5:00pm EST
6:00pm EST
7:30am EST
7:30am EST
8:30am EST
Protect Our Care
Moderators 
Executive Director, Families USA
Rosa DeLauro is the Congresswoman from Connecticut’s Third Congressional District, which stretches from the Long Island Sound and New Haven, to the Naugatuck Valley and Waterbury. Rosa serves in the Democratic leadership as Co-Chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee...
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Senator, United States Senate
U.S. Senator Al Franken was born on May 21, 1951, and grew up in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. In 1973, he graduated from Harvard, where he met his wife Franni. They've been married for 40 years, and have two grown children, Thomasin and Joe. The couple's first grandchild, Joe, was born...
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Senator, U. S. Senate
Chris Van Hollen has been described as “one of those rare leaders who runs for office because he wants to DO something, not because he wants to BE something.”
Chris was first elected to public office in 1990, when he campaigned for the Maryland House of Delegates as part of the...
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Congressman, United States House of Representatives
Congresswoman Robin Kelly has dedicated her career to public service as an advocate for Illinois families. Since being elected to serve the 2nd Congressional District in 2013, she has worked to expand economic opportunity, community wellness, and public safety across the state...
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Senator, United States Senate
Born in Gladwin and raised in Clare, Senator Stabenow was inspired to first run for office after leading a successful effort to stop the closure of a local nursing home. She was elected to the Ingham County Board of Commissioners when she was 24 years old, and in just two years, was...
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10:45am EST
Mouth, Mind, and Body
Moderators 
Private Insurance Program Director, Families USA
Cheryl Fish-Parcham is Private Insurance Program Director at Families USA. Her current areas of focus include private insurance, in particular, implementation of the private market provisions in the Affordable Care Act, and enrollment in Medicaid and the health insurance marketplaces...
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Community Catalyst
Aryka Chapman is a State Advocacy Manager for Community Catalyst’s Substance Use Disorders team. In this capacity she works with state partners to advocate for improved programs and policies that address substance use prevention and access to care.Over the course of her career...
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Senior Director for Health and Legal Integration and Payment Innovation, Whitman-Walker Clinic Legal Services Department
Erin Loubier is Senior Director for Health and Legal Integration and Payment Innovation at Whitman-Walker Health (WWH), a federally qualified health center serving Washington, DC’s diverse urban community and special focus on people living with HIV and the LGBT community. Erin...
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American Dental Association
Dr. Marko Vujicic currently serves as Chief Economist and Vice President of the Health Policy Institute at the American Dental Association, where he is responsible for overseeing all of the Association’s policy research activities. Prior to joining the American Dental Association...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Congressional B
Lobby level
10:45am EST
Taking Action to Address Rising Prescription Drug Prices
Moderators 
Program Director for Health System Transformation, Families USA
Caitlin Morris is the Health System Transformation Program Director at Families USA. Her work focuses on improving health care delivery and quality through evidence-based medicine, care coordination, patient-centered outcomes research, health information technology (HIT), and quality...
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Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative
Matthew Celentano is the Deputy Director of the Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative, and the Health Care for All Campaign. He has been with the organization since January of 2002. In those years, the organization has had major victories for health care consumers. It helped expand...
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OSPIRG
Jesse Ellis O’Brien is OSPIRG's Policy Director, helping to coordinate policy development, research and advocacy for OSPIRG's many public interest campaigns. He leads OSPIRG's health care work, researching policies and strategies for Oregon to lower the cost of health care while...
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Health Care For All (Massachusetts)
Brian Rosman is the Policy and Government Relations Director of Health Care For All in Massachusetts. Brian’s work focuses on policy advocacy and analysis related to Massachusetts and national health reform, public health coverage programs, health delivery system reform and other...
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10:45am EST
Open Enrollment Four is Over: What We Need to Do Now
Speakers 
Program Manager, Community Council of Greater Dallas
Director, USF Florida Covering Kids & Families
Jodi Ray is the Director and Principal Investigator for Florida Covering Kids and Families, at the University of South Florida’s Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies. The Chiles Center conducts regional, national and international service, research and educational programs...
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Health Management Associates
Thursday February 16, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Columbia B
Ballroom level
10:45am EST
Health Equity Meets Payment and Delivery Reform: The Value Proposition
Moderators
Speakers 
Southwest Center for Health Innovation
Mr. Alfero is the Executive Director of the Southwest Center for Health Innovation and thefounder of HMS, a Community Health Center providing primary medical, dental, mental health, family support, community development, and health policy services in southwestern New Mexico. He has...
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Consultant, Ignatius Bau Consulting
Ignatius Bau is an independent health care policy consultant for patient-consumer organizations,community-based health and social service organizations, community health centers, minority physicianassociations, public hospitals, health systems, and state health departments. He works...
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Director of Health Equity, Families USA
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio is the Director of Health Equity at Families USA, where she focuses on expanding and strengthening the organization's ability to enhance and elevate health care advocacy and activism in communities of color across the nation. She is continuing the group's work...
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Professor, University of Chicago
Marshall Chin, MD, MPH, Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of Chicago is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has dedicated his career to advancing health equity through interventions at individual, organizational...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Columbia C
Ballroom level
10:45am EST
What’s Next for Payment and Delivery Reform in the States
Moderators 
Families USA Board
Mr. Villers is the cofounder of Families USA. In 1981, he and his wife, Kate Villers, founded the organization, which was initially called The Villers Foundation. He has served as its President and as a permanent member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Mr. Villers is...
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Staff Attorney, Vermont Legal Aid/Office of the Health Care Advocate
Kaili Kuiper is a staff attorney with Vermont Legal Aid’s Office of the Health Care Advocate (HCA). The HCA assists Vermonters with issues related to health care and health insurance through a wide variety of consumer protection activities. Ms. Kuiper joined Vermont Legal Aid (VLA...
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Consumer Health First
Leni Preston currently serves as the President of Consumer Health First (CHF). In 2016, she led the strategic transformation of its forerunner, the Maryland Women’s Coalition for Health Care Reform (Coalition), into a new nonprofit organization. While the name is new...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Regency D
Ballroom level
10:45am EST
Defending Health Care Gains from the States
Moderators 
Director of Campaign Strategy, Families USA
Claire McAndrew is the Director of Campaign Strategy at Families USA. Ms. McAndrew oversees advocacy work focused on the organization’s mission to ensure high quality, affordable health coverage and care for all. Her portfolio includes federal and state advocacy to protect the gains...
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Pennsylvania Health Access Network
Antoinette Kraus currently serves as founding Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (PHAN). Since joining PHAN in 2008 Kraus has helped grow the Pennsylvania Health Access Network into the state’s largest consumer driven organization. She works toward quality...
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Senior Political Action Specialist, American Nurses Association
Monisha serves as the Associate Director, Advocacy and Engagement at the American Nurses Association (ANA). Shemanages the political and advocacy programs for ANA.Prior to ANA she worked for the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) as the Manager of Government Affairs where...
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Health Access
Anthony Wright has served as Executive Director for Health Access, the statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition, since 2002. Health Access has led state and national efforts to win consumer protections, fight budget cuts and invest in our safety-net, encourage prevention...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Columbia Foyer
Ballroom level
10:45am EST
10:45am EST
Leveraging Social Media to Increase Visibility and Awareness
Moderators
Speakers 
Tennessee Justice Center
Katie Alexander is the Field Director at the Tennessee Justice Center, a small non-profit law firm that helps Tennesseans access health care coverage. Originally from New York State, Katie got her degree in Literature and the African Diaspora at American University in D.C., and then...
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Digital Director, Family Values @ Work
Talk to me about digital strategy, social media, capacity building, advocacy, engagement, privacy, fundraising, mobile. As the digital director at Family Values @ Work I maximize our digital efforts to support on-the-ground initiatives nationwide. I manage all online communications...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Columbia A
Ballroom Level
12:00pm EST
A Call to Action
Moderators 
Executive Director, Families USA
President, North Carolina NAACP
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is Pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina and architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement that gained national acclaim with its Moral Monday protests at the North Carolina General Assembly in 2013...
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1:15pm EST
1:30pm EST
State-Based Solutions to Securing Health Coverage
Moderators 
Senior Policy Analyst, Families USA
Lydia Mitts is a Senior Policy Analyst at Families USA. She specializes in private insurance issues, including market reforms and financial assistance programs under the Affordable Care Act, wellness incentive programs, marketplace plan benefit design, and cost-sharing. She also specializes...
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Community Service Society of New York
Elisabeth Benjamin is the Vice President of Health Initiatives at the Community Service Society, where she supervises health policy, health advocacy, and consumer health assistance programs, including: the CSS Navigator Network, Community Health Advocates, Independent Consumer Advocacy...
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Georgetown University
Sabrina Corlette is a Research Professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms (CHIR) at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute. At CHIR she directs research on health insurance reform issues. Her areas of focus include state and federal regulation of private health...
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Director
Mila Kofman is the Executive Director of the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority. Appointed to the position by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors, Kofman is a nationally recognized expert on private health insurance markets and has worked with states and all stakeholders...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Columbia Foyer
Ballroom level
1:30pm EST
Effective Strategies for Educating Public Officials and Advancing Public Policy
Moderators
Speakers 
Director of External Affairs, Westside Family Healthcare
Maggie Norris Bent is the Director of External Affairs with Westside Family Healthcare, a community health center in Delaware. She is responsible for oversight of Westside’s advocacy initiatives, fund development activities, and statewide community engagement strategies. Maggie...
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Enrollment Coordinator, Patient Innovation Center
Coalition building, immigration and enrollment intersection, unique outreach methods
American Dental Hygienists' Association
Ann Lynch is Director of Governmental Affairs for the American Dental Hygienists’ Association.
Prior to working at the ADHA, Lynch served in the Minnesota State Senate from 2007-2010, representing Rochester, MN and surrounding communities. During her term, Lynch served as Vice...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Columbia A
Ballroom Level
1:30pm EST
Helping Consumers in a Changing Health Policy Landscape
Moderators 
Director of Community Engagement, Families USA
@heatherjbates
Independence Care System
Doug Goggin-Callahan is an attorney whose primary focus is in health care policy. He is currently the Vice President of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs at Independence Care System, a non-profit health plan serving people with physical disabilities in New York State. He is the recipient...
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Director of Programs, Palmetto Project
Shelli Quenga is the director of programs for the Palmetto Project in South Carolina. She oversees all advocacy and programming for the statewide nonprofit organization, including a team of 50+ certified health insurance navigators positioned for the fourth year of ACA Marketplace...
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1:30pm EST
The Impact of Payment Reform on the Safety Net and Health Disparities
Moderators 
Director of Health Equity, Families USA
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio is the Director of Health Equity at Families USA, where she focuses on expanding and strengthening the organization's ability to enhance and elevate health care advocacy and activism in communities of color across the nation. She is continuing the group's work...
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Executive Director of Government Relations, Health Policy and External Affairs, Morehouse School of Medicine
Daniel E. Dawes, Esq. is a healthcare attorney and the Executive Director of Government Relations, Health Policy and External Affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. The author of several publications on health reform and health equity; he now adds to his repertoire...
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Professor, University of Chicago
Marshall Chin, MD, MPH, Richard Parrillo Family Professor of Healthcare Ethics at the University of Chicago is a practicing general internist and health services researcher who has dedicated his career to advancing health equity through interventions at individual, organizational...
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Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Shabnam Salih serves the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers as a Senior Program Manager for External Affairs. She helps lead the Good Care Collaborative, a statewide coalition for Medicaid reform, a key policy initiative of the Camden Coalition. Previously, she served as a...
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Thursday February 16, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Columbia C
Ballroom level
1:30pm EST
Medicaid Per Capita Caps Block Grants: Meanings and Messages
Speakers 
Director, Government Affairs, Families USA
Shannon Attanasio is Director of Government Affairs at Families USA, where she leads the organization’s work with federal policymakers on all of Families USA’s program areas. Ms. Attanasio also leads Families USA’s work on CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program.Prior...
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Director of Communications, Families USA
Families USA
Dee Mahan is Medicaid Program Director at Families USA, where she focuses on federal and state Medicaid issues. She works with advocates from across the country to ensure that states take up and effectively implement the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, and she advocates...
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Health Action Director, Families USA
Thursday February 16, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Columbia B
Ballroom level
1:30pm EST
3:15pm EST
Health Coverage: What has Been Achieved, What is at Risk
Moderators 
Families USA
Elizabeth Hagan is a Senior Policy Analyst at Families USA, where she focuses on enrollment policy. In this position, she works with national and state partners to identify and disseminate promising practices related to outreach and enrollment in Medicaid, the Children’s Health...
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Enroll America
Anne Filipic serves as President of Enroll America, a non-profit organization dedicated to maximizing the number of Americans who enroll in and retain health coverage made available through the Affordable Care Act. Most recently, Ms. Filipic was the Deputy Director of the White House...
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President and CEO, Community Council of Greater Dallas
Mr. Ken Goodgames is the new Chief Executive Officer of the Community Council based in Dallas, Texas. He is only the fifth executive director in the organization's 76 year long history.
The Community Council is known for identifying services that are needed in the community, assessing...
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Larry Levitt is Senior Vice President for Special Initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation and Senior Advisor to the President of the Foundation. Among other duties, he is Co-Executive Director of the Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance. He previously was...
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former Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Andy Slavitt has decades of private and public sector leadership in health care. Over his career, Andy has shaped some of the most significant and successful initiatives in health care impacting millions of Americans and the shape of the health care system. For the last two years...
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4:30pm EST
5:00pm EST
7:30am EST
State Innovation Learning Collaborative (SILC) Networking Breakfast
Moderators 
Director of Campaign Strategy, Families USA
Claire McAndrew is the Director of Campaign Strategy at Families USA. Ms. McAndrew oversees advocacy work focused on the organization’s mission to ensure high quality, affordable health coverage and care for all. Her portfolio includes federal and state advocacy to protect the gains...
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Friday February 17, 2017 7:30am - 8:30am EST
Columbia C
Ballroom level
7:30am EST
Networking Breakfast: Red State Caucus
Moderators 
Project Manager, Southern Health Partners, Community Catalyst
The South! In my position at Community Catalyst, I manage our Southern Health Partners Project and work with advocates in AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA.
Friday February 17, 2017 7:30am - 8:30am EST
Columbia B
Ballroom level
7:30am EST
Enrollment Assister Networking Breakfast
Moderators 
Director of Community Engagement, Families USA
@heatherjbates
Families USA
Elizabeth Hagan is a Senior Policy Analyst at Families USA, where she focuses on enrollment policy. In this position, she works with national and state partners to identify and disseminate promising practices related to outreach and enrollment in Medicaid, the Children’s Health...
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Friday February 17, 2017 7:30am - 8:30am EST
Columbia A
Ballroom Level
7:30am EST
Networking Breakfast: Community Health Workers
Moderators 
Director of Health Equity, Families USA
Sinsi Hernández-Cancio is the Director of Health Equity at Families USA, where she focuses on expanding and strengthening the organization's ability to enhance and elevate health care advocacy and activism in communities of color across the nation. She is continuing the group's work...
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Friday February 17, 2017 7:30am - 8:30am EST
Columbia Foyer
Ballroom level
7:30am EST
7:30am EST
8:30am EST
Special Presentation
Moderators 
Executive Director, Families USA
Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
Congressman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott is currently serving his twelfth term representing the citizens of Virginia's Third Congressional District in Congress. Prior to serving in Congress, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the Senate of Virginia. In Congress, he serves...
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9:00am EST
A Physician’s Perspective on the Affordable Care Act
Moderators 
Executive Director, Families USA
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel...
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9:45am EST
Special Presentation
Moderators 
Executive Director, Families USA
Congressman, United States House of Representatives
Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives for the 114th Congress. From 2007 to 2011, Pelosi served as Speaker of the House, the first woman to do so in American history. As the Democratic Leader, Pelosi is fighting for bigger paychecks and better...
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10:15am EST
Access to Behavioral Health Care
Moderators 
Saint Loius University - College for Public Health and Social Justice
Dr. Kimmey is Professor Emeritus, Health Management and Policy, at St. Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice. He also serves on national, state, and local boards and advisory committees that address health care and educational issues. From 2001 until 2011...
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Mental Health America
Nathaniel is the Senior Director of Policy at Mental Health America, where he works to ensurethat Americans have access to effective behavioral health care when they first need it. Inparticular, he focuses on issues in incentive alignment and sustainable financing in behavioralhealth...
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Executive Director, Our Door Community Wellness Center, Green Door Behavioral Health
Melinda Hasbrouck lives in Washington, DC and self-identifies as a current consumer of mental health services, who has recovered from serious mental illnesses, including Bipolar Disorder, Suicidality, and Bulimia. Melinda developed a passion for mental/behavioral health advocacy from...
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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Bethany Lilly is the Deputy Director of Policy and Legal Advocacy of the Judge David L. BazelonCenter for Mental Health Law. She works primarily on federal policy impacting people withmental illnesses, with particular focus on health care, including Medicaid and the AffordableCare...
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10:15am EST
Pushing Toward a 21st Century Medicaid Program
Moderators
Speakers 
Directing Attorney, Justice in Aging
Jennifer Goldberg is directing attorney at Justice in Aging, where she develops and implements initiatives that improve health care and long-term services and supports for low-income older adults across the country. Jennifer also serves as adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University...
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Center for Connected Health Policy
Mario Gutierrez is executive director of the Center for Connected Health Policy. Mr. Gutierrez joined CCHP in May 2010 as a senior policy associate, and brings with him more than thirty yearsof experience in California’s nonprofit health and health philanthropy sectors. Mr. Gutierrez...
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American Dental Association Health Policy Institute
Cassie is responsible for researching and analyzing policy changes that impact dentistry, oral health, and the healthcare landscape as a whole. Prior to joining the American Dental Association in 2013, she was a Program Analyst with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services...
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10:15am EST
A View from the Hill (CLOSED TO THE PRESS)
Moderators 
Government Affairs Associate, Families USA
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Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Minority Staff
Nick Bath is Health Policy Director for Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray. Previously, he was Chief Health Counsel to Senator Murray on the Senate Budget Committee. He started his career on the Hill in 2006 as Counsel and Investigator for the Democratic Policy Committee...
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Office of Senator Chuck Schumer (D–NY), Senate Minority Leader
Senate Finance Committee, Minority Staff
Anne Dwyer serves as Health Counsel for the United States Senate Finance Committee under Ranking Member Ron Wyden. As Health Counsel, she focuses on Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, women’s health, mental health, and prevention. Prior to joining the committee...
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Friday February 17, 2017 10:15am - 11:30am EST
Columbia B
Ballroom level
10:15am EST
The Voice of Reason: Re-purposing Enrollment Best Practices to Inform Consumers in 2017
Moderators
Speakers 
Kentucky Voices for Health
Emily Beauregard became the Executive Director for Kentucky Voices for Health after years of active health coalition membership. Prior to joining Kentucky Voices for Health, Ms. Beauregard served as Director of Planning and Communications at the Kentucky Primary Care Association...
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Director of Strategic Initiatives, Health Center Association of Nebraska
Keshia Bradford is a Director of Strategic Initiatives at Health Center Association of Nebraska. In Keshia’s current role, she works with all the health centers in Nebraska in the area of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), emergency preparedness, workforce recruitment, and special...
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Enroll America
Sorien Schmidt is the North Carolina Director for Enroll America, a national nonpartisan, non-profit organization informing Americans about the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Marketplace that opened in 2013. Previously, Schmidt worked as an attorney, lobbyist and advocate...
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10:15am EST
LGBTQ Health Policy Update
Moderators 
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Center for American Progress
Kellan Baker is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he works on LGBT health and data collection policy with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and state and local stakeholders across the country. Kellan is also currently the Centennial Scholar...
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National Center for Transgender Equality
Sandy James is the Survey Project Manager with the National Center for Transgender Equality and the lead author of the report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. As the project manager, he led a research team in the development, fielding, analysis, and presentation of the 2015 U.S...
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Friday February 17, 2017 10:15am - 11:30am EST
Columbia C
Ballroom level
10:15am EST
Funding and Integrating Community Health Workers through Medicaid
Moderators
Speakers 
Southwest Center for Health Innovation
Mr. Alfero is the Executive Director of the Southwest Center for Health Innovation and thefounder of HMS, a Community Health Center providing primary medical, dental, mental health, family support, community development, and health policy services in southwestern New Mexico. He has...
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Institute for Public Health Innovation
Abby Charles is a Senior Program Manager at the Institute for Public Health Innovation, providing leadership and coordination for Community Health Worker Initiatives, managing a network of peer Community Health Workers and a portfolio of programs that address cross- jurisdictional...
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Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Gail Hirsch, M.Ed., is Co-Director of the Office of Community Health Workers at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she has coordinated state public health efforts to support CHWs for over 20 years. She is a leader in CHW policy and organizing efforts in Massachusetts...
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Friday February 17, 2017 10:15am - 11:30am EST
Columbia Foyer
Ballroom level
10:15am EST
Foundation Perspectives about Health Philanthropy in 2017
Moderators
Speakers 
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Marguerite Casey Foundation
Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH is the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After earning her medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians...
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Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Patricia N. Mathews is the first President & CEO of Northern Virginia Health Foundation, a private foundation created in 2005 whose mission is to improve the health and health care of residents of Northern Virginia, with particular emphasis on the health of the uninsured. In addition...
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NYSHealth Foundation
David Sandman, Ph.D., is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth), a private foundation dedicated to improving the health of all New Yorkers, especially the most vulnerable. Since 2006, NYSHealth has invested more than $100 million...
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Friday February 17, 2017 10:15am - 11:30am EST
Columbia A
Ballroom Level
11:30am EST
12:45pm EST
Consumer Health and Health Equity Advocate Awards Presentation
Moderators 
Families USA Board
Mr. Villers is the cofounder of Families USA. In 1981, he and his wife, Kate Villers, founded the organization, which was initially called The Villers Foundation. He has served as its President and as a permanent member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Mr. Villers is...
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Executive Director of Government Relations, Health Policy and External Affairs, Morehouse School of Medicine
Daniel E. Dawes, Esq. is a healthcare attorney and the Executive Director of Government Relations, Health Policy and External Affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. The author of several publications on health reform and health equity; he now adds to his repertoire...
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Alaska Primary Care Association
Executive Director, Georgians for a Healthy Future
1:30pm EST
Update on Immigrant Access to Health Care
Speakers 
Health Policy Manager, California Immigrant Policy Center
New York Immigration Coalition
Max Hadler is the New York Immigration Coalition's Health Advocacy Specialist. He works on a range of issues and campaigns at the city and state levels to improve health access, coverage, and delivery for immigrant communities. Prior to joining the NYIC team he worked in many capacities...
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National Immigration Law Center
Angel Padilla works closely with other health project staff to develop and implement NILC’s federal immigrant health policy agenda. Prior to joining NILC in February 2014, he was an immigration policy consultant at National Council of La Raza. Before that, he was a legislative assistant...
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ICIRR
Luvia Quiñones serves as the Health Policy Director at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). In this role, Luvia oversees the Immigrant Health Care Access Initiative and in collaboration with ICIRR's members develops ICIRR's health policy agenda with a...
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1:30pm EST
Surprise Bills, Network Adequacy, and Provider Directories
Moderators 
Director of Campaign Strategy, Families USA
Claire McAndrew is the Director of Campaign Strategy at Families USA. Ms. McAndrew oversees advocacy work focused on the organization’s mission to ensure high quality, affordable health coverage and care for all. Her portfolio includes federal and state advocacy to protect the gains...
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New Jersey Citizen Action
Maura Collinsgru is the Health Care Program Director for New Jersey Citizen Action, a statewide progressive advocacy organization fighting for social and economic justice. Since joining the organizationin 2013, Maura has overseen the development and implementation of the organization’s...
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Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
Debra Judy joined the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (CCHI) in September 2010 as Policy Director. In that capacity, she works to promote policies that facilitate access to quality, affordable, and equitable health care for all Coloradans. She sits on numerous state health care...
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California Pan-Ethnic Health Network (CPEHN)
Cary Sanders earned a Master of Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining CPEHN, Cary worked as a policy analyst for the California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) promoting pro-immigrant policies that address and respect the needs and contributions...
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1:30pm EST
Defending Medicare in 2017
Moderators
Speakers 
Kaiser Family Foundation
Gretchen Jacobson is an Associate Director with the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program on Medicare Policy where she directs and conducts a variety of projects pertaining to the Medicare program and the population it serves. Prior to joining the Kaiser Family Foundation, Dr. Jacobson...
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Federal Policy Director, Medicare Rights Center
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Friday February 17, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Columbia C
Ballroom level
1:30pm EST
Promising State and Local Strategies to Improve the Health of Women of Color
Moderators 
SEIU
Dr. Luella Toni Lewis has spent her life committed to social justice. From a very early age, she was taught by her family that service was the highest form of leadership and that all humans deserve justice, dignity, and respect. Dr. Lewis has lived her passion working with multiple...
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Planned Parenthood of The Rocky Mountains
Rosita Castillo is now employed at Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada as the Promotoresde Salud Program Manager. She practiced as a Chemical Dependency Professional most of heradult life in the State of Washington. She volunteered with the American Red Cross as a Trainerof Trainers...
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HealthConnect One
Wandy Hernandez, AA, CD (DONA), CLC, CCE, a nationally recognized speaker and advocate for community health workers, trains and advocates for both men and women, drawing on over 15 years of experience working in the community. Ms. Hernandez navigates with comfort between communities...
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Mount Sinai Health
Elizabeth A. Howell, M.D., M.P.P. is a Professor in the Departments of Population Health Science & Policy, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, and Psychiatry, System Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, and Associate...
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1:30pm EST
The Future of CHIP
Moderators 
Director, Government Affairs, Families USA
Shannon Attanasio is Director of Government Affairs at Families USA, where she leads the organization’s work with federal policymakers on all of Families USA’s program areas. Ms. Attanasio also leads Families USA’s work on CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program.Prior...
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Georgetown University Center for Children and Families
Kelly Whitener is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families (CCF) where she focuses on pediatric health benefits and managed care delivery systems as well as promoting state level advocacy...
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Friday February 17, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Columbia A
Ballroom Level
1:30pm EST
Protecting and Defending Medicaid in Hard Times
Moderators 
Families USA
Dee Mahan is Medicaid Program Director at Families USA, where she focuses on federal and state Medicaid issues. She works with advocates from across the country to ensure that states take up and effectively implement the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, and she advocates...
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CLASP
Elizabeth Lower-Basch is CLASP's policy coordinator and director of the income and work supports team. Her expertise is federal and state welfare (TANF) policy, other supports for low-income working families (such as refundable tax credits), systems integration, and job quality...
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Ellen is the Senior Vice President for Government Affairs for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Since 1984, she has directed the Center's work with federal policymakers and with other national organizations on a broad range of policy issues. These include federal budget...
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Health Law Fellow, Kentucky Equal Justice Center
Friday February 17, 2017 1:30pm - 2:45pm EST
Columbia B
Ballroom level
3:15pm EST
What to Expect in Congress
Moderators
Speakers 
Senator Daschle is the Founder and CEO of The Daschle Group, A Public Policy Advisory of Baker Donelson. The Daschle Group is a full-service strategic advisory firm that advises clients on a broad array of economic, policy and political issues.
Senator Daschle has participated...
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Chris Jennings is a healthcare policy veteran of the White House, Congress, and the private sector. He has more than 30 years of experience that includes eight years with the Clinton White House, 10 years as a Senate aide on Capitol Hill, a far-reaching network in the world of healthcare...
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Rodney is a veteran health care policy professional with more than 20 years of experience working with the US Congress, where he served as health policy advisor and as Acting Health Policy Director for Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and, earlier, on the staff of...
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8:00pm EST
8:00am EST
9:30am EST
10:00am EST
Standing up for the Health of our Nation
Moderators 
Executive Director, Families USA
Executive Director, NETWORK
Sister Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of NETWORK.
Sister Simone Campbell has served as Executive Director of NETWORK since 2004. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. In Washington, she...
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Saturday February 18, 2017 10:00am - 11:00am EST
Regency Ballroom
Ballroom Level
