2012 Annual Meeting

Hugh Hewitt is an author, law professor and broadcast journalist. Hugh Hewitt is the host of the “Hugh Hewitt Show,” broadcast live from Southern California each afternoon.

Hugh Hewitt conceived and hosted the 1996 national PBS series "Searching for God in America."

Hugh Hewitt is the author of numerous books including "A Mormon in the White House?" and "10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney".

Paul M. Kempen, MD, PhD is an American born and raised (Grand Rapids MI) staff anesthesiologist at the main campus of the Cleveland Clinic who has worked in private practice, but predominantly in tertiary academic centers over his 30 years of clinical practice. As a board certified anesthesiologist, he has been actively following the mounting attempts to change board certification (from the originally resident educational outcome measure of excellence) into a basic requirement for a state license renewal (MOL). He is a clinician and educator with academic background, received his medical education in Europe, undergraduate education and anesthesia residency at the University of Michigan and has participated in international volunteerism, most recently after the Haiti earthquake in the "second wave" on the USNS Comfort with Project HOPE.

Richard L. Jackson serves as Chairman of Patients for Fair Compensation and Patients for Fair Compensation Institute.

Jackson is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Healthcare. Jackson Healthcare provides hospitals with physicians, clinicians and allied health professionals to ensure the delivery of timely, high quality patient care.

For the past 34 years, Jackson has been instrumental in conceptualizing and developing more than 25 healthcare companies. His ownership and operation of staffing companies, surgery centers, practice management companies, clinics and hospitals have endowed him with the depth and breadth required to thrive in the ever-changing healthcare environment.

Sally C. Pipes is president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute and a renowned expert on health care and economic issues.

A former Canadian, and a refugee from Canada's government run health care system, she lives in California, is a frequent guest on network and cable news shows—from The Today Show to The O’Reilly Factor, from The Glenn Beck Show to 20/20 with John Stossel—is a columnist for the Examiner newspapers, Chief Executive, and Investor’s Business Daily, and has written for many other newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Jeff Segal is a board-certified neurosurgeon who trained at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Segal also graduated from Concord Law School with highest honors.

Dr. Segal launched Medical Justice in 2002. Medical Justice is a physician based organization focused on keeping doctors from being sued for frivolous reasons. Medical Justice also helps doctors protect and preserve their reputations – particularly online.

Dr. Segal has established himself as one of the country’s leading authorities on medical malpractice and online reputation.

Congressman Tom Price was first elected to represent Georgia’s 6th district in November 2004. Prior to going to Washington, Price served four terms in the Georgia State Senate – two as Minority Whip.  In 2002, he was a leader in the Republican renaissance in Georgia as the party took control of the State Senate, with Price rising to become the first Republican Senate Majority Leader in the history of Georgia.

For nearly twenty years, Rep. Price worked in private practice as an orthopedic surgeon.  Before coming to Washington he returned to Emory University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor and Medical Director of the Orthopedic Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, teaching resident doctors in training.  He received his Bachelor and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the University of Michigan and completed his Orthopedic Surgery residency at Emory University.

Robert E. Moffit, a seasoned veteran of more than three decades in Washington policymaking, is The Heritage Foundation’s senior fellow in domestic and economic policy studies.

Moffit long has specialized in health care and entitlement programs, including Medicare. He brings to the reform effort his government experience as a senior official of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) during the Reagan administration.

To achieve affordable health care, Moffit has argued consistently, policymakers should ensure consumers gain more access to the private insurance of their choice and more control over personal medical decisions. At the same time, policymakers should limit government intervention in a free and competitive market.

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform.

She has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients.  She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, patient-centered marketplace in the health sector.

She testifies regularly before Congress and advises senior government officials, governors, and state legislators on health policy.

She is a co-author of Why ObamaCare Is Wrong for America, published by HarperCollins in 2011 and editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform. 

David Bartlett, Senior Vice President of Levick Strategic Communications, is one of the most highly regarded communications strategists and crisis management experts in the country. He is the author of Making Your Point (St. Martin’s Press), a practical guide to communication strategy and tactics.

Major corporations, trade associations, non-profits, and multinationals trust Mr. Bartlett with their most sensitive high-stakes communications assignments, and he has helped a wide range of clients communicate effectively with critical stakeholder groups. He has worked with the senior leadership of companies in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, automobile manufacturing, consumer products, utilities, energy, chemicals, defense, food processing, biotechnology, insurance, financial services, and many other industries in the United States and around the world.

Dr. Mark Green currently serves as the president and CEO of Align MD (www.alignmd.com), an emergency department, hospitalist and urgent care management and staffing company based in Clarksville, TN. Mark founded Align MD, which operates emergency departments and hospitalist physician groups in five states.

Prior to this, Mark served as President of Emergency Services Network, also an ER staffing company.  There he managed emergency departments in Kentucky and Tennessee, directing quality improvement.

Dr. Green served as the emergency department medical director for Fort Campbell, KY’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital.  There he won awards for patient satisfaction, and efficiency.

Following his residency in emergency medicine in 2002, Mark was assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment as a special operations flight surgeon. 

During two deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan Dr. Green worked as the direct physician and medical planner for some of OIF and OEF’s most covert operations. 

His most memorable mission was the successful capture of Saddam Hussein.

Cleta Mitchell is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm’s Political Law Practice. With more than 30 years of experience in law, politics and public policy, Ms. Mitchell advises corporations, nonprofit and issue organizations, candidates, campaigns, and individuals on state and federal campaign finance law, election law, and compliance issues related to lobbying, ethics and financial disclosure. Ms. Mitchell practices before the Federal Election Commission, the ethics committees of the US House and Senate and similar state and local enforcement bodies and agencies.

Jonah Goldberg was the founding editor of National Review Online and is currently editor-at-large of NRO. He is a columnist for The Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Goldberg is currently a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

His column is carried by the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Dallas Morning News and scores of other papers. His first book, Liberal Fascism, was a #1 New York Times and Amazon bestseller and was selected as the #1 history book of 2008 by Amazon readers. He is a member of the Board of Contributors to USA Today and previously served as a columnist for the Times of London, Brill's Content and the American Enterprise. His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, The New Yorker, Food and Wine and numerous other publications. He is currently a Fox News Contributor. He lives in Washington DC with his wife, Jessica Gavora, daughter, dog (Cosmo), cat (Gracie), and a rotating line-up of fish and snails that do not seem to live long enough to warrant permanent status in his biography.