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| SPEAKERS John J. Nance, JD |
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John J. Nance, a native of Texas who grew up in Dallas, holds a Bachelor’s Degree from SMU and a Juris Doctor from SMU School of Law, and is a licensed attorney. A decorated Air Force pilot veteran of Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm/Desert Shield, he is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the USAF Reserve, well known for his involvement in Air Force human factors flight safety education. John has piloted many jet air-craft, including Boeing 727’s, 737’s, 747’s, and Air Force C-141’s and has logged over 12,000 hours of flight time in his commercial airline and Air Force careers. John flies his own aircraft and also continues to serve as a Boeing 737 Captain for a major airline. Mr. Nance is an internationally recognized air safety analyst and advocate, best known to North American television audiences as Aviation Analyst for the ABC Television Network and as the Aviation Editor for Good Morning America. John has also had multiple appearances on Larry King Live, PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Oprah, NPR, NOVA, the Today Show, and many others. John’s editorials have been published in newspapers nationwide, including the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who Among Emerging Leaders in America. John is the nationally-known author of eleven major books, four non-fiction: Splash of Colors, Blind Trust, On Shaky Ground, and What Goes Up, (all published by William Morrow), and seven fiction bestsellers.
Pandora’s Clock and Medusa’s Child both aired as major, successful two part mini-series on television. John Nance is a well-known international advocate of crew resource management and expanded human performance training and is a dynamic professional speaker/consultant, presenting pivotal programs on Teamwork, Risk Management, Motivation, Coping with Competition, and other topics. He speaks to a wide variety of audiences, including medical and pharmaceutical professionals, CEO’s of major business-oriented corporations, and environmental, aviation, and travel-oriented groups. With his entertaining, highly motivational, yet informative style, he is in demand to give keynote speeches at conventions and symposiums worldwide. John is a board member of the National Patient Safety Foundation at the American Medical Association. He lives in Tacoma, Washington. Words of Praise
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| Martin J. Hatlie, JD | |
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Martin Hatlie is the President of the Partnership for Patient Safety (p4ps) located in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Hatlie is a nationally recognized authority on patient safety and medical professional liability issues. Working in concert with several national associations, consumer groups and healthcare businesses, he coordinated the establishment of the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) in 1997 and served as its first Executive Director. Under Mr. Hatlie’s leadership, the NPSF launched a grant program to stimulate new and innovative projects to enhance patient safety, and initiated a series of regional forums to convene practitioners and executives for information exchange and action planning around patient safety improvement. Mr. Hatlie has published, presented and testified on a variety of topics related to professional liability, civil justice reform, and healthcare risk management, including the critical role that improved communication can play in medical error prevention. His practical expertise includes policy development, community-building and patient safety product development. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation and the Board of Advisors of the Veterans Administration Patient Safety Center of Inquiry at the University of Cincinnati. He was the Founding Chair of the Health Care Liability Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based coalition that advocates civil justice and patient safety reform. Mr. Hatlie is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and Illinois. |
| Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH | |
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Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Quality Forum (formally incorporated as the National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting), a private, non-profit, membership organization whose mission is to increase the provision of high quality healthcare by establishing a national strategy for healthcare quality improvement, by standardizing the way that healthcare quality is measured and reported and by otherwise promoting healthcare quality and quality improvement. The NQF has broad representation from all segments of the healthcare industry. Among his other positions, Dr. Kizer serves as Senior Associate with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, Massachusetts; as a Director of The California Wellness Foundation in Woodland Hills, California; and as the Senior Medical Advisor and Director for HealthCPR.com and Bank of Health™ in Washington, D.C. Prior to taking his current position, Dr. Kizer served for five years as the Under Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this capacity, he was the highest ranking physician in the federal government and the CEO of the Veterans Healthcare System, the largest integrated healthcare system in the nation with a budget of over $20 billion, approximately 200,000 staff, and over 1,100 sites of care delivery. Dr. Kizer is widely credited as being the chief architect and driving force behind the greatest transformation of VA healthcare since the system was created in 1946. |
| P.J. Maddox, Ed.D, RN | |
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Dr. Maddox received her doctorate from
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York in Health Systems
Administration. She is a nurse with a distinguished career in nursing, health
services research, and management. Dr. Maddox’s academic and research interests
range from examining the impact of financing arrangement and delivery systems to
quality outcomes and Health Policy evaluation. She is a recognized expert in
strategic planning and analysis on quality and access under managed care arrangements in all sectors of the health system (public and
private). She is also a recognized expert in technology and electronic commerce
in healthcare, especially in health data privacy and security under evolving
regulatory requirements.
Dr. Maddox came to George Mason University in 1995 from the National Institutes of Health. Currently she directs graduate academic programs in Nursing and Health Systems Management (MSN/MBA and MS programs) and serves as Director of the Office of Research in the Center for Health Policy, Research and Ethics. Prior to George Mason University, she was a member of the executive management team at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. At NIH, she served as a Service Chief and as Deputy Director for Nursing. She has held management and academic teaching appointments in a variety of Universities and Academic Medical Centers in a variety of institutions and locations (Saint Mary’s Hospital, Reno, NV, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, CA., and INOVA Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, Va.). She is the recipient of numerous professional awards and serves on philanthropic boards and service organizations concerned with community healthcare and international service. Dr. Maddox is nationally recognized as a lecturer, researcher and consultant in the field of nursing and contemporary healthcare management. She is author of numerous textbook chapters, articles and papers on policy, technology, and ethics in nursing, executive management, quality improvement and outcomes evaluation in managed care. |
| JOSEPH J. HILBERT | |
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Joe Hilbert is a Senior Health Policy Analyst with
the Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Commission on Health Care. As a Senior
Analyst with the Joint Commission, Joe conducts policy analyses and studies
regarding a wide array of health care issues.
Joe has worked in the legislative branch of state government since 1990. Prior to coming to the Joint Commission on Health Care, from 1990 to 1998, he was a legislative analyst with the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. In this position, he performed program evaluation and policy analysis for the General Assembly in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of State government administration and management. Joe received a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from State University of New York at Albany and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from New York University. |
| Larry Tye | |
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Larry Tye
is a medical writer at the Boston Globe, and has won a series of
national reporting awards, including the
Edward J. Meeman environmental prize,
the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the National Wildlife
Federation's Conservation Achievement Award.
He also has won awards from the
Associated Press, AP Sports Editors, Sigma Delta Chi, the Audubon Society
and the Sierra Club. Since he went to
work for the Globe 14 years ago, Tye has written series on
how 30 years of socialism devastated Eastern Europe's environment, the
erosion of personal privacy in today's
high-tech society, why Pentecostalism is the
world's fastest-growing religion, and the mixed legacy of California's
experiment with market-driven medicine.
Before he began his medical beat, Tye served as the Globe's environmental
reporter, roving national writer,
investigative reporter and sports writer.
Tye's first book, The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations, was released last summer by Crown Publishers. Now in its fourth printing, Spin has been reviewed in dozens of newspapers across America, from the New York Times (twice) to the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. It was the subject of reports on CNN, CSPAN's "Book Notes," and two shows on National Public Radio, and will be the centerpiece of an upcoming hour-long biography of Bernays on CNBC. Tye, who lives in Cambridge, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University four years ago. He just completed his second book on leave from the Globe, writing about the renewal underway in the Jewish diaspora. He told the story of today's diaspora through the stories of seven cities worldwide, from Dusseldorf to Buenos Aires. The book is due out next fall from Henry Holt Publishers. He came to the Globe from the Louisville Courier-Journal, a paper that — until its sale 12 years ago by the Bingham family — was a national leader in opposing strip mining and pushing for pollution controls. Tye was the Courier-Journal's environmental writer. His big stories in Louisville included an award-winning 60-page magazine, called "America's Shame," that analyzed the Reagan administration's record in battling pollution. Another 60-pager looked at newly-uncovered indoor pollutants and told readers how to get rid of them. Tye's first brush with journalism came in 1980 and was "accidental." He wanted to see the South before heading back to his native New England, and a newspaper seemed like a good way to do that. He ended up at the Anniston Star, a small, progressive paper in the heart of Alabama that George Wallace dubbed "The Red Star.'' His beats included business and government. His stories ranged from a look back at the Freedom Riders to a look ahead at Alabama's dim economic prospects. His stay in Anniston lasted two years rather than the six months he had planned. Tye graduated from Brown University in 1977 with an independent concentration entitled, "Technology and Society, Defining a New Balance." After college Tye went to work for the Union of Concerned Scientists in its new Washington office, where he authored reports on nuclear power plant safety that inspired an NBC documentary and a report on "60 Minutes." Two years later he took a job in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Washington office, writing and lobbying on energy, environmental and consumer issues and reporting to Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III.
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| John M. O’Bannon, III, MD | |
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Dr. John O’Bannon
is a lifelong Virginian who has dedicated himself to caring
for others.
John is currently one of the leading physicians in Virginia. He currently is a partner in Neurological Associates, a leading Richmond medical practice. He served as Chief of Staff of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital and is currently on the Hospital’s Board of Trustees and its Ethics Committee. His peers have named him one of the "Outstanding Physicians of the Year" in Richmond Magazine’s annual poll. John is a national leader in improving the medical profession. He is a leader in the American Medical Association where he serves as a member of the Council for Ethical and Judicial Affairs. Here in Virginia, John is a past Chairman of the Board of the Richmond Academy of Medicine. He has also been a past Chairman of the Medical Society of Virginia’s Legislative Committee where he helped pass the Virginia Patients Bill of Rights. John is a leader in our community. John is a member of the West Richmond Rotary Club and serves on the Board of the Central Virginia Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is a member of the Henrico County Republican Committee and has been active in numerous federal, state and local campaigns including the Gubernatorial campaigns of George Allen and Jim Gilmore as well as the Congressional campaigns of Tom Bliley. Governor Gilmore recognized John’s leadership by appointing him Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation. He and his wife attend River Road Baptist Church.
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