Emily Friedman
Independent Health Policy and Ethics Analyst

In August 2006, the readers of Modern Healthcare named Emily Friedman as one of the 100 most powerful people in the health care field. All of Ms. Friedman's presentations are developed specifically for a given audience, after consultation with the appropriate parties. She thus does not offer standardized or "canned" talks. Some of her presentations are accompanied by PowerPoint audiovisuals.

	"Thank you so much for your brilliant and engaging address. You made a tremendous impact on our leadership team – your observations, reinforcement and calls-to-action clearly resonated." - Fortune 500 health care company executive
	"It was such a joy to have you as part of our conference! You are truly a gifted speaker with such an extraordinary mind. You received a 4.8 on a scale of 1-5. Our audience loved you!" - Corporate health care information technology executive
	"You are a rock star! In five years of hosting this conference, I had never seen or imagined a standing ovation [until you received one]. Your presentation exceeded my expectations, which were very high." - Ethics center executive

Emily Friedman is an independent writer, lecturer, and health policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago. She is contributing editor of Hospitals & Health Networks and contributing writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Progress, and other periodicals. Friedman also writes a regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks Online. She was contributing editor and ethics columnist for the Health Forum Journal from 1986 until July 2003, when the journal terminated publication. She is most noted for her work in health policy, health care trends, health insurance and managed care, the social ethics of health care, health care for the underserved, health care history, population demographics, and the relationship of the public with the health care system.

Friedman has written more than 700 articles and editorials in the past 28 years. She is the editor of the books Making Choices: Ethics Issues for Health Care Professionals; Choices and Conflict: Explorations in Health Care Ethic; and An Unfinished Revolution: Women and Health Care in America. She authored The Aloha Way: Health Care Structure and Finance in Hawaii and The Right Thing: Ten Years of Ethics Columns from the Healthcare Forum Journal. She also writes on health care for the World Book Encyclopedia Yearbook and the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Friedman is currently writing a history of health care in the state of Minnesota.

A prolific public speaker, she addresses audiences ranging from state legislatures to pharmaceutical professionals to community groups to hospital and health system leaders and health care associations. She has also lectured at many universities, including Harvard, Princeton, the University of California - Berkeley, the University of California - San Diego, Ohio State, Yale, and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. In 1987-88 she was Rockefeller Fellow in Ethics at Dartmouth College.

She also serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights at the Boston University School of Public Health, which has repeatedly named her one of its highest-rated teachers. In addition, she is a consultant on information dissemination to the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services. She has made many radio and television appearances, including on "ABC News Nightline."

She has won many awards and honors, including being named an Honorary Life Member of the American Hospital Association, a Fellow of Academy Health (formerly the Association for Health Services Research), and an Honorary Lifetime Fellow of the American Academy of Medical Administrators. She has also received the Corning Award of the Society for Health Care Planning and Marketing. The annual Emily Friedman Award is given for improvements in community health by Community Health Partners, Charleston, South Carolina.

In addition, Friedman has won many writing awards. In 2003, her column, "Making Choices," in Health Forum Journal, won a National Award of Excellence from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (the largest competition in US business publishing) and the Gold Award from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (the highest award that the Association grants).

In August 2002, and again in August 2004, the readers of Modern Healthcare named her as one of the 100 most powerful people in the health care field. In April 2005, the editors of Modern Healthcare named her one of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare.

She is an avid photographer with several record album and CD covers to her credit. Her other hobbies include writing poetry, ethnic cooking, hiking, and support and preservation of traditional folk music and culture.

Emily' recent presentation topics have included:

* Ethics challenges and opportunities for trustees
* What is leadership in health care?
* Class, glass, and brass: the future of women in health care
* Health care and conscience: does mission matter?
* Ethics for professionals in aging services
* The ethics of health care information technology
* Lessons from the past: what health care history teaches us about policy
* Challenges to improving outcomes of care and health status
* Hospitals under fire: tax status, community benefit, and issues involving the uninsured
* Wild cards: dealing with the unexpected in health care
* The future of public and private health insurance
* The past and future of health policy
* Skyrocketing health care costs: Their causes and consequences
* Demographic change and its implications for health care
* The ethics crisis in health care and what to do about it
* Forces reshaping 21st century health care
* Health policy: How it works and how it doesn't work
* Ethics issues in women's health care
* Managed care: trends and issues
* Personal responsibility and health care leadership
* The challenge of the nursing shortage and other work force needs
* "Consumer-directed" health care and its implications
* Public-private relationships in a time of crisis
* Ethics challenges for health care leaders and organizations
* The end of life: Ethics, policy, and politics

Emily Friedman is available to speak at your next conference or special event. Contact us today to arrange an appearance with Emily Friedman.