 Arthur Miller, NYU Law Professor
Arthur R. Miller (born 1934) is this nation’s leading scholar in the field of civil procedure and is coauthor with the late Charles Wright of Federal Practice and Procedure, the legendary treatise in the field. This multi-volume series is an essential reference for judges and lawyers. Miller is also one of the nation’s most distinguished legal scholars in the areas of civil litigation, copyright and unfair competition, and privacy, authoring more than 40 books and numerous articles, including The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers (1971), the first book warning of the threat to privacy posed by modern information technology; Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials, (with J.H. Friedenthal, J. Sexton, and H. Hershkoff; 1967-2008 (nine editions)); Federal Practice and Procedure (with C.A. Wright, some with E.H. Cooper, M.K. Kane, and R. Marcus; 1968-2008, West Publishing Co. (more than thirty-five volumes)); Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks and Copyright in a Nutshell (with M.H. Davis, 1998-2008, West Publishing Co. (four editions)), among many others.
Miller is currently a University Professor at NYU School of Law and the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Previously, Miller was the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he earned his law degree and taught for 36 years. Miller is the recipient of numerous awards, including five honorary doctorates, three American Bar Association Gavel Awards and a Special Recognition Gavel Award for promoting public understanding of the law. He is a renowned commentator on law and society, He won an Emmy for his work on “The Constitution: That Delicate Balance,” one of the several acclaimed PBS series which he has moderated as well as served for two decades as the legal editor for ABC's Good Morning America and as the host of a weekly television show titled Miller's Court on WCVB-TV.
Miller has argued cases in all of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal and several before the U.S. Supreme Court. He has worked in the public interest in the areas of privacy, computers, copyright, and the courts and has served as a member and reporter of the Advisory Committee of Civil Rules of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. by appointment of two Chief Justices of the United States, as Reporter and Advisor to the American Law Institute, a member of a special advisory group to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and as a member of various American Bar Association committees, among others. Miller was also appointed as commissioner on the United States Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Work by President Ford.
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 Michael Anaya, President and Chairman, National Forum for Latino Healthcare Executives and Chief Executive Officer, Colorado Plains Medical Center
Michael Anaya, Sr., FACHE, is a founding member and currently serves as the president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Forum for Latino Healthcare Executives. Previously, he served as treasurer.
Since 2005, Anaya has been CEO of LifePoint’s Colorado Plains Medical Center in Fort Morgan, CO. In addition, Anaya spent 21 years in the military, starting in the U.S. Air Force as a pharmacy technician. He also served in the U.S. Navy in the Medical Service Corps in a variety of operational hospital and health system leadership roles.
Since retiring from the military, Anaya has held several leadership positions in the health care industry, serving in the “C” suites at St. Alexius/SouthPointe Hospital in St. Louis, MO, Doctors Hospital of Laredo, Laredo, TX and Dundy County Health Systems in Nebraska.
Anaya is a board certified Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) and as a Commissioner with Colorado’s Minority Health Advisory Commission (MHAC) and the State Emergency Medical and Trauma Advisory Board (SEMTAC).
Anaya is a board certified Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and on the board of directors for the Colorado Association for Healthcare Executives (CAHE). He serves on the Regional Policy Board of the American Hospital Association (AHA) and numerous state hospital association task forces.
 Regina Benjamin, MD, founder of Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic
Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, is Founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama and was recently installed as the Chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States. She is former Associate Dean for Rural Health at the University Of South Alabama College Of Medicine in Mobile where she administered the Alabama-AHEC program and USA Telemedicine Program. In 1998 she was the United States recipient of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. In 1995, she was elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees, making her the first physician under age 40 and the first African-American woman to be elected. She also served as President of the American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation (AMA-ERF) and is currently the chair of the AMA Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs. In 2002 she became President of the Medical Association State of Alabama, making her the first African American female president of a State Medical Society in the United States.
Born 1956, Dr. Benjamin has a BS in chemistry from Xavier University, New Orleans, MD degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and an MBA from Tulane University. She also has 4 Honorary Degrees. She attended Morehouse School of Medicine and completed her residency in family practice at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. After entering solo practice in Bayou La Batre, Alabama (a small shrimping village along the gulf coast), and Dr. Benjamin spent several years moonlighting in emergency rooms and nursing homes to keep her practice open. Shortly after receiving her MBA she converted her office to a rural health clinic. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastated her town and flooded her clinic, and 3 months later a fire destroyed the renovated facility the day before it was to open. Throughout it all, Dr Benjamin and her staff never stopped serving patients.
Dr. Benjamin is an elected member of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM), a diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She was a Kellogg National Fellow and a Rockefeller Next Generation Leader. Some of her numerous board memberships includes the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Catholic Health Association, Federation of State Medical Boards, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Morehouse School of Medicine. She is a former member of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, Alabama State Committee of Public Health, and Board of Trustees for Birmingham Southern University, and Florida A&M University. She served as Vice President of the Governor's Commission on Aging, and was a member of the Governor's Health Care Reform Task Force and the Governor’s Task Force on Children’s Health.
Dr. Benjamin was named by Time Magazine as one of the "Nation's 50 Future Leaders Age 40 and under." She was featured in a New York Times article, "Angel in a White Coat," "Person of the Week" on ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, "Woman of the Year" by CBS This Morning, and in People Magazine. She was featured on the December 1999 cover of Clarity Magazine, received the 2000 National Caring Award which was inspired by Mother Teresa, was on the Jan 2003 cover of Reader’s Digest and received the papal honor Pro Ecclesia ET Pontifice from Pope Benedict XVI.
Consistent with her strong social conscience, Dr. Benjamin spent time doing missionary work in Honduras and is a former Board Member of Physicians for Human Rights. Her interests include billiards, golf, eco and adventure travel, and mountain climbing.
 Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School Professor
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards. She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care and health care focused factories, two terms that she coined. Money has dubbed her the “Godmother” of consumer-driven health care.
All her health care books have been best sellers in their categories. Her newest book Who Killed Health Care? (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007) was selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten books that change the debate in 2008. Noted Merrill Matthews; “There are two powerful, well-respected and highly accomplished women who are driving the health care reform debate in the United States. One is Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), former first lady .. whose first attempt at dramatically reforming the U.S. health care system turned into a political disaster. The other is Harvard Business School economist Regina Herzlinger, one of the country’s most knowledgeable and articulate experts on the U.S. health care system, who has been pointing the way toward a “consumer-driven” system for years.”
Her prior book, Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004) received the 2004 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award for History and Public Policy. Earlier research results were profiled by The Wall Street Journal (November 2002) and Managed Health Care Executive (June 2003, cover). Her July 2002 Harvard Business Review article, “Let’s Put Consumers in Charge of Health Care,” was an Amazon eBooks best seller. Market Driven Health Care (Boston:Perseus,paperback,2000) is widely viewed as a transformational work .
Regina Herzlinger has won the Consumers' for Health Care Choices Pioneer in Health Economics award, the American College of Healthcare Executives’ Hamilton Book of the Year award twice, the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Board of Directors award, and Management Accounting’s research prize. She was recently inducted as an honorary fellow by the American College of Physician Executives. Modern Healthcare's's readers selected her as among the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” each year since 2003 and Managed Healthcare named her one of health care’s top ten thinkers. In recognition of her work in nonprofit accounting and control, she was named the first Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. In addition, she has delivered many keynote addresses at annual meetings of large health care and business groups and been selected as one of the outstanding instructors of the Harvard Business School’s MBA Program.
Other recent articles include: “Foreign Health Affairs,” The Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2007; “Who Killed U.S. Medicine?; As Doctors Lose Income and Autonomy, Their Advocate Fights The Wrong Battles,” The Washington Post, July 25, 2007; “Where Are The Innovators In Health Care?,” The Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2007; "Why Innovation In Health Care Is So Hard," Harvard Business Review, May-June 2006; “Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Delivery of Health Services,” Futurescan: Healthcare Trends and Implications 2006-2011 (Chicago, IL: SHSMD/Health Administration Press, 2006); “Medicine for Medicaid,” The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2005, with Tom Nerney; “Uncle Sam is No Doctor,” USA Today, March 28, 2005; “Consumer-Driven Health Care: Lessons from Switzerland,” Journal of the American Medical Association, September 8, 2004; “An IT Trojan Horse,” Modern Healthcare, September 6, 2004; and "Specialization and Its Discontents: The Pernicious Impact of Regulations Against Specialization and Physician Ownership on U.S. Health Care," Circulation, May 25, 2004. Other books include Financial Accounting and Managerial Control of Nonprofit Organizations (Cincinnati, OH: SouthWestern, 1994).
Professor Herzlinger has served on the Scientific Advisory Group to the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and as a board member of many private and publicly-traded firms, mostly in the consumer-driven health care space, often as chair of the Governance and Audit subcommittees.
Regina Herzlinger received her Bachelor’s Degree from MIT and her Doctorate from the Harvard Business School.
She has been married to Dr. George Herzlinger, her MIT classmate, for 42 years. Both of their children graduated from Harvard College. Her daughter is a Fellow in Endocrinology; her son, an Infantry Captain in the U.S. Army who served two tours in Iraq, has safely returned to the U.S.
 Daniel Jones, M.D., Vice Chancellor, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Daniel W. Jones, M.D. is vice chancellor for health affairs, dean of the School of Medicine and Herbert G. Langford Professor of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson. He serves as the institution’s chief executive officer overseeing five schools and the health system.
Active in the American Heart Association (AHA), Dr. Jones was the 2007-2008 national president. He also serves on the National Board of Directors. Previously he has chaired the strategic planning task force and the association’s International Committee. He is also a member of AHA’s Council for High Blood Pressure Research, and serves the association as a national spokesperson on high blood pressure.
A native Mississippian, he graduated from Mississippi College in 1971 and earned his MD and completed residency training at UMMC. He was in private practice in Laurel, Mississippi from 1978 until he went to Korea in 1985 as a medical missionary to serve as director of the community health department and hypertension clinic at the Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital in Pusan. In 1992, he returned to the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
For most of his career, his patient care, teaching and research activities have focused on hypertension and prevention of cardiovascular disease. He was the first principal investigator for the Medical Center’s participation in the landmark Jackson Heart Study, an NIH sponsored population study focused on cardiovascular disease in African Americans.
A fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Jones is certified by the American
Board of Internal Medicine and is designated as a specialist in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension Specialists. He has been named one of the “Best Doctors in America” from 1996 - 2008. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha national honor medical society.
Dr. Jones is a member of the board of directors of Global Resource Services, a non-governmental organization providing professional consultation to East Asian nations including the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea).
He and his wife, Lydia, live in Hazlehurst and are the parents of two children.
 Bill Novelli, CEO of AARP
Bill Novelli is CEO of AARP, a membership organization of over 40 million people age 50 and older, half of whom remain actively employed. AARP’s mission is to enhance the quality of life for all as we age.
Prior to joining AARP, Mr. Novelli was President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, whose mandate is to change public policies and the social environment, limit tobacco companies’ marketing and sales practices to children and serve as a counterforce to the tobacco industry and its special interests. He now serves as chairman of the board.
Previously, he was Executive Vice President of CARE, the world’s largest private relief and development organization. He was responsible for all operations in the U.S. and abroad. CARE helps impoverished people in Africa, Asia and Latin America through programs in health, agriculture, environmental protection and small business support. CARE also provides emergency relief to people in need.
Earlier, Mr. Novelli co-founded and was President of Porter Novelli, now one of the world’s largest public relations agencies and part of the Omnicom Group, an international marketing communications corporation. He directed numerous corporate accounts as well as the management and development of the firm. Porter Novelli was founded to apply marketing to social and health issues, and grew into an international marketing/public relations agency with corporate, not-for-profit and government clients. He retired from the firm in 1990 to pursue a second career in public service. He was named one of the 100 most influential public relations professionals of the 20th century by the industry’s leading publication.
Mr. Novelli is a recognized leader in social marketing and social change, and has managed programs in cancer control, diet and nutrition, cardiovascular health, reproductive health, infant survival, pay increases for educators, charitable giving and other programs in the U.S. and the developing world.
He began his career at Unilever, a worldwide-packaged goods marketing company, moved to a major ad agency, and then served as Director of Advertising and Creative Services for the Peace Corps. In this role, Mr. Novelli helped direct recruitment efforts for the Peace Corps, VISTA, and social involvement programs for older Americans.
He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, and pursued doctoral studies at New York University. He taught marketing management for 10 years in the University of Maryland’s M.B.A. program and also taught health communications there. He has lectured at many other institutions. He has written numerous articles and chapters on marketing management, marketing communications, and social marketing in journals, periodicals and textbooks.
His book, 50+: Give Meaning and Purpose to the Best Time of Your Life, was updated in 2008.
Mr. Novelli serves on a number of boards and advisory committees. He and his wife, Fran, reside in Bethesda, Maryland. They have three adult children and five grandchildren.
 Dave Ratner, owner, Dave’s Soda & Pet City
Dave is a smart business owner and a genius marketer who is fighting big box corporations on their turf and winning the war. According to BJ Bueno, Dave is one of few “one-man cult brands.” His demeanor is disarming leaving one defenseless as soon as he says “hello.”
Despite his humble retail beginning over 27 years ago in an abandoned 3-bay gas station, Dave Ratner has managed to build a powerful brand for his 4-store chain. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Retail Advertising & Marketing Association along side the VPs of Marketing for Home Depot, Walgreens, and Target and is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization.
Dave hosts a weekly television show sharing his knowledge of the care of inhome pets that is broadcasted via a local ABC affiliate. In fact, Dave is the inventor of Doodisolve, a product found in pet stores across the country that helps bird owners clean up after their feathered friends!
Dave’s success has attracted interest from publications that quote him regularly- The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and CBS Radio along with many other periodicals distributed across the Nation.
Dave hosts a weekly talk radio show, “Minding Your Business with Dave, The Wiz of Biz,” where he shares his business experience with listeners in the greater Springfield, MA area.
Witnessing Dave Ratner Unleashed is time well spent! His humorous delivery of what works, what doesn’t and why is simply inspirational – business people across the country leave Dave’s seminars equipped with the knowledge, energy, and enthusiasm they need to ensure and maintain their success. Groups of sales people, marketers, and customer service representatives use
Dave’s ideas to improve customer relationships, which in turn grows their businesses.
 T. R. Reid, Washington Post Bureau Chief and author, “We’re Number 37!”
T. R. Reid has become one of the nation’s best-known correspondents through his coverage of global affairs for The Washington Post, his books and documentaries, and his light-hearted commentaries on National Public Radio.
Reid took a roundabout path to the Post. He majored in Classics at Princeton University, and served as a naval officer, a teacher, and various other jobs. At the Washington Post, he covered Congress and four presidential campaigns. He served as the paper’s bureau chief in Tokyo and in London.
Reid has written and hosted documentary films for National Geographic TV, for PBS, and for the A&E network. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.” He has written six books in English and three in Japanese, and translated one book from the Japanese. His latest book, “The United States of Europe,” became a national best-seller in 2005.
Reid is a member of the board of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, the University of Colorado Medical School, and a number of community organizations and schools. He has taught at Princeton University and the University of Michigan.
T. R. Reid has been married for 36 years to the attorney Margaret M. McMahon. They have three children.
 Denise Rodgers, MD, Provost and Executive Vice President of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ
Dr. Denise V. Rodgers is the Executive Vice President for Academic and Clinical Affairs for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) as well as Professor of Family Medicine at the UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is particularly interested in leveraging the resources of UMDNJ to improve the health status of all New Jersey residents, with special attention to minority and underserved populations.
Prior to becoming Executive Vice President, Dr. Rodgers served as University Chief of Staff for UMDNJ and Senior Associate Dean for Community Health at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Before coming to RWJMS in 1997, Dr. Rodgers was Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She also served as Director of the UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) Family Practice Residency Program and Chief of Service of Family and Community Medicine at SFGH.
Dr. Rodgers currently serves on a number of local, statewide, and national committees such as the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) Office of Minority and Multicultural Health Advisory Commission and the Governor’s Council on HIV/AIDS and Related Blood-Borne Pathogens. She additionally serves as chair of the council’s epidemiology subcommittee.
Dr. Rodgers received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychobiology from Oberlin College. She graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and completed her family medicine training in the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Rodgers is board certified in family medicine and is a diplomate of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
 Eduardo Sanchez, Vice President & Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Texas
Eduardo J. Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at BlueCross BlueShield of Texas.
Prior to joining BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, Dr. Sanchez served as the Director of the Institute for Health Policy and Professor in the Division of Management, Policy and Community Health at The University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH). He held the title of Texas Commissioner of Health from 2001 to 2006 as Commissioner of the Texas Department of Health (TDH) from 2001 to 2004 and as Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) from 2004 to 2006. He led the consolidation of Texas’ public health, mental, health and substance abuse agencies into one single agency, DSHS, and in 2005, Dr. Sanchez directed the Texas health and medical response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity and on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) Board of Scientific Counselors during his state health officer tenure.
From 1992 to 2001, Dr. Sanchez practiced family medicine in Austin, Texas. In addition, he served as public health officer and chief medical officer for the Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services Department from 1994 to 1998. He played a key leadership role in helping to create the Texas Association of Local Health Officials (TALHO) in 1997, and he served as TALHO’s first President.
Dr. Sanchez is currently serving as Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Chair of the National Commission on Prevention Priorities (NCPP), and a Food & Society Policy Fellow. In addition, he is serving as co-chair of the National Governors' Association Childhood Obesity Advisory Council and as a member of the IOM Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity.
He received his medical degree in 1988 from The University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical School and completed a family medicine residency at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio. He holds master’s degrees in public health from the UT School of Public Health and in biomedical engineering from Duke University. He also holds bachelor's degrees from Boston University in biomedical engineering and chemistry.
 Gerald Shea, Assistant to the President for External Affairs, AFL-CIO
As Assistant to the President at the AFL-CIO since 1995, Gerald M. Shea’s work covers issues such as health care and retirement security as well as relations with allied organizations and government entities. In that position, Shea manages the work of the AFL-CIO on all aspects of healthcare. Through his work, he has become one of the nation’s most prominent representatives of healthcare consumers.
Shea is a member of the Board of the National Quality Forum (NQF), the Board of the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO), of the Hospital Quality Alliance, and the Quality Alliance Steering Committee. He was a founding board member of the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT) and chairs the RxHealthValue Project. He is a past member of the Social Security Advisory Board, the Medicare Prospective Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and its predecessor, the Prospective Payment Advisory Commission, as well as the Institute of Medicine’s Quality in Health Care Committee’s Subcommittee on the External Environment.
Before his appointment by President Sweeney, Shea held various positions at the AFL-CIO from August 1993 through October 1995; first serving as director of the policy office with responsibility for health care and pensions and then in several Executive Staff positions. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, Shea spent 21 years with the Service Employees International Union as an organizer and local union official in Massachusetts and as senior staff member of the national union.
Shea is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Boston College.
 Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Michael Tanner heads research into a variety of domestic policies with a particular emphasis on health care reform, social welfare policy, and Social Security. His most recent book, Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution (2007), chronicles the demise of the Republican party as it has shifted away from its limited government roots and warns that reform is necessary to avoid electoral defeat in 2008.
Under Tanner's direction, Cato launched the Project on Social Security Choice, which is widely considered the leading impetus for transforming the soon-to-be-bankrupt system into a private savings program. Time Magazine calls Tanner, "one of the architects of the private accounts movement," and Congressional Quarterly named him one of the nation's five most influential experts on Social Security.
His other books include, Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It (Second Edition, 2007), (2003), and A New Deal for Social Security (1998). Tanner's writings have appeared in nearly every major American newspaper, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. A prolific writer and frequent guest lecturer, Tanner appears regularly on network and cable news programs. Before joining Cato in 1993, Tanner served as director of research of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and as legislative director for the American Legislative Exchange Council.
 Reed Tuckson, M.D., Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group
A graduate of Howard University, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship Programs, Dr. Tuckson is currently Executive Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs at UnitedHealth Group where he is responsible for working with all of the Company’s business units to improve the quality and efficiency of health services.
Formerly, Dr. Tuckson served as Senior Vice President, Professional Standards, for the American Medical Association (AMA). He is former President of the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles; has served as Senior Vice President for Programs of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation; and is a former Commissioner of Public Health for the District of Columbia.
Dr. Tuckson is an active member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and served as the Chairperson of its Quality Chasm Summit Committee and a member on their Committee on the Consequences of the Uninsured. He is immediate past Chair of the Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society. Additionally, he recently served as a Commissioner, Certification Commission on Health Information Technology (CCHIT); and is currently a member of the Performance Measurement Workgroup, Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA); and the Quality Workgroup, American Health Information Community (AHIC).
Dr. Tuckson has also held other federal appointments, including cabinet level advisory committees on health reform, infant mortality, children’s health, violence, and radiation testing.
Most recently, Dr. Tuckson was named one of Modern Healthcare’s “Top 25 Minority Executives” in Healthcare for 2008 and to Ebony magazine’s “2008 Power 150: The Most Influential Blacks in America” list.
 Dave Walker, President of the Peterson Foundation and former U.S. Comptroller General
As President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Dave is now free to do what he wasn't able to do while running the Government Accountability Office: advocate for specific solutions, work proactively with grantees and other partners to build strong coalitions, and encourage and engage in grassroots efforts to bring pressure on Washington to act.
As Comptroller General of the United States and head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) from 1998 to 2008, spanning both Democratic and Republican administrations, Dave served as the federal government's chief auditor. Appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate, he was an outspoken, nonpartisan advocate for addressing the major fiscal and other sustainability challenges facing the country. He also enacted transformational reforms at the agency and within the accountability profession.
Prior to his appointment to run the GAO, Dave served as a partner and global managing director of Arthur Andersen LLP and in several government leadership positions, including as a Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 1990 to 1995 and as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs during the Reagan administration.
Although no longer the US government's chief auditor, Dave continues to serve as a global accountability expert as chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee. He also serves on the boards of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the Partnership for Public Service. He has authored two books, is a regular commentator, and is the subject of the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A., which arrives in theatres around the country in August 2008.
Dave holds a B.S. in accounting from Jacksonville University, a Senior Management in Government Certificate in public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and several honorary doctorate degrees. He has won numerous leadership and other awards during his career. He and his wife Mary live in Alexandria, VA and have two children and three grandchildren.
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