IPRO's 2017 Annual Membership Meeting

AGENDA

Welcome
Theodore O. Will
Chief Executive Officer, IPRO

IPRO Board of Directors Election Results
Donald A. Winikoff, MD
President, IPRO

Presentation of the
2017 IPRO Quality Awards
Clare B. Bradley, MD, MPH

Featured Speakers:

Marcus Friedrich, MD MBA
Medical Director, Office of Quality and Patient Safety, New York State
Department of Health

Carl Flatley, DDS, MSD
Founder, Sepsis Alliance

Susan Dentzer
CEO, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation

Questions and Answers

Adjournment

Speaker Bios

Marcus Friedrich, MD, MBA

Marcus Friedrich, MD, MBA, is the medical director for the Office of Quality and Patient Safety within the New York State Department of Health. He works with the clinical leadership at the New York State Department of Health and is helping in the development of quality measurement and improvement programs within Medicaid and health insurance plans.

Dr. Friedrich currently works on an ongoing collaborative of clinical providers, hospitals, and payers in a regional multi-year medical home demonstration incorporating care and payment reform, making use of regional health data exchange engaging claims and clinical, electronic health record information. He is also involved in the statewide sepsis campaign, public reporting on cardiac services and stroke, office based surgery, antibiotic stewardship, prenatal care and other programs statewide.

Dr. Friedrich joined the Department of Health from Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, where he worked as a medical director for the Northwell Health Clinical Integrated IPA.

He received his medical degree from the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine and completed his MBA at Hagen University in Hagen, Germany. He did his residence in Internal Medicine at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital and completed a physician administrative fellowship at Northwell Health before becoming faculty at the North Shore University Hospital Department of Medicine. He is a practicing primary care physician in the community.

Carl Flatley, DDS, MSD

On April 30, 2002, Carl Flatley’s life changed. It was the day his daughter Erin died from septic shock, something Dr. Flatley, a retired endodontist, had never heard of.

After Erin’s death, Dr. Flatley learned everything he could about sepsis and he was astounded at what he – and millions of other Americans – didn’t know about the condition. He was shocked to learn that sepsis killed well over 200,000 people in the U.S. every year and affected so many more survivors.

In 2004, Dr. Flatley founded the American Sepsis Alliance, which in 2007, became Sepsis Alliance. He made it his mission that sepsis would become as well known as cancer, diabetes, and other illnesses, and that as few people as possible would get sepsis, let alone die from it.

His unending devotion to Erin’s memory has had a significant impact on many people.

Susan Dentzer

Susan Dentzer is CEO at Network for Excellence in Health Innovation. In this role, she works closely with foundation leaders to carry out the organizational mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans. One of the nation's most respected health and health policy thought leaders and journalists, she is also an on-air analyst on health issues on the PBS NewsHour. From 2008 to April 2013, she was the editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, the nation’s leading peer-reviewed journal of health policy, and led the transformation of that journal from a bimonthly academic publication into a highly topical publication and web site with more than 120 million page views annually. From 1998 to 2008, she led the PBS NewsHour’s health unit as on-air health correspondent, and was the recipient of numerous honors and awards.

Dentzer is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a public member of the board of directors of the American Board of Medical Specialties, a non-profit organization overseeing 24 approved medical specialty boards that set standards for board certification for the nation’s physicians. She is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization providing relief to refugees and displaced persons around the world. She chairs the IRC board’s Program Committee, which oversees the organization’s activities in resettling refugees in the United States and dealing with refugees and displaced persons in roughly 25 countries.

A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1986-87, Dentzer is a graduate of Dartmouth and holder of an honorary master of arts from the institution. She is also a Dartmouth trustee emerita, and was the only woman to date to chair the Dartmouth Board of Trustees, from 2001 to 2004. She has served on the Board of Overseers of Dartmouth Medical School since 1993.

A widely admired communicator, Dentzer is a frequent speaker before a wide variety of health care and other groups, and a frequent commentator on such National Public Radio shows as the Diane Rehm Show and This American Life.