Conversations On HealthCare

Dr. John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College.

Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation.

Dr. Mary Jane Koren, vice president for the Picker Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program.

Dr. Lucian Leape, a leading figure in the modern patient safety movement.

Dr. Paul Tang, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation

Interview with Congressman John Dingell (D-Michigan). He's the longest serving congressman in history and has started every session of Congress by introducing the national health insurance bill.

"Interview with Uwe E. Reinhardt, professor of political economy and professor of economics and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Focuses on the challenge of advancing health reform.

Interview with Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired Magazine and author of “The Decision Tree:  Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine.” Focus on confluence of ideas and technology and how to engage people in their health

Interview with Dr. Thomas Lee, professor of medicine at Harvard University and professor in Harvard’s Department of Health Policy and Management.  Dr. Lee is also CEO of Partners Community Healthcare, Inc., the largest health system in New England.

Interview with Dr. Robert Berenson, an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. Conversations on Health Care focuses this week on innovative health care policy and controlling costs.

Interview with Dr. Gail Wilensky, economist and former administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, on health-care reform and predicted outcomes of reforms still under consideration by Congress