Avalere Health is proud to have assembled a diverse group of leaders and decision-makers in government, industry, and advocacy. These key players will engage you and each other in a dialogue on the current and future state of health reform are in the United States. The insights of these speakers at the Avalere Health Payment Reform and Cardiovascular Disease conference will illustrate how payers and policy makers are raising the bar..

Speaker Profiles /

Michael J. Barry | Leah Binder | François de Brantes | John A. Fallon | Richard A. Frank |
Robert Galvin | Jon G. Glaudemans | James Hereford | Peter V. Lee | Jack Lewin | Penny Mills | Cyndy Nayer | Sue Nelson | Len Nichols | William J. Oetgen Jr. | Sarah Thomas

		Robert Galvin Executive Director of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer, General Electric Company Robert Galvin, MD, is Executive Director of Health Services and Chief Medical Officer at General Electric. He also leads health policy for the company. His responsibilities include managing the $3B that GE spends annually on healthcare and leading GE's clinical group, which encompasses 175 clinics in 30 countries. Dr. Galvin is Professor Adjunct of Medicine and Health Policy at Yale, and his work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. His focus is in the areas of value purchasing, payment reform and public policy relating to the role of employers in the healthcare system. He is co-founder of the Leapfrog Group and founder of Bridges to Excellence and the Center for Payment Reform. He is a member of the Defense Health Board as well as the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and has served on several Institute of Medicine Committees. Dr Galvin's work has received awards from the National Business Group on Health, the National Healthcare Purchasing Institute and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.