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“The Corporate Wellness Conference was a great opportunity to bring people with a common goal together for thought provoking dialog and to share innovative approaches to improving employee health. Partnerships and alliances were made that will further our mission of wellness for all. We all walked away with a stronger sense that corporate wellness is achievable.” Susan Hannegan, Health Management Program Manager, Jack in the Box

"The Corporate Health and Wellness Conference provided a great networking opportunity to meet with other corporations who are facing many of the same challenges we are. The sessions were very informative providing information, best practices and resources which we can utilize.” Kerry Cowart, Corporate Regional Dietician, Compass Group, USA

“I found the networking opportunities at the Corporate Wellness Conference to be very insightful. The employers and vendors in attendance provided a diverse expression of corporate wellness today. I look forward to attending next year.” Susan Bumpas, Benefit Plans Analyst, University of Arkansas System

“The Corporate Wellness Conference was a great opportunity for me to network and benchmark with professionals in private corporation, government and with potential vendors.” Elysa Jacobs, Manager, Health Improvement Programs, Pitney Bowes

“The Corporate Wellness Conference was the first wellness conference I've attended focused on employers. Real employers sharing real strategies and results makes a huge difference. Thanks for this -- and for all the great networking opportunities.” Henry Albrecht, CEO, Limeade

"The 2009 Corporate Wellness Conference provided an excellent platform to bring together national thought leaders, large employers and industry experts all sharing the same vision - the development and betterment of overall wellness for US employees. Humana was proud to be a platinum sponsor for this conference." Paul Moore, Regional CEO, Humana

“The conference presented a great opportunity to network with other professionals and meet some of the innovators in this field.” Steve Cyboran, Vice President, Sibson Consulting

"The Corporate Wellness Conference provided me with a great opportunity to not only learn from leading wellness experts from around the country, but also allowed me to share some insights into how we in Public Health are addressing the issue of worksite wellness and employee health promotion. I hope the slightly different perspective proved valuable to the attendees.” Marc Saenz, Worksite Program Coordinator, Network for a Healthy California-Los Angeles Region

“The Corporate Wellness program was excellent and for Safaricom, the conference came at a very crucial time when the organization is in the process of implementing a Wellness program. The sessions where very educative, interactive and I gained a lot of information.

Thanks for providing such a forum that concentrates on the well being of employees.” Selina Kemama, Safaricom, Nairobi, Kenya

"The Corporate Wellness Conference in LA was great. There were industry leaders and employers to learn from, network with and create friendships! I will be back.” Colleen M. Reilly, President, Total Well-Being

“The Corporate Wellness Conference was a very productive professional experience to learn of a variety of strategies from vendors and practitioners perspectives to enhance employers efforts to create a more healthy work force. The compilation of so many different service providers and individual approaches to a common issue was a great opportunity to be exposed how one may pick and choose alternative ways to create a comprehensive wellness initiative. I am looking forward to attending in the future as I am sure this effort will only get better as others learn of the benefits of this experience.” Jim Carnicella, Human Resources/Risk Management Director, City of Ocoee, FL

“The conference was very well organized and was beneficial to attendees in learning how to help corporate employees to remain healthy. The best part of the conference was the opportunity to interact with people of diverse background in the area of healthcare and corporate world. The exhibition was also excellent. Thanks for conducting a great conference.” Rajen S. Anand, Ph.D., Executive Director, USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

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Larry Boress

President & CEO

Midwest Business Group on Health

Larry Boress is President & CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health, one of the nation’s leading non-profit business coalitions. Founded in 1980, the Chicago-based MBGH is composed of over 90 major, self-funded, public and private employers having headquarters or employee populations in the Chicago metropolitan area. Membes include Abbott Labs, Boeing, City of Chicago, and Kraft Foods. MBGH member firms provide health benefits to over 2 million lives, spending close to $2.5 billion on health benefits annually. MBGH's primary mission is to promote leadership, collaboration and knowledge among employers to continuously improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care and the health status of their constituents.

Mr. Boress oversees all of MBGH’s educational, networking, group purchasing, research and advocacy activities. He assists member companies in formulating benefit designs, measuring the performance of providers and health plans, and sharing of benefit management strategies.

Presently, he leads MBGH’s research activities on health benefit strategies, onsite clinics and incentive programs, serves as an HHS “Community Leader on Value-Driven Health,” acts as the Coordinator of the Leapfrog Group’s patient safety and quality initiatives in Illinois, and oversees the “Taking Control of Your Health” project, a value-based benefit design activity, combining the incentive of waived co-pays with the use of specially-trained pharmacists counselors to improve the health, while reducing the cost of diabetes patients.

In his formal training, he received a Masters in Public Administration from Roosevelt University and a Bachelors of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University. Larry also is a Certified Association Executive. He formerly served as Executive Director of the Chicago Business Group on Health.

Prior to joining MBGH in 1991, he spent 17 years at the Illinois State Medical Society. During that time, he assisted physicians in their practices and represented the medical profession in its relationships with hospitals, regulatory agencies and affiliated professional organizations.

Larry currently serves as co-chair of the Illinois Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease; as a member of the Joint Commission’s Roundtable on Reducing Waste in Health Care; as a member of the AMA’s Oversight Body of the Ethical Force Program and on the Coalition for Qality and Patient Safety in Chicago. He has been a member of the NCQA Purchasers Advisory Council and has represented employers on various governmental, business and health care board. He directed a Commonwealth Fund project to improve online physician directories and co-authored MBGH’s report on the public’s need for physician performance information, “How We Choose Doctors: What Is and What Could Be.”

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