 2006 Conference
Health Care
 programs at Wharton
2004 Conference
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Panelists: Payor / Provider Panel
Suzanne F. Delbanco, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
The Leapfrog Group
Suzanne F. Delbanco was the founding CEO of The Leapfrog Group. Founded by the Business Roundtable, The Leapfrog Group's goal is to mobilize employer purchasing power to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality and overall value of healthcare for American consumers. The Group's growing consortium of more than 150 Fortune 500 companies and other large private and public health care purchasers provides health benefits to more than 34 million Americans, and spends more than $60 billion on health care annually. Suzanne is on the Board of Bridges to Excellence and is a member of the NCQA Purchaser Advisory Council.
Before joining The Leapfrog Group, she was a senior manager at the Pacific Business Group on Health where she worked on the Quality Team. Prior to joining PBGH, Suzanne worked on reproductive health policy and the changing healthcare marketplace initiative at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She has also consulted on health insurance coverage in the temporary employment industry, the first statewide survey in California of Medi-Cal beneficiaries, and worked as a community liaison for Kaiser Permanente during the establishment of one of California's first County Organized Health Systems. Suzanne holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy and a M.P.H. from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
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