KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Chair, Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, is the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Currently Chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering, Dr. Brennan received a Masters of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following seven years of clinical practice in critical care nursing and psychiatric nursing, Dr. Brennan held several academic positions. Dr. Brennan directs the Living Environments Laboratory, a strategic initiative within the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. She developed the ComputerLink, an electronic network designed to reduce isolation and improve self-care among home care patients and directed HeartCare, a WWW-based tailored information and communication service that helped home-dwelling cardiac patients recover faster, and with fewer symptoms. Dr. Brennan is National Program Director of Project HealthDesign, a RWJ- funded initiative designed to stimulate the next generation of personal health records. Additionally, she leads the WI-TECNE project, a state-wide nursing faculty development effort supported by HRSA that will improve the integration of informatics and telehealth into nursing curricula. She's a fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing (1991) and the American College of Medical Informatics (1993). Dr. Brennan was elected to the of the Institute of Medicine in 2002.
Keynote Speaker, Aneesh Chopra
Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer, United States
Aneesh Chopra is the Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Technology in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.
He was sworn in on May 22nd, 2009.
Prior to his appointment, he served as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia from January 2006 until April 2009. He previously served as Managing Director with the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded healthcare think tank.
Chopra was named to Government Technology magazine's Top 25 in their Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers issue in 2008.
Aneesh Chopra received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and his M.P.P. from Harvard's Kennedy School. He and his wife Rohini have two young children.
Keynote Speaker, Maulik S. Joshi, DrPH
President, Health Research & Educational Trust Senior Vice President of Research, American Hospital Association
Maulik S. Joshi, DrPH is the President of the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) and Senior Vice President for Research at the American Hospital Association (AHA). As the independent, not-for-profit research affiliate of the AHA, HRET conducts applied research in improving quality and patient safety, reducing costs, eliminating health disparities, improving leadership and governance, payment reform and care coordination.
Before joining HRET, Dr. Joshi served as president and chief executive officer of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) and was previously a senior advisor for the office of the director at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He also served as president and chief executive officer of the Delmarva Foundation. During Dr. Joshi's tenure, the organization received the 2005 U.S. Senate Productivity Award, the highest level award in the state of Maryland, based on the national Malcolm Baldrige criteria for performance excellence. In addition, Dr. Joshi was vice president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), co-founder and executive vice president for DoctorQuality, senior director of quality for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and executive vice president of The HMO Group.
Dr. Joshi has a doctorate in public health and a master's in health services administration from the University of Michigan and a bachelor of science in mathematics from Lafayette College.
Dr. Joshi is currently Editor-in-Chief for the Journal for Healthcare and Quality. He has co-edited The Healthcare Quality Book: Vision, Strategy and Tools, a graduate-level textbook (Health Administration Press, second edition, over 5,000 sold) and authored Healthcare Transformation: A Guide for the Hospital Board Member (CRC Press and AHA Press). Dr. Joshi also serves on numerous governance and advisory boards.