Speaker biographies
Gary Ahlquist is a Chicago-based senior vice president who leads Booz Allen Hamilton’s work for health-care clients worldwide. He specializes in strategy and organization development for health plans, insurance companies, and providers. In his twenty-six years with Booz Allen, Ahlquist has worked with numerous clients in the insurance industry (all lines), including corporate and business unit strategy development, and major transformation programs to accelerate insurers’ transitions to best-in-class performance. A pioneer of the consumer health movement, Ahlquist has written numerous articles and speaks frequently on the future of the American health system. He has contributed to a number of articles that have appeared in strategy+business magazine: “Health Care’s Retail Solution,” “Prescription for Change,” “Consumers Take Charge: Defined-Contribution Health Plans,” and “Can a National Healthcare Information Network Work?”
Paul A. London is the president of Paul A. London and Associates, an economic consulting group. He wrote The Competition Solution (AEI Press, 2005) while a visiting fellow at AEI. London served as deputy under secretary of the Department of Commerce for economics and statistics from 1993 to 1997. From 1997 until March 2000, he served as a senior policy adviser for the Commerce Department and represented the department on the White House Task Force on Medical Errors, the Health and Human Services Task Force on Health Care Privacy, and interagency groups focused on health-care costs. The author of many articles in the area of political economy, focusing on the benefits of price competition and the impact on the overall economy of competition at the industry level, London wrote one of the first books on privatization in economic development, The Role of Merchants in Development (Praeger, 1975).
Jay Silverstein is president of Revolution Health. Silverstein joined Revolution from Health Net Inc., where he was chief branding officer. Prior to Health Net Inc., Silverstein was chief marketing officer and a member of the executive council at UnitedHealthcare. Over his twenty-year tenure, Silverstein has been instrumental in major sector shifts, including the development of the point-of-service category, the integration of complementary medicine into mainstream insurance, and the launch of physician report cards. Before joining UnitedHealthcare, he was the executive vice president and chief imagineer at Oxford Health Plans. Silverstein is on the Strategic Advisory Board for Health Horizons/Institute for the Future.
Mark D. Smith, M.D., is president and chief executive officer of the California HealthCare Foundation. The foundation is an independent philanthropy with assets of $900 million headquartered in Oakland, California, and dedicated to improving the health of the people of California through its three program areas: Innovations for the Underserved, Better Chronic Disease Care, and Market and Policy Monitor. A board-certified internist, Smith is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, and an attending physician at the Positive Health Program for AIDS care at San Francisco General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the board of the National Business Group on Health. Prior to joining the California HealthCare Foundation, Smith was executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. He previously served as associate director of the AIDS Service and assistant professor of medicine and of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University. He has served on the Performance Measurement Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the editorial board of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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