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Main Congress Day One
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 || Main Congress: Day One
| 7:30 | Congress Registration & Morning Coffee |
| 8:00 | Chairpersons’ Welcome & Opening Remarks Greg Buchert, MD, MPH, Chief Operating Officer, CALOPTIMA Jeffrey Robertson, MD, Executive Medical Director, REGENCE BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD |
| 8:15 | The Healthcare Reform & the 2008 Presidential Elections Morton Kondracke, Executive Editor, Roll Call and Fox News Commentator |
| 9:00 | The “Not Yet Ready for Prime Time” Health Care Debate: Significant Issues YouWon't Hear Discussed by the Presidential Candidates Donald Fetterolf, MD, MBA, Corporate VP for Health Intelligence, MATRIA HEALTHCARE Jeff Gruen, MD, Chief Medical Officer, REVOLUTION HEALTH GROUP Tom Wilson, PhD, Epidemiologist, POPULATION HEALTH IMPACT INSTITUTE |
| 10:00 | 45-Minute Break – Exhibit Hall Grand Opening |
| 10:45 | The Current Instability of Disease Management—The Future of Disease Management Programs Jeffrey Robertson, MD, Executive Medical Director, REGENCE BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD Rebecca Chi, Director of Operations, FAMILY CARE HEALTH PLAN
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| 11:30 | Triangulating Disease Management Initiatives: Making the Partnership between Provider, Health Plan & Patient Become One Trisha Torrey, Creator, EVERYPATIENTSADVOCATE.COM Richard Fogoros, MD, Consultant & Author |
| 12:15 | Luncheon for Faculty & Attendees |
Afternoon Current Tracks
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| 1:30 | Coordinating Behavioral Health with Intensive Case Management by Leveraging Technology to Make for the Medicaid Member Theone Fee, RN, BSN, Supervisor, Intensive Case Management, KEYSTONE MERCY HEALTH PLAN Diana Rappa-Kesser, RN, MSN, CCM, Senior Director Care Coordination, KEYSTONE MERCY HEALTH PLAN Mark McAdoo, Co-Founder, INTELLISOURCE HEALTHCARE | ||||
| 2:15 | Managing Depression as a Co-morbidity in Disease Management Jeffrey Robertson, MD, Executive Medical Director, REGENCE BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD | ||||
| 3:00 | 30-Minute Break | ||||
| 3:30 | Barrier Resolution and Integration of Behavioral Health Services for Complex Medicaid Populations Lynne Harsha, Associate Vice President, PerforMED, AMERIHEALTH MERCY | ||||
| 4:15 | The Impact of Care Coordination on the Management of Diabetics: Evidence from the "Florida a Healthy State" & "Healthier Florida" Medicaid Programs Jijo James, MD, MPH, Medical Director, PFIZER HEALTH SOLUTIONS Sandra MacLeod, MD, MPH, Medical Director, HEALTHIER FLORIDA Rosemarie Moore, RN, Complex Case Manager, HEALTHIER FLORIDA Lolita Ross, Program Manager, HEALTHIER FLORIDA Susan Neil, Behavioral Health Specialist, HEALTHIER FLORIDA | ||||
| 5:00 | Join us for our networking reception | ||||
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| 1:30 | Targeting Pediatric Obesity: The Crisis for Health Care in the 21st Century Ann O. Scheimann, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | ||||
| 2:15 | Advances in Wellness-based Analytics & Personalized Outreach to Support Patients with Cardiometabolic Risk Jennifer Christian-Herman, PhD, Vice President, National Integrated Health Improvement, HEALTH NET Betsy Barbeau, SVP, Health & Wellness, HEALTH DIALOG | ||||
| 3:00 | 30-Minute Break | ||||
| 3:30 | The Provider-Payer Partnership – An Answer to Quality Healthcare Improvement for Children with Diabetes Sandra Bunting, RN, CCM, CPHQ, Senior Manager of Total HealthCare, BLUECROSS BLUESHIELD OF TENNESSEE Patsy Trimble, Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Endocrinology, VANDERBILT MONROE CARELL JR HOSPITAL | ||||
| 4:15 | H. pylori: Still an Important Infection in 2008 Leonard D. Ehrlich, MD, Physician, CENTRAL BUCKS SPECIALISTS | ||||
| 5:00 | Join us for our networking reception | ||||
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