Institute For The Future

Ideas for Keynote Speaker #2 -- not local

Five other names to consider (but might want to factor in additional costs involved). (Not in any particular order.)

 

Dana Goldman, PhD

Health Economics, RAND

Goldman holds the RAND Chair in Health Economics and is the Founding Director of the Bing Center for Health Economics at RAND. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Services and Radiology at UCLA. His research interests combine applied microeconomics and medical issues, with a special interest in the role that medical

technology and health insurance play in determining health-related outcomes. His work has been published in leading medical, economic, statistics, and health policy journals with funding from both the public and private sectors, including the National Institutes of

Health, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Amgen, Merck, Genentech, California Healthcare Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Labor, and the Agency for Healthcare

Research and Quality. Most recently, he is the director of the RAND Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation designed to provide better estimates of the impact of health policy changes. Dr. Goldman serves on several editorial boards including Health Affairs

and the American Journal of Managed Care. He was the recipient of the National Institute for Health Care Management Research Foundation award for excellence in health policy, and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award that recognizes the outstanding contributions of a young scholar to the field of health services research. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Goldman received his B.A from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

(article entitled “Socioeconomic Differences in the

Adoption of New Medical Technologies”--may or may not indicate interest in role of mobile technology in health care)

 

Robert E. Mechanic, M.B.A

Director, Health Industry Forum

Mechanic is Senior Fellow at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and Director of the Health Industry Forum, a national program established to develop practical strategies for improving the quality and effectiveness of the U.S. healthcare system. Prior to Brandeis, Mr. Mechanic ran a strategic healthcare consultancy, serving health systems, managed healthcare plans, and policy research organizations. Mr. Mechanic formerly was a Senior Healthcare Analyst with Forrester Research, a technology and business strategy research firm, where he analyzed the use of information technology and the Internet to improve healthcare business processes and clinical quality. From 1998 to 2000, he was Senior Vice President with the Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) where he was responsible for healthcare finance, policy and research. From 1988 to 1998, Mr. Mechanic was a consultant and Vice President with the Lewin Group, a Washington D.C.-based healthcare consulting firm where his practice focused on hospital finance, state health policy, and healthcare reform. Mr. Mechanic’s work has been published in such professional journals as JAMA, Health Affairs, Business and Health, and Benefits Quarterly. Mr. Mechanic earned an MBA in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in economics with distinction from the University of Wisconsin.

 

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP

Director, Institute for Health Policy, Mass General Hospital

From 1987-1991, Dr. Blumenthal served as Senior Vice President at

Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a 720-bed Harvard teaching

hospital. From 1981 to 1987 he was Executive Director of the Center for Health Policy and Management and Lecturer on Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. During the late 1970s, Blumenthal was a professional staff member on Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on several editorial boards, including the American Journal of Medicine, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is also a National Correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine. He serves on advisory committees to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Open Society Institute and other foundations.

Blumenthal was the founding chairman of AcademyHealth (formerly the

Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy), the national organization of health services researchers. He is also Director of the Harvard University Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement. From 1995 to 2002 Dr. Blumenthal served as Executive Director for The Commonwealth Fund Task Force on Academic Health Centers. He has served as a trustee of the University of Chicago Health System and currently serves as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine).

His research interests include the future of academic health centers, quality management in health care, the determinants of physician behavior, access to health services, and the extent and consequences of academic-industrial relationships in the health sciences.

(has written recently about health information networks and in the past has published article entitled "Doctors in a wired world: Can professionalism survive connectivity?"--may or may not indicate interest in role of mobile technology in health care)

 

Clayton Christensen, MPhil, MBA, DBA

Professor, Harvard Business School

Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organizational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.

Professor Christensen holds a B.A. with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University (1975), and an M.Phil. in applied econometrics and the economics of less-developed countries from Oxford University (1977), where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an MBA with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating as a George F. Baker Scholar. He was awarded his DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1992.

Christensen has served as a director on the boards of a number of public and private companies. He is currently a board member at Tata Consulting Services (NSE: TCS), Franklin Covey (NYSE: FC) and Vanu, Inc. Christensen also serves on Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council (RIEC). Christensen is the founder of Innosight LLC, a consulting and training company, focused on problems of strategy, innovation, and growth.  He is also the founder of Rose Park Advisors, an alternative investment management firm, focused on companies affected by disruptive innovation.

Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Professor Christensen served as chairman and president of CPS Technologies (CPS), a firm he co-founded with several MIT professors in 1984. CPS is a leading developer of products and manufacturing processes using high-technology metals and ceramics such as silicon nitride and silicon carbide. From 1979 to 1984 he worked as a consultant and project manager with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy consulting practice. In 1982 Professor Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served through 1983 (on a leave of absence from BCG) as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.

Professor Christensen became a faculty member at the Harvard Business School in 1992. He taught courses in Technology and Operations Management, General Management, and Operations Strategy. He then developed a course called Managing Innovation. Professor Christensen currently teaches an elective course he designed called Building a Sustainably Successful Enterprise, which teaches managers how to build and manage an enduring, successful company or transform an existing organization. He also teaches in several HBS executive education programs, including Building New Ventures and Leading Change and Organizational Renewal.

Professor Christensen is the author of the bestselling books The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997, The Innovator's Solution (2003), and Seeing What's Next (2004). In addition, he edited two casebooks on Innovation: Innovation and the General Manager (1999) and Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, 4th edition (2004). He presently is completing two books that examine the problems of our healthcare and public education systems through the lenses of his theories: The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to our Health Care Crisis (2008); and Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation will Change the Way the World Learns (2008). These also show how the problems in these industries can be resolved.

Professor Christensen's writings have been featured in a variety of publications, and have won a number of awards, such as the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences for his doctoral thesis on technology development in the disk drive industry; the Production and Operations Management Society's 1991 William Abernathy Award, presented to the author of the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society's award for the best paper in business history in 1993; and the 1995 and 2001 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.

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He served from 1986 to 1994 as a member of the Program Review Board and Strategic Planning Committee of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and was a member and chairman of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Affiliate of the American Diabetes Association between 1984 and 1996. Professor Christensen was also a founding board member of the Combined Health Appeal of Northeastern Massachusetts.

 

Alan B. Cohen, Sc.D.

Executive Director, Health Policy Institute; Director, Health Policy Research Program, Boston University

Dr. Cohen is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the BU School of Management, and Professor of Health Services at the BU School of Public Health. He also directs the national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program.

Dr. Cohen has 30 years of experience in health policy, health services research, and program evaluation. His current research interests include health policy and cost containment, comparative health care systems, evaluation of quality improvement initiatives, and policies regarding medical technology evaluation and regulation.

Dr. Cohen came to HPI in 2003, after serving for nine years as Program Director of the School of Management’s Health Care MBA Program, where he taught courses in American health policy, technology management, and comparative health care systems. Prior to joining Boston University, he was Research Professor and University Lecturer in the Institute for Health Policy of the Florence Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University, where his research focused on assessing the feasibility of setting national health care expenditure limits. Before that, he served as Vice President for Evaluation, Research, and Statistics at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he directed staff operations overseeing the design of national program evaluations and the design of RWJF surveys, including the Access to Care Survey, the Survey of Young Physicians (with the AMA), and the Survey of Business Leaders’ Views on Health Care. He also had management responsibility for programs in the areas of health care financing, state health policy, quality of care, and medical malpractice reform. Previously, he was Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Hospital Finance and Management, and Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. His earlier work as a senior analyst for Urban Systems Research & Engineering, Inc., in Cambridge, MA, involved evaluation studies of federal and state health programs in the areas of health statistics, health planning, Certificate of Need regulation, and health professions training.

Dr. Cohen currently serves on the editorial board of Inquiry, and served for eight years on the editorial board of Health Affairs. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and a Fellow of AcademyHealth. He is the principal author of Technology in American Health Care: Policy Directions for Effective Evaluation and Management

(University of Michigan Press, 2004). He received his B.A. in

psychology from the University of Rochester, and his M.S. and Sc.D. in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health.