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General
Session and Invited Keynote Speakers
SUNDAY,
March 27, 2011
3 to 5 pm
Opening General Session & Washington Update
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Val J. Halamandaris, JD
President, National Association for Home Care & Hospice |
National Association for Home Care & Hospice policy staff
engaged in negotiations with Congress, federal agencies and other
policymaking bodies will provide inside information on issues
of vital interest to home care and hospice providers. Your representatives
on the front lines will present the latest on legislative, regulatory,
legal and research developments relative to the prospective payment
system, conditions of participation, quality monitoring and other
vital issues.
Objectives:
- Identify pending regulatory issues and analyze their impact
on home care and hospice agencies;
- Analyze pending legislative proposals for impact on home
care and hospice operations; and
- Outline industry advocacy efforts and response to pending
legislative and regulatory proposals.
Faculty: Legal, Legislative, and Regulatory
Staff, National Association for Home Care & Hospice, Washington,
DC
Course Level: Update; 2.0 Nursing CEs; 2.0 Accounting CPEs
(NASBA/RE).
MONDAY,
March 28, 2011
8:30 to 10 am
Keynote Address General Session
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David Gergen
Senior Political Analyst, CNN |
A White House adviser, journalist and teacher over the past
40 years, David Gergen worked in the administrations of Presidents
Nixon and Ford; was director of communications for President
Reagan and served as counselor to President Clinton on both foreign
policy and domestic affairs. He also advised the 1980 George
H.W. Bush presidential campaign. He is a senior political analyst
for CNN, a professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy
School and the director of its Center for Public Leadership.
In 1985, Gergen began a career in journalism. He was the
moderator of World @ Large, a 13-part PBS discussion series
for two seasons and for five years teamed up with Mark Shields
on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour for widely acclaimed Friday
night political discussions. Today, he contributes to CNN as
a senior political analyst, Parade Magazine and the U.S.
News & World Report as editor-at-large. He holds 19
honorary degrees and sits on many boards, including Teach for
America, the Aspen Institute and Duke University.
Gergen graduated with honors from both Yale (BA, 1963) and
Harvard Law School (LLB, 1967). He served as an officer in
the U.S. Navy from 1967-1971. He has been married since 1967
to Anne Gergen, a family therapist. They have two children,
Christopher and Katherine and live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
WEDNESDAY,
March 30, 2011
12 to 1:15 pm
Luncheon and Keynote Address
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Julie Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
In her six years as the first woman director of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Julie Louise Gerberding,
M.D., M.P.H. guided the nation’s leading health protection
agency through an era of rapid growth, globalization, and innovative
transformation.
The AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s placed Gerberding on
the front lines of HIV care at the University of California
at San Francisco (UCSF), leading her to pioneer research in
preventing occupational HIV transmission. She joined CDC in
1998 as director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
where she led patient safety programs and national efforts
to combat infections and antimicrobial resistance in healthcare
settings. It was her timely and commanding response to the
anthrax bioterrorism events in 2001, however, that led to her
appointment as CDC Director in July 2002.
From then until January 2009, Gerberding oversaw a $10 billion
budget that supported a workforce of 15,000 people in more
than 45 countries during a dramatic expansion of CDC’s
portfolio to encompass preparedness and response to bioterrorism,
pandemics and other emerging global health threats. In addition,
she led a strategic restructuring of CDC. Together with state
and local public health and private sector partners, Gerberding
helped launch the “Alliance to Make US Healthiest,” a
grass roots social movement to expand health system reform
efforts to emphasize health promotion and prevention.
Gerberding is currently an active physician and is an associate
professor of medicine at UCSF and a clinical professor of medicine
at Emory University. |
