Health Care Reform: A Work in Progress Friday, October 30, 2009 Hilton St. Louis Frontenac 1335 South Lindbergh Blvd. Advance registration required: $75.00 per person To sign up for this event, call 314-983-4756, email forum@signaturefoundation.org or register online.

Forum Purpose:
To stimulate cross-sectional community dialogue about healthcare quality, efficiency and affordability.

Who Should Attend:
Healthcare executives and managers, providers, business leaders and HR managers, governmental leaders, appointed and elected, non-profit organizations

Agenda:

7:30 – 8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM Opening Address
The Crystal Ball of Health Care Reform: An Insider's View






William H. Frist, M.D.
Former US Senate Majority Leader
University Distinguished Professor
Vanderbilt University

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is the University Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt University and partner with the private investment firm Cressey and Company LP. He is a heart and lung transplant surgeon.

Frist majored in health policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs before graduating with honors from Harvard Medical School and completing surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a heart transplantation chief residency at Stanford. As the founder and Director of the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center, he has performed over 150 heart and lung transplants and authored over 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, over 400 newspaper articles and six books on topics such as bioterrorism and transplantation. He is board certified in both general and heart surgery.

Dr. Frist represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate for 12 years and was elected Majority Leader to the Senate, having served fewer total years in Congress than any person chosen to lead that body in history.

Today he is focused on domestic health reform, the basic science of heart transplantation, global health policy, economic development in low-income countries, health care disparities, medical mission work in Sudan, genocide in Darfur, the health of the mountain gorilla, and HIV/AIDS.

9:30 AM Break

9:50 AM Panel & Community Input Discussion
         

David Anderson, MD Pediatric Orthopedist, Mid County Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine, Signature Medical Group

Pete DeBusk, Chairman & CEO, DeRoyal

Herb Kuhn President, Missouri Hospital Association

Andrea Routh Executive Director, Missouri Health Advocacy Alliance

11:20 AM Closing Remarks and Adjournment
Followed by Senator William H. Frist signing his new book:
A Heart to Serve: The Passion to Bring Health, Hope & Healing
Each Forum participant will receive a complimentary copy of
the book.

The cost for this event is $75 per person.

Hilton St. Louis Frontenac 1335 South Lindbergh Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63131 Tel: 1-314-993-1100 Fax: 1-314-993-8546 (click here for map)