Call to Order & Introduction of Keynote Speakers

Stephen Shortell, PhD, MPH
Dean, School of Public Health, and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

First Keynote Address

Sandra Shewry, MSW, MPH
Director, California Department of Health Services
"Gov. Schwarzenegger's Health Care Reform Proposal - A View from Sacramento"
Governor's Health Care Proposal [PDF]

Second Keynote Address

Tangerine Brigham, MPP
Director, San Francisco Health Access Program
"Implementing Access to Health Care in San Francisco"
Status Report on the Implementation of
the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance [PDF]

Audience Question & Answer

Moderator: Stephen Shortell, PhD, MPH

Panel: Checking on the Progress of The Mental Health Services Act of 2004

Chair
Diane Koditek, MFT
Director, Kern County Mental Health Department

Overview:
"What Do We Know About the Progress of Proposition 63?"
Timothy T. Brown, PhD
Associate Director for Research, Petris Center, UC Berkeley

Presentation:
"A View from the Director"
Stephen W. Mayberg, PhD
Director, California Department of Mental Health

Presentation:
"A View from the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission"
Saul Feldman, DPA
Chairman (and CEO) Emeritus, United Behavioral Health; and Member, Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission

Commentator:
Prof. Howard H. Goldman, MD, PhD
Director of Mental Health Policy Studies, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland Medical School

Panel: Medicating Children for ADHD: Current Controversies,
and New Evidence on Performance and Use in California

Chair
H.E. Frech III, PhD
Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Presentation:
"ADHD: Medications, Cognitive Performance, and Combination Treatment"
Stephen Hinshaw, PhD
Chair, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Presentation:
"The Market for ADHD Medications in California and Globally"
Richard Scheffler, PhD with Brent Fulton, BS, MBA
Director, Nicholas C. Petris Center; Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Presentation:
"ADHD in Children: Northern California Kaiser Experience: Excess Costs Before and After Initial Diagnosis"
Peter Levine, MD Staff Physician, Department of Pediatrics, Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek, California

Presentation:
"Schooling Children with ADHD"
Susan Stone, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Commentator:
Erica Goode, MSP
Assistant Science Editor & former human behavior writer, New York Times

Commentator:
Glen R. Elliott, PhD, MD
Emeritis Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UCSF;
Chief Psychiatrist, Childrens Health Council, Palo Alto

Closing Remarks

Richard Scheffler, PhD
Director, Nicholas C. Petris Center; Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley