MetaECHO® 2016
MetaECHO® 2016 brought together Project ECHO’s global replication partners, providers and health policy experts, government officials, academic leaders, and funders – all committed to a collective goal of touching one billion lives by 2025.
Keynote Speeches
- Opening Speech and the 10 Guiding Principles of the MetaECHO Movement, Sanjeev Arora, MD, Director of Project ECHO
- Building a World that Works Better, Deborah Elam, President, GE Foundation; Chief Diversity Officer, GE
- The Future of Global Healthcare: A Moderated Conversation: Don Berwick, MD, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Sanjeev Arora, MD, Director of Project ECHO; Susan Dentzer, President and CEO of The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation
- Addressing Substance Use Disorders in the United States, June Sivilli, Chief, Treatment Branch, Office of Demand Reduction, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
ECHO Talks
- Ruth Dubin, MD - How Chance can Change the World
- Bradley Moran, PharmD - An Indian Health Service Pharmacist’s Perspective on the Benefits of ECHO
- Jessica Kirk, BSN - Passionate Patient, Nurse and ECHO Employee
- Renita Madu, PA - How ECHO Changed My Life and Professional Direction
- Venice Ceballos, CHW - The Power and Importance of CHWs
- Kristin Sohl, MD - Using ECHO to Speed Up Access for Autistic Children
- Henry Cohen, MD - The Ongoing Effects of a Government Embracing ECHO Nationwide
Panel Discussions
- Making Medical Care a True Team Sport: Thomas Bodenheimer, MD-Center for Excellence in Primary Care (Moderator); Chris Ruge, FNP-ECHO Care, El Centro Family Health; Bob DeFelice-CEO, First Choice Community Healthcare; Roger Chaufournier-CEO, CSI Solutions, LLC
- Confronting the Epidemic of Addiction: Susan Dentzer-President and CEO of The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (Moderator); Senator Jeff Bingaman (NM-Ret); Prabhat Chand, MD-NIMHANS; Kana Enomoto-Acting Director, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Administration; Penny Mills-President, American Society of Addiction Medicine; Miriam Komaromy, MD-Associate Director, ECHO Institute
- Spurring a New Era in Cancer Care: Robert Winn, MD-Director, University of Illinois Cancer Center (Moderator); Ellen Baker, MD-Project ECHO, MD Anderson Cancer Center; Chris Carey, RN-Su Clinica; Patricia Mae Doykos, PhD-Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation; Fernanda Nozar, MD-Universidad de la Republica
- Update from the ECHO Institute: ECHO System Overview: Jonathan Wolfe, Ph.D., IT Director, ECHO Institute
- Superhubs and the Vision to Touch 1 Billion: Erika Harding, MA–Director of Replication, ECHO Institute (Moderator); Kumud Rai, MD-ECHO India Trust; Sandy Root-Elledge, MA-Executive Director, Wyoming Institute for Disabilities, University of Wyoming Project ECHO; Ramesh Sachdeva, MD-The American Academy of Pediatrics Project ECHO; Max Watson, MD-ECHO Northern Ireland