Day 1 Monday April 27th, 2009
7:00 am to 8:00 am Continental Breakfast, Intercontinental Presidente Hotel Lobby
8:00 am Site Tour Shuttle Pick-up in the Intercontinental Presidente Hotel Lobby
8:10 am to 1:50 pm Hospital Site Tours:
Christus Muguerza
www.medicaltravel.com.mx
OCA Hospital
www.ocahospital.com
Clínica Vitro
www.clinicavitro.com
Hospital San José Tec de Monterrey
www.hsj.com.mx
Hospital CIMA Santa Engracia
www.santaengracia-online.com
1:50 pm to 3:50 pm Lunch will be provided
4:00 pm Transportation back to the Hotel, Intercontinental Presidente
**Lunch will be provided for site tour participants. Pre-Registration Required
Day 2 Tuesday April 28th, 2009
7:00 am to 8:00 am Breakfast
8:15 am to8:20 am Opening Speech ~ Renée-Marie Stephano, COO Medical Tourism Association and Editor, Medical Tourism Magazine
8:20 am to 8:30 am Dr. Jesús Horacio González Treviño, President MHCC & Director of Clínica Vitro
8:30 am to 9:00 am José Natividad González Parás, Governor State of Nuevo Leon
9:00 am to 9:30 am Strategic Marketing Opportunities in Medical Tourism
Jonathan Edelheit, President, Medical Tourism Association
9:30 am to 10:30 am Establishing Healthcare Cities and Hospital Clusters
Moderator: Renée-Marie Stephano, COO Medical Tourism Association and Editor, Medical Tourism Magazine
Ing. Alejandro Páez Aragón, Secretary of Economic Development, Government of Nuevo León
Dr. Carlos Ramos Hinds, President, Export Salud El Salvador
Dr. Jorge Woodbridge Gonzalez, Minister of Competitiveness, Republic of Costa Rica
Mrs. Claudia Ramírez, Productive Transformation Manager of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism, Colombia
Massimo Manzi, Director PROMED, Costa Rica
Nubia Stella Martínez, VP ProExport, Colombia
Guillermo González-Prieto, Medical Tourism Association, Argentina
10:30 am to 10:45 am Networking Coffee Break
10:45 am to 11:30 am How Will the Economic Crisis and Credit Crisis Affect Medical Tourism
Moderator: David Vequist, Center for Medical Tourism Research
Jim McCormick, Founder, Premiere Medical Travel
Chad Holloway, President, Global Health Solutions
Irving Stackpole, President, Stackpole & Associates
11:30 am to 12:30 pm Quality of Care in Monterrey
Moderator: Jaime Garcia Narro, Communications Director, Christus Muguerza Arturo Garza, CEO Christus Muguerza
Ernesto Dieck-Assad, CEO San Jose Tech Monterrey
Michael Tarrabay, Director, CIMA
Dan Levinson, Director, OCA
Dr. Donato Saldívar, Head of Logistics, Hospital Universitario
12:30 pm to 1:45 pm Networking Lunch
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm Integration of Medical Tourism with US Health Insurance Plans
Moderator: Jonathan Edelheit, President, Medical Tourism Association
Matt Leming, Swiss Reinsurance
Wouter Hoeberechts, CEO World Med Assist
Jerry Turney, US Now
Tom O’Hara, President, Surgical Trip
Peter Lozier, Executive Vice President, CMN
Kimberly Smith, Director Development Research & Medical Travel Initiative, Assurant Health
3:00 pm to 3:30 pm Penetrating the US Hispanic Marketplace
Moderator: Jim Arriola, CEO & President, Sekure Healthcare
Pramod Goel, President & Founder, PlacidWay
Shai Gold, Managing Partner, Global Triage
Daniel Vázquez Ger, Director Hospital Austral, Argentina
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm Networking Coffee Break
4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Increasing Quality in Latin America
Moderator: Margaret Ball, President, HealthLinks International
Dr. Jorge Cortés Rodríguez, Chief Medical Officer, Clínica Bíblica, Costa Rica
Héctor Xavier Martínez Sánchez, Secretary of Health, Sonora
Graciela Báez Ricárdez, CEO, Trust of Tourist Promotion, Mexico City
4:30 pm to 5:00 pm Quality Indicator Project & MTA Membership Meeting
Renée-Marie Stephano, COO Medical Tourism Association & Editor, Medical Tourism Magazine
Brad Cook, International Patient Department, Clínica Bíblica Costa Rica
Jim McCormick, Founder, Premiere Medical Travel
Jonathan Edelheit, President, Medical Tourism Association
Melissa Skelton, Director of Membership, Medical Tourism Association
David Vequist, Center for Medical Tourism Research
Guillermo González-Prieto, Medical Tourism Association, Argentina
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Cocktail Reception
Day 3 Wednesday April 29th, 2009
7:00 am to 8:00 am Breakfast
8:05 am to 8:20 am Opening Speech ~ Jonathan Edelheit, President, Medical Tourism Association Ing. Alejandro Páez Aragón, Secretary of Economic Development, Government of Nuevo León
8:20 am to 9:15 am Building the Best Latin America International Patient Department
Moderator: Jaime García Narro, Communications Director, Christus Muguerza
Brad Cook, International Department Clínica Bíblica, Costa Rica
Carlos Zavala, Director Business Development, Hospital Angeles Tijuana
Sebastian Viramontes, Head of International Program, San José Tec de Monterrey
9:15 am to 9:45 am Building Brands
Alex Piper, Former Buyer of Healthcare, Chrysler
9:45 am to 10:15 am Networking Coffee Break
10:15 am to 10:45 am The Role of Accreditation in Latin America
Dr. Enrique Ruelas Barajas, Undersecretary Ministry of Health, Mexico
10:45 am to 11:15 am Addressing Legal Issues
Steve Weiner, Chair of Health Section, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC
11:15 am to 12:15 pm Improving Patients Quality of Life
Moderator: Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, President & CEO, Osteomed II
Hector Bernal, Obesity & Metabolic Center
Dr. Rafael Lorenzana, DDS, Lorenzana Dental Center
MD Alberto Peña del Moral, Senior Medical Associate,
Sanoviv Medical Institute
Alberto Carillo, General Director, La Casa del Diente
12:15 pm to 1:30 pm Networking Lunch
1:30 pm to 2:15 pm Medical Tourism Facilitators: Important Roles
Moderator: Renée-Marie Stephano, COO Medical Tourism Association and Editor, Medical Tourism Magazine
Jeff Carter, CEO, Patients Without Borders
Curtis Page, Co-Founder, MedToGo International
Saroja Mohanasundraram, President, Healthbase
2:15 pm to 3:30 pm Insurance Industry’s Viewpoint on Medical Tourism
Moderator: Jonathan Edelheit, President, Medical Tourism Association
Dana Citron, Large Global Insurer
Kemal Canlar, United Healthcare
Ross Pendergraft, LAHU
Jerry Turney, US Now
Edison Vallejo, BUPA
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm Networking Coffee Break
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Putting Together the Complete Patient Experience, Creating Packages for Patients in Latin America
Moderator: Alex Marxer, Health Travel Guides
Jim Krampen, Co-Founder Principal Executive Officer, Seven Corners
Cecile Billiet, Founder, Spa-Med Holiday
Luis Osborne, President, Homewatch
Mauricio Gojman, CEO, Nurses Now International
Juan Brothers, Director of Corporate E-Commerce & Leisure Sales, Aero Mexico.
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Gala Cocktail Reception
6:30 pm Conference Closing Ceremony |
