Lecture Series
We are pleased to present the following speakers
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), a, a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world and a catalyst for change, cultivating innovative concepts for improving patient care and implementing programs for putting those ideas into action.
In addition, Dr. Berwick is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy in the Department of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a pediatrician, Adjunct Staff in the Department of Medicine at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, and a Consultant in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital.
President Clinton appointed Dr. Berwick to serve on the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry, charged with developing a broader understanding of the issues facing rapidly evolving healthcare delivery systems and to help build consensus on ways to assure and improve the quality of health care.
Dr. Berwick has published over 130 scientific articles in numerous professional journals on subjects relating to health care policy, decision analysis, technology assessment, and health care quality management. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work.
A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Berwick holds a master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and an MD cum laude from the Harvard Medical School. He is the father of four children and is married to Ann (Greenberg) Berwick.
Clayton M. Christensen, DBA
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organizational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.
Professor Christensen is the author of the bestselling books The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997, The Innovator's Solution (2003), and Seeing What's Next (2004). He is completing two books that examine the problems of our healthcare and public education systems through the lenses of his theories. These also will show how the problems in these industries can be resolved.
Christensen currently teaches an elective course he designed which teaches managers how to build and manage an enduring, successful company or transform an existing organization.
He and his wife Christine live in Belmont, MA. They are the parents of five children.
Congressman Jim Cooper,
U.S. House of Representatives
Jim Cooper has been an attorney and investment banker and is currently serving his third term as U.S. Congressman for the 5th District of Tennessee. Cooper, who represented Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District from 1983-95, teaches health policy at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. A leading voice in Washington on fiscal policy, health policy and government accountability, he serves on the Armed Services Committee, the Budget Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is chairman of the Armed Services Committee Roles and Missions Panel. Cooper, a Morehead Scholar, earned a BA from the University of North Carolina, a BA/MA as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and a JD from Harvard Law School. He lives in Nashville with his wife Martha; they have three children.
Presenting "What the Future Looks Like in Health Reform"
November 20, 2008, 6pm
Vanderbilt University
Senator William H. Frist, MD
During his 20 years in medicine, Dr. Bill Frist performed over 150 heart and lung transplant procedures. He authored over 100 articles, chapters and abstracts on medical research and coauthored Grand Rounds in Transplantation. He believed he could do more for medicine, patients, fellow Tennesseans and his country, however, by seeking public office. He won election to the U.S. Senate becoming the first practicing physician to serve in that body since 1928. He served as a deputy whip and was elected by his colleagues to chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Frist was chosen unanimously to serve as the 16th majority leader of the Senate and was reelected unanimously. As a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, he served as one of only two congressional representatives to the UN General Assembly in the 107th Congress. Keeping his pledge to serve only two terms, Frist voluntarily stepped down as majority leader to return to Nashville.
Dr. Frist graduated from Princeton University and earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. His training culminated with his selection as chief resident in heart and lung surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. He returned to Nashville as director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s heart and lung transplantation program. He also taught and operated at the Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital. A pioneer in lung and heart transplantation, he founded the Southeast’s first multi-organ, multidisciplinary transplant center at Vanderbilt. Under his leadership, the center became recognized as one of the premier transplant facilities in the nation.
Currently Dr. Frist travels at least once a year to sub-Saharan Africa as part of World Medical Mission to do surgery and care for those stricken with disease. He is the Chair of Hope Through Healing Hands, a nonprofit committed to improving the quality of life for communities around the world. See Hope Through Healing Hands website.
Martha Hill, RN, PhD, FAAN
Martha N. Hill, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Dean of the School of Nursing and Professor of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Hill served as the President of the American Heart Association from 1997-1998; the only non-physician to serve in that role. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. She served as the Co-Vice Chair of the IOM committee which produced the 2002 publication “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Ethical and Racial Disparities in Health Care.”
Dr. Hill served on the IOM/National Research Council committee which produced the report “Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health: Organizational Change to Meet New Challenges.” Currently she serves on the IOM Health Board on Health Sciences Policy and served as the liaison to the Committee on the Review and Assessment of the NIH’s Strategic Research Plan to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities.
Internationally known for her work and research in preventing and treating hypertension and its complications, particularly among young, urban African-American men, Dr. Hill has been an active investigator and consultant on NIH-funded clinical trials. She is internationally recognized for her sponsored NIH research projects and has consulted on hypertension and other cardiovascular-related issues outside of the United States in countries including Australia, Israel, Scotland, South Africa, and China.
Dr. Hill has over 180 publications, including journal articles and book chapters on hypertension care and control, nurse led clinics, community outreach and community-based participatory research in underserved populations.
Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré
Perhaps best known for his role as commander of Joint Task Force-Katrina, Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré lead the Department of Defense response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He also planned and supported the United States military response to the devastating flooding which swept Venezuela 1999 and Mozambique in 2000. He also oversaw the military response to the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy and the D.C. sniper shootings.
Known for his entertaining and direct style, LTG. Honoré (aka “The Ragin’ Cajun”) will speak about his experiences and lessons learned in the face of disaster.
Lieutenant General Honoré is a native of Lakeland, Louisiana. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Vocational Agriculture upon graduation from Southern University and A&M College in 1971. He holds a Master of Arts in Human Resources from Troy State University as well as an Honorary Doctorate in Public Administration from Southern University and A&M College.
Barbara J. Safriet, JD, LLM
Barbara J. Safriet served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lecturer in Law at Yale University from 1988 to 2007. In addition to her academic administrative duties, she taught seminars on Health Law & Policy and The Regulation of Health Care Providers. She has served as a member of The Pew Health Professions Commission, and its Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation, and as a Health Law Consultant and Presenter for the Rockefeller Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Association of Academic Health Centers, the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Rural Health Association, the National Council of State Legislatures, and the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Goucher College, a Juris Doctor degree with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law and a Master of Laws degree from Yale Law School.
Dean Safriet has published and lectured extensively on topics of administrative and constitutional law, issues of health care professionals’ licensure and regulation, and health care workforce problems.
February 29, 2008, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Nursing Annex Room 155, Vanderbilt School of Nursing
