Category: VI Symposia
The Value Institute at Christiana Care
The Value Institute at Christiana Care Health System develops, delivers and evaluates innovative solutions to meet the Triple Aim of better care for individual patients, better health for the community and lower costs. In this introduction to the Value Institute, leaders Tim Gardner, M.D., and Eric V. Jackson, M.D., MBA, talk about the creative, collaborative […]
Value Institute Spring Symposium 2015 – “Eliminating Health Care Disparities”
Giselle Corbie-Smith, M.D., MSc and Lisa Cooper, M.D., MPH discuss the critical topic of eliminating health care disparities. Dr. Lisa Cooper is the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Nursing, and Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also Vice President, Healthcare Equity, for Johns Hopkins Medicine. A […]
Value Institute Fall Symposium 2014 – “Innovation and Health System Transformation”
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, is the CMS Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality. CMS is responsible for overseeing quality of care, innovation, and new payment models for the programs that serve the over 140 million Americans that access health care services through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Health Insurance Marketplace. He […]
Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “The Future of Hospice and Palliative Care”
David Casarett, MD, MA, serves as the chief of Palliative Care Services for Duke University Health System, and chief of the Section of Palliative Care within Division of General Internal Medicine. Formerly, he was professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he was also a faculty member of the […]
Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “Matching Care to Patient and Family Needs”
Dr. Diane E. Meier is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is […]
Value Institute Inaugural Symposium 2012 – “Educating the Health Care Workforce of the Future: The Quality and Safety Agenda”
David B. Nash, M.D., MBA, Dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health, discusses how quality and safety education can and should be integrated into medical education programs. Dr. Nash was named the Founding Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH) in 2008. This appointment caps a 25-year tenure on the faculty of […]
Value Institute Inaugural Symposium 2012 – “Creating Value Through Science”
Michael Lauer, M.D., is the Deputy Director for Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he serves as the principal scientific leader and advisor to the Director of the NIH on all matters relating to the substance, quality, and effectiveness of the NIH extramural research program and administration. He received education and […]
Value Institute Inaugural Symposium 2012 – “Medicine’s New Challenge: Population Health Management”
Peter L. Slavin, MD, has been the president of Massachusetts General Hospital since 2003. From 1999–2002, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, which included more than 1,700 physicians and employed nearly 1,000 of them. Dr. Slavin teaches internal medicine and health care management at Harvard Medical School, […]
Value Institute Inaugural Symposium 2012 – “Ensuring Value for Patients in a Cost-Conscious World”
Virginia L. Hood, MBBS, MPH, FRACP, FACP, an internist and nephrologist from Burlington, Vermont, served as the President of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the nation’s largest medical specialty organization, from 2011-2012. Dr. Hood has been a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) since 1991. FACP is an honorary designation that recognizes […]
Value Institute Inaugural Symposium 2012 – “Value: Medicine’s New Frontier”
Senator Chris Coons has worked hard to find bipartisan solutions to the issues facing Delaware and the nation. He has emerged as a strong voice for job creation and the innovation economy, fighting in Congress for deficit reduction, progressive social justice, and forward-looking foreign policy. Unwilling to be sidelined by partisan gridlock, Chris has worked […]