Speaker Profile
M.D., President, Payer and Provider Solutions, Quintiles
Biography
Dr. Kelly is focused on leveraging Quintiles’ extensive therapeutic, scientific and analytics expertise to grow its presence in the hospital and health plan markets. Kelly joined Quintiles in 2012 from Aetna, where he was the head of Informatics, leading its efforts to measure the quality and affordability of healthcare. Prior to Aetna, Kelly worked at Accenture, where he led its global electronic health record practice and consulted for numerous health plans, hospitals and governments, with a primary focus on using information technology to improve health care. A former Naval captain, neurologist and intensive care medicine specialist, Kelly spent most of his 20-year military career at the Navy’s flagship hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, serving both as the head of the critical care medicine department and a staff neurologist.During this time, Kelly was recognized internationally for his expertise in the emerging field of neurocritical care. Dr. Kelly is focused on leveraging Quintiles’ extensive therapeutic, scientific and analytics expertise to grow its presence in the hospital and health plan markets. Kelly joined Quintiles in 2012 from Aetna, where he was the head of Informatics, leading its efforts to measure the quality and affordability of healthcare.
Talk
Paying for Precision Medicine: Perspectives from Other Countries
All the exciting advances enabled by Precision Medicine will not benefit patients unless society or the patient can afford them. This session will discuss the realities of paying for increasing numbers of expensive therapies and how different countries are attempting to deal with this important issue.
