8th Annual Forum for Improving Children’s Healthcare

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Presenters and planners listed below have not indicated any financial interests or other relationships to disclose unless their name is marked with a *D. Presenters and planners marked with a *D have financial interests or other relationships to disclose.

8th Annual Forum Steering Committee

Polly Arango (*D) (Bio)
Helen Burstein MD, MPH (Bio)
Peter Lachman (Bio)
Writer Advocate
Family Voices
Senior VP of Performance Measures
Consultant in Service Redesign and Transformation
 
National Quality Forum
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
 
 
 
Bruce Bagley MD (Bio)
Hana Geva MD, MMHS (Bio)
Lucian Leape MD (Bio)
Medical Director for Quality Improvement 
Chairman
The Israeli Society
Adjunct Professor of Health Policy
Harvard School of Public Health
 American Academy of Family Physicians
  for Quality in Health Care
 
 
 
 
Christy S. Blakely (Bio)
Doris Hanna RN, CPNP, ScD (Bio)
Peter C. Van Dyck MD, MPH, MS (Bio)
Director
Family Voices
Colorado
 
 Vice President of Programs
National Initiative
Associate Administrator for Maternal and Child Health
MCHB HRSA 
 
 for Children's Healthcare Quality
 

 

(*D) Established contract with Little Rapids Corporation as the Owner

 

8th Annual Forum Program Committee

Marie Abraham MA (Bio)
Senior Policy and Program Specialist
Institute for
Family Centered Care
Sister Teresa George
VP and COO
(Bio)
Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
  Sarah Sampsel MPH (*D) (Bio)
Health Index Strategies Director
Wellpoint
     
Evaline Alessandrini MD, MSCE (Bio)
Medical Director
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Daniel Hyman MD, MMM (Bio)
Chief Quality Officer
The Children's Hospital
Sarah Hudson Scholle MPH, DrPH (Bio)
AVP, Research
National Committee for Quality Assurance
     
Karen Bergan (Bio)
Parent Leader, Family Advisory Council
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Steven W. Kairy's MD, MPH (Bio)
Chairman of Pediatrics
Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Edward L. Schor MD (Bio)
Vice President
The Commonwealth Fund
     
W. Carl Cooley MD (Bio)
Medical Director
Crotched Mountain Foundation
Anne Matlow MD, FRCPC (*D) (Bio)
Medical Director, Patient Safety
Hospital for Sick Children
Xavier Sevilla MD, FAAP (Bio)
Chief of Pediatrics
Manatee County Rural Health Services inc. 
     
Denise Dougherty PhD (Bio)
Senior Advisor, Child Health and Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Virginia Miller (Bio)
Family Leader
Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics
Lisa Simpson MB, BCh, MPH, FAAP (Bio)
Director, Child Policy Research Center
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
     
Leonard G. Feld MD, PhD, MMM (*D) (Bio)
Chief Medical Officer
Levine Children's Officer
Suzette Oyeku MD, MPH (Bio)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital at Montefore Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bonnie Strickland PhD (Bio)
Director
DSCSHN/HRSA/MCHB
     
Ramesh Sachdeva (Bio)
Vice President of Quality and Outcomes
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
John Young
Director for Medicaid and SCHIP Quality
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
 


(*D) Sarah Sampsel established contract with Wellpoint as an employee
        Anne Matlow established contract with Virox Technologiess inc with Grant Funding, Biotech+ as a Consultant and Baxter as part of their Speakers Bureau
        Leonard G. Feld established contract with Bristol Myers Squibb as Co-Editor-in-Chief and for Mead Johnson as  Consensus in Pediatrics



Public Event Team

Molly Fubel (Bio)
Vice President, Education and Client Services
NICHQ
Laura Falvey (Bio)
Project Coordinator
NICHQ 
Kenny Irwin (Bio)
Project Coordinator
NICHQ
     
Mary Hathaway-Evans (Bio)
Director of Training and Curriculum Development
NICHQ
Erika McCarthy (Bio)
Marketing Manager
NICHQ
Jeanne Steele (Bio)
Events Manager
NICHQ
     
Rachel McDuffies
Events Intern
NICHQ
   

 

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