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San Francisco, CA - February 2, 2006 Panelists Christopher J. Conover, Ph.D.
Christopher J. Conover is assistant research professor of public policy studies in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, senior fellow in the Center for Health Policy at Duke University, and Director of the Health Policy Certificate Program. He received his doctorate in policy analysis from the RAND Graduate School. His research interests are in State health policy, with a focus on issues related to health care for the medically indigent, estimating the magnitude of the social burden of illness, and health regulation. He teaches in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy and the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Conover has provided policy advice on access and cost issues to Governors and legislative groups at the Federal and State levels. He has recently testified before Congress on the economic costs of health care regulation, publishing Health Care Regulation: A $169 Billion Hidden Tax. Dr. Conover has served as a consultant to the North Carolina Health Reform Commission, served 4 years as a Governor-appointed member of the North Carolina Council on Health Policy Information, and was a member of the Task Force on Child Health Insurance. He also has developed the Health Policy Cyberexchange (http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange) and Who's Who in Health Policy (http://www.hpolicy.duke.edu/cyberexchange/whowho.html) in hopes of using the Internet to foster more evidence-based health policy decisions. H.E. Frech III is professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; an adjunct professor at Sciences Po in Paris; and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and at the University of Chicago and an economist in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the predecessor of the Department of Health and Human Services. He received his B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri in 1968 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1974. Dr. Frech has published more than 100 articles and books on health care and regulation. His research has included health insurance and managed care, optimal scale of physician practices and hospitals, physician and hospital pricing, competition, monopoly and antitrust policy, ownership, efficiency and wages in nursing homes, the production of health, distance traveled to hospitals, supplemental insurance in Medicare, malpractice reform, and private health insurance in Australia. Dr. Frech has consulted on the economics of health care for private and public organizations and has testified in U.S. Federal and State courts, State legislatures, State and Federal regulatory bodies, and in the U.S. Congress. Tom Miller is senior health economist for the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of the U.S. Congress. In May 2004, he organized a JEC hearing on the Burden of Health Services Regulation. Mr. Miller previously was the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute for 3 years, where he directed a research program that focused on restoring individual choice, control, and responsibility to the U.S. health care system. He also spent 14 years at the Competitive Enterprise Institute as director of economic policy studies and as a senior policy analyst. Mr. Miller’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Reader's Digest, Reason, American Spectator, National Review, Health Affairs, Regulation, and Cato Journal. His 2002 article in the Cato Journal, “A Regulatory Bypass Operation,” first outlined the key principles of consumer choice in State health insurance regulation. He has testified before the House Judiciary Committee on regulation of the uses of genetic information and before the Federal Trade Commission on the effects of mandated health benefits. Mr. Miller holds a bachelor's degree in political science from New York University and a law degree from Duke University. Michael A. Morrisey is a professor of health economics and health insurance at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), School of Public Health. He is also director of the UAB Lister Hill Center for Health Policy. Dr. Morrisey is the author of four books and more than 130 papers on health economics and health policy topics. His research interests include employer-sponsored health insurance, regulation in health care markets, and issues of hospital economics. He is currently involved in research projects dealing with employee premium contributions for family coverage, the effects of motor vehicle laws affecting the youngest and oldest drivers, and the effects of medical malpractice reform on health insurance premiums. Dr. Morrisey is a member of the editorial boards of Health Affairs, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, and Medical Care Research and Review. He is the former secretary/treasurer of the International Health Economics Association, a fellow of the Employee Benefits Research Institute, and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He was the first recipient of the John Thompson Young Investigator Award for health services research given by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. In 2000, Dr. Morrisey received the UAB School of Public Health Distinguished Investigator Award, and in 2001 he received the UAB School of Public Health President’s Award for Teaching. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in Seattle. Dan Mulholland holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Duquesne University and a J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Mulholland is a senior partner in Horty, Springer & Mattern. He serves as a faculty member of the Estes Park Institute and as chair of the Credentialing and Peer Review Practice Group of the American Health Lawyers Association. The National Law Journal named him one of 40 health care attorneys in the country “who have made their mark.” He has spoken and written widely on a variety of health law topics. Mr. Mulholland works extensively on hospital corporate and physician contract matters, managed care and integrated delivery system contracts and development, and litigation. He is nationally known for his expertise in strategic counseling to boards regarding mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and affiliations. William D. Rogers, M.D., FACEP William D. Rogers is the medical officer for the Office of the Administrator and the director of the Physicians Regulatory Issues Team at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He is also an active member of the medical staff of Sibley Memorial Hospital and Greater Southeast Community Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he works in the emergency departments. As a Commander in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Rogers served with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Operation Iraqi Freedom, returning to reserve duty with the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion in July 2003. Dr. Rogers is also the operational medical director for the National Park Service, National Capital Area. Before joining CMS, Dr. Rogers served as the regional director for an emergency department staffing company responsible for four emergency departments in Virginia, employing 50 physicians with a budget of $10 million. Dr. Rogers is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (Fellow), Virginia Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, National Capitol Area Emergency Services Workgroup, and Future of Family Medicine Task Force 6.
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