Virtual Keynote: The Future of Medicare and CMS
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), whereshe will oversee programs including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), andthe HealthCare.gov health insurance marketplace. A former policy official who played a key role in guiding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through passage andimplementation, Brooks-LaSure has decades of experience in the federal government, on Capitol Hill, and inthe private sector. As deputy director for policy at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight within theCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and earlier at the Department of Health & Human Services asdirector of coverage policy, Brooks-LaSure led the agency’s implementation of ACA coverage and insurancereform policy provisions. Earlier in her career, Brooks-LaSure assisted House leaders in passing several health care laws, including theMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 and the ACA, as part of the Democratic staff forthe U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee. Brooks-LaSure began her career as a program examiner and lead Medicaid analyst for the Office ofManagement and Budget, coordinating Medicaid policy development for the health financing branch. Her roleincluded evaluating policy options and briefing White House and federal agency officials on policyrecommendations with regard to the uninsured, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), whereshe will oversee programs including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), andthe HealthCare.gov health insurance marketplace. A former policy official who played a key role in guiding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) through passage andimplementation, Brooks-LaSure has decades of experience in the federal government, on Capitol Hill, and inthe private sector. As deputy director for policy at the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight within theCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and earlier at the Department of Health & Human Services asdirector of coverage policy, Brooks-LaSure led the agency’s implementation of ACA coverage and insurancereform policy provisions. Earlier in her career, Brooks-LaSure assisted House leaders in passing several health care laws, including theMedicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 and the ACA, as part of the Democratic staff forthe U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee. Brooks-LaSure began her career as a program examiner and lead Medicaid analyst for the Office ofManagement and Budget, coordinating Medicaid policy development for the health financing branch. Her roleincluded evaluating policy options and briefing White House and federal agency officials on policyrecommendations with regard to the uninsured, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD joined Oak HC/FT as a Venture Partner in 2016. He is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Emanuel is an oncologist and world leader in health policy and bioethics. He is a Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. In this role, he was instrumental in drafting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Emanuel also served on the Biden-Harris Transition Covid Advisory Board.Dr. Emanuel is the most widely cited bioethicist in history. He has over 350 publications and has authored or edited 15 books. His recent books include the books Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care (2020), Prescription for the Future (2017), Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System (2014) and Brothers Emanuel (2013).Dr. Emanuel regularly contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and often appears on BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets.He has received numerous awards including election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association of American Physicians, and the Royal College of Medicine (UK). He received –but refused— a Fulbright Scholarship. He has been named a Dan David Prize Laureate in Bioethics and is a recipient of the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award, President's Medal for Social Justice Roosevelt University, and the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center.Dr. Emanuel has received honorary degrees from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Union Graduate College, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Macalester College.Dr. Emanuel is a graduate of Amherst College. He holds a MSc from Oxford University in Biochemistry and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD joined Oak HC/FT as a Venture Partner in 2016. He is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor in the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Emanuel is an oncologist and world leader in health policy and bioethics. He is a Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and held that position until August of 2011. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council. In this role, he was instrumental in drafting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Emanuel also served on the Biden-Harris Transition Covid Advisory Board.Dr. Emanuel is the most widely cited bioethicist in history. He has over 350 publications and has authored or edited 15 books. His recent books include the books Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care (2020), Prescription for the Future (2017), Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System (2014) and Brothers Emanuel (2013).Dr. Emanuel regularly contributes to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and often appears on BBC, NPR, CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets.He has received numerous awards including election to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association of American Physicians, and the Royal College of Medicine (UK). He received –but refused— a Fulbright Scholarship. He has been named a Dan David Prize Laureate in Bioethics and is a recipient of the AMA-Burroughs Wellcome Leadership Award, the Public Service Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award, President's Medal for Social Justice Roosevelt University, and the John Mendelsohn Award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center.Dr. Emanuel has received honorary degrees from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Union Graduate College, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Macalester College.Dr. Emanuel is a graduate of Amherst College. He holds a MSc from Oxford University in Biochemistry and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University.