Rutgers Business School brings together the senior healthcare advisers to Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain to illuminate the presidential candidates' proposed healthcare plans and address questions about the future of the American healthcare system in their only scheduled joint appearance of the campaign, Tuesday, July 15 in Newark.
At the fourth annual healthcare symposium hosted by Rutgers Business School, Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., senior fellow for Project HOPE, adviser to Sen. McCain’s presidential campaign, and contributor to the McCain Healthcare Plan, will represent McCain; and David Cutler, Ph.D., Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, adviser to Sen. Obama’s campaign, and contributor to the Obama Healthcare Plan, will represent Obama.
(Left to right) David Cutler, Ph.D., Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University, adviser to Sen. Barack Obama�s presidential campaign, and contributor to the Obama Healthcare Plan; and Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., senior fellow for Project HOPE, adviser to Sen. John McCain�s campaign, and contributor to the McCain Healthcare Plan.
The program is coordinated by the Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies at Rutgers Business School, in partnership with the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey.
Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and on-air health policy analyst for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, will moderate.
Entitled American Healthcare 2008 and Beyond, the public program is scheduled from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at IDT’s Washington Square Conference Center, located at 520 Broad Street (17th floor) in Newark, NJ.
Rutgers Business School Dean Michael R. Cooper, Ph.D., now in his second year at the school’s helm following a distinguished 25-year career as a global CEO, credits the Lerner Center’s director, the industry relevance of the Center’s programs and research, and the strength of its corporate partnerships in healthcare for making such a program possible.
Says Cooper, “Rutgers Business School is distinguished by a strong emphasis on the rigorous analyses of industry-relevant matters that are of national importance to senior executives. As the leading business school in pharmaceutical management, Rutgers Business School and its Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center are focused on addressing the real-world management issues facing CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry.”
Advance registration is required. Admission, including on-site parking, breakfast, lunch, and refreshments, is $500. Discounted admission of $400 is offered to Rutgers alumni; employees of sponsoring companies Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Roche, Schering-Plough, and their subsidiaries; and members of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ) and BioNJ. Tables for eight are $3,200.
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Says Mahmud Hassan, Ph.D., founding director of the Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies and a professor of finance and economics at Rutgers Business School, “Part of the mission of the Lerner Center is to educate the public on matters of healthcare-related public policy issues. Given that over 40 million Americans are uninsured, and with the hyper-cost inflation of healthcare services, the presidential healthcare plan is a primary issue that will affect Americans for years to come.”
He continued, “The impact on cost, quality, and access to healthcare will be significantly different under each candidate's plan. We are delighted to be able to draw upon the significant intellectual and professional resources of Rutgers Business School’s pharmaceutical management program, including partners such as the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, to present this unique and exciting opportunity to examine, in an academic atmosphere, proposals to address these far-reaching issues.”
Established in 2004 through a gift from the couple for whom it is named, the Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies at Rutgers Business School is a vital and productive resource for world-class research and expertise. The Center’s mission focuses on expanding and disseminating knowledge on management issues of critical importance to the industry by encouraging idea exchange among industry professionals and academics through seminars and workshops; providing customized programs for life-sciences organizations; and supporting faculty and Ph.D. student research in pharmaceutical management. For additional information, visit www.business.rutgers.edu/lerner.
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