Tom Brokaw moderated a panel discussion on coordination of care, with the following members:
Donald Berwick, M.D., president and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Dr. Berwick is one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care quality and improvement issues. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Berwick recently completed his second term on the IOM’s governing council. He served on President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry.
George Isham, M.D., chief health officer and plan medical director of HealthPartners. He is a founding board member of the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a collaborative of Twin Cities medical groups and health plans that is implementing clinical practice guidelines in Minnesota. He is co-author of Epidemic of Care, which examines the impending health care crisis and provides suggestions for solving it.
Nancy Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA). Dr. Nielsen has served as a member of the National Patient Safety Foundation board of directors, the Commission for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the Task Force on Quality and Patient Safety. She represents the AMA on quality initiatives including the National Quality Forum and the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement.
Andrew Mekelburg, vice president for Federal Government Relations for Verizon, where he is responsible for working with Congress and the administration on non-telecommunications issues such as health care, education, labor, human resources and government procurement issues. Mekelburg is chairman of the Corporate Health Care Coalition, a public policy coalition of large, multi–state, self-insured companies that operate health benefit plans for employees and their families as well as retirees.
