR), the development and publication of a Baxter Health Policy Review volume on “Strategic Choices for a Changing Health Care System.” Ms. Lewin is on the board of Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C. and chairs its Planning Committee. Ms. Lewin is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She received her undergraduate and graduate education at Columbia University. Currently, Ms. Lewin works as a special projects consultant. (Workings of Congress, The Executive Branch, Federal Budgeting, The Public’s Role) David Sundwall, M.D., became president of the American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) in September 1994. The ACLA is a not-for-profit organization representing the leading national, regional, and local independent clinical laboratories. Its member companies provide more than 60 percent of the clinical lab testing in the United States done by commercial laboratories. Prior to his current position, he was vice president and medical director of American Healthcare System (AmHS), at that time the largest coalition of not-for-profit multi-hospital systems in the country. Dr. Sundwall has extensive experience in federal government and national health policy, including: administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and assistant surgeon general in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (1986-1988); director, Health and Human Resources Staff (Majority), U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee (1981-1986); director, Medical Student Programs in Family Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City (1978-1981); chief, Family Medicine Section, Division of Ambulatory and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (1977-1978); and director, Family Practice Residency Program, University School Medicine, Salt Lake City (1975-1977). Dr. Sundwall was in private medical practice in Murray, Utah from 1973-1975. He currently has academic appointments at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; and the University of Utah, School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and family practice. He is licensed to practice medicine in the District of Columbia. He is currently as a Board of Trustees at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA; Chair, Laboratory Health Care Coalition; and Chair, National Exploring Health Careers Committee. He serves on the Medicare coverage Advisory Committer, Center for Medicare/Medicaid Management; Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC), Centers for Disease Control; Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce; Lab Tests Online Editorial Review Board; Employment Counselor, White Oak Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; and Advisory Council, The Governor Scott M. Matheson Center for Health Care Studies, University of Utah. Dr. Sundwall has participated in many medically related task forces and advisory groups and has authored numerous articles on medical practice, health policy, and the public interest. He recently served as dhairperson, Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME), January 1997 – September 2000. Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D., is professor of health policy and geriatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, director, Institute for Medicare Practice, and senior vice president for policy of the Mount Sinai-NYU Health. He also serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of the National Academy for Social Insurance, the Primary Care Development Corporation, the Medicare Rights Center, the New York Organ Donor Network, and the Hadassah Medical Organization; as a member of the Advisory Board to the Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy of Harvard University; and as a member of the Commonwealth Fund Advisory Committee for Programs on Elderly People. From 1993 through September, 1997, Dr. Vladeck was administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In that position, he directed the Medicare and Medicaid programs, with combined annual expenditures of more than $300 billion in 1997. His tenure at HCFA was noteworthy for organizational and programmatic innovation in customer service, quality improvement, long-term care, and efforts to prevent and combat fraud and abuse. He also played a central role in the formulation and enactment of the Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Before joining the federal government, Dr. Vladeck served ten years as president of the United Hospital Fund of New York. He has also held positions on the faculty of Columbia University, at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and, from 1979 through 1982, as assistant commissioner for Health Planning and Resources Development of the New Jersey State Department of Health. At the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, to which he was elected in 1986, Dr. Vladeck chaired the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People. Among many other honors and awards, Dr. Vladeck has received the 1995 National Public Service Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the American Society for Public Administration, the 1996 Hubert H. Humphrey Award of the American Political Science Association, and the 1998 President’s Award of the American Society on Aging. Dr. Vladeck has published widely, perhaps most notably in his book, Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy (Basic Books: 1980). He received his BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan. |
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