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"The FDA's Role in Improving Patient Safety"
"What the Presidential Candidates Are Saying about Health Policy"
"Can Managed Care Survive Today's Challenges?" A lecture and discussion
"Physician Practice Variation: What is it, Why is it, What Next?"
Emerging Strategies that Shift Health Care Costs: Who Gets the Benefit?
"Prospects for Health Policy Legislation: The New Congress and New White House"
"What the Presidential Candidates are Saying About Health Care Reform"
"What Do We Know About Medical Mishaps?  
Previous Events from 1994-1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The FDA's Role in Improving Patient Safety"

Friday, May 6, 2005
12 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Ford Amphitheater
University Hospital

Presenter
David Graham
Drug Safety Expert

    
Panelists
Daniel Carpenter
Professor of Government
Harvard University  
Mark Horn
Medical Director, Government Relations
Pfizer
Matthew Herper
Journalist
FORBES Magazine
Lee Rucker
Senior Policy Advisor
AARP

Moderator
Duane Kirking Professor
University of Michigan

Co-sponsored by
U-M Department of Internal Medicine
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation
College of Pharmacy
Ford School of Public Policy
Health Policy Students Association


“What the Presidential Candidates Are Saying about Health Policy”

October 29th, 2004

Moderator: Jack Billi MD

Discussion Panel
Gail Warden (Former CEO Henry Ford Health System))
Marianne Udow ( Director, State of Michigan Family Independence Agency)
GM Representative
Ricardo Guzman ( CEO CHASS Health Clinic, Detroit)
Matt Davis MD ( Physician and faculty,Ford School of Public Policy)
Richard Studley ( Director, Michigan Chamber of Commerce)


"Can Managed Care Survive Today's Challenges?"
A lecture and discussion

Speakers:
Zelda Geyer-Sylvia, MPH
Executive Director, M-Care

David Butz, PhD
Co-Director, UM Center for Healthcare Economics

Panelists:
Jan Whitehouse, MBA Regional Director, Health Initiatives - General Motors
Jant Olszewski, MSW Director, Michigan Dept of Community Health
Peter Jacobson, JD, MPH Associate Professor, Health Management & Policy Moderators: John E. Billi, MD Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, UM Medical School
Gail Agrawal, JD, MPH Professor of Law, UNC School of Law
Duane Kirking, PharmD, PhD Professor and Chair, Social & Administrative Sciences UM College of Pharmacy

"Physician Practice Variation: What is it, Why is it, What Next?"
Friday, November 1, 2002
12 - 1:30 pm

Keynote Speaker
John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH
The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

Discussion Panelists:
Gilbert Omenn, MD, PhD
UM - Professor of Internal Medicine , Human Genetics, and Public Health
Mark Fendrick, MD, MPH
UM - Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Marianne Udow, MHSA -
Senior VP for Health Care Products and Provider Services - BCBSM

Emerging Strategies that Shift Health Care Costs:
Who Gets the Benefit?

A Roundtable Discussion
Medical Savings Accounts, Defined Contributions, and “Consumer-Driven” Health Plans

Friday, April 12, 2002
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.


Roundtable

Roger Chizek
US Benefits Director
Medtronic, Inc.

Charles Gayney
Director of Social Security
United Auto Workers

Richard Hirth
Associate Professor, Health Economist
UM School of Public Health

Thomas Nantais
Vice President & CFO
Henry Ford Medical Group

Paul Taheri
Associate Professor, Assistant Dean
UM Medical School

Moderator
J. Barry Sloat
Former Director of Healthcare Business Strategy
Ford Motor Company University of Michigan

Question Moderator
Max Heirich
Emeritus Professor of Sociology

"Prospects for Health Policy Legislation: The New Congress and New White House"

Friday November 17, 2000 
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm 
Keynote Speakers:

Christopher Jennings
Deputy Assistant to the President for Health Care Policy
Clinton White House

Shawn Coughlin 
Senior Vice President 
Steelman Health Strategies

Discussion Panel:

Dennis Fitzgibbons 
Director, Public Policy
Daimler Chyrsler Corporation 

John Kingdon
Professor Emeritus Political Sciences Department
University of Michigan

Gil Omenn
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs
University of Michigan

William Weissert
Chair, Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health
University of Michigan

Moderator:
Marilyn Rosenthal
Professor and Director
University of Michigan
FORUM on Health Policy

From Left:  Gil Omenn, Christopher Jennings, Dennis Fitzgibbons, Max Heirich, Marilynn Rosenthal, John Kingdon, Shawn Coughlin
From Left: Max Heirich, William Weissert, John Kingdon, Dennis Fitzgibbons, Gil Omenn, Christopher Jennings, Shawn Coughlin

"What the Presidential Candidates are Saying About Health Care Reform"

Friday April 7, 2000
1:00 - 4:00 pm

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
HEALTH POLICY ADVISORS

Senior Health Policy Advisor 
Vice President Al Gore Campaign                                     

Senior Health Policy Advisor
Governor George W. Bush Campaign

Senior Health Policy Advisor
Senator Bill Bradley                                      

Senior Health Policy Advisor
Senator John McCain

DISCUSSION PANEL

Bruce Bradley (invited)
Director of Health Benefit, General Motors
                                         
Zelda Geyer-Sylvia, MPH                                                                     
Executive Director, M-Care

Keith Crocker, Ph.D.
Professor of Risk Management and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Economics                                    

Max Heirich, Ph.D.                                         
UM Business School Research Scientist Emeritus

Richard Lichtenstein, MPH, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor of Health Management 
UM School of Public Health

Howard Weinblatt, MD
Medical Director of Integrated Health Associates, Ann Arbor

Moderators
Gil Omenn, MD, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs
University of Michigan

Eugene Feingold,
Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health

 

 

For complete transcript of the April 7, 2000 FORUM event, "What Are The Presidential Candidates Saying About Health Policy Reform?" go to the University of Michigan Press web page

"What Do We Know About Medical Mishaps?"

Friday October 22, 1999
Noon - 3:00 pm


Troy Brennan M.D., J.D., M.P.H.
Harvard School of Public Health, Professor of Public Health
Brigham and Womens Hospital
President, Physician Hospital Organization
Harvard Medical School, Professor of Medicine
Co-Prinicpal Investigator, Harvard Medical Practice Study

MODERATOR:

Marilynn M. Rosenthal, PhD
Professor of Sociology; Director, Program in Health Policy Studies;
Director, University of Michigan FORUM on Health Policy

    DISCUSSION PANEL:

Darrell Campbell
Professor of Surgery and Associate Chair, Surgery, Medical School and
Associate Chief of Clinical Affairs, University of Michigan Medical Center

Edward Goldman
Medical Center Attorney, University of Michigan Medical Center
Adjunct Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health

Beverly Jones
Associate Hospital Director and Chief of Nursing Affairs, University of Michigan Medical Center

Derek Van Amerongen
Medical Director for Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Ohio

Karl Weick
Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan

From left:  Marilynn Rosenthal, Ph.D.; student assistant;  Judith Feder Ph.D., former Deputy Secretary of Health;  Ron Hayward, M.D.; and Max Heirich, Ph.D. Panalists and Keynote Speakers

1998

  • "The Challenges and Complexities of Medical Specialization"  October 9, 1998
  • "Where is the Pharmaceutical Industry Taking Us?"  April 3, 199
1997
  • "Market Driven Health Care Reform"  November 21, 1997
  • "Managed Care:  The Challenge of Regulation" April 4, 1997
1996
  • "The Fate of Medicaid:  State Initiatives and Federal Concerns"  April 11, 1996
1995
  • "Health Care Quality Improvement in a World of Cost Containment?"  December 1, 1995
  • "Managed Care:  Its Permutation, Its Quality, Its Ethics, Its Costs, Its Politics"  April 1, 1995
1994
  • "Innovative Ideas for Health System Reform" December 2, 1994
  • "Health Reform, Maybe…"  November 18 - 19, 1994
  • "Health Reform Public Opinion Polls:  Do They Tell Us Anything?" October 21, 1994
  • "Behind the Policy-Making Doors Student Briefings in Washington D.C." May 2-6,  1994
  • "The Politics of Health Policy Reform:  An Inside View" April 26, 1994
  • "Inside Health Care Interest Groups" March 26, 1994
  • "Health Policy Reform:  The Long-Time Insider's View" March 13, 1994
  • "The Senate Finance Committee and Health Reform: View From the Inside" March 11, 1994

     

    "Health Policy Reform: The Long-Time Insider's View" 
    March 13, 1994
    "Where is the Pharmaceutical Industry Taking Us?" 
    April 3, 1998
    From left: Sallyanne Payton LL.B., Toby Citrin J.D., 
    Andrew Zweifler M.D.,Congressman John Dingle, 
    Marilynn Rosenthal Ph.D., and Max Heirich Ph.D
    .
    FORUM audiences include students, faculty, staff, 
    community experts, and interested citizens.

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