Presentations

Medical Quality 2010
February 18-20, 2010
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA

Thursday, February 18

10:00 - 11:30	Transitions of Care: Innovations from the QIOs Barry Straube, MD David Wenner, DO Jane Brock, MD, MSPH
11:45 - 12:45	Quality 101 Donald E. Fetterolf, MD, MBA
1:00 - 2:30	ACMQ/ACPM PLENARY Quality and Prevention: The Cornerstones of Health Care Reform Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
3:00 - 4:30	Quality and Performance Improvement in Public Health Georges Benjamin, MD Kaye Bender, RN, PhD
4:45 - 6:15	Tracking and Reducing the Costs of Readmissions Norbert Goldfield, MD Ross Edmundson, MD

Friday, February 19

10:00 - 11:30	Ethics in Medicine: Will Reform Finally Bring Justice to Health Care? (The Nigel Roberts Lecture in Healthcare Ethics) Darrell Kirch, MD
11:40 - 1:15	ACMQ Awards Luncheon: Keynote Founders' Award Address Ed H. Wagner, MD, MPH
1:30 - 5:30	10TH ANNUAL HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INSTITUTE Comparative Effectiveness Research: Rational or Rationing? Kent Bottles, MD Len Pogach, MD, MBA Thomas McGinn, MD, MPH George Isham, MD, MS Vicenza Snow, MD Laura Pizzi, PharmD, MPH and Donald Casey, MD, MBA, MPH

Saturday, February 20

10:00 - 11:30	Healthcare Payment Reform: Will It Solve the Cost vs. Quality Dilemma? Robert Nesse, MD Jason Byrd, JD
1:00 - 2:30	Quality at the Bedside: Implementing Surgical Quality Innovations Robert E. Johnstone, MD     Part 2 John Morton, MD, MPH