Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Health and Science Policy Day 2021

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Agenda

Panel Speakers
Opening Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D., Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine
Keynote - What does "good" government look like? Brett Giroir, M.D., 16th Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with James T. McDeavitt, M.D., SVP and Dean of Clinical Affairs at Baylor College of Medicine

Payers as key players

Elizabeth Youngblood, Chief Operating Officer and Division Senior Vice President, CHI Texas Division
Richard Parker, Chief Medical Officer, Arcadia

Heidi Schwarzwald, M.D. MPH, CMO, Aetna Better Health of Texas, Regional CMO ABH

Moderator: Stephanie Morain, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor in the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine

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The community opportunity: models of community health and frontline care

LeChauncy D. Woodard, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Humana Integrated Health System Sciences Institute at the University of Houston and a University of Houston College of Medicine professor

Elena Marks, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Episcopal Health Foundation

Quianta Moore, M.D., J.D., Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Health Policy Scholar, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

Moderator: Jean Raphael, M.D., M.P.H., founding Director of the Center for Child Health Policy and Advocacy at Texas Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine
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New challenges, new opportunities: what’s next for Academic Medical Centers?

Paul  Klotman, M.D., President, CEO and Executive Dean of Baylor College of Medicine

Doug Lawson, Ph.D., CEO, St. Luke's Health and Senior VP of Operations, Texas Division, CommonSpirit Health

Esmaeil Porsa, M.D., MBA, M.Ph., CCHP-A, President and CEO at Harris Health System Houston

Moderator: Laura Petersen, M.D., M.P.H., FACP, Center Director, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Associate Chief of Staff for Research (ACOS/R), Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center. Professor, Department of Medicine, Chief, Section of Health Services Research, Baylor College of Medicine
Closing Remarks

Amy L. McGuire, J.D., Ph.D., Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine

Virtual Poster Session

Call for Abstracts: Submissions are invited for a virtual poster session via Voice Thread. Submit your abstract and get further details on eligibility, evaluation criteria and instructions. Please submit only your abstract by April 7. If you are selected you will then receive further instructions by April 13 for finalizing and submitting your poster, which is due April 28.