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Name	Date	Episode Topic
Aase, Lee	10/12/2011	Lee Aase, director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media.
Adelman, Dr. Howard	06/09/2010	Dr. Howard Adelman, co-director of the national School Mental Health Project, a strategy to bring behavioral health services to schools.
Aiken, Linda	10/05/2011	Linda Aiken, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, professor of sociology, and director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
Altman, Stuart	04/14/2010	Stuart Altman, a leading health-care economist, on meeting the future demands under health-care reform.
Arora, Dr. Sanjeev	11/23/2011	Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO).
Benjamin, Dr. Regina	10/06/2010	Dr. Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States
Berenson, Dr. Robert	02/10/2010	Dr. Robert Berenson, economist at the Urban Institute discusses health care policy and controlling future costs.
Bertolini, Mark	05/19/2010	Mark Bertolini, president of Aetna, on the insurance industry’s response to health-care reform.
Berwick, Dr. Don	01/11/2012	Dr. Don Berwick, Recent Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Bisognano, Maureen	12/22/2010	Maureen Bisognano, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Bloche, M. Gregg	08/24/2011	M. Gregg Bloche, author of The Hippocratic Myth.
Blumenthal, Dr. David	10/21/2009	Health Information Technology with the Obama Administration
Bodenheimer, Dr. Thomas	12/02/2009	Designing a 21st century approach to patient-centered care
Cao, Rep. Anh	11/11/2009	Republican Congressman Anh Cao, U.S. Representive of Louisiana, Discusses Health-Care Reform
Capps, Rep. Lois	06/30/2010	Congresswoman Lois Capps, U.S. Representative of California and founder of the House Nursing Caucus, discusses her commitment to quality health care for all.
Chopra, Aneesh	12/07/2011	Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer.
Christakis, Dr. Nicholas	08/31/2011	Dr. Nicholas Christakis, researcher and Harvard professor of medical sociology.
Clancy, Dr. Carolyn	01/05/2011	Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Cleary, Dr. Paul	09/14/2011	Dr. Paul Cleary, dean of the Yale School of Public Health and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.
Clyburn, Rep. James	01/27/2010	Majority House Whip Rep James Clyburn — Health reform after Massachusetts, where do we go from here?
Crounse, Dr. Bill	01/25/2012	Dr. Bill Crounse, Sr. Director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft
Curtatone, Mayor Joseph	10/20/2010	Somerville, Massachusetts Mayor Joseph Curtatone, the leadership behind “Shape Up Somerville.”
Daschle, Sen. Tom	11/17/2010	Senator Tom Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader and author of Getting it Done: How Obama and Congress Finally Broke the Stalemate to Make Way for Healthcare Reform.
Daschle, Sen. Tom	02/22/2012	Former Senator Tom Daschle, Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center
Davis, Dr. Karen	12/23/2009	Dr. Karen Davis, PhD, leading economist, author, and President of the Commonwealth Fund
deBronkart, David	12/14/2011	Dave deBronkart, Founding Member of the Society for Participatory Medicine.
Dentzer, Susan	07/06/2011	Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs.
Dingell, Rep. John	03/10/2010	Congressman Dingell, champion of universal health care and longest serving member of Congress
DiPietro, Barbara	05/04/2011	Barbara DiPietro, policy director for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
Dodd, Sen. Chris	10/28/2009	Two Perspectives on Health Care Reform
Downs, Stephen	10/19/2011	Stephen Downs, Chief Technology and Information Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dulsky, Dr. Lisa	08/04/2010	Dr. Lisa Dulsky Watkins, associate director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health, discusses Vermont’s medical home project.
Fauci, Dr. Anthony	07/13/2011	Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Ferris, Dr. Timothy	03/02/2011	Dr. Timothy Ferris, medical director of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization at Mass General and director of its Care Management Program.
Fleischman, Dr. Alan	04/20/2011	Dr. Alan Fleischman, medical director of the March of Dimes Foundation.
Gibson, Rosemary	11/03/2010	Rosemary Gibson, author of The Treatment Trap: How the Overuse of Medical Care is Wrecking Your Health and What You Can Do to Prevent It.
Gilfillan, Dr. Richard	02/02/2011	Dr. Richard Gilfillan, acting director for the new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Goetz, Thomas	02/24/2010	Thomas Goetz, author of The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine, on taking control of your own health
Gourdine, Dr. Michelle	11/09/2011	Dr. Michelle Gourdine, physician, author and health policy consultant.
Graham, Dr. Garth	08/10/2011	Dr. Garth Graham, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Groopman & Pamela Hartzband, Drs. Jerome	11/02/2011	Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, authors of the new book Your Medical Mind.
Gruber, Dr. Jonathan	02/01/2012	Dr. Jonathan Gruber, MIT Economist and Health Reform Architect
Grundy, Dr. Paul	06/16/2010	Dr. Paul Grundy, IBM’s global director of health care and founder of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.
Hansen, Jennie	11/04/2009	Discussing issues of aging in America, and the impact of both health reform and innovations supporting the health and well-being of our elders.
Hanson, Dr. William	08/17/2011	Dr. William Hanson, author of Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care.
Hawkins, Dan	01/12/2011	Dan Hawkins, senior vice president for policy and research at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
Herbert, Gov. Gary H.	06/29/2011	Governor Gary R. Herbert of Utah.
Hsiao, Dr. William	09/28/2011	Dr. William Hsiao, the K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health.
James, Dr. Brent	06/02/2010	Dr. Brent James, chief quality officer at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses his groundbreaking approach to clinical quality improvement.
Juszczak, Linda	11/30/2011	Linda Juszczak, president of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care.
Kahn, Chip	03/31/2010	Chip Kahn, industry lobbyist and President of the Federation of American Hospitals, on the impact of health reform in America.
Kaplan, Dr. Gary	03/16/2011	Dr. Gary Kaplan, President and CEO of the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington on total transformation of the culture of health care.
Kassler, Dr. William	07/28/2010	Dr. William Kassler, chief medical officer for the New England region of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Kindig, Dr. David	02/23/2011	Dr. David Kindig, professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and senior advisor to its Population Health Institute.
Koh, Dr. Howard	12/15/2010	Dr. Howard Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Koren, Dr. Mary Jane	04/13/2011	Dr. Mary Jane Koren, vice president for the Picker-Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program.
Lamoureux, Nicole	11/18/2009	The Free Clinic Movement
Larson, Rep. John	03/24/2010	Congressman John Larson, Chairman of the Democratic Caucus, on the historic House vote for health care reform.
Leape, Dr. Lucian	04/06/2011	Dr. Lucian Leape, a leading figure in the modern patient safety movement.
Lee, Dr. Thomas	02/17/2010	Dr. Thomas Lee, CEO of Partners Community Healthcare, discusses reforming the health care delivery system.
Linkous, Jonathan	02/08/2012	Jonathan Linkous, CEO, American Telemedicine Association
Margolis, Mr. Jeff	11/16/2011	Jeff Margolis, founder of the Trizetto Group.
Mayer, Dr. David	12/01/2010	Dr. David Mayer, associate dean for the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and co-executive director for UIC’s Institute for Patient Safety Excellence.
McCauley, Dr. Linda	09/21/2011	Dr. Linda McCauley, dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.
McGinnis, Dr. Michael	09/15/2010	Dr. Michael McGinnis—creator of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and currently senior scholar at the Institute of Medicine.
Meier, Dr. Diane	10/13/2010	Dr. Diane Meier, director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the Palliative Care Institute.
Moore, Dr. John	02/15/2012	Dr. John Moore, Director, MIT Media Lab Health and Wellness Innovation 2012
Morris-Singer, Dr. Andrew	11/10/2010	Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, president and founder of Primary Care Progress.
Mostashari, Dr. Farzad	07/20/2011	Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Mullan, Dr. Fitzhugh	09/08/2010	Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan—physician, activist, and champion of primary care.
Murray, Dr. Mark	10/14/2009	A Radical Redesign of Patient Scheduling
O'Brien, John	12/08/2010	John O’Brien, senior adviser in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
O'Neil, Dr. Ed	04/28/2010	A futurist perspective on health care with Dr. Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions, and Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.
Ofri, Dr. Danielle	04/21/2010	Dr. Danielle Ofri, author of Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients, discusses her unique perspective on health care and immigration.
Park, Todd	07/14/2010	Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, using data and technology to improve America’s health.
Parkinson, Dr. Jay	07/27/2011	Dr. Jay Parkinson, co-founder of Hello Health and The Future Well.
Patton, Rebecca	05/05/2010	Rebecca Patton, president of the American Nurses Association, on the critical role of nursing in meeting the challenge of healthcare access and transformation.
Pauly, Mark	02/09/2011	Mark Pauly, Wharton healthcare economist and father of the individual mandate.
Pelosi, Rep. Nancy	09/23/2009	Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Dr. Mitch Katz, San Francisco's Director of Public Health, discuss the public option and the universal access program.
Petzel, Dr. Robert	07/07/2010	The Veterans Affairs Healthcare System— Under Secretary for Health, Dr. Robert Petzel, discusses why this has become a model system of care.
Pronovost, Dr. Peter	12/16/2009	“Medical break-through saves lives!” How a simple check list can point us towards higher quality and lower cost.
Ramirez, Dr. Amelie	06/23/2010	Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of Salud America!, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national research program and network to prevent obesity among Latino youth.
Reid, T.R.	01/20/2010	What the U.S. can learn from other health care systems
Reinhardt, Uwe	03/03/2010	Uwe E. Reinhardt, Professor of Economics at Princeton University and one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care economics
Richards, Cecile	03/23/2011	Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Ritter, Gov. Bill	05/12/2010	Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado on leading health-care reform at the state level.
Ryan, Sandra	09/30/2009	Retail Care Clinic Industry
Satcher, Dr. David	03/17/2010	Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General and Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine, on eliminating health disparities.
Schindler Rising, Sharon	10/07/2009	Conversations on Health Care explores Centering Pregnancy
Shalala, Donna	11/24/2010	Donna Shalala, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, current president of the University of Miami and chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine.
Shumlin, Gov. Peter	08/03/2011	Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont.
Sinha, Chaitali	03/09/2011	Chaitali Sinha, Program Officer, Governance, Equity, and Health of the International Development Research Centre.
Smith, Dr. Mark	10/27/2010	Dr. Mark Smith, president of the California Healthcare Foundation.
Starr, Paul	10/26/2011	Paul Starr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
Tang, Dr. Paul	03/30/2011	Dr. Paul Tang, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
Tchen, Tina	09/29/2010	Tina Tchen, White House Director of the Council on Women and Girls and the Office of Public Engagement.
Thompson, Mildred	05/26/2010	Mildred Thompson, deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, discusses childhood obesity and the campaign to fight it.
Thompson, Donna	05/11/2011	Donna Thompson, chief executive officer of Access Community Health Network in Chicago.
Topol, Dr. Eric	01/18/2012	Dr. Eric Topol, Cardiologist, Geneticist and Director of the Scripps Translational Institute.
Weicker, Lowell	07/21/2010	Lowell Weicker, former U.S. senator and governor of Connecticut and current president of the Trust for America's Heath
Weil, Alan	01/26/2011	Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy.
Weinstein, Dr. James	09/22/2010	Dr. James Weinstein-director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and co-founder of the new Dartmouth Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.
Wennberg, Dr. John	04/27/2011	Dr. John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. Thomson Professor for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College.
Wessel, David	06/22/2011	David Wessel, economics editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Wetherhorn, Marc	01/19/2011	Marc Wetherhorn, national advocacy director for the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC).
Wilensky, Dr. Gail	02/03/2010	Dr. Gail Wilensky, economist and former administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration: Exploring reform in a changing landscape
Wilensky, Gail	12/21/2011	Gail Wilensky, economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE.
Wilson, Dr. Cecil	04/07/2010	Dr. Cecil Wilson, president-elect of the American Medical Association, on the impact of health reform on health care, medicine and society.
Zarfos, Dr. Krisetn	11/25/2009	United States Preventive Services Task Force