New York Weill Cornell Medical Center

David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium

May 2008 Schedule

Uris Faculty Room A-126 1:00pm-2:00pm

• May 7, 2008
• "The German Health Care System - Myths and Truths"
• Katharina Janus, Ph.D.
• Department of Health Policy and Management
• Mailman School of Public Health
• Columbia University
• ***Location Change for May 14 only***
• Weill-Greenberg Conference Room A & B
  1305 York Avenue, Second Floor
• May 14, 2008
• "Ethical Challenges in Global Medical Education"
• John Fung, M.D, Ph.D
• Director, Transplant Center
• Chair, Department of General Surgery
• Cleveland Clinic
• May 21, 2008
• "US-EU Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, Germany, and the U.K."
• Avnish Deobhakta, Brett Lenart, and Kenny Hung
• Class of 2008
• Weill Cornell Medical Colleges
• May 28, 2008
• "Update on Weill Cornell Medical College - Qatar"
• Daniel Alonso, M.D.
• Dean
• Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar
• Statement of need: The U.S. health care delivery system is confronted with major challenges including escalating health care costs, problems with access to health care, inadequate numbers of health care professionals, and issues associated with quality of health care. In addition, there is a lot to learn from international comparisons of health care delivery systems. Physicians, nurses, administrators and students need to enhance their knowledge of health policy in order to evaluate proposals to address the challenges facing the U.S. health care delivery system.
• Target Audience: The Colloquium is designed to address; senior faculty, mid-level and junior faculty, fellows in health services research, housestaff, medical students, nurses, and administrators from both the hospital and the medical college. It is intended to reach a broad interdisciplinary and intergenerational group of health care professionals.
• Course Objectives: To improve patient care by increasing the awareness and knowledge of health policy issues confronting the health care delivery system. Participants should expect to learn alternative approaches to health policy issues, the relationship between politics and health policy, international aspects of health policy issues, and a variety of points of view from different members of the health care team.
• Weill Cornell Medical College is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
• Weill Cornell Medical College designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™.
• Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• It is the policy of Weill Cornell Medical College to adhere to ACCME Essential Areas, Policies, and Standards for Commercial Support in order to ensure fair balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its sponsored programs. All faculty participating in sponsored programs are expected to disclose to the audience any potential, apparent, or real conflict of interest related to their contribution to the activity, and any discussions of off-label or investigational uses of any commercial products or devices not yet approved in the United States. All disclosures will be made to attendees prior to each presentation.
• WCMC is accessible for individuals with disabilities or special needs. Participants with special needs are requested to contact the Office of CME at 212.746.2631.