Please join us at the 2017 HASC Annual Meeting, Rx for Success: Focus on the Patient, this April 5-7 in Santa Barbara. 

Early bird registration offering a $100 discount is in effect through Monday, Feb. 6. 

Register online at www.hasc.org/2017-hasc-annual-meeting. We encourage you to make hotel reservations as soon as possible because our hotel block often sells out early. Call Bacara Resort & Spa at (877) 422-4245 and reserve as part of the HASC discounted room block. 

We encourage you to bring your trustee leaders, medical staff and executive team. Groups of five from the same hospital or corporate headquarters may register the fifth member on a complimentary basis.

General Sessions:

• Treat the Patient, Not the CT Scan

Abraham Verghese, MD, Professor, School of Medicine, Stanford University, author and speaker, will offer a compelling and uniquely humanistic view of the future that will marry technical innovation with the traditional doctor-patient relationship.

• Rx for Success: A Look at the Future

Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, President, Health Futures, will challenge the assumptions about moving towards a shared risk model and make some bold predictions on what the future holds.

• Rx for Success: Finding New Paths Forward, reaction panel

Four diverse health care executives representing the delegated model, a health plan, a major medical center and a hospital system will discuss points made by Jeff Goldsmith. 

• William Barcelona, MD, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, CAPG
• Brad Gilbert, MD, CEO, Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP)
• Tom Priselac, President & CEO, Cedars-Sinai Health System
• Julie Sprengel, Senior Vice President, Operations, Southern California, Dignity Health

• Reforming Health and Health Care

C. Duane Dauner, CHA President & CEO, will offer the most recent insight on where public policy is going and what to expect from Washington D.C. and Sacramento. You won’t want to miss this session. 

• Changing the Game

Bennet Omalu, MD, Pathologist; Tom Farrey, Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program & ESPN Investigative Sports Reporter.

Farrey will interview Dr. Omalu about his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) among National Football League (NFL) players in 2002. We’ll hear Omalu’s personal story — and details on the fallout effects his work has had on youth sports and the NFL. Omalu is the figure behind the 2015 film, Concussion, featuring Will Smith.

Contact:
Pat Wall
(213) 538-0715
pwall@hasc.org