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Emily Friedman

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Emily Friedman is an independent writer, lecturer, and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago. She is contributing editor of Hospitals & Health Networks and contributing writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Progress, and other periodicals. Ms. Friedman also writes a regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks Daily. She is most noted for her work in health policy, health care reform initiatives, rationing of health services health care trends, insurance and coverage issues, the social ethics of health care, ethics issues for providers and leaders, care for the underserved, health care history, population demographics Read more…

Susan Dentzer

Susan Dentzer

Susan Dentzer is the editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, the nation’s leading journal of health policy, and is an on-air analyst on health issues with the PBS NewsHour. She previously led the NewsHour’s health unit, reporting extensively on-air about health care reform debates. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Dentzer graduated from Dartmouth, is a trustee emerita of the college, and chaired the Dartmouth Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2004. Read more…

Joy Loverde

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Imagine this: You’re busy at work, preparing for an afternoon presentation, when the telephone rings; it’s the doctor’s office telling you to come to the hospital–your mom fell and broke her hip. And life as you knew it is changed in an instant. If you are not currently caring for an elderly family member, you soon will be. With an aging population upon us, not only can we expect to take on the role of our parents’ caregiver, there are grandparents, aunts and uncles, spouses and siblings who also will require our attention. With a profound understanding of the problems associated with family caregiving, and a seasoned family caregiver herself, Read more…

William Shipman

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Perhaps the most trusted voice on Social Security and retirement finance reform, both in the United States and around the world, William Shipman enlightens audiences on a potential crisis of international proportions that has, up until recently, gone largely unnoticed. The rapid increase of the elderly population, combined with support systems that are unprepared to handle this unprecedented shift, have put our living standards, international strategic relationships and our very way of life in jeopardy. Shipman addresses real world, positive solutions and the tremendous opportunities that are possible with thoughtful reform. Read more…

Ted Fishman

Ted Fishman

Ted C. Fishman is a veteran journalist, essayist and former member and trader of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. His talks reflect the intelligently researched material found in his writing and have most recently focused on the emergence of China and its impact on the lives of Americans as consumers, workers, managers, and citizens. Fishman’s presentations combine engaging storytelling with a wide ranging knowledge about the world economy, putting his audiences’ top concerns into context and exploring how they relate to big, global economic trends. Read more…

Bonnie Morgan

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Bonnie Morgan, RN, MA, CHPN, FPCN
Need a speaker for your health-related conference, meeting, program or other event? Bonnie Morgan has been a hospice and palliative nurse clinician and educator for the past 18 years. She was Director of Education for over 10 years for the largest hospice in Phoenix, which daily served over 3000 patients, and was responsible for the initial and ongoing competencies of more than 700 nurses. Her book Pain Management The Resource Guide for Home Health and Hospice Nurses is not only a must-have resource for nurses new to home care or hospice but is also indispensable to experienced nurses. Read more…