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Participating Faculty: The Quality Enterprise-What Is It, Where Is It Going, and How Will It Be Impacted by Healthcare Reform? An Expert Roundtable
This supplement to The American Journal of Managed Care highlights the perspectives of key opinion leaders as expressed during a roundtable discussion about the quality enterprise. Discussed are the challenges, opportunities, and necessary steps to transition healthcare from a fee-for-service model to a quality-based healthcare delivery model that incentivizes and rewards quality. This supplement concludes with an interview with chief pharmacist Rear Admiral Scott F. Giberson, who discusses the role of the pharmacist in relation to the quality enterprise.The information contained in this publication was sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). GSK reviewed the content of this publication for compliance with its own policies; GSK played no role in the selection or content of the material that appears here.
Faculty
John T. Berthiaume, MD
Vice President/Medical Director
Quality Management
Hawaii Medical Service Association
Honolulu, Hawaii
L. Allen Dobson, Jr, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Community Care of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Visiting Scholar
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Brookings Institution
Washington, DC
Professor of Family Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Scott F. Giberson, RPh, PhC, MPH
Chief Professional Officer, Pharmacy
US Assistant Surgeon General
Director, Commissioned Corps Personnel and Readiness
US Public Health Service
Rockville, Maryland
George K. Heuser, MD
Vice President
Senior Medical Director
Optima Health
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Marcia Guida James, MS, MBA
Director, Provider Engagement
Humana Inc
Louisville, Kentucky
Margaret E. O’Kane, MPH
President
National Committee for Quality Assurance
Washington, DC
Peter Salgo, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology
Associate Director
Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit and Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York
Jed Weissberg, MD
Senior Vice President
Hospitals, Quality and Care Delivery Excellence
Kaiser Permanente
Oakland, California
Disclosures
These faculty report relationships with the following organizations:
George K. Heuser, MD
Employee: Sentara Healthcare
Marcia Guida James, MS, MBA
Employee/meeting or conference attendance/stock ownership: Humana Inc
Jed Weissberg, MD
Board membership: Archimedes, Avivia Health
Employee: Kaiser Permanente
Stock ownership: Dr Weissberg has disclosed ownership of various stocks; information on file at the office of The American Journal of Managed Care, Plainsboro, New Jersey.
John T. Berthiaume, MD; L. Allen Dobson, Jr, MD; Scott F. Giberson, RPh, PhC, MPH; Margaret E. O’Kane, MPH; and Peter Salgo, MD, report no relationship or financial interest with any entity that would pose a conflict of interest with the subject matter of this supplement.
