Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> December 30, 1999

Blair Childs – Advamed

BLAIR CHILDS is Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning and Implementation for AdvaMed. Mr. Childs is responsible for the Association's outreach programs, including coalition development, grassroots, communications, membership, and other strategic partnerships. Mr. Childs has held senior management positions in professional, trade, and advocacy associations and at a Fortune 100 company. He has been responsible for organizing public policy advocacy campaigns at the state and national levels on some of industry's most visible and complex issues of the last two decades, including tort and healthcare reform. Profile
TWST: Could you sketch out the most important elements in the

history of AdvaMed as well as tell us about its structure and

what it hopes to accomplish over the next few years?

Mr. Childs: