This document provides an agenda for a health care conference being held over two days in Chamonix, France. The conference will feature roundtable discussions, interviews, and presentations on topics related to health systems and health care innovation in Europe and the United States. Speakers will discuss issues like the costs and value of health care, principles for efficient systems, the future of national health services, population health improvement, performance measurement, and the pricing of innovations. Attendees will include experts from France, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and the United States.

1. Under the High Patronage of
Mr Nicolas Sarkozy,
President of the French Republic
IS HEALTH CARE WORTH IT?
Friday September 30th
09:00 Health systems seen by Europeans and Americans
The 5th barometer Europ Assistance – C.H.A.M.
Martin Vial, Director General, Europ Assistance Group, Paris (fr) – Hélène Chevalier, Director of Health Department, Institut CSA (fr) –
Yves de Prost, Professor of medicine, Paris Descartes University (fr) – Elisabeth Hubert, former Minister of Health, President of
FNEHAD (fr) – Victor Rodwin, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Wagner School, N.Y.U. (USA)
09:55 The Convention
Great Witness: Elisabeth Hubert, former Minister of Health, President of FNEHAD (fr)
Moderators: Alain Pérez, Journalist, les Echos (fr) – Olivier Mariotte, President, nile (fr)
10:00 Round Table N°1 Health care: Is it a cost or an added value for our economy?
Mark Britnell, Chairman, Global Head of Healthcare, KPMG International (UK) – Nicolas Cartier, CEO, Sanofi-Aventis France (fr)
– Brigitte Dormont, Professor of economics, University Paris Dauphine (fr) – Christian Le Dorze, CEO, Vitalia Group, Paris (fr)
– Christian Saint-Etienne, Professor of industrial economics, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (fr)
11:15 Break
11:35 Round Table N°2 What principles should guide an efficient and fair health system?
Claude Evin, former Minister of Health, Director of the Health Agency in Ile-de-France, Paris (fr) – Claude Le Pen, Professor of
economics, Paris Dauphine University (fr) – Victor Rodwin, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Wagner School, N.Y.U.
(USA) – Martin Vial, CEO, Europ Assistance Group, Paris (fr) – Stefan Willich, Professor of medicine, Hospital La Charité, Berlin
(ger)
12:50 Interview N°1 Where is the National Health Service going?
Lord Darzi of Denham, former undersecretary of state by the Prime Minister, Imperial College, London (UK)
with François Sarkozy, Chairman, Publicis Healthcare Consulting (fr)
01:10 pm Lunch
02:00 Round Table N°3 Should we maintain health care solidarity?
Nicolas Baverez, Historian (fr) – Didier Bazzocchi, Delegate General Manager, Covéa Santé (fr) – Jean-Pierre Belon, Vice
President, Groupe Pasteur Mutualité (fr) – Pierre-Yves Geoffard, Economist, Ecole d’Economie de Paris (fr) – Uwe Reinhardt,
Economist, Woodrow Wilson school of public and interational affairs, Princeton University (USA)
03:15 The “Best publication in health economics” prize, KPMG – C.H.A.M. 2011
Handed by Benoît Péricard, Director of Health, KPMG France (fr)
Claude Le Pen, Professor of economics, Paris Dauphine University (fr)
and Jean-Michel Chabot, Professor of medicine and Public Health, Haute Autorité de Santé, Paris (fr)
03:20 Interview N°2 Can we really improve population health?
Joseph White, PhD, Director of the political sciences department, Case Western University Cleveland (USA)
with Denise Silber, President of Basil Strategies, Paris (fr)
03:40 Break

2. 04:00 Round Table N°4 Health care performance: what does it mean?
Lord Darzi of Denham, former undersecretary of state by the Prime Minister, Imperial College, London (UK) – Amaury de
Hauteclocque, Chief of the French National Police Task force, RAID (fr) – Stanislas Johanet, Manager of the Agence Nationale
d’Appui à la Performance, Paris (fr) – Mark Mc Clellan, Director of the Engleberg center for Healthcare reform, Brookings institution,
Washington DC (USA) – Bertrand Millat, Professor of surgery, CHRU of Montpellier (fr) Millat,
05:15 The “Better Health Care” Prize, Altran Health – C.H.A.M. 2011
Presented by Frédéric Grard, Executive Vice-President, Altran (fr)
and Jean-Claude Prager, Director of economic affairs of the Grand Paris Society (fr)
05:30 Conference Invited Speaker
Bertrand Piccard, explorer (ch)
06:30 Cocktails offered by the municipality
Hosted by Eric Fournier, Mayor of Chamonix
Saturday October 1st
09:00 Round Table N°5 Is there a “fair price” for health care innovation?
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University (USA) – Pierre-Yves Geoffard, Economist,
Ecole d’Economie de Paris (fr) – Hervé Gisserot, Chairman-CEO, GlaxoSmithKline France (fr) – Jean-Charles Guibert,
Director, Minatec, Grenoble (fr) – Philippe Menasché, Professor of cardiology, Director INSERM unit (fr) – Jean-Claude
Prager, Director of economic affairs of the Grand Paris Society (fr)
10:15 Interview N°3 Lessons learned from the German health system reform
Marion Caspers-Merk, former State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (ger)
Bernard Accoyer, President of the Assemblée Nationale (fr)
10:35 Interview N°4 How to act
Bernard Kouchner, former Minister (fr)
with Brice Gayet, Professor of surgery, Paris Descartes University (fr) (fr)
10:55 Break
11:15 Round Table N°6 To predict, to prevent and to change: future or apocalypse?
Laurent Alexandre, CEO of DNAvision (be) – Jean-Michel Dubernard, Professor of surgery, Member of the Haute Autorité de
Santé College (fr) – Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet, CEO, Roche France company (fr) – Jean-Noël Missa, Doctor, Philosopher,
Member of the Académie Royale de Belgique (be) – Miroslav Radman, member of the Académie des Sciences, Director of the
INSERM unit 571, Paris (fr)
12:30 Interview N°5 Towards immortality?
Jean-Michel Besnier, Philosopher (fr)
with Francis Brunelle, Professor of pediatric radiology, Hôpital Necker, Paris (fr)
12:50 Comment The answer from “The Immortal”
Erik Orsenna, of the Académie Française (fr)
01:10 Conclusions
Guy Vallancien, President of C.H.A.M.(fr)
01:15 Farewell lunch
Simultaneous English-French translation