Boston Associate Professor of Surgery and of Community and Family Medicine

PANELISTS (Cont.)

American College of Surgeons Samuel R. G. Finlayson, MD, MPH, FACS: Brigham and Women’s Hospital Inspiring Quality: Dr. Finlayson is the Kessler Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health (CSPH) at BWH. In this role, he leads the strategic growth of the Center in the areas of health services research, education Highest Standards, Better Outcomes and global health as it relates to surgery.

Dr. Finlayson has developed a national reputation as a health services and outcomes researcher specifically focused on surgical access, quality and outcomes. He has a specific interest in the quality of surgical care delivery in rural versus urban settings in the United States, as well as low-income and resource-poor countries. His clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery, with a particular interest in benign and malignant diseases of the colon, abdominal wall hernias and biliary disease. American College of Surgeons Surgical Health Care Quality Forum Prior to his arrival at the CSPH, Dr. Finlayson spent a decade at Dartmouth Medical School, where he was Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery, Director of the Surgical Residency Program, and Boston Associate Professor of Surgery and of Community and Family Medicine.

Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, FACS: Brigham and Women’s Hospital Dr. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at BWH in Boston. He is also Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a staff writer forThe New Yorker magazine.

Dr. Gawande’s research work focuses on systems innovations to transform safety, cost and performance in health care. He serves as Lead Advisor for the World Health Organization’s Safe Surgery and Safe Childbirth programs. He is Co-Founder and Chairman of Lifebox (www.lifebox.org), an international Inspiring Quality in not-for-profit implementing systems and technologies to reduce surgical deaths globally. Dr. Gawande has written three New York Times bestselling books: “Complications,” “Better,” and “The Checklist Manifesto.” He has won two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest Surgical Health Care – research impact on health care, a MacArthur Award, and selection by Foreign Policy Magazine and TIME magazine as one of the world’s top 100 influential thinkers. To view today’s archived forum video, please visit www.FACS.org Quality Improvement June 4, 2012 or InspiringQuality.FACS.org/national-tour/Boston Peter L. Slavin, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital Programs that Boston Marriott Copley Place Dr. Slavin has been the President of MGH since 2003. Dr. Slavin teaches internal medicine and health Boston, MA care management at Harvard Medical School where he is a Professor of Health Care Policy. Improve Outcomes From 1999-2002, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, which included over 1,700 physicians and employed nearly 1,000 of them. and Reduce Costs From 1997-1999, Dr. Slavin served as President of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. Before that, he did his training in internal medicine at MGH and was Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer from 1994-1997. Dr. Slavin completed his internal medicine residency at MGH from 1984-1987; he graduated from Harvard College in 1979, Harvard Medical School in 1984 and ABOUT THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS Harvard Business School in 1990. He is Chair of the Council of Teaching Hospitals, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and serves on the Board of the AAMC. He also serves as Chair- The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of surgeons that was Elect of the Board of the Massachusetts Hospital Association. founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and improve the care of the surgical patient. The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients. The College has more than 78,000 members and is the largest Join the Forum discussion live via Twitter at #ACSInspiringQuality organization of surgeons in the world. For more information, visit www.FACS.org. or @AmCollSurgeons EVENT PROGRAM HOSTS/MODERATORS KEYNOTE SPEAKER

3:30 – 4:00 p.m. – Registration and Networking 4:00 – 5:45 p.m. – Forum Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, FACS: Massachusetts General Hospital Stuart H. Altman, PhD, MA, BBA: Brandeis University Welcome and Introduction Dr. Warshaw, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, trained in surgery at MGH Dr. Altman is the Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, The Heller School for Social Andrew L. Warshaw, MD, FACS and has been on the staff of MGH and faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1972. He is the W. Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He is Co-Chairman of the Advisory Board to the W. Gerald Austen Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Gerald Austen Distinguished Professor of Surgery at Harvard and, until 2011, Dr. Warshaw was the Schneider Institute for Health Policy; Chair of The Council on Health Care Economics and Policy; Surgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); Chair, Surgeon-in-Chief and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at MGH. and, Chair of The Health Industry Forum at The Heller School. American College of Surgeons (ACS) Health Policy and Advocacy Group Dr. Warshaw has made many important contributions to the diagnosis, treatment and understanding Dr. Altman is an economist whose research interests are primarily in the area of federal and state Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS of the pathogenesis of inflammatory and malignant lesions of the pancreas and has been recognized health policy. He was Co-Chair for the Legislative Health Care Task Force for the Commonwealth Moseley Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Director, Dana Farber/ nationally and internationally, including being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the of Massachusetts; additionally, he was appointed by President Clinton to the National Bipartisan Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center; Surgeon-in-Chief, Brigham and Women’s American Pancreatic Association. He has served as President of the Massachusetts Chapter of ACS, the Commission on the Future of Medicare. He served as the Chairman of the congressionally legislated Hospital (BWH); Member, ACS Board of Regents New England Surgical Society, the Halsted Society, the Boston Surgical Society, the Society of Surgical Prospective Payment Assessment Commission for 12 years. Between 1971 and 1976, Dr. Altman was Chairs, the American Pancreatic Association, and as Director and Chairman of the American Board of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation/Health at the United States Department of Keynote Address Surgery. He has served in multiple leadership roles for the ACS, currently as Treasurer, as well as Chair Health, Education, and Welfare (later renamed the Department of Health and Human Services), and of the Health Policy and Advocacy Group. Dr. Warshaw has authored more than 400 original reports, 225 was one of the principal contributors to the development and advancement of the Administration’s Stuart H. Altman, PhD, MA, BBA book chapters, reviews, and monographs, and 13 books; he is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Surgery. National Health Insurance proposal. From 1973 to 1974, he also served as the Deputy Director Economist and Health Policy Expert; The Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health for Health of the President’s Cost-of-Living Council, where he was responsible for developing the Policy at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University Michael J. Zinner, MD, FACS: Brigham and Women’s Hospital Council’s program on health care cost containment. With David Shactman, Dr. Altman co-authored “Power, Politics, and Universal Health Care: The Inside Story of a Century-Long Battle.” Panelist Statements on Quality Improvement (in order of appearance) Dr. Zinner is the Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, the Surgeon-in-Chief at BWH and the Clinical Director of the Dana Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dr. Zinner Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MPH, FACS remains a busy clinician and his clinical focus centers on diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Director of the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery, and Surgeon, PANELISTS MGH; Harvard Medical School In 2004, Dr. Zinner established the Center for Surgery and Public Health, a collaboration between the (in order of appearance) Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health, focused on health care, quality, Samuel R. G. Finlayson, MD, MPH, FACS safety and effectiveness and global surgical care. His current interests include these areas and the Kessler Director, Center for Surgery and Public Health, BWH national debate on health care reform. He has been on the Boards of several hospitals and health care Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MPH, FACS: Massachusetts General Hospital systems across the country. Dr. Zinner is a member of the editorial boards of several surgical journals, Dr. Hutter is the Director of the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery at MGH and Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, FACS including Annals of Surgery, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Journal of the American College Co-Director of the MGH Department of Surgery Quality and Safety Program. He is a general and BWH; Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health; Lead Advisor, of Surgeons. He is the past and current Editor for “Maingot’s Abdominal Operations,” a worldwide gastrointestinal surgeon, who specializes in minimally invasive surgery, including bariatric surgery. Surgery and Childbirth Programs, World Health Organization Patient Safety textbook and atlas of gastrointestinal surgery. Dr. Zinner was past President of the Association for He is a nationally recognized leader in the fields of bariatric surgery and surgical outcomes. Academic Surgery, past President of the Society of the University Surgeons and past President of Peter L. Slavin, MD the Society of Surgical Chairman. He has previously served as a Director of the American Board of Dr. Hutter’s research is focused on the study of clinical effectiveness in surgery. Dr. Hutter is on the President, MGH Surgery. He was the Chairman of the ACS Board of Governors from 2008 to 2010 and is now a Regent advisory board for the ACS Bariatric Surgery Center Network, and has developed and implemented of the College. their national data collection system for bariatric surgery. In addition, Dr. Hutter is the Co-Chair of Q&A Panel Discussion the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) Collaboration Committee, and is a member of the Policy Committee, the Measurement and Evaluation Committee, and the Closing Remarks Definitions Committee. EVENT PROGRAM HOSTS/MODERATORS KEYNOTE SPEAKER