HealthTech

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
8:00am-5:30pm PDT

HealthTech and The Children’s Partnership are pleased to announce an expert panel on Technology-Enabled Innovations for Improving Children’s Health, a project funded by The California Endowment. This event will take place in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday, May 5, 2009.

The Expert Panel meeting consists of a carefully selected group of experts representing diverse viewpoints. These experts will discuss a series of forecasts about the services, programs, and technology-enabled innovations that are possible through the application of information and communications technologies, and how they will shape children’s health in the next two to five years and beyond. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role information and communications technologies can play in reducing health disparities among low-income and other underserved children in California.

The panel meeting will be held from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Pacific Time. Breakfast and lunch will be provided; there will also be a reception from 4:30-5:30 PM on the day of the meeting. The venue is The California Endowment Center for Healthy Communities located at 1000 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Observers are responsible for their own travel arrangements.

There will be a limited number of seats available to observe our Expert Panel discussion. As an observer, you will have the opportunity to gain insight from the discussion and also to network with panelists and other observers. If you would like to attend in-person, please sign up by logging onto the HealthTech website (www.healthtech.org), clicking on the “Signup” tab above this event, then clicking on the “signup” button. Please note that signing up online does not guarantee your attendance. We will review registration and send a confirmation email soon after sign-up.

Current list of confirmed panelists

• Dion Aroner Partner, Aroner, Jewel and Ellis Partners & Former CA Assemblywoman
• David Bergman, MD Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Alex Briscoe, MFT-I, DPS Deputy Director, Alameda Health Care Services Agency
• Russell Davis, D.P.A, M.A.P.T. President of SHIRE (Summit Health Institute for Research and Education)
• Gregory J. Downing, DO, PhD Project Director, Personalized Health Care Initiative at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Amy Fine, MPH Health Policy/Program Consultant
• Joan Ford Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation
• Neal Kaufman, MD, MPH Co-Founder, the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities, Commissioner First 5 LA & CEO, DPS Health
• John Kim Co-Director, The Advancement Project LA & Director, Healthy City Project
• Teddy Milder, PNP, PHN Director of Evaluation and Technology, First 5 Alameda County
• Susan Pharo, MD Regional Department Chairman, Pediatrics (Kaiser Colorado)
• Sandra Shewry, MPH, MSW President and CEO, California Center for Connected Health & former Director, California Department of Health Services
• Cynthia Solomon Founder and President, MiVIA
• Herrmann Spetzler, MA CEO, Open Door Community Health Centers
• Bobbie Wilbur Director of Applications Solutions, The Center to Promote HealthCare Access and One-e-App

For more information on this expert panel, please contact Ange Wang at awang@healthtech.org, (415) 537-6935 or Elizabeth Schindler eschindler@healthtech.org (415) 537-6965.