Dr. Altman is Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at The Florence Heller Graduate School for Social Policy, Brandeis University. In 1997, he was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Tufts-New England Medical Center.

Jennifer Bell is a Senior Policy Advisor for Patton Boggs, LLP in Washington DC, she provides strategic counsel regarding legislative initiatives and regulatory policy to Fortune 500 companies, coalitions, and trade associations. She has a proven track record of success in each major health care bill enacted in the last decade, through her ability to persuasively communicate complex concepts and programs at the highest level of government and business.  With a thorough understanding of the legislative process, she has strong bipartisan relationships within the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate HELP Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as well as the Senate and House leadership.

Dr. Bohmer is a guest fellow of the Estes Park Institute. Richard M.J. Bohmer is a physician and the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, in the Technology and Operations (TOM) unit. He teaches a second year course on health care operations management, "Managing Medicine," which discusses the design, management and improvement of the processes by which patients are medically treated. He co-directs the MD-MBA program and teaches a course at Harvard Medical School on medical management. He is faculty chair for the Executive Education program Healthcare Delivery.

Leanne Kaiser Carlson is a futurist who senses what is possible and advises CEOs, boards, providers, philanthropists, and foundations. She is a founder of the Kaiser Institute, a place of exploration and strategy-building for the future. Ms. Kaiser Carlson also is a writer, hospital board member, teacher, and member of the VHA Foundation Board, which funds innovations in health care.

Linda Haddad is a senior partner in the Pittsburgh law firm of Horty, Springer & Mattern, P.C. She serves on the faculties of Estes Park Institute and the American College of Physician Executives, and has presented at hundreds of educational conferences including programs conducted by the American Health Lawyers Association, medical societies, and hospital associations. Ms. Haddad is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

For more than 30 years, Dr. Hoerl has performed organizational development work and made presentations in the areas of strategic planning, physician/hospital relations, conflict resolution, organizational assessment, team-building, and medical group development. Each year, he works with approximately 55 medical groups and 45 hospitals. He is known for his facilitation skills and his practical approach. Dr. Hoerl also served as a health care administrator for ten years.

Mr. Horty is managing partner of the Pittsburgh law firm of Horty, Springer & Mattern, P.C. He is the president and editor of HortySpringer Publications. He serves on the boards of Mercy Hospital and Mercy Health System in Pittsburgh. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives. Mr. Horty has been the chair of the Estes Park Institute since 1984.

Charlotte Jefferies is a senior partner with the Pittsburgh law firm of Horty, Springer & Mattern and a research editor for HortySpringer Publications. She works as a legal consultant and educator to community hospitals and other health organizations regarding various health and health care legal and ethical issues and best practices. She is a member of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Advisory Board of the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation and the Executive Committee of the National Practitioner Data Bank.

Dr. Kaiser is a health care futurist, an executive coach, a community organizer, and an organizational consultant. A pioneer in many emerging areas of health care, Dr. Kaiser is founder and president of Kaiser Consulting, a health care consulting firm in Brighton, CO. He also is co-founder of the Kaiser Institute, a postgraduate educational program providing advanced training in integrative medicine, intuition, and philanthropy.

Dr. Kitzhaber is a former emergency physician, legislator, and two-term Governor of Oregon. He is the past president of the Oregon State Senate, where he authored and implemented the groundbreaking Oregon Health Plan. His legislative career was marked by active leadership in public education, community development, environmental stewardship, and a wide variety of health care issues. Dr. Kitzhaber has been President of the Estes Park Institute since January 2003.

Mr. Kopf's experience includes 26 years as a federal law enforcement officer with the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the FBI. Mr. Kopf co-authored and was the director of Operation Restore Trust, a Presidential initiative that set the current standard for health care fraud investigations.

Dr. David Lawrence retired in May 2002 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. He had held both positions since 1992. Dr. Lawrence currently serves on the Boards of Agilent Technologies, Raffles Medical Group of Singapore, McKesson Corporation, and the RAND Health Advisory board, among others. He also serves in advisory roles to the biotechnology industry.

A frequent speaker and author on patient safety, reliability, and quality initiatives, Dr. Lin serves on the National Patient Safety Foundation Annual Conference faculty and as executive director of continuing medical education at the Queens Medical Center in Honolulu. She works with organizations and hospitals in their MEC credentialing committee and physical leadership retreats; as well as in external peer review activities, disruptive physician interventions, and integrating patient safety and quality initiatives.

Mr. Reece is President of Cambridge Research Institute, a national healthcare consulting firm specializing in strategic planning, governance restructuring, and medical staff development. Rob has 25 years of consulting experience working with large and small hospital systems, community teaching hospitals, university medical centers and medical groups across the country. The hallmark of his work is an ability to effectively engage an organization’s leadership and stakeholders around key strategic issues, and to provide frameworks that enable the right strategic decisions to be made and executed. Rob received a B.A. degree from Colgate University and an M.B.A. degree from Rutgers University.

Mr. Rivkin is a senior fellow of the Estes Park Institute in Health Communications and Marketing Strategy. He founded Rivkin & Associates LLC, a marketing and communications consultancy, in 1989. He has worked with more than 100 hospitals and health care groups on marketing, reputation and crisis management, and other communications assignments, and he is a frequent speaker at health care conferences and retreats. He serves on the board of the Volunteers in Medicine Institute. A writer by training, Mr. Rivkin is a former journalist, magazine editor, and advertising and marketing executive. He is the co-author of six business management books, including Idea Wise, a guide to collecting, borrowing and adapting new ideas; Differentiate or Die, on finding and exploiting your unique selling proposition; and Repositioning, on marketing in an era of competition, change and crisis.

Dr. Scherger is Vice President for Primary Care at Eisenhower Medicine Center in Rancho Mirage, California. He is Clinical Professor of Family & Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (UCSD). He is also Medical Director for Quality and Informatics at Lumetra. Dr. Scherger’s main focus is on the redesign of office practice using the tools of information technology and quality improvement.

Dr. Ronald A. Stewart holds a Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Studies - Organizational Leadership and Management from The Union Institute and University, a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Organizations from Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and Communications from Kent State University.

Dr. Stewart is passionately engaged in service to the nonprofit and public sectors having served as senior staff to both large and small organizations. A significant portion of Dr. Stewart’s current focus is concentrated within the continuum of care for America’s homeless people in search of practical solutions to the advocacy, housing, and supportive services needs of these disenfranchised persons.

Among the hallmarks of Dr. Stewart’s consultation work within the nonprofit and public sectors are his tailored and practical solutions for organizations, staff, and volunteers alike. His services include a wide array of capacity building interventions such as executive coaching, executive search, board development, planning, evaluation, discussion facilitation, and fundraising. Dr. Stewart is a skilled grant writer and has assisted numerous organizations both large and small in securing federal, state, and local grant resources. Over two thousand persons drawn from academia, nonprofit and public institutions have received training from in grant development techniques by Dr. Stewart.

Serving as adjunct faculty at the graduate level Dr. Stewart engages learners on topics such as program planning, evaluation, and grant writing.

A native of rural Ohio Dr. Stewart is keenly aware of the need to engage young people, especially those from Appalachia, in the consideration of contemporary global issues and to encourage their participation in the delivery of community based solutions inspired by these increased awarenesses. In 2004 Dr. Stewart established the Service Learning Opportunity Fund through the Stark Community Foundation and the Carroll County Foundation to award qualified young people with scholarship assistance so that they may engage in service learning projects around the globe.

Dr. Stewart currently resides in the greater Los Angeles area.

A principal in Wellspring Partners, Ltd., Mr. Tiscornia is a former partner and director of Arthur Anderson national health care practice. He is a clinical professor in the Graduate School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington, and a member of the advisory board of the MHA degree program in medical management. Mr. Tiscornia's extensive experience ranges from managed care organizations to strategic and financial planning, to physician/hospital integration.

Trained at the Mayo Clinic, Dr. YaDeau practiced surgical oncology in St. Paul, MN, where he also served as president and then chairman of the Foundation for Health Care Evaluation. He has served as chief of Bethesda Lutheran Hospital's medical staff, taught at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, and was instrumental in funding and establishing the second hospice in the U.S. His themes reflect the changing imperatives that influence institutions. He is Vice-Chair of Estes Park Institute.