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MEDIA ADVISORY: Tony Coelho to Participate in Comparative Effectiveness Research Panel

Tony Coelho to Participate in Comparative Effectiveness Research Panel

WASHINGTON – Tony Coelho, chairman of the non-partisan, patient-focused, grassroots organization, Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) and author of the Americans with Disabilities Act will participate in a panel discussion on comparative effectiveness research (CER) tomorrow at the Blue Skies and Brickwork Conference:  Access to Care from the White House to the State House to Your House.

Coelho will use this opportunity to discuss the importance of patient-centered comparative effectiveness, PIPC’s support of the CER provisions in Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’s health reform proposal, and how CER relates to individual medical choices in the context of the current healthcare reform discussion.

The event is sponsored by Novartis and co-sponsored by prestigious healthcare organizations including American Association of People with Disabilities, Association of Black Cardiologists, National Alliance for Hispanic Health, National Council on Aging, National Family Caregivers Association, National Health Council, National Urban League, LULAC and National Kidney Foundation.

WHEN:        Wednesday, September 23
8:45 – 10:15 am ET

WHERE:     The Fairmont Hotel
2401 M Street
Washington, DC

WHO:    Tony Coelho, chairman of the Partnership to Improve Patient Care
Mohammad Ahkter, M.D., M.P.H., executive director of the National Medical Association
Jean Slutsky, director for the Center for Outcomes and Evidence, AHRQ
Neera Tandon, senior adviser to US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
Mary Agnes Carey, Kaiser Health News, moderator


For more information on PIPC, visit http://www.improvepatientcare.org.