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Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research:
Priorities, Methods, and Impact

The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium
Washington, DC
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
8:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.




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AGENDA
 
   
8:30 am – 8:40 am Welcome on Behalf of the Engelberg Center
  Mark McClellan, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at Brookings
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8:40 am – 9:05 am Keynote Address: The Future of Comparative Effectiveness Research in the United States
  Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)
   
9:05 am – 9:15 am Welcome on Behalf of The Hamilton Project
  Robert E. Rubin, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; Advisory Council, The Hamilton Project
   
9:15 am – 9:40 am Keynote Address: Towards a Data-Driven Health Care System
  Peter Orszag, Office of Management and Budget
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9:40 am - 10:25 am Comparative Effectiveness Research: Will it Bend the Health Care Cost Curve and Improve Quality?
  Presenter:
- Mark McClellan

Discussants:
- Kathleen Buto, Johnson & Johnson
- Carolyn Clancy, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- David Lansky, Pacific Business Group on Health
- John Rother, AARP
   
10:25 am – 11:10 am Setting Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Discussion Paper One)
  Presenters:
- Alan Garber, Stanford University School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System
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- David Meltzer, University of Chicago School of Medicine

Discussants:
- Mark Miller, MedPAC
- Elizabeth Nabel, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Harold Sox, American College of Physicians
   
11:10 am – 11:55 am Strategies to Improve Comparative Effectiveness Research Methods and Data Infrastructure (Discussion Paper Two)
  Presenter:
- Sean Tunis, Center for Medical Technology Policy
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Discussants:
- Robert Califf, Duke University School of Medicine
- Joshua Ofman, Amgen
- Sebastian Schneeweiss, Harvard Medical School
- Ellen Sigal, Friends of Cancer Research
   
11:55 am – 12:40 pm From Better Evidence to Better Care: Using Comparative Effectiveness Research to Guide Practice and Policy
(Discussion Paper Three)
  Presenter:
- Steven Pearson, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
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Discussants:
- Marc Berger, Eli Lilly & Co.
- Steven Findlay, Consumers Union
- Scott Gottlieb, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- Sam Nussbaum, WellPoint
   
11:55 am – 12:45 pm Closing Remarks
  Mark McClellan


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