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Health Affairs Posts Blogs Leading up to Medicare and Medicaid at 50 Conference
Leading up to the Medicare and Medicaid at 50 Conference taking place November 6 and 7, Health Affairs will be posting blogs related to past, present, and future challenges of Medicare and Medicaid, written by some of the leading scholars participating in the event.
Public Health in the Shadow of the First Amendment
This conference, the first of its kind, will bring together leading scholars, key policy makers, and top experts in law, public health and medicine to will investigate a broad range of complex constitutional issues raised at the intersection of medicine, public health, and the First Amendment.
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD — Colloquium in Healthcare Leadership
Senior Fellow and Director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative, Brookings Institution; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; Former Commissioner, US Food & Drug Administration Friday Special Session, 2:30 - 3:30 PM Beinecke Terrace Room, School of Management, 165 Whitney Avenue
Sally Satel, MD — Colloquium in Healthcare Leadership
W.H. Brady Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Lecturer (Psychiatry), Yale University School of Medicine
Nirav Shah, MD, MPH — Colloquium in Healthcare Leadership
Sr. Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Quality & Risk Management, Patient Care Services, Clinical Operations Support, Kaiser Permanente; Former Commissioner, New York State Department of Health
Measuring the Impact of States’ Obamacare Decisions
Amanda Kowalski, health economist at Yale School of Management, has her work on the impact of the Affordable Care Act profiled in the Washington Post.
David A. Kessler, MD, JD — Colloquium in Healthcare Leadership
Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine; Former Dean, Yale School of Medicine; Former Commissioner, US Food & Drug Administration
The Decline of Medical Self-Regulation
Professor Thad Pope of Hamline University will be discussing the decline of medical professional self-regulation. The event is Friday, March 28, at 12:10 pm in room 112. Lunch will be provided. Professor Pope is also a national expert on medical futility and end-of-life decisions, and he'll be speaking about those issues at the medical school on Thursday at 4:30pm. "The Decline of Medical Self-Regulation." In their classic Torts treatise, Prosser & Keeton observe that the law “gives the medical profession . . . the privilege, which is usually emphatically denied to other groups, of setting...
Representing healthcare companies in white collar work
Day in the Life with Laura Hoey Interested in white collar work, representing health care companies, or in a career as an AUSA and in a law firm's government enforcement practice? We hope you'll join us for Day in the Life with Laura Hoey, YLS 2001, from 3-4 PM on 2-27-14! After graduating from YLS in 2001, Laura clerked for the Honorable George A. O’Toole, Jr., on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and then joined Ropes & Gray as an associate. Laura then became the Health Care Fraud Coordinator in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Little Rock...
ACS Healthcare Policy Chat
ACS Policy Chat #1: Health Care ...Or Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the American Health Care System and Were Afraid to Ask Featuring: Sarah Grusin, Christine Monahan, Julian Prokopetz, and Mike Shapiro Taft 12F, 265 College Street Tuesday, February 25th, 7:30-9PM ACS will provide snacks, BYOB YLS student experts will provide an overview of key issues in health policy/law, including the ACA, insurance exchanges, Medicaid expansion, Medicare, Health IT, and more, and answer all your questions. Attendees will also have ample time to talk to each other one-on-one and in small groups...