2010 Forum

Improving quality, reducing costs

20-23 April 2010
Acropolis Nice, France

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Format

There are more than 80 sessions across four days, from Tuesday 20 April to Friday 23 April. The first day Tuesday 20 April, there are 5 full day mini-courses and a Global Patient Safety Summit. Between Wednesday 21 April to Friday 23 April, the 77 conference sessions are divided into six streams and run as:

• Keynote presentations
• Headline presentations
• 90 minutes sessions
• 60 minutes sessions
• Half day mini-courses

2010 Confirmed keynote and headline speakers include:

• Don Berwick, MD, FRCP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School.  International expert in innovation and leadership, author of “The Change Masters”
• Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Founder of Médecins Sans Frontières in Sweden
• Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Princeton University, leading health policy expert for various bodies including the World Bank
• Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
• Laurent Degos, MD, PhD, is Chairman of the Board of the French National Authority for Health (Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS)
• Brent James, Chief Quality Officer & Executive Director, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, Intermountain Healthcare
• Bernard Crump, CEO, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, England
• Brenda Zimmerman, Professor of Strategic Management, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.
• Emily Friedman, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Boston University and Independent Health Policy and Ethics Analyst

Location

The 2010 International Forum comes to the city of Nice, located on the French Riviera in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Blessed by a temperate climate and exceptional sunchine, Nice attracts visitors from around the world. Set on the coast with stunning hilltop villages that dot the surrounding countryside, Nice offers lovely seaside promenades, numerous museums and amazing architecture.