The organizers of this conference have been developing successful high-level conferences for physicians and health system leaders since 1992. John Cochrane is the editor of the journal e-healthcare connections and editor emeritus and founder of the Integrated Healthcare Report. He was also the founder and architect of the popular Integrated Healthcare Symposium series. Prior to this he was the Executive Vice President for UniMed America, a subsidiary of UniHealth America. Throughout his career he has held high-level strategic planning, research and development and executive positions in medical groups, hospitals, health systems and hospital associations over a 25-year period. The Integrated Healthcare Symposium series produced over 25 large-scale conferences in the mid to late 90s. Peter N. Grant, JD, PhD, is a partner at Davis, Wright Tremaine and CEO and Founder of Health Care Conference Administrators, L.L.C. (HCCA). HCCA designs, produces, organizes and administers conferences, trade shows, courses, customized learning and education, and internet-based programming, alone or in joint venture with or on behalf of sponsoring organizations. HCCA seeks to illuminate complex issues of health care practice and policy by bringing together leading-edge does and thinkers - from operations to academia, from clinical practice to corporate management, from Main Street to Wall Street and from patient to politician. Since 1998, HCCA has offered conferences and symposia sponsored by over 150 associations, organizations and publications and attended by approximately 25,000 registrants. For more information on HCCA, go to http://www.eHCCA.com.