Evidence-Based Medicine Presentations 2008

Evidenced Based Medicine Presentations

Keynote Address

• Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD, Professor, Stanford School of Medicine

Session I: Questions of Definition

• Sean Tunis, MD, MSc, Founder and Director, Center for Medical Technology Policy
• Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH, Chairman of the Board, Medsphere Systems Corporation

Session II: Questions for Professionals: What role should physicians play in the EBM agenda?

• Lawrence H. Cohn, MD, Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital
• Robert J. Margolis, MD, Chair, National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA); Managing Partner/CEO, HealthCare Partners Medical Group
• Jack Lewin, MD, CEO, American College of Cardiology
• Jack Wennberg, MD, Director, Dartmouth Center for Evaluative Clinical Sciences

Session III: Questions of Implementation: Turning evidence into practice

• Susan Bartlett Foote, JD, MA, Professor, University of Minnesota MTLF Director
• John Hensing, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Banner Health
• N. Marcus Thygeson, MD, Vice President and Associate Medical Director, Consumer Health Solutions, HealthPartners
• Sharon Levine, MD, Associate Executive Medical Director, The Permanente Medical Group

Session IV: Realistic Goal Setting

• Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health, Chief Physician, Mercer Health & Benefits
• Mark Helfand, MD, MPH, Director, Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center, Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics, Oregon Health and Science University
• Phil Madvig, MD, Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Medical Group
• Paul Ellwood, MD, HealTru Foundation/Jackson Hole Group