Speaker biographies

Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at AEI. He is also a commissioner of the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, and an adjunct professor at the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Antos’s research focuses on the economics of health policy, including Medicare reform, health insurance regulation, and the uninsured. He is the editor, with Alice Rivlin, of Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge (Brookings Institution Press, 2007). Before joining AEI, Mr. Antos was assistant director for health and human resources at the Congressional Budget Office, and he held senior positions in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Management and Budget, and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., is an internationally known bioethicist, a breast oncologist, and the chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. He developed the “Medical Directive,” a comprehensive living will that has been endorsed by Consumer Reports on Health, Harvard Health Letter, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. Dr. Emanuel was elected to the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Science in 2004. Previously, he was a member of President Clinton’s health care task force, the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, and the bioethics panel of the Pan American Health Organization. He also served as a professor at Harvard Medical School, a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the Brin Professor at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Emmanuel has published widely on the ethics of clinical research, health care reform, international research ethics, end-of-life care issues, euthanasia, the ethics of managed care, and the physician-patient relationship in numerous journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He has authored three books and coedited four, including The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2008) Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America (PublicAffairs, 2008), Exploitation and Developing Countries (Princeton University Press, 2008), No Margin, No Mission: Health-Care Organizations and the Quest for Ethical Excellence (Oxford University Press, 2003), Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research: Readings and Commentary (John Hopkins University Press, 2003), and The Ends of Human Life (Harvard University Press,1991), which received an honorable mention for the Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Dr. Emmanuel has received numerous awards, including election to the Association of American Physicians, the American Medical Association/Burroughs Welcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the second annual John Mendelsohn Award from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the Roosevelt University Presidential Medal for Social Justice and Civic Engagement.

Robert B. Helms is a resident scholar in health policy studies at AEI. He has written and lectured extensively on health policy, health economics, and the economics of the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Helms currently participates in the Consensus Group, an informal task force that is developing market-oriented health reform concepts. He has served on the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Medicaid Commission. Mr. Helms is the editor of several AEI books on health policy, including American Health Policy: Critical Issues for Reform (AEI Press, 1993), Health Policy Reform: Competition and Controls (AEI Press, 1993), Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry (AEI Press, 1996), and Medicare in the 21st Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform (AEI Press, 1999). He has also written on the history of Medicare, the tax treatment of health insurance, and international comparisons of health systems. From 1981 until 1989, he served as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation and deputy assistant secretary for health policy at HHS.

Thomas P. Miller is a resident fellow at AEI, where he focuses on health policy, with particular emphasis on information transparency, health insurance regulation, and consumer-driven health care. He is also a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Before joining AEI, Mr. Miller served for three years as senior health economist for the Joint Economic Committee, where he organized a series of hearings focusing on promising reforms in private health care markets and drafted several social security reform bills. He also has been director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and director of economic policy studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Mr. Miller’s writing has appeared in such publications as Health Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Reader’s Digest, National Review, the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, Regulation, and Cato Journal. Before coming to Washington, he was as a trial attorney, a journalist, and a sports radio broadcaster.

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