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CWD ANNUAL CONFERENCE/NASMD FALL CONFERENCE
Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia
November 9 – 11, 2009

Spotlight on Virginia Medicaid Infrastructure Grant

Jack Quigley, MIG Project Manager, Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services

Joseph Ashley, Assistant Commissioner, Grants and Special Programs, Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services

Ed Turner, Special Advisor to Governor Kaine on Disability Issues in the Workforce, Commonwealth of Virginia

Jim Troxell, Network Developer/Coordinator, Employment Support Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University

Integrating State Systems Change Efforts into a National Policy Framework
Robert Silverstein, Principal, Powers, Pyles Sutter & Verville, PC; Director, Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy

Millie Ryan, Executive Director, Alaska Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education

Medicaid: Federal and State Health Care Reform Developments
Damon Terzaghi, Senior Policy Associate, Center for Workers with Disabilities/National Association of State Medicaid Directors, APHSA

Annette Shea, Senior Project Director for Medicaid Disability and Employment Initiatives, UMass Center for Health Policy and Research

Jay Himmelstein, Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health and Chief Health Policy Strategist, UMass Center for Health Policy and Research

Trends in Workforce Development

Kathy Krepcio, Executive Director, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University; Director, NTAR Leadership Center

Rebecca Salon, Ph.D., Consultant, DC Department on Disability Services

Kathy Petkauskos, Project Director, Work Without Limits, Disability Employment Policy Group, Center for Health Policy and Research, UMass Medical School

Susan Miller, Project Director, Hire Abilities-Hawaii, Center for Disability Studies, University of Hawai`i

Chin Lee, Fiscal Administrator, Center for Disability Studies, University of Hawai`i

Strategies for Sustainability
Jarle Crocker, Senior Program Associate, The Finance Project

Nanette Relave, Director, Center for Workers with Disabilities, APHSA

Innovations to Improve Outcomes and Lower Expenditures: Experiences of State Medicaid Buy-In Programs
William Ditto, Director, Division of Disability Services, New Jersey Department of Human Services

Mary Ellen Wright, Senior Manager, Working Healthy, Kansas Health Policy Authority

MaryAlice Mowry, Director, Pathways to Employment, Minnesota Department of Human Services

Matthew Haubrich, Bureau Chief, Bureau of Research and Statistics, Division of Results-Based Accountability, Iowa Department of Human Services