Events

Events

Events

Research Seminar

Fall 2011

Werner Sichel Seminar

Series History
2011-12 Brochure

Fall Lunch Lectures (Brown Bag): Noon to 1:30 p.m., 2208 Dunbar Hall
Lectures: 3 to 4:30 p.m., 2028 Brown Hall


October 19, 2011
David Meltzer M.D., Ph.D. Department of Medicine and Economics, Harris School University of Chicago
"Economic Reasons for the Growth of Hospitalists in the United States and Implications for Improved Models of Care for High Risk Patients"

November 9, 2011
Charles Phelps, Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Rochester
"Our Own Worse Enemies: How We and Our Government Created, Extended and Exacerbated the Health Care Mess"

November 30, 2011
John Goddeeris, Professor of Economics, Michigan State University
"Payment Reform and Bending the Cost Curve"

Spring Lunch Lectures (Brown Bag): Noon to 1:30 p.m., 3210 Dunbar Hall
Lectures: 3 to 4:30 p.m., 2028 Brown Hall


February 1, 2012
Edward Norton, Professor of Economics and Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan
"The Future of Long-term Care in America"

March 14, 2012
M. Kate Bundorf, Associate Professor of Health Research and Policy, Standford School of Medicine
"The Role of Private Health Insurance in Medicare"

April 11, 2012
Anne Crumlish, FSM, MAAA, Aon Hewitt Health and Benefits Practice
"Health Care Reform Legislation...The Employer's Perspective"


 

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