Better Health, Lower Cost: Can Innovation Save Health Reform - Agenda

September 16, 2008

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez Street
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

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11:00 am: Registration, Alumni Foyer
12:00 pm: Luncheon, McCaw Hill
  • Welcome and Introduction by Conference Moderator
    Matt Miller, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company; Fortune Columnist, Left, Right & Center Host
  • Keynote: Thinking the Unthinkable: Zero Growth in Health Expenditures
    Alan Garber, CHP/PCOR Director; Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor and Professor of Medicine and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics, of Health Research and Policy, and of Business; Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies Senior Fellow & Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Senior Fellow
1:30 pm: Demographics, Access, and Costs: A Federal Perspective on Healthcare Policy and Innovation -- McCaw Hill
  • Peter R. Orszag, Director, U.S. Congressional Budget Office
2:00 pm: Break
2:15 pm: PLENARY I: Innovation and the Healthcare Enterprise in the United States
  • Government and Innovation
    Gail Wilensky, Former HCFA Administrator; Senior Fellow, Project Hope
  • Technology Innovation
    John Lechleiter, CEO, Eli Lilly [PENDING]
  • Payment Innovation
    Ron Williams, Chairman and CEO, Aetna [PENDING]

  • Healthcare Delivery Innovation
    George C. Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan
3:30 pm: PLENARY II: Sustaining Innovation in the Developing World
  • Product Development Perspective
    John Martin, CEO, Gilead Sciences
    JP Garnier, CEO, GlaxoSmithKline [PENDING]
  • Investment Perspective
    Brooks Byers, General Partner, Kleinder, Perkins, Caufield & Byers [INVITED]
  • Philanthropy Perspective
    TBD
4:45 pm: Break
5:00 pm: Discussion Breakout Sessions: Moderated by CHP/PCOR Faculty -- Fisher Center

GROUP I: Imperatives for U.S. Healthcare Reform: The Next Four Years
  • Making Innovation in Healthcare Delivery a Profitable Investment
    Peter Stamos, Chairman and CEO, Sterling Stamos Capital Management, L.P.
  • The Use of Cost-Effectiveness Information in Coverage Policy Decisions in the United States and the United Kingdom
    Stirling Bryan, Professor of Health Economics, Head of the Department of Health Economics, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Employer Leadership in Incubating a 60 MPG U.S. Health Care System
    Arnold Milstein, Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; National Health Care Thought Leader, Mercer

GROUP II: Innovation in Developing Lands: Malaria Nets, $5 Prostheses, and Cell Phones -- What Helps Local Residents and What Does Not?

  • Public-Private Partnerships
    Melinda Moree, Director Malaria Vaccine Initiative, PATH
  • Delivering Technologies in Low-Resource Settings
    Paul Wise, Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society and CHP/PCOR Core Faculty Member, Stanford University [PENDING]
  • Designing Technologies for Extreme Affordability
    Peter Thiel, Managing Partner, The Founders Fund, Past CEO, PayPal [PENDING]
6:00 pm: Cocktail Reception -- Ford Alumni Gardens
7:00 pm: Dinner and Program-- McCaw Hall
  • Keynote: Health Care Costs and the Path to Health Reform
    The Honorable Bill Bradley [INVITED]
9:00 pm: Closing Comments