2005 National Conference on Health Policy

Keynote Address: Monday, April 18 (8 p.m., Watkins Room, University Center ) :

“Diversity and Health Care Delivery and Outcomes”

Dr. Louis Sullivan , former Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George H.W. Bush and former President of Morehouse School of Medicine

Lunch Address: Tuesday, April 19 (Noon, Watkins Room, University Center ) :

“Health as a Human Right”

Dr. Robert Lawrence, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Panel 1: Tuesday, April 19 (3 p.m., Watkins Room, University Center ) :

“The State of American Health Care”

•  Sarah Shuptrine , President and CEO, Southern Institute on Children and Families; National Program Director, Covering Kids and Families

•  Chris Ward, Ward Health Strategies consulting group, former legislator from Ontario and Parliamentary assistant to the Canadian Minister of Health

•  Dr. Angela Franklin, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Morehouse School of Medicine

•  Dr. Joseph Fins, Chief of Medical Ethics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Lecture and Panel 2: Wednesday, April 20 (3 p.m., Hartness Pavilion) :

“Consumer Choice in the Age of Health Savings Accounts and the New Medicare Drug Benefit”

•  Grace-Marie Turner , President, Galen Institute

20-minute lecture, moderating following panel:

•  Gale Adcock, Manager Corporate Health Services, SAS

•  Scott Gottlieb , Editor, the Forbes/Gottlieb Medical Technology Investor; Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute

•  George Kelemen , Campaign Manager, AARP Medicare Drug Outreach Program

•  John Miall , Director of Risk Management, City of Asheville , N.C.

•  John O'Brien , Director of State Policy, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)

Closing Address: Wednesday, April 20 (7:30 p.m, Hartness Pavilion ):

“Affirming the Right to Care and Preserving the Right to Die: Reflections on Schiavo” 

Dr. Joseph Fins , Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Departments of Public Health and Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

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Joseph J. Fins , M.D., F.A.C.P, is chief of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Departments of Public Health and Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University where he serves as Associate Professor of Medicine, Public Health as well as Medicine in Psychiatry. In addition, he is director of Medical Ethics at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, Associate for Medicine at The Hastings Center, and Physician-Ethicist-in-Residence at the HealthCare Chaplaincy in New York City . In July 2000, he was appointed by President Clinton to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. A practicing internist, he is on the attending staff on the Cornell Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he chairs the hospital's ethics committee. He teaches medicine and clinical ethics to Weill-Cornell medical students and house staff at New York Presbyterian Hospital .

Robert S. Lawrence, M.D., is the Edyth H. Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine, Associate Dean for Professional Practice and Programs, Professor of Health Policy and Management, and Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. He chaired the first U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and served on the successor Task Force. He is a founding board member of the Baltimore Schweitzer Fellows Program and is on the Advisory Board of the Open Society Institute's Global Health Program and the Soros Advocacy Fellows Program. In 2002 he received the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize from the Humboldt Foundation.

Louis W. Sullivan , M.D., is the founding dean and first president of the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). With the exception of his tenure as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services during the George H.W. Bush administration from 1989 to 1993, he was president of MSM for more than two decades. On July 1, 2002, he left the presidency, but continues to serve on the MSM Board of Trustees, to teach, and to assist in national fund-raising activities on behalf of the school. He is certified in internal medicine and hematology. He has taught at Harvard Medical School , Seton Hall College of Medicine and the Boston University School of Medicine . He was also co-director of hematology at Boston University Medical Center and founder of the Boston University Hematology Service at Boston City Hospital . He became dean and director of the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College in 1975.