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· The Pittsburgh Business Group on Health hosts 2018 Health Care Symposium, September 6
· NASCAR team owner, Melissa Harville-Lebron, and Dan Buettner, National Geographic Fellow,
are featured speakers
· Symposium is the region’s largest health care event designed for employers
PITTSBURGH – July 17, 2018 – The Pittsburgh Business Group on Health (PBGH) will host its 19th Annual Health Care Symposium, Thursday, Sept. 6, 8 a.m., at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center, 112 Washington Place, Pittsburgh.
The Symposium is the region’s largest event designed specifically to help employers navigate the ongoing changes in the regional and national health care market and, in particular, help mitigate the accelerating pace of drug costs and increased health plan spending by both employers and employees. For example, PBGH helped local companies save more than $100 million over the past three years on their prescription drug management costs.
More than 450 attendees are expected this year, including human resources professionals, CFOs, brokers, consultants and CEOs who are seeking to strengthen the value of their organization’s health care investment.
According to Jessica Brooks, CEO and executive director, PBGH, the 2018 theme, “Accelerate the New Era of Health Care,” is designed to activate members and their companies to fearlessly evolve their role from the passenger to the driver’s seat regarding health care. Sessions include keynote speakers and session breakouts, featuring national health care and business thought-leaders.
NASCAR team owner, Melissa Harville-Lebron, will serve as the morning’s keynote speaker. From working in the New York State of Corrections, to ascending into a business mogul, Harville-Lebron will share the story about her successful career transformation. She will discuss how she overcame adversity and rose to the top as the first African-American woman to own a NASCAR team.
Dan Buettner, founder and director of the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project, will share how a once typically obese American city transformed into a healthier and happier place. The project raised life expectancy by three years, trimmed a collective 12,000 pounds off waistlines and dropped health care costs of city workers by 40 percent. The story has been featured on USA Today, Good Morning America and most recently the ABC show, Dr. Oz. Buettner is a National Geographic Fellow and a New York Times bestselling author.
Other topics include:
o Building New Health Care Products Around Direct Care: David Balinski, vice president, sales, Northeast, Continental Benefits; Jed Constantz, Ph.D., chief strategy officer, senior vice president, client relations, Employer Advantage Health Care Solutions; Cristin Dickerson, MD, managing partner, radiologist, Green Imaging
o Reshaping Health Care for the New Driving Force: Customization: Shauna Sanford Howell, senior vice president of business development, Wellview Health
o Systematic Shift: You Run a Health Care Business Whether You Know It or Not: David Contorno, president, Lake Norman Benefits, Inc.
o Millennial Engagement in Health: Jonathan So, president, Solera Strategies
o The Path Forward to Using Provider Quality Data: Shane Wolverton, senior vice president, Corporate Development, Quantros, Inc.; Robert Smith, CEO & executive director, Colorado Business Group on Health; Christina Bell, director of programs, Pittsburgh Business Group on Health
PBGH impacts more than two million people across Western Pennsylvania through its employer-member community by driving continuing education, knowledge and high-quality programs and services for health and human resource professionals.
Educational events, such as the Symposium, provide up-to-date knowledge about the ongoing and emerging trends in health care for employer-members and enable PBGH to emerge as one of Pennsylvania’s leading advocates for cost transparency, quality outcomes improvement and increased value for employer investment.
Custom sponsorship opportunities are still available for the 2018 Symposium. Contact, [email protected] for more information.
For more information regarding the 2018 PBGH Health Care Symposium, visit https://pbghsymposium.com.
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