Second Annual Conference
When: September 29 - 30, 2004
Where: Four Seasons Resort and Club
Dallas at Las Colinas
Hosted by:
Conning Capital Partners
Sponsored by:
CapitalSource Inc.
UBS Investment Bank
Goodwin Procter LLP
Ross & Company,Inc.
Agenda
Wednesday, September 29
4:00 - 7:00 pm Registration
6:30 Cocktails and Dinner
Thursday, September 30
6:30 - 7:30 am Registration & Breakfast
7:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
7:35 - 12:30 Formal Program
CONFERENCE TOPICS
"CMS Outlook: Impact of Policy Decisions on Healthcare Services"
"Post-election Environment for Healthcare Services Companies and Investors"
"Will the Promise of Information Technology be Fulfilled: Emerging Digital Information Initiatives and Impacts"
"Are the Old Business Models in Decline? Success Requirements, Now and in the Future"
SPEAKERS
Presentations by and extensive audience interaction with:
Tom Scully, Former Administrator, CMS
Mark Heesen, President, NVCA
Jeff Goldsmith, author, Digital Medicine
Scott Wallace, CEO, NAHIT
Fred Barnes, Co-Host, Fox News' Beltway Boys
12:30 Adjourn
12:45 Box lunch and tee times for Golfers
12:45 Buffet Lunch for non-golfers
6:30 Cocktails and Dinner
Free afternoon for non golfers.
Please see Four Seasons web site for other resort activities.
Panels and Speakers
Fred Barnes
Executive Editor, The Weekly Standard
Co-host, Fox News' Beltway Boys
Jeff Goldsmith, Ph.D.
Author of Digital Medicine
President, Health Futures, Inc.
Mark Heesen
President
National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
Thomas A. Scully
Former Administrator of the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Scott Wallace
CEO
National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT)
Speaker Biographies
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard. From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for The New Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the Presswatch media column for the American Spectator.
He is host, along with Mort Kondracke, of the Beltway Boys on the Fox News Channel. Mr. Barnes appears regularly on Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume. From 1988 to 1998 he was a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He has also appeared on Nightline, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Mr. Barnes graduated from the University of Virginia and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard University.
Tom Scully was confirmed by the United States Senate and was sworn in as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in May 2001. As the administrator of CMS, Tom served as CEO of the largest health insurance organization in the world. CMS is responsible for the management of Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program and other national healthcare initiatives. CMS has the second-largest budget outlay of the federal government. The organization is directly responsible for $1 out of every $3 spent on healthcare in United States. The organization insures approximately 25 percent of the United States population - more than 70 million beneficiaries - including the elderly, disabled and some of the lowest income individuals in the country. CMS processes more than 1 billion claims each year and it contracts with approximately 1 million providers.
Prior to assuming responsibility as CMS Administrator, Tom served as president and chief executive officer of the Federation of American Hospitals, the trade association representing the nation's 1700 privately owned and managed community hospitals and health systems from January 1995 to May 2001.
Previously, Scully was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Patton Boggs, LLP. His practice focused on regulatory and legislative work in health care. Before joining the law firm, Scully worked at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Counselor to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 1992 to 1993, and as Associate Director of OMB for Human Resources, Veterans and Labor from 1989 to 1992. In these positions, he oversaw the fiscal policy and regulatory review of the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor and Veterans Affairs. He also advised President Bush on health care policy, Medicare and Medicaid payment reform.
In 1988, Mr. Scully served on the communications staff of the Bush-Quayle campaign and as Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs for the President-Elect's transition team. From 1986-88, he was an attorney with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP. He also worked on Capitol Hill from 1981 to 1985 as staff assistant to United States Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), and from 1979 to 1981 at the Federal Election Commission. Scully served on the Board of Directors of Oxford Health Plans and ofDaVita Corporation, two of the nation's largest healthcare service providers prior to assuming his position as Administrator of CMS. Mr. Scully holds a Juris Doctor degree from Catholic University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia.
Jeff Goldsmith is President of Health Futures, Inc. He is also Associate Professor of Medical Education in the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia. For eleven years ending in l990, he was a lecturer in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, on health services management and policy. He has also lectured on these topics at the Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of Finance, Johns Hopkins, Washington University and the University of California at Berkeley. Jeff's interests include: biotechnology, international health systems, and the future of health services.
From 1982 to 1994, Jeff served as National Advisor for Healthcare for the firm Ernst and Young, and provided strategy consultation to a wide variety of healthcare systems, health plans, supply and technology firms. Prior to l982, he was Director of Planning and Government Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Special Assistant to the Dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine. From l973 to l975, he worked in the Office of the Governor, State of Illinois as a fiscal and policy analyst, and Special Assistant to the State Budget Director.
Jeff earned his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago in l973, studying complex organizations, sociology of the professions, and politics of developing nations. He graduated from Reed College in l970, majoring in psychology and classics, earning a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for graduate study in l971.
Jeff was the recipient of the Corning Award for excellence in health planning from the American Hospital Association's Society for Healthcare Planning in l990, and has received the Dean Conley Award for best healthcare article three times (l985, l990 and 1995) from the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has written five articles for the Harvard Business Review, and has been a source for articles on medical technology and health services for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, Time and other publications. Jeff is a member of the editorial board of Health Affairs. He is a Director of the Cerner Corporation, a healthcare informatics firm. Jeff is also Director of Essent Healthcare, a hospital management firm, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Burrill and Company, a private merchant bank in biotechnology and health sciences.
Scott Wallace was elected as the President and CEO of the National Alliance for Health Information Technology in April 2003. As a former CEO, attorney, start-up specialist and technology industry veteran, he manages the day-to-day operations of the Alliance.
Before leading the alliance, Mr. Wallace founded and managed Great Lakes Capital, a technology commercialization consulting firm. He also directed the start-up, management and divestiture of two other successful companies - a wireless accessories business and a specialty chemical concern. The chemical company, Eichrom Industries earned a spot on Inc. magazine's 1996 list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America. Before that, Mr. Wallace co-founded an early stage venture capital fund that invested in technology and environmental companies.
Mr. Wallace started his career practicing corporate and transactional law at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.
Mr. Wallace holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Duke University, an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Wallace lives with his wife and four children in Oak Park, Illinois.
As President of the National Venture Capital Association, Mr. Heesen is responsible for all Association activities, including leading its professional staff, working closely with the NVCA Board of Directors and venture capital community, developing Association policies and strategies, and directing the Association's national legislative and regulatory efforts. In addition, Mark oversees the management of NVCA's affiliate organization, the American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth, which now represents 14,000 emerging growth companies.
Since 1991, Mark has worked on behalf of the venture capital community to enact a wide range of policies that benefit the venture capital and entrepreneurial communities, including a significant capital gains differential, securities litigation reform, accounting treatment of stock options and merger accounting, reform of the FDA pre-market approval process, among others.
Prior to coming to the NVCA, Mark was an aide to a former Governor of Pennsylvania and was Deputy Director for Federal Funds reporting to the Texas Legislature. Mark received a law degree with an emphasis in taxation from the Dickinson School of Law in 1984.