About the Health Care Speaker Series

The Distinguished Speaker Program offers an annual series of lectures featuring prominent policy-makers, scholars, journalists, and other opinion leaders who address some of the most pressing issues in health care today.

This lecture series was launched in 2001 with Paul Ellwood, MD – the “father of HMOs” and instrumental in forming federal health policy and reforming private sector systems – asking a provocative question: “Does managed care need to be replaced?” In subsequent years, industry leaders such as John Wennberg, MD, director of the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at the Dartmouth Medical School, John Calfee, PhD, resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, and Robert Moffit, PhD, director of Domestic Policy Studies for the Heritage Foundation joined the list of prominent speakers at this coveted event.

Previous topics of discussion include:

• Unwarranted Variations in Health Care Delivery: What’s going on in southern California?
• Targeted Therapeutics – How Biotechnology Innovations Affect the Cost of Care and Competition Among Firms Marketing Pioneer Drugs
• State Health Reform: Revolutionary Possibilities

Click here to download a registration form.

The Affordable Care Act is being implemented and will affect each of the provider and payer groups. Providers
and insurers are beginning to strategically position themselves to meet the challenges of the new health care
reform legislation. Speakers representing each of the major sectors: hospitals, physicians and physician
groups, and insurers, will share their insights how their sector is adapting to the changing competitive
marketplace.

Speakers:

Richard F. Afable, MD, MPH, President & CEO, Covenant Health Network, Executive Vice President,
St. Joseph Health, Southern California
Keith Wilson, MD, Vice President, Clinical Services, Molina Healthcare
Christopher De Rosa, President, West Region, CIGNA HealthCare of California

Moderator:

Terry A. Belmont, Chief Executive Officer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Medical Center Affairs,
UC Irvine Health, University of California, Irvine
 

Program Schedule:

8:00-9:00 am - Breakfast Buffet and Registration

9:00-10:30 am - Speaker Presentation and Q&A

To register, download the registration form and fax to 949.824.2494. Please register early as space is limited. This program is presented by the Center for Health Care Management and Policy at The Paul Merage School
of Business, UC Irvine.
 

For additional information, please contact Margaret Wong at 949.824.8474 or mwong@uci.edu.