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12th Annual Spine, Orthopedic and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference + The Business of Spine - call (800) 417-2035 51 Trevor Fetter is president and CEO of Tenet Healthcare Corp., an investorowned hospital company in Dallas. He was behind one of the biggest moves in healthcare in 2013. Tenet agreed to buy Vanguard Health Systems, a Nashville, Tenn.-based hospital chain, for $1.8 billion in cash and assumed $2.5 billion of Vanguard's debt. John Kitzhaber, MD, serves as governor of Oregon, his third term in the office after serving from 1995 to 2003. Central to Gov. Kitzhaber's platform is healthcare public policy. When Gov. Kitzhaber was part of the state legislature, he was critical to the establishment of the Oregon Health Plan, which is the state's Medicaid program for low-income residents. Tom Frieden, MD, became director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in June 2009. He joined the CDC in 1990 and worked at the agency until 2002, when he became commissioner of the New York City Health Department. He handled the 2009 H1N1 flu virus pandemic. Daniel Levinson, JD, is the senior official within the HHS Office of Inspector General where he oversees all audits, investigations, compliance initiatives and other projects related to combating fraud and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid and other HHS programs. He has served as inspector general since 2004, and he also serves on the Government Accountability and Transparency Board. Atul Gawande, MD, is a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, an author and a public health researcher. He also is a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston and a professor of health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Richard Gilfillan, MD, served as the first director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation for almost three years, which was created under the PPACA to test "innovative payment and service delivery models to reduce program expenditures" while enhancing quality of care. In 2013, he stepped down and was later named president and CEO of Livonia, Mich.-based CHE Trinity Health. Gary Gottlieb, MD, has been president and CEO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston since 2010. At the core of Partners is Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, two leading academic medical centers. Glenn Hackbarth, JD, chairs one of the most discreetly powerful U.S. government healthcare agencies — the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. Established under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, MedPAC advises Congress on all issues affecting the Medicare program, including provider reimbursements, new payment delivery models and quality of care. Margaret Hamburg, MD, became the 21st commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in 2009. In 2013, the FDA joined much of the world by declaring trans fats as no longer safe, essentially banning their use from the food supply. He previously was the senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Stephen Hemsley has served as president and CEO of UnitedHealth Group in Minnetonka, Minn., since 2006. In 2012, UnitedHealth Group posted $5.5 billion of profit after pulling in $110.6 billion of revenue. He is one of the highest-paid healthcare executives in the U.S., earning more than $38 million over the past three years. Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, became the 168th president of the American Medical Association in June 2013. She has been an AMA board of trustee member since 2005 and served as board chair for 2010-11. She previously served as president of the Kentucky Medical Association. Karen Ignagni is president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, one of the largest healthcare lobbying firms in the U.S. Ms. Ignagni and AHIP have been at the forefront of the PPACA debate, saying most recently that consumers received cancellation notices from their health insurers, due to PPACA requirements that must cover certain benefits, "beyond what many people choose to purchase today." Kevin Lofton has led 87-hospital Catholic Health Initiatives, based in Englewood, Colo., since 2003. Prior to CHI, Mr. Lofton served as CEO of the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham and CEO of Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He also was the American Hospital Association board of directors chair in 2007. James Madara, MD, a pathologist and expert on cell biology and gastrointestinal disease, was named executive vice president and CEO of the American Medical Association in 2011. Since Dr. Madara took the helm, the AMA has advanced several issues to the forefront, including a permanent fix to the sustainable growth rate. John Noseworthy, MD, a renowned neurologist, has served as president and CEO of Mayo Clinic since 2009 after serving as chair of its department of neurology. During Dr. Noseworthy's tenure, Mayo has greatly expanded its reach and developed new models of efficient care. The $8.8 billion organization has more than 61,000 physicians, scientists, residents and other personnel. President Barack Obama, the 44th and current President of the United States, has etched his name into the history books, enacting the most sweeping healthcare reform since the inception of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. President Obama's healthcare law may look different in the future through tweaks, changes and executive orders, but the PPACA has set the stage for a transformational shift from volume- to value-based care. Neal Patterson is chairman and CEO of Cerner in North Kansas City, Mo. He co-founded Cerner in 1979, and now it is the largest independent health IT company in the world, posting more than $2.5 billion of revenue in 2012. Cerner's EHR and IT solutions are deployed at more than 2,700 hospitals and offices of 45,000 physician nationwide. Edith Ramirez, JD, was sworn in as commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in April 2010, a term that lasts until 2015. In 2013, President Obama designated her as the FTC's chairwoman. She is one of the most powerful regulatory figures when it comes to healthcare industry consolidation, which has reached record highs over the past few years. Jacob Reider, MD, a family medicine physician, is the acting National Coordinator for Health IT at the ONC. He took over the top health IT leadership role in October 2013 and has 20 years of experience in health IT and special interest in clinical innovation, user experience and clinical decision support. Milton Johnson leads the largest for-profit hospital company in the U.S. — Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, Tenn. — as president and CEO effective Jan. 1, 2014. HCA owns and operates more than 160 hospitals and 114 ambulatory surgery centers in 20 U.S. states and London. Previously, Mr. Johnson served as HCA's president and CFO. Chip Kahn serves as president and CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals, a role he has held since 2001. Before joining FAH, he led the Health Insurance Association of America, which has since merged with AAHP to form AHIP. He also influenced how the PPACA would affect hospital reimbursements. Darrell Kirch, MD, is president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the top advocacy group representing the country's 141 medical schools and 400 major teaching hospitals, academic medical centers and health systems. The AAMC has lobbied vigorously against sequestration and cuts to graduate medical education. 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