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Physicians: Physicians' Education Resource is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

Physician Assistants: AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA Category 1 CME credit for the PRA from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Health Care Systems of the Future

JW Marriott San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
September 26, 2008

Chair

Laura Esserman, MD, MBA
Professor of Surgery and Radiology
University of California, San Francisco
Director, Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
Director, Translational Informatics
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
San Francisco, CA

Debu Tripathy, MD
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine
The University of Texas Southwestern
  Medical Center at Dallas
President and CEO
Physicians' Education Resource, L.P.
Dallas, TX

Planning Committee

Molla Donaldson, DrPH
President
MSD Healthcare Consulting Group
Chevy Chase, MD
Adjunct Professor
Department of Medicine
George Washington University School of
  Medicine and Health Sciences
Washington, DC

Kathy Hajopoulos, MPH
UCSF Breast Care Center of Excellence
San Francisco, CA

Karen Sepucha, PhD
Instructor
Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Senior Scientist, Health Decision Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

John Speakman
Associate Director, Clinical Trials Products and Programs
National Cancer Institute Center for
  Bioinformatics and Information Technology
Rockville, MD

Faculty

Linda Bosserman, MD, FACP
President
Wilshire Oncology Medical Group
Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Kenneth Buetow, PhD
Director
National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics
Bethesda, MD

Elly Cohen, PhD
Program Director
BreastCancerTrials.org
San Francisco, CA

E. Dale Collins, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, Comprehensive Breast Program
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH

R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA
Associate Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Carol Dweck, PhD
Lewis & Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Peter Eisenberg, MD, FACP
Medical Oncologist
California Cancer Care
Greenbrae, CA

David Lansky, PhD
President and CEO
Pacific Business Group on Health
San Francisco, CA

Joseph C. Mello, MBA
Chief Operating Officer
DaVita Inc.
El Segundo, CA

Lee N. Newcomer, MD
Senior Vice President, Oncology
United Healthcare
Edina, MN

Jeffrey Pfeffer, PhD
Thomas D. Dee II Professor of
  Organizational Behavior
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Matthew Sanders
Chief Executive Officer
iMetrikus, Inc.
Mountain View, CA

Stephen M. Shortell, PhD
Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of
  Health Policy and Management
Dean, School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Glenn Steele, MD, PhD
President and CEO
Geisinger Health System
Danville, PA

John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH
Peggy Y. Thomson Professor (Chair)
Evaluative Clinical Sciences
Founder and Director Emeritus
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy
  and Clinical Practice
Lebanon, NH

Educational Grants

An educational grant for this activity was provided by:


  1. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Program
  2. Genentech BioOncology
  3. Pfizer Inc.
  4. QuantumLeap HealthCare Collaborative