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The National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care is the premier "meeting place" for people committed to the mission of improving health care. This annual event draws approximately 6,500 health care leaders from around the world in person and thousands more via satellite broadcast.

 

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Future dates and locations:

  • 21st Annual National Forum
    December 6-9, 2009
    Orlando, FL
 2008 National Forum Co-Chairs

IHI would like to thank the Co-Chairs for their extraordinary effort and commitment in developing the program for the 20th Annual National Forum.


 

Howard Hiatt, MD, Associate Chief of the Division, former Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, former Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and a distinguished expert in public health, international health and medicine. He is now Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Board of Directors of Partners In Health.

 

 

 

 

 

Brent C. James, MD, MStat, Vice President, Medical Research and Continuing Medical Education at Intermountain Health Care. He is also the Executive Director of Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, also at Intermountain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS, Bureau Chief, Chronic Disease and Cancer, Community Health Administration, Department of Health, Government of the District of Columbia. She is the leader of numerous collaboratives in quality improvement concerning serious chronic illnesses and the end of life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vinod K. Sahney, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Corporate Strategy, Planning, and Business Development at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. He is also a founding member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a current board member.

 Past National Forums

Past keynote speakers include:

  • Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  • Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, Founder, Partners in Health
  • Joanne Lynn, MD, MA, MS, Center to Improve Care of the Dying
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter, PhD, Harvard Business School 
  • John Nance, ABC News Correspondent
  • Sir John Oldham, OBE, MBChB, National Health Service, UK
  • Paul O’Neill, Former US Secretary of the Treasury
  • Paul Plsek, Paul E. Plsek & Associates
  • Uwe Reinhardt, PhD, Princeton University
  • Sister Mary Jean Ryan, FSM, SSM Health Care
  • Lawrence L. Weed, MD, PKC Corporation
  • David Whyte
  • Benjamin Zander, Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

 

Bring the Lessons Home!
Don't miss important information just because you couldn't be there.  Speeches given by health care quality leaders on a vast array of topics from past National Forums are available to you and your team.  Videotapes and DVD's of many of these speakers are available.  Please visit IHI's online bookstore.

 

Past National Forums
For information on previous National Forums, please visit: