Patrick H. Conway, MD, MSc, FAAP, SFHM
Chief Medical Officer & Director
Office of Clinical Standards and Quality Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Monday, April 2, 2012, 8:15 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.

Patrick Conway will address Affordable Care Act Implementation and How Hospital Medicine Can Help Lead Health Care System Transformation.

Norman J. Ornstein, PhD, MA, BA
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Monday, April 2, 2012, 9:05 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.

Norman Ornstein, a longtime observer of Congress and politics, writes a weekly column for Roll Call and is an election analyst for CBS News. Join him as he gives his featured address, Making Health Policy in an Age of Dysfunctional Politics.

Robert M. Wachter, MD, MHM
Professor and Associate Chairman
University of California, San Francisco
Author of Hospital Medicine and www.wachtersworld.com
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Robert Wachter, national thought leader in healthcare quality improvement, in his always-entertaining style, will be addressing important and interesting work going on in medical leadership, teamwork, artificial intelligence and changing the way we judge physicians. Join him during his featured presentation, The Great Physician, Circa 2012: How Hospitalists Must Lead Efforts to Identify and Become This New Breed.

Pamela A. Lipsett, MD, MHPE, FCCM, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Nursing
Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Nursing
President, Society of Critical Care Medicine
President, Surgical Infection Society

Take advantage of the opportunity to meet Pamela A. Lipsett, as she moderates during the Best of Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes presentations and leads rounds of the RIV Poster sessions.