Please join us for the fourth annual Yale School of Management healthcare conference, to be held on Friday, April 11, 2008 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven.This years conference is entitled Whose Healthcare is it Anyway? Understanding the Patient as a Consumer and promises to offer a day of exciting discussion!   The conference will consider the patient as the central stakeholder in healthcare in order to understand what the unmet needs of consumers are today, consider how those needs are changing and finally explore new, innovative solutions to address those needs.  We have lined up a number of great speakers, including:

• Michael Howe, CEO, Minute Clinic
• Jay Silverstein, Chief Imagineer, Revolution Health
• Dr. Bob Galvin, Director of Healthcare, General Electric
• Lambert van der Walde, Capital Markets Advisor, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

• Dr. Jeffrey Kang, Chief Medical Officer, CIGNA Healthcare

• Dr. Marylou Buyse, President & CEO, Massachusetts Association of Health Plans
• Dr. Michael Cowan, Chief Medical Officer, BearingPoint

• Dr. Jane Henney, Senior VP and Provost, Health Affairs, University of Cincinnati, Former Commissioner, FD

•  Dr. Rick Kellerman, Board Chair, AmericanAcademy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

• Lynn Nicholas, President & CEO, Massachusetts Hospital Association

Please visit our website at www.yalehealthcare.com to learn more about Healthcare 2008.  If you would like to register, please sign up on our website and select Yale Alumni/Affiliates under payment options to receive the special alumni rate of $80.