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Dennis Robbins (DennisRobbins@cox.net) is a prominent health care innovator, author and thought leader. Robbins has worked extensively on the interface of ethics with quality, liability, payment systems, health law, and health policy for almost three decades. He has served as an advisor on ethics and related issues for major national organizations, associations, law firms, hospital systems, and government. He is respected for his extensive work on ethics and payment systems and was honored by Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine as among the top ten “keenest thinkers” in managed care. Robbins was a National Fund for Medical Education Fellow in the Kennedy Interfaculty Program at Harvard, where he was a visiting scholar and research fellow in ethics. Dr. Robbins holds a PhD in Philosophy from Boston College and a postdoctoral Masters in Public Health from Harvard. He is president of Integrated Decisions, Ethics, Alternatives, and Solutions (IDEAS) and co-founder of the Policy Group. Dr Robbins is best known for his work in health care ethics as related to managed care, ethics and health policy and end of life decision making.

Dr. Robbins has presented keynotes at the National Managed Health Care Congress, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations, National Disease Management Congress, International Managed Care Congress, Healthcare Financial Management Association, National Long Term Care and Home Health and Case Management Associations.  He has delivered over 1000 lectures during the past twenty years, is listed as one of the top 100 speakers in health care by the Governance Institute, and was honored by Managed Health Care Executive magazine as one of the top ten keenest thinkers in Managed Care.

Dr. Robbins has authored eight books and over 250 articles, chapters and reviews in healthcare, and has been a columnist and national advisor for several healthcare journals. He has been the recipient of several fellowships in health care ethics and policy.  Dr. Robbins has worked with the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) and the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP) on managed care ethics, liability, consent, and development of ethics policies and procedures.

Dr. Robbins has been influential in developing healthcare change agendas at the national and state arena, shaping legislation and creating model policies and procedures.  As a member of the International Work Group on Dying, Death and Bereavement, he helped develop the Hospice Benefit and shaped hospice reimbursement for Medicare.  He has been an advisor to the President’s Commission on Ethical Issues in Biomedicine, Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and the White House Educational Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine.  He has served on the educational advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities and other healthcare foundations.  Dr. Robbins has served as an ethics expert in cases before the United States Supreme Court as well as state courts.