The future of Texas health care was on everyone’s minds this morning as a crowd of 200-plus turned out for the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce’s annual Health Care Conference at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas.

One of the highlights of the event was the Hospital Executive Roundtable including Erol Akdamar, president of Medical City Healthcare; Joel Allison, president/CEO, of Baylor Scott & White Health; Barclay Berdan, CEO of Texas Health Resources; David T. Berry, president system clinical operations at Children’s Health; Stephen Mansfield, president/CEO of Methodist Health System, Daniel K. Podolsky, MD, president of UT Southwestern Medical Center; and Robert Walker, president/CEO of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. W. Stephen Love, president/CEO of the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) served as roundtable moderator.

Benjamin Chu, MD, a CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, served as keynote speaker with the presentation “Delivery System Evolution How Far & How Fast for Texas.”

Jack Towsley, divisional vice president of health care delivery at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, and Clive Fields, MD, co-founder and chief medical officer of Village MD, discussed “Using Innovation to Minimize Health Care Costs.”

Bank of America Merrill Lynch was presenting sponsor of the event. DFWHC was a supporting sponsor.

W. Stephen Love

Dr. Clive Fields and Jack Towsley