Episodes - Community Health Center Presents Conversations on Health Care -

MONDAY, MAY 30, 2016

Dr. Toby Cosgrove - President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Toby Cosgrove, President and CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, one of the top ranked health institutions in the world. Dr. Cosgrove discusses Cleveland Clinic's model of patient centered care as well as its innovation hub, which provides a framework for bringing clinical inventions into the marketplace to transform health care.

MONDAY, MAY 23, 2016

Paul Gionfriddo, CEO of Mental Health America

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Paul Gionfriddo, CEO of Mental Health America, the nation's oldest organization dedicated to advancing access to mental services for all Americans. He discusses the need to change the nation's response to mental illness from a public safety to a public health approach.

MONDAY, MAY 16, 2016

Dr. Lisa Simpson, President and CEO of Academy Health

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Lisa Simpson, President and CEO of Academy Health, a non-partisan, non-profit research entity dedicated to improving health and health systems, and informing policy through better use of data. They discuss the research focus at Academy Health as well as their recent sponsorship of Health Datapalooza, an annual gathering of health industry researchers and activists seeking to "liberate" siloed health data to accelerate the pace of research.

MONDAY, MAY 9, 2016

Dan Munro, Author of <i>Casino Healthcare: The Health of the Nation: America's Biggest Gamble</i>

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with health industry analyst and writer, Dan Munro, author of the newly-released "Casino Healthcare: The Health of the Nation: America's Biggest Gamble". They discuss the nation's 3.4 trillion dollar a year health care system, what's behind these costs, and what might be done to correct it.

MONDAY, MAY 2,2016

Dr. Patrick Conway, Deputy Administrator for Innovation & Quality and Chief Medical Officer at CMS

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Patrick Conway, Deputy Administrator and Chief Medical Officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Conway is spearheading the agency's efforts to transform American health care from fee-for-service to value based care, and discusses the alternative care delivery and payment models aimed at achieving that goal.

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2016

Eric Dishman, Director of the Precision Medicine Initiative at the National Institutes of Health

This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Eric Dishman, newly appointed Director of the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program at the National Institutes of Health which seeks to galvanize a million American volunteers to offer their electronic health information to be coalesced in a national data base that will advance research in the discovery of disease cures and prevention.

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2016

Deven McGraw, Deputy Director at HHS, Office For Civil Rights

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Deven McGraw, Deputy Director for Health Information Privacy at the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, where she oversees compliance with HIPPA regulations governing portability of patient data, patient privacy concerns and the growing threat of health data breaches.

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016

Genevieve Kenney, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Genevieve Kenney, Co-Director of the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute.She discusses their long standing research on the lack of health insurance coverage for those living near the poverty line, and the impact of Medicaid expansion for children and adults.

MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2016

Dr. Leana Wen, Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Leana Wen, Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore. Dr. Wen, an emergency room physician and author of When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests discusses her innovative approaches to tackling Baltimore's most pressing public health issues such as poverty, violent crime and the opioid crisis.

MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2016

Katherine Baicker, Harvard School of Public Health

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Katherine Baicker, PhD, the C. Boyden Grey Professor of Health Economics at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard. An expert on the health and economic impacts from gaining insurance coverage, she discusses her noted study of the Oregon Medicaid Experiment as well as the impact of the Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act.

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 2016

Mary Jo Assi, Director of Nursing Practice at the American Nurses Association

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Mary Jo Assi, PhD, Director of Nursing Practice and Work Environment at the American Nurses Association which represents the nation's 3.4 million nurses. They discuss the expanding scope of the nursing work force in the ACA era, as well as the organization's current focus on workforce safety.

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2016

Michael Botticelli, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Michael Botticelli, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy at the White House. The nation's "Drug Czar" talks about ONDCP's quest to battle the rising tide of opioid addiction and overdoses, now the leading cause of accidental death in America, by targeting resources towards more effective treatments and interventions.

MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2016

Marc Edwards, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor at Virginia Tech

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Marc Edwards, MacArthur Foundation Fellow and Virginia Tech-based Civil Engineer who uncovered the Flint water crisis, where residents were poisoned from high levels of lead and other contaminants through the municipal drinking water. Dr. Edwards discusses his efforts to uncover the crisis, and his team's efforts to mitigate the water contamination crisis and related health issues.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

This week on Conversations on Health Care, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Fauci is world renowned for his work battling HIV/AIDS and discusses the current efforts at NIAID, along with other global agencies, to contain and control the Zika pandemic.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Dr. C. Michael Gibson, Founder and Chairman of the WikiDoc Foundation

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. C. Michael Gibson, interventional cardiologist and Founder and Chairman of the Board of the WikiDoc Foundation, the world's largest open source texbook of medicine designed to make medical knowledge free and accessible to all.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Joe Randolph, President and CEO of the Innovation Institute

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Joe Randolph, President and CEO of the Innovation Institute, designed to provide resources and research expertise to catalyze health industry innovations for health professionals working in not-for-profit health systems across the country.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Dr. Dean Ornish, President of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Dean Ornish, Founder and President of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He analyzes the new USDA nutritional guidelines and discusses the mounting empirical evidence linking sound nutrition and integrative medicine to the prevention and reversal of chronic disease.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Dr. Edward Ellison, Executive Medical Director, Permamente Medical Group

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Edward Ellison, Executive Medical Director and Chairman of the Board for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. He is also National Sponsor of the newly-announced Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine which is being designed to train future clinicians based on Kaiser's coordinated care and value-based delivery model.

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

Aneesh Chopra, First U.S. Chief Technology Officer

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Aneesh Chopra, Co-Founder of Hunch Analytics, author of "Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government". Appointed by President Obama as the first US Chief Technology Officer in 2009, he discusses the job of transitioning American government and health care into the digital age.

MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2016

Dr. Eliseo Perez-Stable, Director of NIMHD

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Eliseo J. Perez-Stable, Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health where he oversees the Institute's efforts to advance research, build infrastructure and support programs that serve to advance minority health as well as eliminate health disparities.

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