Monday, February 25
8:00 am – 9:30 am

Bill Frist
23rd US Senate Majority Leader US Senator from Tennessee (1995-2007)

Bill Frist was the first practicing physician elected to the US Senate since 1928. As a resident at Stanford, he found his niche in heart transplantation and founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, one of the premier transplant facilities in the United States today. As a Senator, he emerged as one of the country’s leading voices on health issues, with healthcare IT one of his top 5 healthcare initiatives. Last year, Mr. Frist initiated a drive to make the preventable deaths of millions of children in the developing world an issue for Americans.

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Tuesday, February 26
8:30 am – 9:30 am

Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary
US Department of Health
and Human Services
Washington, DC

As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael Leavitt leads the nation’s efforts to protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services to those in need. He is intensively focused on engaging Americans as healthcare consumers by making healthcare more transparent in quality and price, while fulfi lling the federal government’s responsibilities to public health requirements. At HHS, Secretary Leavitt manages one of the largest civilian departments in the federal government with a budget that accounts for almost one out of every four federal dollars and more than 67,000 employees.

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Robert Kolodner, MD
National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology
Department of Health and
Human Services
Washington, DC

Dr. Robert Kolodner was named National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS in April 2007. As National Coordinator, Dr. Kolodner serves as principal advisor to Secretary Leavitt on all health IT initiatives. He is responsible for developing and directing the implementation of the strategic plan to guide nationwide adoption of interoperable health IT to reduce medical errors, improve quality and produce greater value in healthcare.

Wednesday, February 27
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Steve Case
Chairman and CEO
Revolution
Co-founder and Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of America Online (AOL)

Steve Case launched Revolution Health in 2005 to put consumers at the center of the healthcare system, providing better choices and more convenience and control over their health. Prior to founding Revolution Health, Steve was the Chairman and CEO of America Online, Inc., and later, the Chairman of AOL Time Warner. As the co-founder of AOL, Steve played an integral role in building the world’s largest Internet company and helped transform how people communicate, learn and conduct business.

Thursday, February 28
8:30 am - 9:30 am

Dr. Eric Schmidt
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Google Inc.

Eric Schmidt joined Google from Novell, where he led that company’s strategic planning, management and technology development. Since joining Google, he has focused on building the corporate infrastructure needed to maintain Google’s rapid growth and on ensuring that quality remains high while product development cycle times are kept to a minimum. His well-seasoned perspective perfectly complements Google’s needs as a young and rapidly growing search engine with a unique corporate culture. In 2006, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, which recognized his work on “the development of strategies for the world’s most successful Internet search engine company.”

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Thursday, February 28
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Steven D. Levitt
Bestselling Author, FREAKONOMICS
Alvin Baum Professor of Economics
Director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Steven D. Levitt is a brilliant but uncomplicated man with an enormous curiosity who uses simple questions to reach startling conclusions. He sifts through a pile of data to find an unknown story and devises ways to measure an effect that veteran economists have declared unmeasurable. He wants no less than to change the way we view the modern world.