Faculty Seminar
The Medical Ethics Faculty Seminar Series
2009-2010
REFORMING THE HEALTH SYSTEM: POLITICS, POLICY, AND ETHICS
September 18 – Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect, columnist, and author, Obama’s Challenge: America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency.
October 16 – John E. Wennberg, MD, MPH, Peggy Y. Thomson Professor (Chair) for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences; Professor of Community and Family Medicine (Epidemiology) and of Medicine; and Founder and Director Emeritus, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School.
November 20 – Karen Ignagni, President and CEO, America’s Health Insurance Plans.
December 11 – Jonathan B. Oberlander, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Medicine and Health Policy & Management, University of North Carolina, and author, The Political Life of Medicare.
January 15 – Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP , Professor of Health Policy and Management, HSPH, and President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
February 12 – David U. Himmelstein, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS, and co-founder, Physicians for a National Health Program.
March 19 – Arnold S. Relman, MD, Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Social Medicine, HMS, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine, and author, A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care.
April 16 – Jacob S. Hacker, PhD, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University, and editor, Health at Risk: America’s Ailing Health System and How to Heal It.
May 21 – Norman Daniels, PhD, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, HSPH, and author, Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly.