DRAFT AGENDA
Saturday, September 20
8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
International Child Health Services Research Meeting
2:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Registration
6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.
Welcome reception, Capital Hilton
Tours
Sunday, September 21
8:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Registration
8:00 a.m.- 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
Welcome Panel
Moderator: Carolyn Clancy, Director, AHRQ, USA
Panelists:
Tommy Thompson, HHS Secretary, USA*
Mirta Roses, Director, PAHO*
Karen Davis, Conference Co-Chair and President, The Commonwealth Fund, USA
9:45 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Opening Plenary
“Globalization of Evidence and Localization of Decisions”
Jonathan Lomas, Executive Director, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. Canada
10:30 a.m.- 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (To be announced)
12:45 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon Plenary
“Health Services Research and Health System Accountability”
Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economics, Princeton University, USA
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (To be announced)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Plenary Panel
“National Strategies for Organizing Health Services Research”
Theme Leaders: Tikki Pang, Director, Research, World Health Organization, and Kenneth Shine, Director, RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security, USA
Panelists:
Moris Barer, Scientific Director, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research, Canada
Suwit Wibulpolprasert, Deputy Permanent Secretary for Health, Thailand
Lindiwe Makubalo, Director, Research, Epidemiology and Evaluation, Department of Health, South Africa
Christopher Ham, Director of Strategy Unit, National Health Service, UK
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Poster Session and Reception (Poster will be displayed throughout the conference)
Monday, September 22
7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Registration
7:45 a.m.- 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.- 8:45 a.m.
Meet-the-Speakers Breakfast
Speakers will be available for informal discussions over breakfast with conference participants.
9:00 a.m.- 10:30a.m.
Plenary Panel
“Using Evidence to Improve Clinical Practice”
Theme Leaders: Carolyn Clancy, Director, AHRQ, USA and George Rubin, Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney at Westmead, Australia
Panelists:
Elena Novitchkova, Director, Evidence-based Practice Center, Department of Family Medicine, I.M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Russia
Rashad Massoud, Associate Project Director, Quality Assurance Project
John Demakis, Director, HSR&D, Veterans Administration, USA
Jordi Alonso, Head of Health Services Research Unit, Institut Municipal d’Investigacio Medica, Spain
10:30 a.m.- 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (To be announced)
12:30 p.m.- 2:15 p.m.
Luncheon Plenary
“Rallying the Global Community to Respond to Health Crisis”
Vinand Nantulya, Director for Strategy & Evaluation, Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria
2:30 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (To be announced)
4:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Plenary Panel
“Using Evidence to Improve Health Services Management”
Theme Leaders:
Don Berwick, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA, and James Reason, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, UK
Panelists:
Rene Amalberti, Professor, Cognitive Science, IMASSA Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, France
David Woods, Professor, Industrial, Welding, and System Engineering, Ohio State University, USA
Mushtaque Chowdhury, Deputy Director BRAC, Bangladesh
6:30 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.
Crab feast and Barbeque on the Chesapeake Bay
Tuesday, September 23
7:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Registration
7:30 a.m.- 8:45 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.- 8:45 a.m.
Meet-the-Speakers Breakfast
Speakers will be available for informal discussions over breakfast with conference participants
9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Plenary Panel
“Using Evidence to Improve Policymaking”
Theme Leaders:
Rafael Bengoa, Director of Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization, Nicole Lurie, Senior Natural Scientist and Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professor of Health Policy, RAND, USA
Panelists:
Martin Pfaff, Chair, Economics Department, University of Augsburg, Germany*
Koldo Echebarria, InterAmerican Development Bank*
Dr Bijan Sadrizadeh, Senior Adviser to H.E. The Minister, Ministry of Health and Medical Education*
Christopher Murray, Executive Director, Evidence and Information for Policy, WHO
10:30 a.m.- 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions (To be announced)
12:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.
Luncheon Plenary
“The Nature of Evidence as Subjective and Dynamic: Lessons from the Body“
Lenore Manderson, Fellow, Australian Research Council Federation, Australia
2:15 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
Plenary Speaker
“Using Evidence to Alleviate the Burden of Specific Diseases”
Theme Leaders:
K. Srinath Reddy, Professor of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India, and Richard Klausner, Executive Director, Global Health, Gates Foundation, USA
3:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Closing Reflections
Donald Berwick, Conference Co-Chair and President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, USA
3:30 p.m.- 3:45 p.m.
Closing Ceremony
Carolyn Clancy, Director, AHRQ, USA
W. David Helms, President and CEO, AcademyHealth, USA
Wednesday, September 24
2nd National Congress on Improving Chronic Care:
Innovations in Research and Practice
Tours
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