Keynote Event

Stanley Collender
Partner, Qorvis Communications LLC

Keynote Session
Tuesday, November 16
9:00am-10:00am
Sidney Marcus Auditorium (Building A)

How Washington Views HME – Perspective from a Budget Veteran

Federal budget expert Stan Collender is one of the nation’s top experts on the budget process, which affects Medicare policy for HME. Collender has worked for three members of the House Ways and Means and House Budget Committees, and will share his insight about how deal with policymakers about the critical HME policy issues.

Stanley Collender’s financial and public affairs communications experience is extensive. During his three decades in communications, he has designed and implemented award-winning communications efforts for financial companies, Wall Street firms, trade associations, and federal agencies. Prior to joining Qorvis, Mr. Collender was the general manager of the Washington Office of Financial Dynamics Business Communications where he rapidly built their corporate and public affairs client base in D.C., directed FD’s efforts to establish a public affairs practice in the United States and significantly enhanced the agency’s global public affairs capabilities.

Before joining Financial Dynamics, Mr. Collender was national director of public affairs for Fleishman Hillard and a senior vice president at Burson-Marsteller. He also served as the director of federal budget policy for two major international accounting firms—Price Waterhouse and Touche Ross—and as president of the Budget Research Group, a private Washington-based consulting organization.

Mr. Collender also has extensive experience on Capitol Hill and is considered to be one of the leading experts on the U.S. budget and congressional budget process. He is one of only a handful of people who has worked for the House and Senate Budget Committees and has worked for three U.S. representatives who served on the House Budget and Ways and Means Committees.

He is one of the leading experts on federal fiscal and monetary policies, Congress, and Wall Street’s response to Washington tax and spending policies. Mr. Collender writes the popular weekly column, “Fiscal Fitness,” in Roll Call, the very influential Capitol Hill newspaper. He previously wrote, “Budget Battles,” which was published weekly by nationaljournal.com for more than 10 years. He is also the author of The Guide to the Federal Budget, one of the most assigned texts on the subject, and the founder of “Capital Gains and Games,” one of the principal financial and political blogs.

Mr. Collender holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. from New York University in Politics and Psychology.