KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jeffrey R. Balser, MD, PhD Chief Executive Officer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dean, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN	Ben Harder Chief of Health Analysis | Managing Editor, U.S. News & World Report, Washington, DC	Stefan James, MD PHD Professor of Cardiology and Director, Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala University, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Paul G. Kluetz, MD Associate Director of Patient Outcomes, (Acting) Oncology Center of Excellence, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC	Tessa Kowaliw Health Consumer Advocate and Educator, Principal Consultant, One Mother To Another, Adelaide, Australia	Michael E. Porter, PHD Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA

Stefano Scarpetta Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD, Paris, France

Peter Tollman, PHD, MBA Senior Partner, Managing Director and BCG Fellow, The Boston Consulting Group, Boston, MA

TRACK CHAIRS
Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, FACP Chief Scientific Officer, The National Quality Forum, Former Director, Center for Primary Care, Prevention and Clinical Partnerships, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Washington, DC	David Cella, PhD Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Director, Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD Professor and Executive Director, Value Institute for Health and Care, Dell Medical School, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX	Sean Tunis, MD, MSc Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Medical Technology Policy (CMTP), Former Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore. MD

The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement's (ICHOM's) mission is to unlock the potential of value-based health care by defining global Standard Sets of outcome measures that really matter to patients for the most relevant medical conditions and by driving adoption and reporting of these measures worldwide. ICHOM's approach is built on a solid framework developed at Harvard Business School by Professors Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg. In 2006, Porter and Teisberg wrote the well-known book, Redefining Health Care, which outlines the argument for using health outcomes data to redefine the nature of competition in health care. The IVHOM team is redefining what success in health care looks like - by focusing on health outcomes. After all, that's what matters most to patients. We're also bringing together experts and patients from around the world to help us define these outcomes.

Why? Because health problems are similar globally, but the way we handle them can be different. We have an opportunity to compare outcomes internationally and learn from physicians in other nations. For example, back pain the United States is similar to back pain in India, but physicians in these two countries treat it very differently.