Program 2008 - Health
Thursday, December
13, 2007
Dartmouth Hithcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH
Directions
and General Info / Park in LOT 9!
Use the link above, or visit Mapquest
for directions from your own home.
Action
Assignment
Dress: Business
Casual
Please dress WARMLY
for the session
AGENDA
7:30
coffee and
continental breakfast
8:00
Check in
8:30
Welcome to the day- Steve LeBlanc, LNH '03, COO, Dartmouth
Hitchcock
Morning
facilitator: Anna Thomas, LNH 07, Deputy Director, Manchester
Public Health Department.
8:45
Improving the Public's Health in New Hampshire
Mary
Ann Cooney Director, Public Health Services, Department
of Health and Human Services
9:45
Rethinking Healthcare: Is More Really Better?
Dr.
Elliot Fisher, Professor, Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth
Medical School
11:00
Tour Part 1: Experiential Learning Sessions
•
DHART (Dress warm for outside touring!)
•
Simulation lab
12:00
Lunch
12:45
Tour Part II: Experiential Learning Sessions
•
DHART
•
Simulation lab
1:45
Conversations about Health Insurance and Health Care Costs
Steve
Norton, LNH 07 Director, NH Center for Public Policy Studies
and Doctor Jim Squires, President, Endowment for Health
3:15
The Citizens Health Initiative
Paul
Spiess, former Health Policy Advisor to Governor Lynch and
Chair, Endowment for Health.
4:30
Wrap-up, announcements, evaluations, assignment for
next session
BIOS
MARY
ANN COONEY
Mary
Ann Cooney, currently Director of the Division of Public Health
Services, has held positions in both acute and primary health
care, as well as local and state public health. She received her
baccalaureate in nursing from Saint Anselm College, a Master of
Science in Nursing Administration from University of New Hampshire
, and will be completing the Master of Public Health program at
the University of New Hampshire . Before her appointment in December
2003, Mary Ann was the NH Department of Health and Human Services,
Office of Community and Public Health, Administrator for Chronic
Disease Prevention. Prior to coming to the NH Department of Health
and Human Services, Mary Ann spent 16 years in local public health
and 11 years as the Supervisor of School Health for the Manchester
Public Health Department. She is a member of several professional
organizations and is past president of the NH Public Health Association.
She was awarded the NH Nurses Association Nurse of the Year in
1995 and was appointed and held a seat on the American Nurses
Association National Test Credentialing Committee from 1993- 1999.
In 2005, she received credentialing from the National Public Health
Leadership Institute.
ELLIOT
FISHER
Dr.
Elliot Fisher is the Professor of Medicine and of Community and
Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School . He education includes:
Harvard Medical School , MD 1981, Harvard University , BA 1974
and U. Washington, MPH 1985. Professional Interests: Dr. Fisher
is also a general internist at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont where he co-directs
the VA Outcomes Group, a research and training program for physicians.
His research interests lie in three areas. First, he has worked
to clarify the limitations of administrative databases and develop
methods to overcome them. Second, he has developed approaches
to resource allocation based upon the principles of benchmarking,
first as a means of addressing inequities in the levels of hospital
resources across communities in Oregon and more recently as applied
to the U.S. physician supply. Most recently, he has focused on
the health implications of the uneven distribution of health care
resources. His current research, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, examines the potential adverse consequences of increasing
capacity in health care.
PAUL
SPIESS
Paul
Spiess served as the health policy advisor to Governor John Lynch,
is a member of the executive team of the Citizens Health Initiative,
and leads the finance and information technology team. From 2000
to 2004, Mr. Spies was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature,
where he served on the Commerce Committee. He joined the Legislature
after completing a 25 year career in banking, retiring in 1997
as Executive Vice President and Chief Operation Officer of CFX
Bank of Keene .
From
1983 to 1993, he was founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer
of Colonial Mortgage Inc. Prior to that Mr. Spiess was President
of First NH Banks Mortgage Company. Mr. Speiss is a founder and
Director of Centrix Bank and President of Souhegan Valley Interfaith
Housing Corporation. He was recently elected as a director of
the Endowment for Health and is a past member of the board of
the Manchester Regional Community Foundation and the Norris and
Elizabeth Bean Foundation. Mr. Spiess earned a bachelor's degree
from Colby College in government and an M.B.A. in finance from
Boston University .
JIM
SQUIRES
Dr.
Squires was born and raised in New London , New Hampshire . After
graduating from McGill Medical School in 1963, he spent his one-year
internship in surgery at the Grace- New Haven Hospital in New
Haven , Connecticut . Dr. Squires then served two years in the
United States Air Force as a flight medical officer, completed
four more years of surgical training at the New England Medical
Center , and taught surgery for one year at the Boston Veterans
Administration Hospital .
In
1971, Dr. Squires and his family moved to Hollis , New Hampshire
, where he still resides and has been serving as the Town Moderator
for nearly twenty years. After moving to Hollis, Dr. Squires was
instrumental in establishing the Matthew Thornton Health Plan,
New Hampshire 's first HMO. While serving in a variety of administrative
roles at Matthew Thornton, Dr. Squires also practiced general
and vascular surgery.
In
1994 Dr. Squires received the "Physician of the Year Award"
from the New Hampshire Hospital Association. In 1996, following
his retirement, he was elected to the New Hampshire Senate. After
re-election in 1998, Dr. Squires was appointed chair of the Public
Institutions, Health, and Human Services Committee. He has been
recognized for his efforts to ensure that tobacco settlement funds
be used for health-related causes. In 2000, Dr. Squires sought
the Republican nomination for Governor and finished second in
the primaries.
In
January, 2001, Dr. Squires became the first president of the Endowment
for Health. This position allows him to use his vast and varied
experience to provide leadership and guidance to this new foundation.
In 1960 Dr. Squires married his childhood sweetheart, Jessica
Austin Squires whose faithful support has made the above achievements
possible. Dr. and Mrs. Squires have four children and five grandchildren
and continue to reside in Hollis.
ANNA
THOMAS
As
the Community Epidemiologist and Administrator of the Community
Epidemiology and Disease Prevention Division at the City of Manchester
Department of Health, Anna Thomas is responsible for working with
the community in the conduct of public health research and community
assessments to measure, design, direct and evaluate health improvement
efforts on the local level. Ann a holds a BA from UNH and a Graduate
Certificate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
one of twenty national scholarship recipients from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. She also holds a Masters from
Dartmouth Medical School 's Center for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
Ann a was a Major and Commissioned Medical Service Corps Officer
in the NH Army National Guard for 16 years. She currently serves
on several Boards and coalitions throughout the City and was the
recipient of the Smoke Free NH 's Merit Award. Ann a was most
recently selected as one of NH's 40 Under Forty by the Union
Leader. She resides in Loudon with her husband, John, young son,
JJ and dog, Duke.
