December 10, 2009, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC
A forum organized by Common Good, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for states, health care systems, and other interested entities and individuals to learn more about patient safety and medical liability reform innovations, and how to develop viable proposals for submission to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2010.
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast at the National Press Club
VIDEO: Welcome and Keynote Address by Dr. Lucian Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health and the National Patient Safety Foundation
8:30 a.m
Welcome
Janet Corcoran, Senior Consultant, Common Good
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Keynote Address
Dr. Lucian Leape, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of
Public Health; Chair, Lucian Leape Institute, National Patient Safety
Foundation
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Panel 1: Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Innovations: What are the Most Promising Alternatives to Fix Healthcare?
Moderator:
Randall R. Bovbjerg, Senior Fellow, Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute
Additional Panelists:
Philip K. Howard, Partner, Covington & Burling; Chair, Common Good
Richard C. Boothman, Chief Risk Officer, University of Michigan Health System
Martin J. Hatlie, JD, President, Partnership for Patient Safety; CEO, Coalition for Quality and Patient Safety of Chicagoland
Albert L. Strunk, JD, MD, FACOG, Deputy Executive Vice President &
Vice President, Fellowship Activities, American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists
VIDEO: Panel One – Patient Safety and Medical Liability Reform Innovations: What are the Most Promising Alternatives to Fix Healthcare?
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Panel 2: Developing Successful Proposals
Moderator and Panelist:
Michelle Mello, JD, PhD, Professor of Law and Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Additional Panelists:
Martin J. Hatlie, JD, President, Partnership for Patient Safety; CEO, Coalition for Quality and Patient Safety of Chicagoland
Alan C. Woodward, MD, Former President, Massachusetts Medical Society
Elaine Brightwater, DNP, CNM, Senior Project Coordinator, Center for Development and Disability, University of New Mexico
VIDEO: Panel Two – Developing Successful Proposals
11:30 – 12:30 p.m
Panel 3: Project Design and Implementation Challenges
Moderator:
Janet Corcoran, Senior Consultant, Common Good
Additional Panelists:
Nancy Foster, Vice President for Quality and Patient Safety Policy, American Hospital Association
David Oakley, Esq., Counsel, Healthcare, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Gordon H. Smith, Esq., Executive Vice President, Maine Medical Association
Robert J. Walling, III, Principal and Consultant, Pinnacle Actuarial Resources, Inc.
VIDEO: Panel Three – Project Design and Implementation Challenges
12:30 – 12:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
12:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon and Keynote
E. Donald Elliott, Professor, Yale Law School; Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
VIDEO: Luncheon and Keynote Address by E. Donald Elliott of Yale Law School and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
2:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Support for this Common Good forum was provided by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
