Joseph Antos is the Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where his research focuses on the economics of health policy — including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, the uninsured, and the overall reform of the health care system and its financing. He also studies the impact of health care expenditures on federal budget policy.

Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., is C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab, a nonresident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine.

Robert Berenson, M.D., is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute. Dr Berenson recently completed a three year term on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), the last two as Vice-Chair. From 1998-2000, he was in charge of Medicare payment policy and private health plan contracting in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Previously, he served as an Assistant Director of the Carter White House Domestic Policy Staff.Dr. Berenson is a board-certified internist who practiced for twenty years in a Washington, DC group practice. His policy work focuses on provider payment reform, performance measurement, provider pricing, and malpractice reform.

Melinda Buntin, Ph.D. is the chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Director for Health at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), where she was responsible for managing and directing studies of health care and health care financing issues in the Health, Retirement, and Long-term analysis Division.

Amitabh Chandra is the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy and Director of Health Policy Research at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Panel of Health Advisors, and is a Research Associate at the IZA Institute in Bonn, Germany and at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Ceci Connolly, a nationally-recognized health care leader, took over as president and CEO of the Alliance of Community Health Plans in January 2016. In her role, she works with some of the most innovative executives in the health sector to provide high-quality, evidence-based, affordable care.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. From January 2009 to January 2011, he served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Since 1997 he was chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and a breast oncologist.

Dr. Getzen is the former Executive Director of iHEA, the International Health Economics Association, with 2400 academic and professional members in 72 countries www.healtheconomics.org, and emeritus Professor of Risk, Insurance and Health Management at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, and has been visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York.

Jeff Goldsmith is the National Advisor for Navigant Healthcare. He is also Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia. For eleven years ending in 1990, he was a lecturer in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, on health services management and policy. He has also lectured on these topics at the Wharton School of Finance, Johns Hopkins, Washington University and the University of California at Berkeley. His interests include: biotechnology, health policy, international health systems, and the future of health services.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin has a distinguished record as an academic, policy adviser, and strategist. Currently he is the President of the American Action Forum and recently was a Commissioner on the Congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Since 2001, he has served in a variety of important policy positions.

Joanne Kenen is POLITICO Pro’s health care editor. She has covered everything from Haitian voodoo festivals to U.S. presidential campaigns. Since arriving in Washington in 1994, she has focused on health policy and health politics. She joined POLITICO in September 2011.

Recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on health care economics,Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., has been a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978. He is a past president of the Association of Health Services Research. From 1986 to 1995 he served as a commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Committee, established in 1986 by Congress to advise it on issues related to the payment of physicians. He is a senior associate of the Judge Institute for Management of Cambridge University, UK, and a trustee of Duke University, and the Duke University Health System.

Charles Roehrig, Ph.D., is Founding Director, Altarum’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending, and an Institute Fellow. His research interests include timelier tracking of health spending, determining its sustainable growth rate, and modeling its future growth.

Among his previous positions, he has served deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis, president of the National Tax Association, chair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security on its methods and assumptions, and vice-president of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

He is a co-founder of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, the Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, and ACT for Alexandria, a community foundation.