<p>From government and policy to insurance regulation, Ted Kennedy, Jr. offers a multidimensional, insider’s look at the state of healthcare today.</p><p>As an amputee and childhood bone cancer survivor, Ted has spent his life fighting for fairness, justice and equal opportunities for people with disabilities. In 2017, he was elected Board Chair of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), one of the country’s preeminent civil rights and public policy organizations dedicated to social reform and equal rights for people with disabilities. He advises employers on best practices and ways to make disability inclusion a top business priority. From 2015 to 2019, Ted also served as state senator in the Connecticut General Assembly. </p><p>Ted’s interaction with the health care system at a young age led him to his work today as one of the nation’s leading health care regulatory attorneys. A partner at Epstein Becker Green, a national law firm, Ted advises many of the health care industry’s largest companies, institutional investors and trade associations. He also serves on the corporate boards of many of the country’s most innovative health care companies. </p><p>Ted lectures worldwide on disability law and health care policy, and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His writings have appeared in <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Newsweek</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, <i>The Boston Globe</i>, <i>Hartford Courant</i>, and numerous other publications.</p>
Amputee and childhood bone cancer survivor, disability rights activist, and leading health care regulatory attorney, analyst and market trend forecaster
<ul><li><strong>Surviving Cancer: A Story of Courage</strong></li><li>Ted Kennedy, Jr. is a “survivor” in every sense of the word. He was an active 7th grader when he lost his leg to a rare form of bone cancer. But that didn’t stop him. Enduring years of experimental chemotherapy, surgery, blood transfusions, multiple hospitalizations and physical rehabilitation learning to walk again using an artificial leg, Ted overcame his challenges with courage and perseverance. But it wasn’t always easy. Ted’s riveting account of how his experience led him to his life’s work as the nation’s leading disability rights lawyer is an important lesson of how best to transform your biggest obstacles into your greatest assets.</li><li><strong>Investing in Disability Equality, Diversity and Inclusion </strong></li><li>Since his appointment to the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities under President Ronald Reagan, to his current role as Board Chair of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), Ted has fought to expand job opportunities and economic independence of people with disabilities. He knows how businesses can play a pivotal role in ensuring that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everybody else. Now, as one of the nation’s leading disability rights lawyers, Ted advises companies about ways to make disability inclusion and equality a top strategic business priority. In his lecture, Ted explains how people with disabilities present business and industry with unique opportunities in labor force diversity and as a large consumer market. Learn more about what the most innovative companies are already doing to expand disability employment and inclusion, how companies that lead on disability inclusion are outperforming their peers in profitability and total shareholder returns, and how disability justice has rapidly become an emerging theme in corporate social responsibility and ESG investing. </li><li><strong>The Future of Healthcare</strong></li><li>As a leading health care regulatory lawyer for over 20 years, and as partner at one of the largest health law firms in the nation, Ted counsels many of the country’s foremost health care companies on the legal, reimbursement and policy issues facing hospitals, post-acute providers, government and commercial insurance entities, and the life sciences industry. He tracks every major health care policy proposal emerging from the White House, Congress, top trade associations and think tanks from across the political spectrum, and objectively analyzes the positive or negative ways that these potential reforms may impact various sectors within the health care industry, making Ted a featured speaker at investor conferences across the nation. How will our country be able to continue to provide affordable, accessible, high-quality health care while facing increasing costs, a growing aging population, rising prevalence of chronic disease, and advances in costly innovation? In his lecture, Ted offers an inside look at the state of health care in today’s volatile political landscape, including the legal, legislative and business trends facing the health care marketplace, analyzes which businesses will succeed and fail, and offers ideas about what the future of health care will hold for all of us.</li></ul>