Keynote Speakers

Beatrix Hoffman

Beatrix Hoffman is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America, and is currently working on a history of the right to health care in the U.S., with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Betsy L. Humphreys

Betsy L. Humphreys is Deputy Director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). As Deputy Director, she shares responsibility with the Director for overall program development, program evaluation, policy formulation, direction and coordination of all Library activities. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, a Fellow of the Medical Library Association, and a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Marcia C. Noyes Award, which is the Medical Library Association's highest honor, the first Cornerstone Award conferred by the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, and a President's Award from the American Medical Informatics Association.

Carolyn M. Clancy M.D.

Carolyn M. Clancy M.D. is the Director for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Clancy has also trained at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and was an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Her major research interests include various dimensions of health care quality and patient safety, including women’s health, primary care, access to care services, and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions.