Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA
7:45 - 10:00 am Please join us for breakfast and a lively discussion between two healthcare reform experts who have been advising the presidential campaigns regarding the future of America's healthcare system. This annual event is an excellent opportunity to obtain insight into future trends, connect with colleagues and peers, and expand your network.
PANELISTS:
Michael D. Miller, MD, HealthPolCom – Health Policy and Communications Consulting
Educating and Engaging Stakeholders (bio)
Regina Herzlinger, Nancy McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School (bio)
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Venture capitalists and others who are active in the New England venture creation ecosystem
COST: $95
*Members of the New England Venture Capital Association should use the discount code: NEVCA
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Sponsored by Sonnenschein Venture Group LLP
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Dr. Miller is a consultant with expertise in the clinical, economic, scientific and political arenas of healthcare, who helps companies and organizations increase the value of their products and innovations.
Dr. Miller develops and executes integrated strategies to improve clinical and economic outcomes, and
expand clients’ market opportunities and revenue streams. In 2000, Dr. Miller launched his consulting
business after more than 10 years working for a variety of public and private organizations, and his clients
have included Amgen, the Center for Medical Technology Policy, Feinstein Kean Healthcare, Health
Policy Solutions, Johnson & Johnson, Monitor, the New England Healthcare Institute, Pfizer, and PhRMA.
Dr. Miller has spoken across the country to many community, professional and industry groups, written extensively and been quoted by various media outlets about strategies for improving healthcare quality, the clinical and economic value of biomedical advances, and the interactions among the healthcare delivery, reimbursement, and research systems. Based upon his experiences communicating healthcare issues to a wide variety of audiences, Dr. Miller developed a communications training program for healthcare industry employees, and in 2004 wrote the “Drug Pricing Principles” chapter in The Entrepreneur’s Guide to a Biotech Startup. He is currently working on a book titled, Fixing the US Healthcare System.
In 1988 Dr. Miller went to Washington DC as the first Executive Branch Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). During the fellowship year, he worked in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. Prior to the AAAS Fellowship, Dr. Miller graduated Magna Cum Laude from Williams College with a B.A. in chemistry, received his M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine, completed his PGY-1 general surgery residency year in Burlington Vermont, and spent a year as a Research Fellow and Instructor in the University of Rochester’s Orthopedic Department.
Before establishing his own business, Dr. Miller was Director of Federal Relations for Pfizer Inc. His responsibilities at Pfizer included representing the company to Federal officials, coordinating company-wide positions on government policies and legislation related to healthcare delivery and financing, biomedical research and US patent law, and developing working relationships with other organizations in the health, business and advocacy communities.
Other health policy and administration positions Dr. Miller held in Washington include:
- Legislative Assistant and Health Policy Advisor for Congressman Sander Levin (D-MI). While working for Congressman Levin, Dr. Miller directed legislative and policy issues involving Health Care Reform, Medicare, long-term care, medical ethics, and fraud and abuse, and was a Member of President Clinton’s Health Care Reform Task Force; (Global Budget & HIPCs Working Groups)
- Director of Facilitation & Education at Medical Alliances, a consulting firm that helped physicians, hospitals and others to navigate the changing healthcare marketplace and develop delivery coalitions. While working there he co-wrote the chapter “Preparing for Managed Care and Capitation,” in Alliances: Strategies for Building Integrated Delivery Systems;
- Physician Advisor in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget; and
- Medical Officer in the National Institute of Health’s Office of AIDS Research.
In addition to his own consulting practice, Dr. Miller is a Senior Counselor at Hyde Park Communications, is a member Anita Harris Communications’ Advisory Board, serves on the Communications Committee of the FDA Alliance, and participates in the Alliance for Health Reform's Experts Database.
In a volunteer capacity, Dr. Miller currently serves as the Secretary of the Boston Chapter of the Williams College Alumni Association, on the Organizing Committee of the Yale Life Sciences Alumni Association’s new Boston area chapter, and is Honorary “Team Physician” for the political satire troupe the Capitol Steps. While living in Washington DC, Dr. Miller was a volunteer physician in Bread for the City’s free medical clinic, served on their Board of Directors from 1997-2005, and chaired the Fundraising Committee until 2002.
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Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards. She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care and health care focused factories, two terms that she coined. Money has dubbed her the “Godmother” of consumer-driven health care.
All of her health care books have been best sellers in their categories. Her newest book is Who Killed Health Care? (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007) was selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten books that change the debate in 2008. Noted Merrill Matthews; “There are two powerful, well-respected and highly accomplished women who are driving the health care reform debate in the United States. One is Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), former first lady and a presidential hopeful whose first attempt at dramatically reforming the U.S. health care system turned into a political disaster. The other is Harvard Business School economist Regina Herzlinger, one of the country’s most knowledgeable and articulate experts on the U.S. health care system, who has been pointing the way toward a “consumer-driven” system for years.”
Her prior book, Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004) received the 2004 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award for History and Public Policy. Earlier research results were profiled by The Wall Street Journal (November 2002) and Managed Health Care Executive (June 2003, cover). Her July 2002 Harvard Business Review article, “Let’s Put Consumers in Charge of Health Care,” was an Amazon eBooks best seller.
She has won the Consumers' for Health Care Choices Pioneer in Health Economics award, the American College of Healthcare Executives’ Hamilton Book of the Year award twice, the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Board of Directors award, and Management Accounting’s research prize. She was recently inducted as an honorary fellow by the American College of Physician Executives. Modern Healthcare's's readers selected her as among the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” each year since 2003 and Managed Healthcare named her one of health care’s top ten thinkers. In recognition of her work in nonprofit accounting and control, she was named the first Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. In addition, she has delivered many keynote addresses at annual meetings of large health care and business groups and been selected as one of the outstanding instructors of the Harvard Business School MBA Program.
Other books include the best-selling Market-Driven Health Care (Paperback: Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2000), and Financial Accounting and Managerial Control of Nonprofit Organizations (Cincinnati, OH: SouthWestern, 1994). Other recent articles include :"Why Innovation in Health Care Is So Hard," Harvard Business Review, May-June 2006; “Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Delivery of Health Services,” Futurescan: Healthcare Trends and Implications 2006-2011 (Chicago, IL: SHSMD/Health Administration Press, 2006); “Medicine for Medicaid,” The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2005, with Tom Nerney; “Uncle Sam is No Doctor,” USA Today, March 28, 2005; “Consumer-Driven Health Care: Lessons from Switzerland,” Journal of the American Medical Association, September 8, 2004; “An IT Trojan Horse,” Modern Healthcare, September 6, 2004; and "Specialization and Its Discontents: The Pernicious Impact of Regulations Against Specialization and Physician Ownership on U.S. Health Care," Circulation, May 25, 2004.
Professor Herzlinger has served on the Scientific Advisory Group to the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and as a board member of many private and publicly-traded firms, mostly in the consumer-driven health care space, often as chair of the Governance and Audit subcommittees.
Regina Herzlinger received her Bachelor’s Degree from MIT and her Doctorate from the Harvard Business School.
She has been married to Dr. George Herzlinger, her MIT classmate, for 42 years. Both of their children graduated from Harvard College. Her daughter is a Fellow in Endocrinology; her son, an Infantry Captain in the U.S. Army who served two tours in Iraq, has safely returned to the U.S.