Keynotes

Nancy-Ann DeParle is Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff and previously served as Counselor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Health Reform.
From 1997-2000, DeParle served in the Clinton Administration as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)). A key health policy advisor to President Clinton, she ran Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP, which provide health insurance for 74 million Americans. Before joining HHS, she served as Associate Director for Health & Personnel at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
After leaving government in 2000, DeParle served as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, an Adjunct Professor of Health Care Systems at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and as a Managing Director at CCMP Capital, a private equity firm.
Earlier in her career, DeParle served in the Cabinet of Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter as Commissioner of Human Services.
A native of Rockwood, Tennessee, DeParle received a B.A. from the University of Tennessee, where she was Student Body President, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She also received a B.A. and M.A. from Balliol College of Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

Todd Park has served as HHS's Chief Technology Officer since August 2009.  In this role, his mission is to be a change agent and "entrepreneur-in-residence," helping HHS harness the power of data, technology, and innovation to improve the health of the nation.  Prior to joining HHS, Mr. Park co-founded Athenahealth and co-led its development into one of the most innovative health IT companies in the industry.  He also cofounded Castlight, a web-based health care shopping service for consumers.  Mr. Park has also served in a volunteer capacity as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on health IT and health reform policy, and as senior health care advisor to Ashoka, a leading global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start Healthpoint Services, a venture to bring affordable telehealth, drugs, diagnostics, and clean water to rural India. Mr. Park graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with an A.B. in economics.

Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards. She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care, a term that she coined. Money has dubbed her the "Godmother" of consumer-driven health care.
All of her health care books have been best sellers in their categories. Market Driven Health Care (Boston: Perseus, 2000) is widely viewed as a transformational work for its introduction of the concepts of health care focused factories, which provide integrated care for diseases and disabilities, and the need for a health care transparency agency. Her newest book, Who Killed Health Care? (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007) was profiled in a full-page article in The Economist. Her prior book, Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004), received a research award and its earlier research results were profiled by The Wall Street Journal (November 2002) and Managed Health Care Executive (June 2003, cover).
Regina Herzlinger recently briefed the Majority of the U.S. House of Representatives at their annual retreat on health care. She has won the Consumers' for Health Care Choices Pioneer in Health Economics award, the American College of Healthcare Executives' Hamilton Book of the Year award twice, the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Board of Directors award, and Management Accounting's research prize. She was inducted as an honorary fellow by the American College of Physician Executives. Modern Healthcare's readers selected her as among the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" and Managed Healthcare named her one of health care's top ten thinkers. In recognition of her work in nonprofit accounting and control, she was named the first Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. She has delivered many keynote addresses at meetings of large health care and business groups and been selected by students as one of the outstanding instructors of the Harvard Business School's MBA Program.
Professor Herzlinger has served on the Scientific Advisory Group to the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and as a board member of many private and publicly-traded firms, mostly in the consumer-driven health care space.
Regina Herzlinger received her Bachelor's Degree from MIT and her Doctorate from the Harvard Business School.
She has been married to Dr. George Herzlinger, her MIT classmate, for 45 years. Both their children graduated from Harvard College. Her daughter is a Fellow in Endocrinology; her son, a decorated Infantry Captain in the U.S. Army who served two tours in Iraq, and graduated from the Harvard Business School.

Dr. Fisher is the James W. Squires, MD Professor at Dartmouth Medical School and Director for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed his internal medicine residency and public health training at the University of Washington. He is the director of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
His research has focused on exploring the causes of the two-fold differences in spending observed across U.S. regions and health care systems, on understanding the consequences of these variations for health and health care, and on the development and testing of approaches to performance measurement and payment reform that can support improvement. The research revealed that most of the differences in spending are due not to differences in health status, preferences, prices or poverty, but rather to greater use of discretionary services, such as the use of the hospital as a site of care and specialist referrals or diagnostic tests that would not have been ordered in lower spending regions. The findings that per-capita spending -- on these services -- is essentially uncorrelated with either quality or health outcomes highlighted the potential opportunity to improve the efficiency of U.S. health care.
His current policy work has focused on advancing the concept of "accountable care organizations" (ACOs) and includes co-directing, with Mark McClellan, a joint Brookings-Dartmouth program to advance ACOs through research, coordination of public and private initiatives and the creation of a learning collaborative that includes several pilot ACO sites across the U.S.