Event Committee Members
Charles “Chip” Kahn, III, Co-Chair
President, Federation of American Hospitals
Patricia Owens, Co-Chair
Senior Disability Expert, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Stanford Ross, Co-Chair
Retired Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
Kenneth Apfel
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Lowell Arye
Executive Director, Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities
Larry Atkins
Executive Director, U.S. Public Policy, Merck & Company
Alexandra “Sandy” Cook
Vice President, Unum Corp.
Brian Coyne
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Amerigroup Corporation
Event Committee Members
Charles “Chip” Kahn, III, Co-Chair
President, Federation of American Hospitals
Patricia Owens, Co-Chair
Senior Disability Expert, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Stanford Ross, Co-Chair
Retired Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
Kenneth Apfel
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Lowell Arye
Executive Director, Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities
Larry Atkins
Executive Director, U.S. Public Policy, Merck & Company
Alexandra “Sandy” Cook
Vice President, Unum Corp.
Brian Coyne
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Amerigroup Corporation
Steve Goss
Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration
Barbara Otto
Executive Director, Health and Disability Advocates
Gilbert S. Omenn
Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and Public Health, University of Michigan
Kathleen Romig
Analyst, Social Security Administration
Jane L. Ross
Director, Committee on Law and Justice at the National Research Council of the National Academies
John C. Rother
Executive Vice President of Policy, Strategy and International Affairs, AARP
Bruce Vladeck
Senior Advisor, Nexera Incorporated
Disability Policy Celebration Committee
Patricia Owens, Chair
Senior Disability Expert, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Lowell Arye
Executive Director, Alliance for the Betterment of Citizens with Disabilities
Alexandra Cook
Vice President, Unum Corp.
Ken Nibali
Barbara Otto
Executive Director, Health and Disability Advocates
Anthony Young
Senior Public Policy Director, NISH
Health Policy Celebration Committee
Judy Feder, Co-Chair
Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Gerry Shea, Co-Chair
Assistant to the President for External Affairs, AFL-CIO
Henry Aaron
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Robert Berenson
Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
Social Security Celebration Committee
Kenneth Apfel, Co-Chair
Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Michael Graetz, Co-Chair
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Steve Goss
Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration
Dalmer Hoskins
Senior Advisor, Social Security Administration
Alicia Munnell
Director, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College
Joseph Quinn
James McIntyre Professor of Economics, Boston College
Jane L. Ross
Director, Committee on Law and Justice at the National Research Council of the National Academies
Unemployment Insurance Celebration Committee
Rich Hobbie, Chair
Executive Director, National Association of State Workforce Agencies
Doug Holmes
President, UWC – Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers’ Compensation
Margaret Simms
Institute Fellow, Urban Institute
Julie Whittaker
Analyst, Congressional Research Service
Steve Woodbury
Senior Economist, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Workers’ Compensation Celebration Committee
Christine Baker, Chair
Executive Officer, California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation
Frank Neuhauser
Executive Director, University of California – Berkeley, Center for the Study of Social Insurance
Mark Priven
Principal, Bickmore Risk Services
Tom Rankin
Treasurer, California Alliance for Retired Americans
Robert Reville
Director, Institute for Civil Justice, RAND