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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2010

Dr. Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the Surgeon General's goals to improve America’s health. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin about her priorities and strategies to promote health and eliminate health disparities.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Tina Tchen, White House Director of the Council on Women and Girls and the Office of Public Engagement.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on health care for women and families. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Tina Tchen, executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls and White House director of the Office of Public Engagement, about health reform and the broader issues of economic and social equality for women and girls.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Dr. James Weinstein-director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and co-founder of the new Dartmouth Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the contributions Dartmouth College has made to health reform and innovation. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. James Weinstein, the leader driving the health policy and delivery research efforts at Dartmouth.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Dr. Michael McGinnis—creator of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and currently senior scholar at the Institute of Medicine.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the current issues we face in both clinical care and public health interventions. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Michael McGinnis, a health policy leader who has served through the Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton Administrations as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Assistant Surgeon General and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention. Dr. McGinnis is currently senior scholar at the Institute of Medicine, leading its initiative on evidence-based medicine.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan—physician, activist, and champion of primary care.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the changing demands for a primary care workforce. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, professor of health policy and medicine at George Washington University and a practicing physician at the Upper Cardoza Community Health Center in Washington, D.C.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2010

Dr. Lisa Dulsky Watkins, associate director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health, discusses Vermont’s medical home project.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the state of health reform in Vermont—before and after federal legislation. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Lisa Dulsky Watkins, associate director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health, about the next steps for this integrated Patient-Centered Medical Home pilot project.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2010

Dr. William Kassler, chief medical officer for the New England region of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses today on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. William Kassler, chief medical officer for the New England region of CMS, about the Multi-payer Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration project, as well future healthcare innovations under the direction of CMS.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 2010

Lowell Weicker, former U.S. senator and governor of Connecticut and current president of the Trust for America's Heath

Conversations on Health Care® focuses today on our nation's public health system. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Lowell Weicker, president of the Trust for America's Health, a non-profit, non-partisan public health policy organization that is working to modernize the public health system in America.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2010

Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, using data and technology to improve America’s health.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on some of the most current and unique health care innovations. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with HHS Chief Technology Officer, Todd Park, leader of a federal effort to “liberate” data and make government more open and transparent.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 2010

The Veterans Affairs Healthcare System— Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Robert Petzel, discusses why this has become a model system of care.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses today on the VA health system. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Petzel, VA Under Secretary for Health, about why the VA healthcare system has become one of the most respected models of health care in America.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010

Congresswoman Lois Capps, U.S. Representative of California and founder of the House Nursing Caucus, discusses her commitment to quality health care for all.

Conversations on Health Care® speaks with Congresswoman Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, founder and co-chair of the House Nursing Caucus. Congresswoman Capps is a former nurse, public health advocate and since being elected to Congress in 1998, she has made it her legislative priority to help underserved populations gain access to quality health care.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2010

Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of Salud America!, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national research program and network to prevent obesity among Latino youth.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the impact of obesity for Latino youth. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of Salud America!, about building the evidence base to learn what the most effective strategies are to address the epidemic.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010

Dr. Paul Grundy, IBM’s global director of health care and founder of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on corporations striving for better value in purchasing health care. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Paul Grundy, IBM’s global director of health care and founder of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, about providing patient-centered primary care as a standard of care not only for large corporations, but for communities small and large.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010

Dr. Howard Adelman, co-director of the national School Mental Health Project, a strategy to bring behavioral health services to schools.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on behavioral health in our nation’s schools. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Howard Adelman, co-director of the School Mental Health Project in California and its federally supported National Center for Mental Health in Schools, a strategy to bring behavioral health services to schools.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2010

Dr. Brent James, chief quality officer at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses his groundbreaking approach to clinical quality improvement.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses on the work of one healthcare system in Utah and Idaho that has successfully put into practice the idea that higher quality drives down costs. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Brent James, the man who has led Intermountain into a model system of quality and efficiency in care through a measured clinical outcomes approach.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2010

Mildred Thompson, deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, discusses childhood obesity and the campaign to fight it.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the crucial topic of childhood obesity. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Mildred Thompson, deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, about fostering a healthy environment to reverse this trend and the challenges and goals that go with it.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010

Mark Bertolini, president of Aetna, on the insurance industry’s response to health-care reform.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on the health insurance industry. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Mark Bertolini, president of Aetna, on the new era for the health insurance industry following national health reform.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010

Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado on leading health-care reform at the state level.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week on states that can serve as models for health-care reform implementation. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Gov. Bill Ritter about his state’s efforts over the past four years to extend coverage and contain cost—and how federal health reform aligns with these efforts.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2010

Rebecca Patton, president of the American Nurses Association, on the critical role of nursing in meeting the challenge of healthcare access and transformation.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses this week—National Nurses Week—on the role nursing played in health reform, and the challenges ahead. ANA President Rebecca Patton speaks with Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter about the opportunities for nursing and the country to achieve the goals of the health reform legislation.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 2010

A futurist perspective on health care with Dr. Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions, and Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.

Conversations on Health Care® focuses on the future of health care in the context of national reform. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions, and Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, about leading the way forward.