BROWSE SPEAKERS by TOPIC

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Barry Asmus, Ph.D , Arizona USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

Dr. Barry Asmus speaks, testifies, writes and consults on political and business issues facing America. He was named by USA Today as one of the five most requested speakers in the United States. Dr. Asmus was twice voted the Outstanding Professor of the Year, as well as honored with the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge Award for Private Enterprise Education. Barry receives standing ovations and repeat invitations because he customizes every presentation. They are unique and fresh. He presents an optimistic and thrilling future for America. His comments on globalization, demographics and public policy issues are rooted in factual information, enthusiasm and humor. Barry’s presentations are full of ideas that can be used to harness our unlimited future.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Holly Atkinson, M.D., M.S , New York USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Sorting Through the Confusion: Always candid, never afraid to “tell it like it is,” Dr. Atkinson she guides audiences through the challenges that consumers face today including health care reform, women’s health issues, and the glut of medical information reported in the media. Atkinson sends her audiences home with the ability to be more intelligent about exercising their health care options, and more informed and less confused about medical issues currently confronting them. Atkinson has extensive experience as a broadcast medical correspondent, including assignments with NBC, CBS, and PBS, and served as vice president of programming and medical affairs for Lifetime Medical Television. She created Reuters Health Information, a leading provider of professional and consumer health news, and was formerly the chairwoman of iVillage Health Initiatives.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jeffrey Bauer, PhD , Colorado USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Dr. Bauer is a nationally recognized health futurist and medical economist. He is Senior Vice President of Superior Consultant Company, Inc. (Southfield, MI), a leading provider of Digital Business Transformation services to the healthcare industry. In his numerous publications and presentations, he forecasts the future of health care and describes practical, competitive approaches to restructuring the health care delivery system with a special focus on medical science, information technology, and public policy.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

James Canton, Ph.D , California USA -- 25.0k to 30.0k

Dr. James Canton is an internationally recognized futurist, digital entrepreneur and public speaker. His speciality is the future of technology and its impact on business and society. He is a former executive at Apple Computer and has been an innovator in the high technology industry for over twenty years. As Editor-in-Chief of 21st Century Online on the Microsoft Network he tracks trends and developments throughout the globe for his facinating leading-edge presenations.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Glenna Crooks, PhD , District of Columbia USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Glenna M. Crooks, Ph.D., former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health for the Reagan administration, is founder and president of Strategic Health Policy International, Inc. (SHPI). Based in Philadelphia, PA and Washington, DC, SHPI assists businesses and governments to understand and manage policy and political issues in health care.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Susan Dentzer , Virginia USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Susan Dentzer is an on-air correspondent with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, where she leads a unit dedicated to providing in-depth coverage of health care, health policy and Social Security. The unit, begun in 1998, is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Joe Flower , California USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

In his powerful keynotes and interactive workshops, Joe Flower - an internationally recognized healthcare futurist and a world-class presenter - shares his unique grasp of the forces transforming healthcare, such as the aging of the Baby Boom; radically new pharmaceuticals and therapies; digitization and automation; extreme cost pressures; shifts in payment structures; and perhaps greater than any of them, the rising power of the consumer. These talks and workshops help your organization reshape itself to be more nimble, knowledgeable, and change-competent in the face of these great change vectors.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Emily Friedman , Illinois USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Emily Friedman is an independent writer, lecturer, and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago. She is contributing editor of Hospitals & Health Networks and contributing writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Progress, and other periodicals. Ms. Friedman also writes a regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks Online. She was contributing editor and ethics columnist for the Health Forum Journal from 1986 until July 2003, when the journal terminated publication. She is most noted for her work in health policy, health care trends, health insurance and managed care, the social ethics of health care, health care for the underserved, health care history, population demographics, and the relationship of the public with the health care system.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jeff Goldsmith , Virginia USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

Jeff Goldsmith is America's premier healthcare futurist who owns and operates a firm specilaizing in forecasting future healthcare trends. For 20 years Health Futures has tackled issues in the healthcare industry, including the future of information technology and healthcare; implications of new biotechnology developments; health care trend analysis; the internet's impact on medicine; the future of managed care and of integrated health systems. Health Futures is a leader in this new field, and Jeff Goldsmith is known internationally as a vocal supporter of healthcare change and as a public speaker addressing health conferences.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Douglas Goldstein , Virginia USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Douglas E. Goldstein is a globally recognized healthcare strategist, CEO and "Practical Futurist." He is a sought after keynote speaker and author of the recent publications Quality, Patient Safety and Cost Effectiveness through Leadership and Technology e-Healthcare: Harness the Power of Internet e-Commerce & e-Care (Jones and Bartlett). His upcoming books include: The ConsumerMD Guide to Avoiding Costly, Deadly Medical Errors and Health Information Technology 20/20: Quality and Safety through Collaboration and Open Solutions. Preview information on both titles is available in 2005 for Douglas’ speaking clients.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

J. Ian Morrison , California USA -- 20.0k to 25.0k

Ian Morrison is an internationally-known futurist and the author of The Second Curve: Managing the Velocity of Change and Health Care in the New Millenium. As president of Institute for the Future from 1990 to 1996, he led the organization's growth and success over that period. A highly respected consultant and speaker, Morrison specializes in long-term forecasting and planning with particular emphasis on health care and societal change. He has worked with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in the fields of health care, information technology, and financial services and has written, lectured, and consulted on a wide variety of forecasting, strategy, and health care topics for government, industry, hospitals, physicians, and nonprofit agencies around the world. His work focuses on helping clients to plan for their long-term future.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Gary Null , New York United States -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Time magazine called him “The New Mr. Natural.” My Generation magazine dubbed him one of the top-four health gurus in the United States. For over three decades, Gary Null has been one of the foremost advocates of alternative medicine and natural healing. An award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Null has over 70 books on nutrition, self-empowerment and public health issues, including his most recent, Power Aging.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Peter Rost , New Jersey USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Peter Rost, M.D., former Vice President for the drug company powerhouse Pfizer first became well known in 2004 when he started to speak out in favor of reimportation of drugs. His fight for lower priced drugs was covered by more than one hundred radio and television broadcasts, among them “60 Minutes” in 2005, and five hundred newspaper articles, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, during 2004 and 2005.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Peter Salgo , New York USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Dr. Peter Salgo is an Emmy Award-winning medical journalist, practicing physician, and respected healthcare futurist. He has a reputation for providing insights to medical trends that extend the lives of Americans from generation to generation. Currently practicing Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, he also teaches at Columbia University School of Medicine. He currently hosts PBS' cutting-edge medical reality show, Second Opinion.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Jack Shapiro , New Jersey USA -- 5.0k to 10.0k

Jack M. Shapiro is a healthcare marketing consultant, futurist, broadcast journalist and public speaker. Jack has spent more than 30 years in the healthcare field, both domestically and abroad. Often quoted in healthcare industry, general business and lay publications, Jack has been a frequent guest on national television (ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX, PBS and abroad on BBC and ITN) and radio as a commentator on healthcare trends in the United States and overseas.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Quint Studer , Florida USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

Quint Studer is helping to change the face of health care today. Considered by many to be the main impetus over the past several years for more and more health care organizations returning to their roots, he not only coaches organizations about creating a culture of excellence but also has done it. Over his 20-year career in health care, Quint moved from the staff level all the way to being COO of Holy Cross Hospital, in Chicago, from 1993-1996 and President of Baptist Hospital, Inc. (Baptist and Gulf Breeze Hospital in Pensacola, FL) from 1996-2000.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Bill Thomas, MD , New York USA -- 10.0k to 15.0k

Dr. Bill Thomas is an international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare. He currently serves as president of The Center for Growing and Becoming, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting and developing constructive, holistic approaches to aging and the care of our elders. He is the founder of The Eden Alternative, a global non-profit organization that is committed to improving the care received by people who live in institutions everywhere. Most recently, Dr. Thomas developed the Green House, a radically new approach to long-term care. In 2005, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced a five year ten million dollar grant that will result in the creation of Green House projects in all fifty states.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com

Gail Wilensky, Ph.D , Maryland USA -- 15.0k to 20.0k

GAIL WILENSKY is a Senior Fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation, where she analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and to ongoing changes in the health care environment. From 1990 - 1992, she was Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, overseeing the Medicare and Medicaid programs. She also served as Deputy Assistant to president (GHW) Bush for Policy Development, advising him on health and welfare issues from 1992 to 1993.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com