Keynote Speakers

Dr. Blumenthal received his undergraduate, medical, and public policy degrees from Harvard University and completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Prior to his appointment to the administration, Dr. Blumenthal was a practicing primary care physician; director, Institute for Health Policy; and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Blumenthal is a renowned health services researcher and national authority on health IT adoption. With his colleagues from Harvard Medical School, he authored the seminal studies on the adoption and use of health information technology in the United States. He is the author of over 200 scholarly publications, including most recently, "Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office," which tells the history of U.S. Presidents’ involvement in health reform, from FDR through George W. Bush.

A member of the Institute of Medicine and a former board member and national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Blumenthal has held several leadership positions in medicine, government, and academia including Senior Vice President at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital; Executive Director of the Center for Health Policy and Management and Lecturer on Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government; and as a professional staff member on Senator Edward Kennedy's Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.

He was the founding chairman of AcademyHealth and served previously on the boards of the University of Chicago Health System and of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He is recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Rush University.

One of the most celebrated and accomplished coaches in sports history, Lou Holtz has made a career of inspiring his players and motivating them to be winners. Most notable for taking the struggling Notre Dame football program and building it into being a national powerhouse, Holtz is the only coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings. Holtz’s humor and humility endear him to audiences as he helps them learn to assess their strengths, work as a team and embrace the values that can help improve any organization. Whether it’s helping people understand what’s important, encouraging people to hold themselves accountable or making leaders of followers, Holtz’s advice puts audiences on the road to achievement. Holtz currently brings his experience and charisma to ESPN as an analyst for the network’s college football coverage. He is also the author of the best-selling Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success, The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame and Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography.

For years, Stuart Rothenberg has embodied the rare ability to report on all the political happenings in the nation with unbiased clarity and non-partisan precision. His publication, The Rothenberg Political Report, is a biweekly newsletter that provides honest reporting and clear-eyed analysis of all the governmental developments that affect the country. When it comes to American elections—and the potential ramifications of those elections—Rothenberg is the go-to authority. On every race for the U.S. House and Senate as well as gubernatorial and presidential elections, he works tirelessly to bring the most up-to-the-minute information to his audiences. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities, Stuart Rothenberg captivates audiences with insightful, often humorous discussions about election results, the issues facing decision makers on Capitol Hill, and the nature of politics itself. His lectures are as up-to-date as today’s newspaper.

A Top Handicapper of the Political Horserace
In addition to commentary that has been featured in newspapers throughout the country, Rothenberg also writes a column in Capitol Hill’s Roll Call twice a week. He also often contributes op-ed pieces to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and Orlando Sentinel. His political expertise has made him a solid anchor on the network television news circuit, where he has appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press and Today, ABC’s This Week and Nightline, and The McLaughlin Group. In 2006, he served as a political analyst for CBS News in 2006, and before that, he served as a CNN political analyst for more than ten years, which included extensive on-air election night analysis. He has also served as a political analyst for the Voice of America.

More About Stuart Rothenberg
Rothenberg holds a B.A. from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He has taught political science at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Rothenberg has been speaking to corporate and association audiences around the country for more than a decade, and helping people identify and better understand political trends. Using his trademark pith and wellspring of expertise, he proffers clever, relevant anecdotes that keep audiences entertained and informed.