Speakers Express Topics - Future of Health Care

Ken Ackerman

  • The "Corporation" of Health Care
  • Medical Group Practice Integration and Development
  • Integrated Systems Strategic Development
  • Governance for the New Millennium
  • Strategic Alliance/Partnership Formation
  • Physician Recruitment and Retention
  • Acute Care Facilities Management
  • Trustee/Physician/Administrator Relations

Thomas Atchison

  • Leadership and Change
  • Physician Alignment
  • Followership
  • Cultural Transformation

Joseph J. Bujak, MD

  • Health Futures
  • Restoring Joy to the Workplace
  • Physician Healthcare Org. Relationships
  • Establishing and Building Trust
  • Physician Culture
  • Organizational Adaptability and Sustainability
  • Physician-Physician Relationships
  • Patient Safety
  • Enhancing Mutual Understanding Among Board Administration and Physician
  • Clinical Performance Improvement
  • Leading and Managing Change
  • Executive Renewal

David Burik

  • Drivers of Change: Implications of Current Market Forces for North Carolina Providers
  • New Rules, New Roles: Health System Leadership in the 20th Century
  • Scan of the Healthcare Environment
  • Who is the Customer?
  • Competing & Collaborating with Niche Players
  • Health Care 2000 Crisis: Danger or Opportunity
  • Moving Beyond the Historical Approach to Physician Partnerships
  • Drivers of Change: Implications of Current Market Forces for South Carolina Providers
  • Integration - Lessons Learned
  • Leadership in the New Millenium
  • The Effect of Single Specialty Carveouts on Nonprofit Health Care
  • Maximizing Product Lines in a Consumer-Driven Market

Lawton R. Burns, PhD, MBA

  • Physician-Hospital Relationships
  • Integrated Health Care
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Vertical Integration
  • Hospital Mergers
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Payer-Provider Contracting
  • Managing Physicians
  • Hospital Bankruptcy
  • Group Purchasing Organizations
  • Hospital of the Future

John R. Combes, MD

  • Future of Healthcare
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Future of Healthcare
  • Quality Improvement
  • Financial Issues
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Workforce Issues
  • The New Consumers
  • Trends and Issues in Health Care
  • Future of Health Care
  • Transparency and Public Reporting
  • Quality and Excellence
  • Baldrige Award
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Leadership on the Front Lines
  • Strategic Planning
  • New Questions to Strengthen Strategic Plans and Position
  • Board’s Role in Quality: Courageous Questions to Ask
  • Governance and Community Accountability
  • Board Retreats

William M. Dwyer
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Quality Improvement
  • Information & Web Technology
  • Health Politics & Policy

Howard D. Ellis, MD

  • Using healthcare real estate, such as medical office building to create hospital/physician collaboration
  • Investing in healthcare real estate
  • Benefits and Disadvantages of hospital’s ownership of medical office building and properties
  • Designing, developing and building a new facility

Allan Fine

  • Establishing a Process for Hospitals to Evaluate the Potential Offering of New Devices, Drugs, Modalities, etc.
  • Developing Profitable Growth Strategies
  • Solidifying Physician Relations; Building Support for Strategic Initiatives
  • Competitive Strategies for Dealing with Specialty Hospitals, Conditions of Excellence, etc.
  • Establishing Conditions of Excellence/ Institutes
  • Effectively Integrating Strategic and Financial Planning
  • Determining If, How and When to Develop a Diversification Strategy
  • Designing an International Health Care Strategy
  • Accessing Capital for Investment, and Establishing Priorities
  • Next Generation of Health Plans
  • Clinical Technology Trends (e.g. cardiac, oncology, orthopedics, etc.) and Their Implications for Hospitals, Payers and Consumers in the Future

Emily Friedman

  • Ethics
  • Future of Health Care Leadership & Strategy
  • Governance
  • System Issues
  • Quality Improvement
  • Workforce Issues
  • Community and health care
  • Current Issues in health care ethics
  • Demographic (population) change and its impact on health care
  • End-of-conference summary and perspective (written on site)
  • Ethics of health care leadership and organizations
  • Health care costs: causes, impact and prospects
  • Health care history (various topics)
  • Health insurance, the uninsured and the future
  • Health policy: How and why it is (and is not) made
  • Power shifts in health care and society
  • Rationing and resource allocation in health care
  • Trends that are reshaping the health care system

Jeff Goldsmith, PhD

  • Future of the Health System
  • Biotechnology & Genomics
  • Health Politics and Policy
  • Health Care Organizations and Management Trends
  • Health Information Technology/Internet
Ron M. Hollander
  • Catalyzing Health Reform: Key Success Factors
  • Health Reform at the State Level: Common Themes and Lessons Learned
  • Making Health Reform A Reality: Is Massachusetts a Model?
  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Governance
  • Future of Health Care
  • Future of Healthcare
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Physician Relations
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • System Issues
  • Joint Ventures
  • Hospital Performance

Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D.

  • Future of Health Care
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Quality Improvement
  • Evidence-based Medicine
  • Pay for Performance

John W. Kenagy, MD, MPA

  • Future of Health Care
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement
  • System Issues
  • Workforce Issues
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership and Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement
  • System Issues
  • The Board’s Role in Quality and Safety
  • Physician Employment
  • The N.Q.F. “Call to Responsibility” for Healthcare Boards and its Ramifications

George F. Lynn

  • Customer Service
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Quality Improvement
  • Leadership & Strategy

Scott A. Mason, DPA, FACHE

  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • System Issues
  • Information & Web Technology
  • Technology

Mac McCrary

  • Physician-Hospital Relations
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement 
  • Roles and Responsibilities of the Board
  • Best Practices: A Practical Guide to Implementation
  • Board Self Assessment
  • Board Composition
  • The Board's Role in Quality

David B. Nash, MD, MBA

  • Future of Helath Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Patient Safety
  • Physician Relations
  • Quality Improvement

James E. Orlikoff

  • Quality Improvement
  • Future of Healthcare
  • Marketplace Issues
  • Governance Issues
  • Board Orientation
  • Board Self Evaluation
  • Emerging Trends in Governance & Boards
  • Customer Service
  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Marketing Yourself
  • Getting the Right Executive Position
  • Gender Bias in Healthcare Leadership Positions

Donald W. Seymour

  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Physician Relations

Steven Valentine

  • Future of Healthcare
  • Leadership & Strategy
  • Medical Staff Issues
  • Physician Relations 
  • Physician Alignment
  • Acquisitions
  • Transactions

Donald C. Wegmiller

  • Future of Health Care
  • Governance
  • Compensation Planning for Health Care Executives
  • Performance Appraisal Systems for CEOs and Senior Executives
  • Current Trends and Issues in Health Care
  • CEO Succession Planning
  • Board compensation in NFP health care organizations