Arnold Milstein -- Opening Keynote -- 2011 Primary Care Innovations Conference

The Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care held its first annual Primary Care Innovations Conference at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center in Boston on October 13, 2011. The conference celebrated the Center's opening, highlighted the breadth and depth of innovative work taking place within the Greater Boston area's primary care community, shared knowledge and excitement about transforming primary care, and facilitated networking for primary care innovators and practitioners.Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH, is a professor of medicine at Stanford and directs the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center. The Center is a collaboration of the Schools of Medicine, Engineering and Business to design and test new health care delivery models that both lower per capita health care spending and improve clinical outcomes.

His work and publications have focused on acceleration of innovations to improve the societal value of health care.

He serves as the Medical Director of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), the largest regional health care improvement coalition inthe U.S. He also chairs the IHA Steering Committee that directs the largest physician pay-for-performance program in the U.S. Previously he co-founded the Leapfrog Group and Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project and served as a Congressionally-appointed MedPAC Commissioner.

Milstein was selected for the highest annual award of both the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) and of the American College of Medical Quality. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences. He chaired the planning committee of the IOM's 2009-2010 series on best methods to lower per capita health care spending and improve clinical outcomes.

He was educated at Harvard (BA-Economics), Tufts (MD) and (UC-Berkeley MPH-Health Services Evaluation and Planning).