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Thursday, October 10

 

8:00                  Registration Opens; Continental Breakfast Buffet
                         Founders Lobby, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

8:45-10:15        Concurrent Session 1
                          Room NT07, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

  • Concurrent Session 1A: The Health Care Safety Net at a Crossroads: Community Health Centers, Public Hospitals, and Women’s Health Clinics
    Room NT07, Terrace Level, Yuma Building
     
    • Rachel Benson Gold, MPA
      Vice President for Public Policy, Guttmacher Institute
    • Daniel Hawkins
      Senior Adviser to the President/CEO, National Association of Community Health Centers
    • Sarah Mutinksy, JD, MPH
      Founding Senior Advisor, Eyman Associates
    • Sara Rosenbaum, JD
      Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University

Moderated by:  Taryn Morrissey, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy, American University

  • Concurrent Session 1B: Federal Health Care Funding: Appropriations, Litigation, and Cooperative Federalism
    Room NT01, Terrace Level, Warren Building
     
    • Matthew J.B. Lawrence, JD
      Assistant Professor of Law, The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Law
    • Raquel Spencer, JD
      General Counsel for the House Committee on the Budget
    • Jessica Altman
      Insurance Commissioner, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    • David A. Super, JD
      Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School

Moderated by:   Asha B. Scielzo, JD
                          Associate Director, Health Law and Policy Program
                          American University Washington College of Law

10:15-10:30        Break

10:30-12:00        Concurrent Session 2

  • Concurrent Session 2A: State Efforts to Rein In Drug Pricing
    Claudio Grossman Hall, Terrace Level, Yuma Building
     
    • Trish Riley
      Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy
    • Michael Sinha, MD, JD, MPH
      Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science, Harvard Medical School
    • Zack Buck, JD, MBE
      Associate Professor of Law, The University of Tennessee Knoxville
    • Rachel Sachs, JD, MPH
      Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Moderated by: Lewis A. Grossman, JD, PhD
Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

  • Concurrent Session 2B: The Struggle for the Soul of Medicaid
    Room Y402, 4th Floor, Yuma Building
     
    • Leonardo Cuello, JD
      Director of Health Policy, National Health Law Program
    • Sidney Watson, JD
      Jane and Bruce Robert Professor and Director for Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law
    • Alison Barkoff, JD
      Director of Advocacy, Center for Public Representation
    • Nicole Huberfeld, JD
      Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, Health Law, Policy & Management, Boston University School of Law and Boston University School of Public Health

Moderated by: Capri S. Cafaro, MALS, MSW
Executive in Residence, American University School of Public Affairs

12:00-12:30         Lunch Buffet
                             Founders Lobby, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

12:30-2:00           Plenary Session 1: Recent Legal Developments
                            Claudio Grossman Hall, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

Welcoming Remarks

  • Camille A. Nelson, LLB, LLM
    Dean and Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
  • Vicky Wilkins, PhD
    Dean, American University School of Public Affairs
  • Edward Hutchinson, MA
    Executive Director, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics

Recent Legal Developments

  • David Cade, JD
    CEO, American Health Lawyers Association, former Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Danielle C. Gray, JD
    Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
  • Katie Keith, JD, MPH
    Research Professor, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms
  • Joel McElvain, JD
    Partner, King & Spalding LLP, and Senior Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School

Moderated by:  Lindsay F. Wiley, JD, MPH
Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law and Policy Program, American University Washington College of Law

2:00-2:15             Break

2:15-3:45             Concurrent Session 3

  • Concurrent Session 3A: Rural Health Care Sustainability and Access
    Room YT17, Terrace Level, Yuma Building
     
    • Max Isaacoff
      Government Affairs and Policy Manager
      National Rural Health Association
    • Erika Rogan, PhD, MSc
      Senior Associate Director of Policy, American Hospital Association
    • Sameer Vohra, MD, JD, MA, FAAP
      Chair, Department of Population Science and Policy, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
    • Elizabeth Weeks, JD
      Associate Dean for Faculty Development & J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law

Moderated by: Capri S. Cafaro, MALS, MSW
Executive in Residence, American University School of Public Affairs

  • Concurrent Session 3B:  Of Cost and Competition: State Policy Initiatives to Improve Health Care Markets
    Room NT01, Terrace Level, Warren Building
     
    • Robert Berenson, MD
      Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
    • Benedic N. Ippolito, PhD
      Research Fellow in Economic Policy Studies, Public Finance and Health Economics
      American Enterprise Institute
    • Jaime S. King, JD, PhD
      Bion M. Gregory Chair in Business Law and Professor of Law
      UC Hastings College of the Law
      Associate Dean and Co-Director, UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy
      Co-Director, UCSF/UC Hastings Masters Program in Health Policy and Law
      Executive Editor, The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition
    • Robert Murray, MA, MBA

      President, Global Health Payments LLC
      Former Executive Director Maryland's All Payer Hospital Rate Setting System

Moderated by:  Lewis A. Grossman, JD, PhD
Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

3:45-4:00              Break

4:00-5:30              Concurrent Session 4

  • Concurrent Session 4A: Consumer Financial Protections and Surprise Medical Bills
    Room NT01, Terrace Level, Warren Building
     
    • Christopher Garmon, PhD
      Assistant Professor of Health Administration, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Henry W. Bloch School of Management
    • Kevin Lucia, MHP, JD
      Research Professor, Center on Health Insurance Reforms, McCourt School of Public Policy
      Georgetown University
    • Loren Adler
      Associate Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
    • Erin Fuse Brown, JD, MPH
      Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law

Moderated by:   Asha B. Scielzo, JD
Associate Director, Health Law and Policy Program
American University Washington College of Law

  • Concurrent Session 4B: Fighting Discrimination in an Era of Regulatory Retrenchment: Section 1557 & Beyond
    Room Y116, 1st Floor, Yuma Building
     
    • Brietta R. Clark, JD
      Associate Dean for Faculty
      Professor of Law and J. Rex Dibble Fellow, Loyola Law School
    • Sandy E. James, JD, PhD
      Staff Attorney, FreeState Justice
    • Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD
      William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law
      F. Palmer Weber Research Professor of Civil Liberties and Human Rights
      Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Law
    • Jocelyn Samuels, JD
      Former Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health & Human Services
      Executive Director and Roberta A. Conroy Scholar of Law, The Williams Institute
      UCLA School of Law

Moderated by:  Daniela Kraiem, JD
Practitioner in Residence
Associate Director, Women and the Law Program
American University Washington College of Law

5:30-7:00               Reception for all attendees
                               Founders Lobby, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

Friday, October 11

 

8:00-8:45              Continental Breakfast
                              Founders Lobby, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

8:45-10:15            Concurrent Session 5

  • Concurrent Session 5A: Expanding Access to Public Programs
    Room NT01, Terrace Level, Warren Building
     
    • Justin Giovannelli, JD, MPP
      Associate Research Professor, Georgetown University Center on Health Insurance Reforms
    • Kavita Patel, MD, MS
      Nonresident Fellow-Economic Studies, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
    • William M. Sage, MD, JD
      James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence, School of Law Professor of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical SchoolThe University of Texas at Austin
    • Lawrence E. Singer, JD, MA
      Associate Dean of Online Learning
      Director, Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy, Loyola University Chicago

Moderated by:  Daniela Kraiem, JD
Practitioner in Residence
Associate Director, Women and the Law Program
American University Washington College of Law

  • Concurrent Session 5B: State Innovation in Alternative Payment Models: Behavioral Health, Complex Patients, and Primary Care Coordination
    Room YT17, Terrace Level, Yuma Building
     
    • Lindsey Browning, MPP
      Program Director for Medicaid Operations, National Association of Medical Directors
    • John Jacobi, JD
      Dorothea Dix Professor of Health Law and Policy
      Faculty Director of the Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law Policy, Seton Hall University School of Law
    • Jessica Mantel, JD, MPP
      George Butler Research Professor of Law, Associate Professor and Co-Director, Health Law & Policy Institute, University of Houston
    • Greg Woods, MPA
      Chief Innovation Officer, Office of Medicaid Innovation, New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services

Moderated by:   Asha B. Scielzo, JD
Associate Director, Health Law and Policy Program
American University Washington College of Law

10:15-10:30          Break

10:30-12:00          Concurrent Session 6
 

  • Concurrent Session 6A: Cooperative Federalism in State Health System Reforms
    Room YT17, Terrace Level, Yuma Building
     
    • Jennifer Tolbert
      Director of State Health Reform, Associate Director, Program for Medicaid and the Uninsured, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
    • Christine Eibner, PhD
      Senior Economist, Paul O’Neill Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis, RAND Corporation
    • Ben Palmquist, MURP
      Health Care Program Director, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
    • Liz McCuskey, JD
      Professor, University of Massachusetts School of Law

Moderated by: Sam Hanna, MBA, CISA, CBCP, CRISC
Associate Dean - Graduate & Professional Studies
Program Director - Healthcare Management
Executive in Residence| School of Professional & Extended Studies (SPExS)
American University

  • Concurrent Session 6B: Opportunities for Advancement of Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights in Challenging Times
    Room NT01, Terrace Level, Warren Building
     
    • Jamila K. Taylor, PhD
      Director of Health Care Reform and Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
    • Michelle McGowan, PhD
      Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics
      Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    • Valarie Blake, JD, MA
      Associate Professor of Law, West Virginia University College of Law
    • Travis J. Tu, JD
      Senior Counsel, U.S. Litigation, Center For Reproductive Rights

Moderated by:  Daniela Kraiem, JD
Practitioner in Residence
 Associate Director, Women and the Law Program
American University Washington College of Law

12:00-12:30         Lunch Buffet
Founders Lobby, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

12:30-2:00           Plenary Session 2: A Discussion with American University President Sylvia Mathews Burwell and State Health Reform Leaders
Claudio Grossman Hall, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

  • Sylvia Mathews Burwell
    President, American University
  • Jeanne Lambrew, PhD
    Maine Health and Human Services Commissioner
  • Andrea Palm, MSW
    Wisconsin Secretary of Health Services

Introduction by:  Joel L. Michaels, JD
Adjunct Professor of Law, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Partner, McDermott, Will and Emery LLP (retired)

2:00-2:15              Break

2:15-3:30              Plenary Session 3: Health Policy in the 2020 Election
                              Claudio Grossman Hall, Terrace Level, Yuma Building

  • Capri S. Cafaro, MALS, MSW
    Executive in Residence, American University School of Public Affairs
  • Leslie Dach, MPA
    Chair, Protect Our Care
  • Jim Hobart
    Partner, Public Opinion Strategies
  • Fred Yang
    Partner, Hart Research Associates
    Founding Principal, Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group

3:30                       Conference Adjourns