Maryland Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) District of Columbia Society of Anesthesiologists (DCSA)	The Economics and Challenges of Hospital Based medicine & Annual ASA President’s Dinner
Sunday, May 3, 2009 President’s Conference Room West (1^st Floor) Miller Senate Office Building 11 Bladen Street Annapolis, Maryland 3:00 – 8:00 pm

You are cordially invited to join us for an in depth examination

and discussion of health care payment reform.

The program begins at 3:30 pm.

Following our speaker there will be a “Happy Hour”

with our exhibitors who are supporting the afternoon’s events.

Beginning at 5:30 is the Annual ASA President’s Dinner.

The evening’s speaker will be ASA President Elect Dr. Alexander Hannenberg.

There is no Fee to attend for MSA and DCSA members.

Spouse or a guest also invited. Business casual attire suggested.

RSVP by Wednesday, April 29^th.

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Fax your registration form to 410-269-5021, email us at Barbara@msahq.org,

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Schedule of Events

3:00 – 3:20pm	Registration
3:20 – 3:30	Welcome – Opening Remarks
3:30 - 4:30	“Healthcare Payment Reform” Presenter: Robert Berenson - Urban Institute
4:30 – 5:30	Happy Hour with Vendors and Exhibitors
5:30 – 7:30	ASA President’s Dinner Featuring: Alex Hannenberg M.D. – President-Elect American Society of Anesthesiologists

Presenter Bios

Robert Berenson – Urban Institute

Robert Berenson, M.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute. He is an expert in health care policy, particularly Medicare, with experience practicing medicine, serving in senior positions in two Administrations, and helping organize and manage a successful preferred provider organization. From 1998-2000, he was in charge of Medicare payment policy and private health plan contracting in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Previously, he served as an Assistant Director of the Carter Domestic Policy Staff and recently was a member of the Obama transition team. Dr. Berenson is a board-certified internist who practiced for twenty years, the last twelve in a Washington, D.C. group practice, and is Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was co-author, with Walter Zelman, of The Managed Care Blues & How to Cure Them, and, with Rick Mayes, Medicare Payment Policy and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care. He is a graduate of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and on the faculty at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke.

Alex Hannenberg M.D. – President-Elect, American Society of Anesthesiologists

Dr. Alexander Hannenberg serves as President-Elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) and a member of ASA’s Executive Committee. He previously served four years as ASA’s Vice President for Professional Affairs, with oversight of twelve ASA committees working in the areas of professional standards and professional practice and including economics, government affairs, practice management, patient safety and professional liability. He has been responsible for coordinating development of anesthesiology’s “pay for performance” agenda and has represented ASA at the Surgical Quality Alliance, AMA Physician Consortium and elsewhere. He has been responsible for the planning and development of the Anesthesia Quality Institute, an entity formed to operate a national clinical registry in anesthesia. He had previously served as Chair of the ASA Committee on Economics and a member of the Board of Directors representing Massachusetts. He served for seven years as ASA’s representative to the RBRVS Update Committee and has worked extensively on physician payment policy. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of both the Foundation for Anesthesia Research & Education and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. He is a past President of the Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists and practices at Newton Wellesley Hospital, in suburban Boston.