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
                                         ClÃnica 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 2Â 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 ClÃnica 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                                Â
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 RamÃrez, Productive Transformation Manager of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry & Tourism, Colombia
Massimo Manzi, Director PROMED, Costa Rica
Nubia Stella MartÃnez, 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 SaldÃvar, 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 RodrÃguez, Chief Medical Officer, ClÃnica BÃblica, Costa Rica
                                         Héctor Xavier MartÃnez 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, ClÃnica BÃblica 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 3Â 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 GarcÃa Narro, Communications Director, Christus Muguerza
                                         Brad Cook, International Department ClÃnica BÃblica, 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 |
