CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE WASHINGTON, D.C.
OCTOBER 1 & 2, 2010
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Dr. Kevin Petersen is the founder of No Insurance Surgery, Inc. and Summerlin Surgical Associates, Inc., both of which are based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dr. Petersen was board certified by the American Board of Surgery in 1986 and then recertified in 1994. A Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Utah, department of Physics, he then earned his medical degree, with high honors, at Tufts University, in Boston. Dr. Petersen received resident surgery training at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, and completed a fellowship in Organ Transplant at Los Angeles County/USC Hospital. He served as chief resident while completing his surgery training at the Chicago Medical School. He has participated in the training of medical students and surgical residents as an assistant professor of Surgery at the Chicago Medical School, the Chicago School of Osteopathic Medicine, the Nevada School of Medicine and Touro University in Nevada.
Dr. Petersen’s career experience is over 10,000 major surgical procedures including 4,000 non-mesh hernia surgeries and 3,000 cancer operations and 4,000 other operations for treating a variety of life threatening conditions. He has a particular interest in non-mesh hernia repair and treatment of hernia mesh complications. Dr. Petersen has been performing surgery for uninsured patients for his entire twenty-five year career. Recently the number of patients seeking this kind of care has dramatically increased and in response to this Dr. Petersen has formed No Insurance Surgery, Inc and now only accepts new patients without insurance (he has, however, retained all of his old insured patients).
www.noinsurancesurgery.com
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Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is founder and director of the University of Miami Bioethics Program and its Pan American Bioethics Initiative and co-director of the university’s Ethics Programs, including its Business Ethics Program. The Ethics Programs have recently been designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy, one of six in the world and the only one in the United States. Dr. Goodman is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami with appointments in the Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Nursing and Health Studies and Department of Anesthesiology. He chairs the Ethics Committee of the American Medical Informatics Association, for which organization he co-founded the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Working Group.
Dr. Goodman is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the only philosopher or ethicist to be elected. His research has emphasized issues in health information technology, including bioinformatics or the use of computers in genetics, and in epidemiology and public health. He has published a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge University Press, co-authored a book of case studies in ethics and health computing for Springer-Verlag and co-authored another volume of case studies, in ethics in public health, for the American Public Health Association.
He has also co-authored a book on artificial intelligence, edited a book on ethics and medical computing, co-edited a volume on artificial intelligence, and published and presented hundreds of papers in bioethics, including end-of-life care, the philosophy of science, and computing
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Shannon Brownlee is an instructor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, DC. A nationally known writer and essayist, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Slate, Time, the Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post, among many other publications.
Ms. Brownlee’s book, “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer,” published in 2007, was named the best economics book of the year by the New York Times economics correspondent, David Leonhardt. She holds a master’s degree in biology from the University of California.
The topic of her speech for the Second Annual Truth in Medicine Conference in Washington, D.C. is, “Beyond Mesh: How to Protect Patients From Dangerous and Ineffective Devices.”
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Paul Brown, Governmental Relations Manager, educates federal and state lawmakers and their staffs about health and medical issues that affect adults and children. He also monitors the activities of the Food and Drug Administration and other federal health agencies whose work is designed to protect the public health. He leverages NRC for Women & Families’ influence through his effective outreach to other nonprofit organizations and by helping organize the legislative efforts of the Patient and Consumer Coalition.
Prior to joining NRC for Women & Families, Mr. Brown had 13 years of advocacy experience, as a consumer health care advocate with US PIRG and as the Southern Nevada Director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN).
In his previous work, Mr. Brown has authored or co-authored numerous reports on issues such as prescription drug prices, campaign finance reform, economic contributions of immigrants, and state taxes. He has been frequently quoted in the media and has published numerous op-eds and letters to the editor.
A graduate of the University of Iowa, Mr. Brown is married to Lori Lipman Brown, a former Nevada State Senator. Mr. Brown ran his wife’s successful grassroots State Senate campaign in 1992, spending less than $2,000 to win the primary campaign. He can be reached at pb@center4research.org
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