Raising the Bar / Payment Reform and Cardiovascular Disease - Conferences

Raising the Bar /
Payment Reform and
Cardiovascular Disease
June 12, 2009 | Washington, DC

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, M.D., Medical Director, Professor of Medicine Michael Barry, a practicing general internist, is Medical Director of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Barry has been President of the Society for Medical Decision-Making (SMDM) and President of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Barry was the Principal Investigator of the Prostate Patient Outcomes research Team-II. He is Chief Medical Editor for the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision-Making (www.FIMDM.org). His research interests include defining the outcomes of strategies for the evaluation and treatment of prostate disease, decision analysis, health status measurement, technology assessment, clinical quality improvement, and the use of decision aids to facilitate patients’ participation in decision-making.

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