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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2010

Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, using data and technology to improve America’s health.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on some of the most current and unique health care innovations. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with HHS Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, leader of a federal effort to “liberate” data and make government more open and transparent.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010

The Veterans Affairs Healthcare System— Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Robert Petzel, discusses why this has become a model system of care.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses today on the VA health system. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Petzel, VA Under Secretary for Health, about why the VA healthcare system has become one of the most respected models of health care in America.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010

Congresswoman Lois Capps, U.S. Representative of California and founder of the House Nursing Caucus, discusses her commitment to quality health care for all.

Conversations on Health Care® speaks with Congresswoman Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, founder and co-chair of the House Nursing Caucus. Congresswoman Capps is a former nurse, public health advocate and since being elected to Congress in 1998, she has made it her legislative priority to help underserved populations gain access to quality health care.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010

Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of Salud America!, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national research program and network to prevent obesity among Latino youth.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the impact of obesity for Latino youth. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of Salud America!, about building the evidence base to learn what the most effective strategies are to address the epidemic.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010

Dr. Paul Grundy, IBM’s global director of health care and founder of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on corporations striving for better value in purchasing health care. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Paul Grundy, IBM’s global director of health care and founder of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, about providing patient-centered primary care as a standard of care not only for large corporations, but for communities small and large.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010

Dr. Howard Adelman, co-director of the national School Mental Health Project, a strategy to bring behavioral health services to schools.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on behavioral health in our nation’s schools. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Howard Adelman, co-director of the School Mental Health Project in California and its federally supported National Center for Mental Health in Schools, a strategy to bring behavioral health services to schools.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010

Dr. Brent James, chief quality officer at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses his groundbreaking approach to clinical quality improvement.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses on the work of one healthcare system in Utah and Idaho that has successfully put into practice the idea that higher quality drives down costs. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Brent James, the man who has led Intermountain into a model system of quality and efficiency in care through a measured clinical outcomes approach.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010

Mildred Thompson, deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, discusses childhood obesity and the campaign to fight it.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the crucial topic of childhood obesity. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Mildred Thompson, deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, about fostering a healthy environment to reverse this trend and the challenges and goals that go with it.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010

Mark Bertolini, president of Aetna, on the insurance industry’s response to health-care reform.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the health insurance industry. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Mark Bertolini, president of Aetna, on the new era for the health insurance industry following national health reform.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010

Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado on leading health-care reform at the state level.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on states that can serve as models for health-care reform implementation. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Gov. Bill Ritter about his state’s efforts over the past four years to extend coverage and contain cost—and how federal health reform aligns with these efforts.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2010

Rebecca Patton, president of the American Nurses Association, on the critical role of nursing in meeting the challenge of healthcare access and transformation.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week—National Nurses Week—on the role nursing played in health reform, and the challenges ahead. ANA President Rebecca Patton speaks with Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter about the opportunities for nursing and the country to achieve the goals of the health reform legislation.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010

A futurist perspective on health care with Dr. Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions, and Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses on the future of health care in the context of national reform. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions, and Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, about leading the way forward.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010

Dr. Danielle Ofri, author of Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients, discusses her unique perspective on health care and immigration.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses on an important and timely topic in health care: providing immigrants with access to quality health care. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Danielle Ofri, a physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review, and author of the new book Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2010

Stuart Altman, a leading health-care economist, on meeting the future demands under health-care reform.

Conversations on Health Care® turns its’ focus to the future challenges now that reform has passed. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Stuart Altman, a leading health-care economist and professor of National Health Policy at Brandeis University, about the potential for reform to deliver on its’ goals.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010

Dr. Cecil Wilson, president-elect of the American Medical Association, on the impact of health reform on health care, medicine and society.

Conversations on Health Care® speaks with the president-elect of the American Medical Association. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk to Dr. Cecil Wilson about why the AMA supported this health reform legislation, and what it will do to improve health care for both patients and their providers.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2010

Chip Kahn, industry lobbyist and President of the Federation of American Hospitals, on the impact of health reform in America.

Conversations on Health Care® speaks with the President of the Federation of American Hospitals. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk with Chip Kahn, a Washington insider who has worked both sides of the aisle, and whose organization supported Obama’s health care overhaul.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010

Congressman John Larson, Chairman of the Democratic Caucus, on the historic House vote for health care reform.

Conversations on Health Care® speaks with the Chairman of the Democratic Caucus. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk with Congressman John Larson (CT–1) who helped pass the historic health care reform bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2010

Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, on eliminating health disparities.

Conversations on Health Care® speaks with former U.S. Surgeon General. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk with Dr. David Satcher, a leader in eliminating health disparities and a champion of public health progress.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010

Congressman Dingell, champion of universal health care and longest serving member of Congress

Conversations on Health Care® speaks with Congressman John Dingell (D-Michigan), who became the longest serving congressman in history on February 11, 2009. He has started every session of Congress by introducing the national health insurance bill his father, also a Congressman, authored when he was a Member of the House of Representatives. He joins Conversations to share his unique perspective on the immediate health-care reform horizon.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2010

Uwe E. Reinhardt, Professor of Economics at Princeton University and one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care economics

Conversations on Health Care® focuses on the challenge of advancing health reform in America. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter talk with Uwe E. Reinhardt, professor of political economy, economics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.