LDI calendar of events

2009 - 2010 Calendar of Events

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held at Colonial Penn Center
Auditorium on Fridays, 12:00-1:30 pm.

For additional information, please contact Elisabeth Madden at 215-898-5611.

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SEPTEMBER

September 11

Health Policy Seminar
Drew Westen, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Emory University
“Sending the right message on Health Care Reform: the battle for hearts and minds” (abstract)

OCTOBER

October 2

Research Seminar
Stephen Parente, PhD
Academic Director, Medical Industry Leadership Institute CSOM Finance & Insurance Associate Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Consumer Response to a National Marketplace for Individual Health Insurance (abstract)

NOVEMBER

November 2 (Monday)
Located in the Chestnut Room at the Colonial Penn Center

Health Policy Seminar
Co-sponsored by by Center for Public Health Initiatives,
& the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School
Dr. Naoki Ikegami
Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Keio University School of Medicine
"The Japanese Experience: Long Term Care, End-of-life Decision-making, & Healthcare Reform"

November 13
Located in the Claudia Cohen Hall, G17

Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel
Chair of the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health; Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
"High Touch Medicine: The Future of the Doctor- Patient Relationship"

November 20

Health Policy Seminar
Estelle Richman
Secretary of Public Welfare, Pennsylvania Dept of Public Welfare
Title TBA

DECEMBER

December 4

Research Seminar
Tomas J. Philipson, PhD
Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
"Endogenous Cost-Effectiveness and Comparative-Effectiveness Analysis”

JANUARY

January 15

Health Policy Seminar
David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health & Human Services
Title TBA

January 22

Health Policy Seminar
Stuart Altman, PhD
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Title TBA

January 27 (Wednesday)

Health Research Seminar
Co-Sponsored by the Annenberg School of Communications
Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Title TBA

FEBRUARY

February 5

Health Policy Seminar
Louise B. Russell, PhD
Research Professor in the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, and Professor in the Department of Economics, Rutgers University
“What Have We Learned from Economic Analyses of Prevention?”

February 12

Research Seminar
Co-sponsored with the Health Care Management Department, Wharton School
Paula Lantz, PhD
S.J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor of Health Management and Policy, Chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
“Population Medicine: A Bridge Between Medical Care and Public Health”

February 19

Health Policy Seminar
James S. Marks, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Title TBA

MARCH

March 12

Research Seminar
Martin Gaynor, PhD
E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Public Policy, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
Title TBA

March 19

Research Seminar
Christopher Ruhm, PhD
Jefferson-Pilot Excellence Professor of Economics, Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics University of North Carolina Greensboro
Title TBA

APRIL

April 2

Research Seminar
David Dranove, PhD
Walter McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management, Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management
"How rational are bargainers? Evidence from hospital-insurance contracting"

April 16

Samuel P. Martin III, MD Memorial Lecture
Robert Brook, MD, ScD, FACP
Vice President, Corporate Fellow and Director of the Health Program, RAND; Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, UCLA; Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Professor of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health
Title TBA

MAY

May 7

Research Seminar
David Grabowski, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Title TBA

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