How can you prepare for what the healthcare industry will bring in 2005?

With Healthcare Trends & Forecasts in 2005, an October 6th audio conference on CD-ROM.

Our speakers: Christopher Jedrey, Partner, McDermott, Will & Emery, and Nathan Kaufman, Senior Vice President for Healthcare Strategy, Superior Consultant Company, share their predictions for what 2005 will bring to the healthcare industry.

During this 90-minute audio conference on CD-ROM, our speakers address:

• what's driving changes in the healthcare industry;
• what new trends will emerge in 2005;
• how healthcare organizations can best position for 2005;
• performance expectations for the healthcare industry in 2005;
• problems affecting the healthcare business climate; and
• how 2005 will compare to 2004

You can "attend" this program right in your office and enjoy significant savings – no travel time or hassle; no hotel expenses. It’s so convenient! Invite your staff members to listen to the CD-ROM.

Who Will Benefit From This Audio-Conference?

Analysts, Business Development Executives, CFOs, Chief Operating Officers, Consultants, Directors, Executive Directors, Financial/Business Managers, Managers, Marketing Executives, Medical Directors, Presidents/CEOs, Principals Strategic Marketing Executives and Vice Presidents. Click here to save $149 on the CD-ROM if you participated in the live program.

About our Panelists:

Nathan Kaufman
Nathan Kaufman is a Senior Vice President of Healthcare Strategy for Superior Consultant Company, Inc. and former President and Founder of The KAUFMAN Group, an established San Diego-based consulting company.

Mr. Kaufman is a nationally renowned expert in the areas of peak performing hospitals and physician groups, hospital strategy, physician transactions, integrated delivery systems, managed care, joint ventures and dispute resolution and has been called upon as an expert witness in healthcare arbitration cases. Throughout his career, he has held executive positions in a wide range of healthcare companies, including President and Chief Operating Officer of an imaging center company.

He currently serves on various advisory and editorial boards. His educational credentials include an MS in Health Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Psychology from Emory University.

Christopher Jedrey
Christopher M. Jedrey is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Boston office. He is co-partner-in-charge of its Boston Health practice, and national co-chairman of its Academic Medical Center practice.

Mr. Jedrey’s practice is concentrated in the areas of federal and state health care regulatory matters, including anti-kickback and Stark law requirements. His practice also focuses on federal, state and local tax exemption requirements, and charitable trust and corporation law.

Mr. Jedrey represents clients in hospital mergers and physician practice mergers, joint ventures among health care providers, purchases and sales of physician practices, and sales of non-profit assets and operations to for-profit companies. He has also assisted hospitals and health maintenance organizations with the organization, restructuring and “spin-off” of affiliated group practices. He represents academic medical centers for a variety of matters, including compliance with HHS requirements for human subjects research and IRS requirements for tax-exempt organizations, including incentive compensation plans for physicians. Chris advises hospitals, colleges, universities, museums and other tax-exempt organizations with respect to the requirements for tax-exempt status and also provides regulatory and tax advice with respect to incentive compensation plans for executives.

Mr. Jedrey is co-chairman of the Health Care Law Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Exempt Organizations Committee, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, member of the editorial boards of BNA Medical Research Law & Policy and Taxation of Exempts, and member of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Advisory Committee on Public Charities. He is a frequent lecturer at programs sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Federal Tax Institute, Massachusetts Medical Society, HealthCare Financial Management Association, Massachusetts Hospital Association, American Bar Association, Boston Bar Association and other organizations. He has recently been a visiting lecturer at Harvard School of Public Health and Boston University School of Management, and is a lecturer on non-profit organizations in the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law. He is also a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

While at the University of Massachusetts, Chris was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Liberal Arts Fellow at Harvard Law School in 1980-1981.