Sunday, February 3, 2013

Super Bowl night. Ravens beat 49ers 34-31. Nonetheless spent the evening at a dinner and panel discussion at the Fairmont Hotel (24th and M Street, N.W.), Colonnade Room. Occasion was a pre-Summit dinner for the Global Women’s Cancer Summit to take place the following week. Panel discussion between David Rubenstein (Carlyle group) and Wolf Blitzer (CNN) with Mark Dybul contributing. Sat a dinner table with David Rubenstein (who is still trying to get me to work for him at Carlyle because he thinks that I am “…the smartest person in the world”), Laura Bush, Wolf Blitzer, Agnes Binagwaho (Minister of Health of Rwanda), Nancy Brinker, Mark Dybul, Julie Gerberding. Great discussion about transforming events in global health. Chatted with Laura about President George W. who recently had back surgery as well as about President George H.W. who is slowly recovering from bronchitis hospitalization.