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Jeff Schaub, Senior Director Health Care Group ,Fitch Ratings: The Excellent Healthcare Board: A Bond Rating Agency’s Perspective, April 4, 2008 (View briefing )

Kenneth Kaufman, Managing PartnerCapital Needs: The Board’s Role, March 6, 2008 (View briefing)

Thomas E. Boyle, Esquire, Buchannan Ingersoll Rooney PC: Current Legal Issues for Healthcare Trustees, February 1, 2008 (View briefing)

John Combes, MD, President & COO, Center for Healthcare Governance: Building an Exceptional Board:Effective Practices for Health Care Governance -- Report on the Blue Ribbon Panel on Health Care Governance November 2, 2007. View briefing.

Jerry Fedele, former President & CEO, WPAHS; John Mayer, MD, President, Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation Program, Boston Children’s Hospital ; and Timothy Merril, Chair, Heritage Valley Health System.Panel DIscussion: Responding to “Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results” by M.E. Porter and E. O. Teisberg. October 12, 2007. View briefing

Tom Priselac, President and CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System, California, and Ann Torregrossa, Sr. Project Manager, PA Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform: Current Issues in Health Care Reform: Prescription for Pennsylvania and Stay Healthy California. September 7, 2007. View briefing

Larry W. Walker, President, The Walker Company. Board Self Assessments that Result in Governance Improvement. Friday, April 13, 2007, 8-9:30 am. View briefing online.

Sister Carol Keehan, President & CEO, Catholic Health AssociationThe Board's Role In Assuring Community Benefit. Friday March 2, 2007, 8-9:30 am. View briefing online.

Karma Bass, Senior Research Executive, The Governance Institute. The Board’s Oversight Role in Hospital’s Quality Performance: Friday, February 2, 2007, 8-9:30 am. View briefing online.

James M. Redmond, Sr. VP, Legislative Services, and Timothy Ohrum, Director, Legislative Services, Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania: Impact of the Recent Elections on Healthcare Policy, Friday, December 1, 2006, 8-9:30 AM. View briefing online

Leslie C. Davis, President, Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, and Thomas Garfinkel, Sr. Vice President, Arizona Diamondbacks (Past Chair, Magee’s Marketing Committee), Marketing and the Board. Friday, November 3, 2006, 8-9:30 am. View briefing online

Susan M. Mussman, Partner, Kirkpatrick  & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP: Advocacy, Lobbying and the Board.Friday, October 6, 2006, 8-9:30 am. View briefing online.

Barry S. Bader, President, Bader & Associates:   The Perfect Storm in Healthcare Governance: Is Your Board Prepared for a New Era of Accountability? View the briefing online 4/8/06, 8-9:30 am.

Dennis Unkovic, Partner, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, LLP. Trustee Reactor Panel: John Horty, Trustee, Pittsburgh Mercy Health System; Timothy W. Merrill, Chair, Heritage Valley Health System, David Burstin, Chair, The Western Pennsylvania Health System: A New Model for Healthcare Boards: What Non-profit Healthcare Institutions Can Learn From the For-profit World
View briefing online, 3/2/06, 8-9:30 am.
G. Nicholas Beckwith, III, Chair, UPMC, and Robert A. DeMichiei, CFO, UPMC: UPMC’s Plan to Comply with Sarbanes-Oxley View briefing online 1/13/06, 8-9:30 am.
Richard J. Umbdenstock, President & CEO, Providence Services and Chair-elect AHA: The Respective Roles of the Board and the CEO View briefing online 11/ 8/05, 8-9:30 am.
John Combes, MD, President & CEO, Center for Healthcare Governance: The Board's Responsibility Regarding Patient Safety View Briefing On-Line 10/ 7/05, 8-9:30 am.
Karma Bass, Sr. Research Executive, Governance Institute: Board Strategies & Responses to Challenges & Opportunities, 2005-20109/9/05, 8-9:30 am.
Marian C. Jennings, President, M. Jennings Consulting, Inc.: Healthcare Planning for Uncertain Times: The Value of Scenario Planning4/1/05, 8-9:30 am.
Jean Chenoweth, Senior Vice President, Solucient Center for Healthcare Improvemen: The Board's Role in Benchmarking and Performance Improvementt3/4/05, 8-9:30 am.
Howard Berman, Vice Chairman, Lifetime Healthcare Company: The Nine "Guide Star" Principles for Making a Great Board2/4/05, 8-9:30 am.
James E. Orlikoff, President, Orlikoff & Associates, Inc.(Co-sponosored with Allegheny County Medical Society): Rewriting the Social Contract Between Physicians and Boards11/10/04, 8-9:30 am.
John Horty, Partner, Horty, Springer & Mattern, PC: Board Conflicts of Interest10/8/04, 8-9:30 am.
Dennis Unkovic, Partner, Meyer, Unkovic, Scott LLP: A New Model for Health Care Boards9/10/04, 8-9:30 am.

Barbara Blackmond, Senior Partner, Horty, Springer & Mattern, PC, and  William H. Maruca, Partner, Fox Rothschild LLP  (Jointly sponsored with the Allegheny County Medical Society)  Boards and Medical Staffs Working Together to Improve Credentialing and Quality 4/2/04, 8 - 9:30 am. Read the summary
Bruce Gordon, Senior Vice President, Moody's Investors Service How Bond Rating Agencies Look at Institutional Credit Factors   3/5/04, 12-1:30.  Read the summary
Doug Hastings, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. A Trustee's Guide to Compliance Read the summary2/13/04, 12-1:30.
Kenneth Kaufman, Managing Partner, Kaufman Hall The Board's Responsibility Regarding Capital Formation  Read the summary9/5/03, 12-1:30.
David Hunter, CEO, The Hunter Group The Board's Role in Organizational Success Read the summary10/10/03, 8-9:30 am.
J. Larry Tyler, President, Tyler & CompanyThe Board/CEO Relationship  Read the summary11/14/03, 12-1:30.
  Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD, Associate Director, RAND Health The Board's Role in Quality Oversight Read the summary 4/9/03, 12:00-1:30.
Mary Beth Buchanan, United States Attorney,  US Department of Justice, Western District of Pennsylvania   Corporate Compliance    Read the summary    3/14/03, 8:00-9:30 am.                
Mike Turzai, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 28th District and James M. Redmond, Sr. VP, The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of PA Medical Liability Reform - What Hospital Trustees Need to Know1/ 31/03, 8-9:30 am.
The Honorable Robert J. Cindrich, US District Court   and Christine M. Piatt, Partner, Ernst & Young, LLPThe Role of the Audit Committee in a Post-Enron World11/1/02, 8-9:30 am. 
Thomas E. Boyle , Chairman, Health Law Section, Buchanan Ingersoll Professional Corporation Current Legal Issues for Healthcare Trustees10/11/02, 8-9:30 am.

Norman Mitry, President & CEO, and J.R. Philp, Chairman, Heritage Valley Health System  The On-Line Trustee 9/6/02, 8-9:30 am.