Save the Date for the 2008 100 Top Hospitals Summit
June 4-6, 2008
The Broadmoor Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado
BIOS
 

Mark B. McClellan, M.P.A., M.D., Ph.D., Senior Fellow, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and former Administrator for CMS
Dr. Mark B. McClellan is the former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In October 2006, Dr. McClellan joined the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies where he works on developing and implementing ideas to drive improvements in high-quality, innovative, affordable healthcare. He is also an associate professor of economics and medicine at Stanford University.

Dr. McClellan has had a highly distinguished tenure of public service, serving in the George W. Bush and Clinton administrations. Under President Bush, he served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and senior director for healthcare policy at the White House (2001-2002), FDA commissioner (2002-2004), and CMS administrator since March 2004. In these positions, he developed and implemented major reforms in health policy, including:

  • The Medicare prescription drug benefit and other innovative coverage options
  • Innovative approaches to Medicaid coverage and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
  • The development of the FDA's Critical Path initiative, and
  • Public-private initiatives to develop better information on the quality and cost of care, including performance-based provider payment reforms, Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Arrangements.
In the Clinton administration, Dr. McClellan was deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy (1998-1999), supervising economic analysis and policy development on domestic policy issues. He subsequently directed Stanford's Program on Health Outcomes Research and was a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. His academic research has concentrated on the effectiveness of medical treatments in improving health, the economic and policy factors influencing medical treatment decisions and health outcomes, the impact of new technologies on public health and medical expenditures, and the relationship between health status and economic well being. He has twice received the Kenneth J. Arrow Award for Outstanding Research in Health Economics.

Dr. McClellan graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.P.A. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (1991), his M.D. from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (1992), and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT (1993). He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and has been board-certified in Internal Medicine.

Lou Holtz, Celebrated Football Coach and ESPN Analyst

Lou Holtz has established himself as one of the most successful college football coaches of all time. He is the only coach in the history of college football to:

  • Take six different teams to a bowl game
  • Win five bowl games with different teams
  • To have four different college teams ranked in the final Top 20 poll

When Holtz took over as Notre Dame's 27th head football coach in November of 1985, he brought with him a well-proven reputation as a fixer of football programs following a series of spectacular repair jobs at William & Mary, North Carolina State, Arkansas and Minnesota. He needed only two years to put the Fighting Irish back into a major post-season bowl game for the first time in seven seasons.

Since his departure from Notre Dame following the 1996 season, he joined CBS Sports' College Football Today for two seasons as a sports analyst and works with United States Filter (a global provider of water treatment) as a customer relations spokesman. From there he went on to be head coach at the University of South Carolina for six seasons from 1999-2004, where he led the Gamecocks to back-to-back January 1st bowl games for the first time in the history of the school.

Currently, Holtz serves as a college football studio analyst on ESPN. He appears on ESPNEWS, ESPN's College GameDay programs, SportsCenter as well as serves as an on-site analyst for college football games. Holtz also sits on the board of directors for K2, Inc.

Holtz authored the two New York Times best-selling books: The Fighting Spirit, which chronicled Notre Dame's 1988 championship season, and Winning Everyday: A Game Plan For Success, which has been published in several languages. His latest book is Wins, Losses and Lessons, an autobiography of his life and the lessons he has learned.

Additionally, he has produced three highly acclaimed motivational videos: "Do Right," "Do Right II," and "If Enough People Care." The Lou Holtz Hall of Fame opened in East Liverpool, Ohio, in July 1998. He has just released his latest video, "Do Right 20 Years Later."

Born Louis Leo Holtz on January 6, 1937, Holtz grew up in East Liverpool, Ohio, just up the Ohio River from his Follansbee, West Virginia, and birthplace. He graduated from East Liverpool High School, earned a bachelor of science degree in history from Kent State in 1959 and a master's degree from Iowa in arts and education in 1961. He played linebacker at Kent State for two seasons before an injury ended his career.


Kathryn J. McDonagh, Ph.D., F.A.A.N., F.A.C.H.E., President and CEO, CHRISTUS Spohn Health System
Kathryn J. McDonagh, Ph.D., F.A.A.N., F.A.C.H.E., is an innovative healthcare executive with a diverse portfolio of experience. She is the president and chief executive officer of CHRISTUS Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi, Texas, a six hospital system serving south Texas.

Dr. McDonagh served as president and chief executive officer of Saint Clare's Health Services in northern New Jersey, one of the state's major healthcare providers with acute care, skilled nursing facilities, and a continuing care retirement community. Before going to New Jersey in 1997, Dr. McDonagh was executive vice president and chief operating officer at St. Thomas Health Services in Nashville, Tenn. She was responsible for an integrated delivery system, including St. Thomas Hospital, a 541-bed tertiary center, a 30-bed sub-acute care facility, primary care and specialty physician networks, community care centers, and joint venture partnerships.

Prior to that, Dr. McDonagh served as president of Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta and senior vice president of Saint Joseph's Health System. During her tenure, she was instrumental in pioneering shared governance, a professional practice model which empowers healthcare professionals to participate in decision making as it affects the standards and practice of patient care.

Dr. McDonagh also served as the founding president and chief executive officer of Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services, a subsidiary of Saint Joseph's Health System. Mercy Care started as a volunteer effort of Saint Joseph's staff to assist homeless individuals in Atlanta and grew into a multi-million dollar network of community outreach for the medically underserved in Atlanta and north Georgia.

Dr. McDonagh is a graduate of Providence Hospital School of Nursing in Southfield, Mich., the University of Detroit, and received her master's degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She received a doctor of philosophy degree in health sciences from Touro University International. Dr. McDonagh's dissertation research was on healthcare governing boards and their impact on hospital performance. She has published extensively and is the editor and publisher of the text Nursing Shared Governance: Restructuring for the Future. She also is editor of a book on redesigning hospitals for the future entitled Patient-Centered Hospital Care: Reform from Within.

Dr. McDonagh is active in many professional and community organizations. Dr. McDonagh won a Telly Award in 2000, a National Cable Television Award, for her role as host and creator of the program Focus on Health. She has been recognized for her leadership through awards including fellowship in the American Academy of Nursing and the YWCA Academy of Women of Achievement Award.


Jean Chenoweth, Senior Vice President, Performance Improvement & 100 Top Programs, Center for Healthcare Improvement
With more than 25 years experience in healthcare, Jean Chenoweth is known nationally and internationally as an industry expert and speaker on leadership in high-performing organizations, performance measurement in healthcare organizations, and many other health care information issues.

Prior to Solucient, Chenoweth was senior vice president of HCIA, Inc., president of Healthcare Knowledge Systems (HKS), and president of the Commission on Professional and Hospitals Activities (CPHA) in Ann Arbor, Mich. During her tenure, the companies developed a number of important industry tools including the first desktop medical record abstracting and editing system (PAS+), the first computerized ICD-9-CM encoding system in conjunction with 3M, the first distributed relational medical record databases for state hospital associations, the International Classification of Clinical Services for classifying transactional data (ICCS codes), the first national comparative database of detailed clinical treatment and resource consumption, as well as a series of risk-adjusted tools, including the Risk-Adjusted Mortality, Complications, and Re-Admissions Indices.

Chenoweth is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago.