7:45–8:30am

Registration & Breakfast


8:30–8:45am

Opening Remarks from the Conference Chairmen


8:45–9:15am

Stefan D. Abrams
Chief Investment Officer for Asset Allocation
TCW


9:15–9:45am

Bob Higgins
Managing General Partner
Highland Capital Partners

Interview by:
Richard Foster
Managing Partner
Foster Health Partners, LLC


9:45–10:25am

Panel Discussion
"Healthcare Globalization: Capital, Delivery and Technology"

Moderator:
Steven Elek
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Panelists:
Buddy Gumina
Partner
Apax Partners

Steven Krein
Founder and CEO
OrganizedWisdom

Roy P. Poillon
President
White Oak Marketing & Associates

Steven Thompson
Chief Executive Officer
Johns Hopkins International


10:25–11:00am

Coffee Break


11:00–11:30am

Nicholas W. Alexos
Managing Director
Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC


11:30–12:00pm

Kári Stefánsson
Chairman
deCODE genetics


12:00–1:00pm

Lunch


1:00–1:30pm

"Impact of Consumerism on the Healthcare System"

Wayne Gattinella
President and CEO
WebMD

Interviewed by:
Richard Vietor
Senior Advisor
Lehman Brothers Inc.


1:30–2:00pm

"The New American Healthcare Highway – Where are the Cars?"

Jonathan S. Bush
President and CEO, Co-founder
athenahealth, Inc.


2:00–2:30pm

R. Dale Ross
Chairman and CEO
US Oncology, Inc.


2:30–3:00pm

Coffee Break


3:00–3:40pm

Panel Discussion
"State of the Healthcare Capital Markets"

Moderator:
Steven Elek
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Panelists:
Karen H. Bechtel
Managing Director 
The Carlyle Group

John Connaughton
Managing Director
Bain Capital, LLC

James D. Forbes
Managing Director, Head of Healthcare Investment Banking
Merrill Lynch & Co.

Joseph P. Nolan
Senior Principal
GTCR Golder Rauner

John Weber
Partner
Court Square Capital Partners


3:40–4:10pm

Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D.
President
Institute of Medicine


4:10–4:30pm

Closing Remarks