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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013

Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, Founder of Give an Hour

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, clinical psychologist and founder of Give an Hour, an organization dedicated to matching returning veterans and their families with behavioral practitioners who volunteer their time. Dr. Van Dahlen talks about the psychological impact of war and mobilizing civilians to support active duty service members, veterans, and their families.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013

Dr. John McDonough, Harvard School of Public Health

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. John McDonough, Director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. McDonough was instrumental in crafting both the Massachusetts Health Care Law as well as the Affordable Care Act and discusses the strengths and vulnerabilities of health reform in America.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013

Lygiea Ricciardi, Acting Director, Office of Consumer e-Health, ONC

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Lygiea Ricciardi, Acting Director of Consumer e-Health at the Office of the National Coordinator at the Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Ricciardi discusses plans at ONC to accelerate the e-health movement which seeks to make electronic health records available to all patients so they can be better informed stewards and consumers of their own medical care.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2013

Dr. Drew Altman, President and CEO of Kaiser Family Foundation

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Drew Altman, President and CEO of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on major health care issues facing the nation as well as global health. Kaiser is dedicated to providing non-partisan health information and analysis for policy makers, the media and general public.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 2013

Susannah Fox, Director of Digital Strategy at the Pew Internet and American Life Project

This week Mark and Margaret speak with Susannah Fox, Director of Digital Strategy at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Ms. Fox has been analyzing the intersection of technology and health care for over a decade, focusing on the cultural shifts taking place in health care, specifically in the areas of mobile technology and chronic disease.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2012

David Gergen, Sr. Political Analyst for CNN

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with David Gergen, Sr. Political Analyst for CNN, Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's Kennedy School, and former advisor to four presidents. Mr. Gergen addresses the potential outcomes in the ongoing defecit discussion, as well as his views on the strengths and weaknesses of the Affordable Care Act.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2012

Patricia Mechael, Executive Director of the mHealth Alliance

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Patricia Mechael, Executive Director of the mHealth Alliance. Hosted by the United Nations Foundation, the mHealth Alliance champions the use of mobile technologies to improve health around the world. Dr. Mechael discusses recent mHealth Summit 2012, and the myriad global health initiatives benefitting from the proliferation of mobile phones throughout the developing world.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012

Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, about the broad scope of research underway at NIH, as well as his previous work leading the team that mapped the human genome, for which he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2012

Dan Hawkins, Vice President for Federal, State and Public Affairs, National Association of Community Health Centers

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dan Hawkins, Senior Vice President for Federal, State and Public Affairs at the National Association of Community Health Centers. Mr. Hawkins discusses how community health centers are poised to take on a majority of the newly-insured once the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Dr. Joe Selby, Executive Director of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Joe Selby, Executive Director of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, or PCORI, created by the Affordable Care Act. PCORI has been authorized by Congress to conduct research that will provide patients and their care providers with information about the best available evidence regarding patient outcomes to make informed health decisions.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2012

David Whitlinger, Executive Director of the New York e-Health Collaborative

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with David Whitlinger, Executive Director of the New York e-Health Collaborative, a consortium of policy makers, providers and health industry leaders working to improve health care for all New Yorkers through integrated health information technology. Mr. Whitlinger talks about innovative policies that are helping to facilitate interoperability of the state’s many electronic health systems and mobile health platforms.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Dr. Basit Chaudry, Lead Research Clinician for Watson, IBM

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Basit Chaudry, Lead Research Clinician for Watson, IBM’s natural language computing system made famous by victories on the quiz show Jeopardy! Dr. Chaudry is a national leader in the effort to modernize health care through information technology and talks about IBM’s program to adapt Watson’s super-computing capabilities and language recognition programming to facilitate diagnostics and treatment decisions in health care.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Marjorie Godfrey, MS, RN, Co-Director of the Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Marjorie Godfrey, MS, RN, Co-Director of the Dartmouth Institute Microsystem Academy and the Director of the Microsystem Resource Group. Marjorie is a national and international leader in designing and implementing improvement strategies in the place where patients, families and care teams meet - in the clinical microsystem. She discusses her strategies for improving the work flow in the clinical care environment by empowering nurse leaders and coaches within the health care system.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012

Dr. Molly Coye, Chief Innovation Officer, UCLA Health System

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Molly Coye, Chief Innovation Officer of the UCLA Health System. Dr. Coye discusses broad reaching transformations underway at UCLA Health that are utilizing innovative technology and team-based medicine to yield better health outcomes for their patient population, while reducing costs within the system.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012

Robert E. Mechanic, Senior Fellow at Heller School, Brandeis University

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Robert E. Mechanic, Senior Fellow at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Mr. Mechanic is the lead author on a report in this month’s Health Affairs that offers the first in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of cost containment measures in the State of Massachusetts since near-universal health coverage was achieved in that state. The report looks at the rise of Accountable Care Organizations and the creation of an independent commission to oversee health care system performance as having a positive impact on cost controls.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012

Bryan Sivak, Chief Technology Officer, Health and Human Services

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Bryan Sivak, Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services. Mr. Sivak talks about programs underway at HHS to harness the power of data, technology and innovation to improve the health and welfare of the nation. He discusses numerous programs that have been launched to improve access to health data for researchers, governments and individuals.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012

Dr. Joseph Smith Chief Medical Officer of West Health Institute

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Joseph Smith, Chief Science and Medical Officer of the West Health Institute who discusses the Institute's work to accelerate the development of wireless health technologies to better target solutions to unmet medical needs. Dr. Smith also discusses the Institute's efforts in driving national policies that will spur reform and innovation in health care.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012

Susannah Fox, Pew Internet & American Life Project

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Susannah Fox, Director of Digital Strategy at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Ms. Fox has been analyzing the intersection of technology and health care for over a decade, focusing on the cultural shifts taking place in health care, specifically in the areas of mobile technology and chronic disease.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Dr. Jeffery Brenner, Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Jeffery Brenner, Founder and Executive Director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. Dr. Brenner speaks about the data-driven, "hotspotter" approach he developed to reduce health care costs by indentifying high-use patients and more effectively and efficiently addressing their multiple needs.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Sarah Kliff, Senior Health Correspondent at the Washington Post/WonkBlog

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Sarah Kliff, Senior Health Correspondent for the Washington Post and Wonkblog, the daily blog at the Washington Post. Ms. Kliff analyzes the health plans and policies of President Obama as well as his Republican Challenger, Mitt Romney, and examines the potential for changes to the Affordable Care Act should there be a change in administrations.