David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium Speakers List

September 11, 2024
"Finding a Fair Price: Contemporary Issues in U.S. Drug Pricing"
Pragya Kakani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Population Health Sciences
Division of Health Policy & Economics
Weill Cornell Medical College

September 18, 2024
"Transportation Policy as a Key o Upward Mobility"
Johnathon Ehsani, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Health Policy & Management,
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

September 25, 2024
"From Bench to Policy to Congress & Back:
Making Change for Children's Health"
Sallie R. Permar, M.D., Ph.D.
Nancy C. Paduano Professor & Chair,
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Pediatrician-in-Chief,
New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
Professor of Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
and
Annie Andrews, M.D., M.S., FAAP
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
George Washington School of Medicine
Senior Advisor, Everytown for Gun Safety
CEO & Founder, Their Future, Our Vote

October 2, 2024
"Wash, Rinse, Repeat:
Health Policy & Academic Medicine in an Election Year"
Atul Grover, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, FCCP
Executive Director, Research & Action Institute, AAMC
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
GWU School of Medicine,
Associate, Health Policy & Management,
John Hopkins, Bloomberg School of Public Health

October 9, 2024
"The promise and Peril of Paying for Value in the US Healthcare System"
Amy Bond, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Division of Health Policy & Economics,
Population Health Sciences Dept.,
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

October 16, 2024
"The Menace to Immigrants"
Beatrix Hoffman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History
Northern Illinois University

October 23, 2024
"A Brazilian Perspective on Medical Demography &
the Unified Health System"
Valeria Aoki, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Tenured Professor,
Director of the Immunodermatology Laboratory,
President of International Relations Office,
Department of Dermatology
University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil

October 30, 2024
"Why No One Can See you Now –
Weakening Primary Care in the US and What Can be Done About it"
Christopher F. Koller
President,
Milbank Memorial Fund

November 13, 2024
"Zigging & Zagging to a Career in Academic Medicine"
Myles Wolf, M.D., MMSc
Sanford I. Weill Chair of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

December 4, 2024
"Climate Vulnerability Index: Climate Drivers of Health Vulnerability"
P. Grace Tee Lewis, Ph.D.
Senior Health Scientist
Environmental Defense Fund

December 10, 2024
"Judges Making Clinical Judgments: the Destabilizing Administrative State & the Future of Medicare"
Stephen Vladeck, B.A., J.D.
Professor of Law,
Georgetown University Law Center
and
Bruce Vladeck, M.A., Ph.D.
Health Care Financing Administration
Board Chair Emeritus, Medicare Rights Center
Former Courtesy Faculty

January 8, 2025
"Pre-Existing Conditions, Questionable Treatments: U.S. Healthcare - Trump plans vs Single Payer"
Steven B. Auerbach, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP
Senior Medical Epidemiologist,
U.S. Public Health Service (retired)
Secretary, Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro,
Treasurer, NYS Chapter 3 of
American Academy of Pediatrics

January 15, 2025
"Four Game-Changing Directions in Recovery from Coma: a Brief Review of New Research"
Nicholas D. Schiff, M.D.
Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology & Neuroscience, Feil Family Brain & Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine,
Graduate Program in Neuroscience,
Weill Cornell Graduate School
of Medical Sciences

January 22, 2025
"Re-thinking the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit"
Jeffrey Millstein, M.D., FACP
Clinical Assistant Professor
of Medicine,
Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania,
Regional Medical Director,
Penn Primary Care

January 29, 2025
"WCMQ: Soft Power of American Medical Education in the Middle East"
Javaid I. Sheikh, M.D., M.B.A.
Dean and Professor,
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

February 5, 2025
"Economic Shocks & Healthcare Capital Investments"
Michael R. Richards, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Public Policy &
Director of the Cornell Sloan Program in Health Administration,
Cornell University

February 12, 2025
"Science & Health Policy in 2025: A Government Relations Perspective"
Daniel C. Pollay, Jr.
Executive Director of Government & Community Relations,
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

February 19, 2025
"From Urban Transportation to Environment & Public Health:
Are we Doing it Right?"
H. Oliver Gao, M.D.
Professor, Director, USDOT Center for Transportation,
Environment & Community Health (CTECH),
Director Cornell Systems Engineering, Cornell University

February 26, 2025
"Taiwan's Single-Payer National Health Insurance at 30:
Lessons Learned & Future Challenges"
May Tsung-Mei Cheng, LLB, M.A.
Health Policy Research Analyst,
Princeton School of Public & International Affairs,
Princeton University

March 5, 2025
"Vertical Integration and Low-Value Care: Health Policy Challenges In-Progress"
Vinay Kini, M.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University

March 12, 2025
"The State of State & Territory Medicaid Programs: Perspectives from NAMD"
Kate McEvoy, J.D.
Executive Director,
National Association of Medicaid Directors

March 19, 2025
"The Multi-faceted Approach to Assisting Unsheltered Individuals with Serious Mental Illness"
Ann Marie T. Sullivan, M.D.
Commissioner, New York Office of Mental Health

March 26, 2025
"Primary Care in an Era of Uncertainty: Building Stronger, Healthier Communities for the Future"
Louis Cohen, M.P.H.
Chief Executive Officer,
Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC)

April 2, 2025
"Moving to Value-Based Care & Payment Models for Primary Care & Specialist"
Paul N. Casale, M.D., M.P.H., MACC
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,
Clinical Professor of Population Health Sciences,
Division of Healthy Policy & Economics,
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University,
Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology

April 9, 2025
"Clinical Mission Challenges: Data-Driven Solutions"
Robert J. Min, M.D., M.B.A.
President & CEO of the Weill Cornell Medicine Physician Organization
John A. Evans Professor and Chair of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Radiologist-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian
President of Weill Cornell Imaging, New York-Presbyterian

April 23, 2025
"Where to from Here? Climate & Health Policy"
Arnab K. Ghosh, M.D., MSc, M.A.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Fellow, Emergency Management, Health & Hospitals, NYC
Fellow, CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, City University of New York
Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Cornell University

September 13, 2023
"The Frontlines of Peace"
Séverine Autesserre
Professor and Chair of Political Science
Barnard College – Columbia University

September 20, 2023
"Indigenous, Traditional, and Local rainforest communities in Brazil, Indonesia, and Madagascar are reimagining health systems: the world needs to follow their lead"
Jonathan Jennings
Executive Director, Health In Harmony

September 27, 2023
"The State of US Healthcare: What we know and what we can do"
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H.
President, The Commonwealth Fund

October 4, 2023
"Producing reliable evidence from observational clinical data"
George Hripcsak, M.D., M.S.
Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University, Irving Medical Center

October 11, 2023
"Evidence-based Policies to Reduce Gun Violence"
Cass Crifasi
Associate Professor and Co-Director
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

October 18, 2023
"Transforming Academic Drug Discovery: From Concept to an On Demand, Non-hormonal Male Contraceptive"
Peter Meinke, Ph.D.
Sanders Director,
Sanders Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute

October 25, 2023
"Achieving the Promise of Health Equity by Addressing Social Care Needs in Medicaid"
Brett R. Friedman, Esq.
Partner, Health Care Group
Ropes & Gray LLP
Former Deputy Commissioner, New York State Dept. of Health
Former Medicaid Director, New York State Dept. of Health

November 1, 2023
"The overdose epidemic in the U.S.: An enduring tale of inequity and
the fundamental role of evidence"
Susan Sherman
Bloomberg Professor of American Health
Dept. of Health, Behavior and Society
Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health

November 8, 2023
"International Activities at Weill Cornell Medicine"
Michael Stewart, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Chairman,
Dept. of Otolaryngology-
Head & Neck Surgery
Senior Associate Dean for
International Affairs & Affiliations
Weill Cornell Medicine,
Cornell University
Executive VP,
American Rhinologic Society

December 6, 2023
"The Corporate Transformation of American Medicine"
Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences
Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health (2008-2022)
Chief, Division of Health Policy and Economics (2008-2021)
Weill Cornell Medical College

December 13, 2023
"AI in Healthcare: Closing the Gap Between Research and Reality"
Ashley Beecy, M.D., FACC
Medical Director, Artificial Intelligence Operations,
New York-Presbyterian
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine,
Department of Medicine Division of Cardiology

January 3, 2024
"Comparing and Contrasting the U.K. and U.S. Health Systems"
Brian G. Donley, M.D.
Executive Vice President,
Chief Operating Officer
NewYork - Presbyterian

January 10, 2024
"The Stigma of Addiction in the Medical Community"
Jonathan Avery, M.D.
Vice Chair, Addiction Psychiatry
Stephen P. Tobin & Dr. Arnold M. Cooper
Associate Professor in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Program Director, Addition Psychiatry Fellowship
Program Director, Opioid Overdose Prevention Program,
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

January 17, 2024
"Gene Therapy: Promises & Concerns"
Ronald G. Crystal, M.D.
Professor & Chairman
Department of Genetic Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

January 24, 2024
"Medical Journalism: What I've Learned Writing for the public"
Richard A. Friedman, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Writer: New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic

January 31, 2024
"Medicaid in the Fourth Trimester:
a Strategy to Improve Maternal Care in the U.S."
Jamie R. Daw, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management,
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

February 7, 2024
"Precision Medicine Reimbursement and Strategy"
David Artz, M.D., M.B.A.
Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences,
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Senior Health Administration Fellow
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Health Policy, Rutgers University
Chief Operating Officer
Zedimed, Inc.

February 14, 2024
"Top 10 Reasons Why Value Based Payment Doesn't Work for Behavioral Health...Yet!"
Harold Pincus, M.D.
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Healthcare Policy & Management,
Co-Director, Irving Institute for Clinical & Translational Research at Columbia University & New York State Psychiatric Institute
Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation
National Director, Health & Aging Policy Fellowship

February 21, 2024
"Ending Health Disparities in New York"
The Honorable Gustavo Rivera
New York State Senator
Chairman of Committee of Health

February 28, 2024
"My Odyssey in Medicine: Coming Home"
Katherine Hajjar, M.D.
Brine Family Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology
Professor of Pediatrics,
Professor of Pediatrics in Medicine,
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty,
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

March 6, 2024
"Amazing things are happening here in Aging: Clinical, Research and Educational Programs at WCM influencing National Aging Policy You Probably Don't Know About"
Mark Lachs, M.D., Ph.D.
Psaty Distinguished Professor of Medicine,
Co-Chief of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine,
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Director of Geriatrics,
New York Presbyterian Health System

March 13, 2024
"The American People and the Medical Establishment: A History of Mistrust"
Lewis A. Grossman, J.D., Ph.D.
Ann Loeb Bronfman Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History
American University Washington College of Law

March 20, 2024
"CBO's Recent Work and a Call for Research"
Chapin White, Ph.D.
Director of Health Analysis
Congressional Budget Office

March 27, 2024
"Building Power for Health: The Bottom-Up Politics of Advancing Health Equity"
Jamila Michener, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Government & Public Policy,
Senior Associate Dean for Public Engagement,
Inaugural Director, Center for Racial Justice & Equitable Futures
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

April 3, 2024
"My Leadership Journey in Clinical Research"
Dean Robert Harrington, M.D.
Stephen & Suzanne Weiss Dean
Weill Cornell Medicine
Provost for Medical Affairs
Cornell University

April 17, 2024
"Sharper Images, Clearer Ethics:
Illuminating Bias in AI-Powered Digital Health & Imaging"
Donnella S. Comeau, M.D., Ph.D.
Neuroradiology Attending,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Vice Chair, Mass General Brigham
Institutional Review Board & Instructor,
Harvard Medical School

April 24, 2024
The HUMANN Project:
The Humanities Underpinning Machines & Artificial Neural Networks"
Gauri Agarwal, M.D., FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine & Medical Education,
Associate Dean for Curriculum,
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

September 7, 2022
"Is Joe Namath Right? Improving Medicare Advantage:
Challenges to Medicare Posed by it Private Plan Option"
Marilyn Moon
Health Economist and Visiting Scholar,
Center for Medical Advocacy

September 14, 2022
"A Systems View of Health: Using Data to Improve Outcomes"
Marcus Ong, MBBS, FRCS (A&E), EDIN, MPH (VCU), Professor
Senior Consultant and Clinician Scientist
Dept of Emergency Medicine, Singapore General Hospital
Director Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR)
Director, Prehospital and Emergency Research Center (PERC)
Duke-NUS Medical School
Head, Health Services Research Center (HSRC), Singhealth Services
Director, Health Services Research Institute
Medical Director, Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care (UPEC)
Senior Consultant, Ministry of Health, Hospital Services Division
Chairman, Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS)

September 21, 2022
"Drugs as Therapeutics: the Positives and Negative
of Controlled Substances"
Diana Martinez, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia Irving University Medical Center/
New York State Psychiatric Institute

September 28, 2022
"Pregnancy as a Crime: How the Dobbs Decision Converts Sites of Care to Sites of Criminalization"
Dana Sussman
Deputy Executive Director
National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)

October 12, 2022
"Global Health Diplomacy"
David Hajjar, Ph.D.
Dean Emeritus
Executive Vice Chair of Pathology
University Distinguished Professor
Professor of Biochemistry & Pathology
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

October 19, 2022
"My Life in Medicine"
Marlin Mattson, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

October 26, 2022
"The Electronic Health Record: How Did We Get Here?"
Adam Cheriff, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Population Health Sciences
Chief Medical Information Officer
Chief of Clinical Operations
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

November 2, 2022
"Serving the Homeless through a Trauma Informed Care Lens"
Isabel Odean, M.P.H.
Director of Practice Management at
Care For the Homeless

November 9, 2022
"Child Health and Well Being:
Impact of Financing on the Care of Children National and Local"
Gerald M. Loughlin, M.D., M.S.
Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

November 30, 2022
"When All Health Politics Was Local:
Battles over Community Health in Post-WWI United States"
Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD., M.P.H.
Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor
Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

December 7, 2022
"Using Machine Learning to Increase Equity in
Healthcare and Public Health"
Emma Pierson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell Tech and the Technion
Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

December 14, 2022
"Envisioning a Bold Future in Supporting People
with Serious Mental Illness"
Joshua Seidman, Ph.D.
Chief Research & Knowledge Officer
Fountain House

January 4, 2023
"Monkeypox and HIV as Viruses of Ongoing Colonial Violence:
Global Causes and Local Solutions"
Joseph Osmundson, Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Biology
New York University

January 11, 2023
"Lessons from Bert:
What I learned about Doctoring from Bertrand Bell"
B. Robert Meyer, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

January 18, 2023
"Shaping Health Policy in New York and the Future of Single Payer"
Former Assembly Member Richard Gottfried
Retired chair, NY State Assembly Health Committee

January 25, 2023
"Medicaid as a Policy Lever for Improving
Health Equity in the United States"
William L. Schpero, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Economics,
Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine
Co-Associate Director for Research, Cornell Center for Health Equity
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

February 1, 2023
"My Life in Medicine"
Oliver Fein, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine – Emeritus
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

February 8, 2023
"The Decline in Americans' Health, the Financialization of Medical Care,
And How Singer-Payer Medicare for All Could Reverse Both"
Stephanie Woolhandler, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Public Health at CUNY's Hunter College
Lecturer (formerly Professor) in Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

February 15, 2023
"Lifestyle Medicine: A Potent Prescription
for the Nation's Largest Public Healthcare System"
Michelle McMacken, M.D., FACP, DipABLM
Executive Director, Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine, NYC Health + Hospitals
Associate Professor of Medicine,
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

March 1, 2023
"A Good Death? Organ Procurements and Expectations of Death"
Benjamin Samstein, M.D.
Chief of Liver Transplantation
Professor of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

March 8, 2023
"The American Healthcare Payment System: You wouldn't design it this way"
Thomas McGrath
Director, Planning and Strategy Initiatives, Dean's Office
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

March 15, 2023
"40 Years in Healthcare - Reflections & Predictions"
Laura Forese, M.D., Ph.D.
Retired Chief Operating Officer
New York Presbyterian

March 22, 2023
"Antimicrobial Resistance from a Societal Perspective"
Carl Nathan, M.D.
R.A. Rees Pritchett Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

March 29, 2023
"The Present Illness: American Health Care and its Afflictions"
Martin Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles

April 5, 2023
"Critical Issues in the Law and Policy of AI in Medicine: Reimbursement, Liability, and Regulation"
Frank Pasquale
Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School

April 19, 2023
"Home Health Care Workers and Patient Care:
Leveraging a Previously Overlooked Workforce"
Madeline R. Sterling, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University

May, 3, 2023
Areas of Concentration Projects by M.D. Candidates 2023
"Mechanism Mapping to Explain the Success of a CHW-delivered
Intervention to Improve Screening for Gestational Diabetes in an Indian Slum Community"
Katherine Broderick
"Exploring the Relationship Between Female Genital Schistosomiasis
and the Vaginal Virome"
Natalie Nguyen
"Profiling COVID-19 Misinformation in Arabic on Social Media"
Heba Shaaban

September 15, 2021
"Effecting Change: Institutional Strategies to Mitigate Impact of
Systemic Racism on Healthcare"
Joy D. Howell, M.D., FAAP, FCCM
Assistant Dean for Diversity and Student Life
Vice Chair for Diversity in Pediatrics
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Weill Cornell Medicine

September 22, 2021
"Addressing Social and Structural Determinants of Health:
A Role for Medical Legal Partnerships"
Joseph Shin, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Center for Health Equity
Weill Cornell Medicine
Attending Physician
New York- Presbyterian Hospital

September 29, 2021
"Managing a Pandemic in a specialty Hospital:
The Challenges of Cancer and COVID"
Cynthia McCollum, M.B.A.
Senior Vice President
Hospital Administration
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

October 6, 2021
"Public Hospitals and Community Engagement in NYC"
Svetlana Lipyanskaya, M.P.A.
Chief Executive Officer
New York Health & Hospitals/Coney Island Hospital
Brooklyn, New York

October 13, 2021
"David E. Rogers and the Genetics of a Medical Career"
Jeremiah Barondess, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
William T. Foley Distinguished Professor in Clinical Medicine, Emeritus
Weill Cornell Medical College

October 20, 2021
"Relationships between Academic Medicine Leaders
and Industry: From Anger to Action"
Carolyn Becker, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Marshall A. Wolf Master Clinician Educator
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts

October 27, 2021
"What are the Ethical Lessions for Future Research from Operation Warpspeed?"
Art Caplan, Ph.D.
Mitty Professor of Bioethics
Director of the Division of Medical Ethics
New York University Grossman School of Medicine

November 3, 2021
"Use of Digital Technology to Promote Vaccination
and For Respiratory Infection Surveillance"
Melissa Stockwell, M.D.
Associate Professor
Pediatrics and Population and Family Health
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

November 10, 2021
"The Political Construction of Healthcare in New York State:
The Present Landscape and Issues Up for Debate in 2022"
Healther Bennett , J.D., Ph.D.
Executive Director
Political Science/Healthcare Policy and Public Law
NY Chapter
American College of Physicians

November 17, 2021
"Physician Informaticist: A Retrospective Analysis of a Career in Retrospective Analysis"
Mark Weiner, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences
Department of Population Health Sciences
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

December 1, 2021
"Turning Vicious Cycles into Virtuous Ones:
The Potential for Schools to Improve the Life Course"
Mitch Wong, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Executive Vice Chair for Research Training, Department of Medicine
Executive Co-Director, Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) Program
Director, UCLA CTSI KL2 Program
UCLA Program General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
University of California, Los Angeles

December 8, 2021
"The Shortcomings of Our Good Intentions: Health During and After COVID-19"
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
Dean
Robert A. Knox Professor
School of Public Health
Boston University

January 5, 2022
"Approaching Health Outcomes Through Sports-Based Youth Development"
Paul Caccamo
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
UP2US Sports
AmeriCorps Program

January 12, 2022
"Boundaries and Opportunities of Peace Through Health (PtH) in a COVID Era"
Norbert Goldfield, M.D.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Healing Across the Divides
Internist, Brightwood Riverview Health Center
Springfield, Massachusetts

January 19, 2022
"Historic Health Care Reforms At Stake in the 117th Congress"
Margarida Jorge
Executive Director
Health Care for America Now (HCAN)
Health Care for America Now Education Fund (HCANEF)

January 26, 2022
"An Introduction to Academic Technology Transfer and WCM's Enterprise Innovation"
Lisa Placanica, Ph.D., CLP
Senior Managing Director
Center for Technology Licensing
Cornell University

February 2, 2022
"The Privatization of Medicare: From Medicare Advantage to Direct Contracting"
Ana Malinow, M.D.
Former Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
School of Medicine
University of California at San Francisco

February 9, 2022
"The Role of Private Equity in Academic Medicine"
Stephen M. Cohen
Executive Vice Provost
Administration and Finance
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 16, 2022
"The Socioeconomic Impact of Access to Contraception in the US:
Using Individually-Linked Restricted Data"
Amanda Stevenson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Colorado at Boulder

February 23, 2022
"There is a Patient Experience Crisis: How Can We Address It?"
Richard Evans, M.A.
Senior Vice President
Patient Services and Chief Experience Officer
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

March 2, 2022
"Physician Well-Being: A Driver of Quality and Patient Safety"
Klaus Kjaer, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Chief Quality and Patient Safety Officer
Weill Cornell Medicine

March 9, 2022
"Privatizing Medicare: How Privatizing Really Works and Why It's Happening"
Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies
Queens College, City University of New York

March 16,2022
"Lessons from COVID-19 for the Next Epidemic"
Jay K. Varma, M.D.
Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine

March 23, 2022
"Private Equity Investment in US Nursing Homes and the
Quality and Cost of Care for Residents"
Mark Unruh, Ph.D., M.S.
Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine

April 6, 2022
"Tech-Equity: Leveraging Technology to Combat Healthcare Disparities"
Christian Miller
Medical Student, 4th Year
Weill Cornell Medicine

April 20, 2022
"Family Spirit Early Childhood Intervention:
Walking Upstream to Promote Healthy Native American Families"
Allison Barlow, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A.
Director,
Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Baltimore, Maryland

April 27, 2022
Diversity Week
"A More Just Future for Medicine and Public Health"
Michelle Morse, M.D., M.PH.
Chief Medical Officer
Deputy Commissioner
Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness (CHECW)
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

May 4, 2022
"The Cornell M.D. Legacy 1942-2042: Medicos, Where Accessible,
Bilingual, Higher Quality Health Care is Provided at Half the Cost."
William MacMillan Rodney, M.D.
Professor of Family Medicine and Obstetrics
Chair, Medicos Fellowship Programs

May, 11, 2022
"Areas of Concentration (AOC) Projects at Weill Cornell Medical College"
Yendé Grell, Khalid, Fahoum, Paolo de Angelis, Amber Simmons
MD Candidate 2022

September 9, 2020
"Wealth, Health and Power: Inequities in the U.S. Health Care System and Beyond"
Naomi Zewde, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
CUNY School of Public Health
Research Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute

September 16, 2020
"The Past, Present and Future of Telehealth"
Jeremy Greene, M.D., Ph.D.
William H. Welch Professor and Chair
Department of History of Medicine
Director, Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine
Jacobs-Rosenthal CIM Scholar, Center for Innovative Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

September 23, 2020
"The Future of Healthcare in America: 2020 & Beyond"
A discussion with Abdul El-Sayed
Abdul El-Sayed, M.D., Ph.D. in Epidemiology
Former Health Commissioner of the City of Detroit, Michigan

September 30, 2020
"Operating NYP Hospital During COVID-19"
Katherine L. Heilpern, M.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Cornell Medical Center

October 7, 2020
"David E. Rogers and the Genetics of a Medical Career"
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
William T. Foley Distinguished Professor in Clinical Medicine, Emeritus
Weill Cornell Medical College

October 14, 2020
"My Life in Medicine"
Stephen C. Schoenbaum, M.D., M.P.H.
Special Advisor to the President
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

October 21, 2020
"The Role of the Physicians Organization During Covid-19"
Robert J. Min, M.D., M.B.A.
John A. Evans Professor of Radiology
Chairman of Radiology and Radiologist-in-Chief
President of Weill Cornell Imaging at New York-Presbyterian
President & CEO of the Weill Cornell Physicians Organization

October 28, 2020
"Modeling Pandemics or How Mathematics Changes the World"
Nathaniel Hupert, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor
Department of Populations Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine

November 4, 2020
"David E. Rogers and the Genetics of the Medical Career"
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
William T. Foley Distinguished Professor in Clinical Medicine, Emeritus
Weill Cornell Medical College

November 11, 2020
"Loss and Grief during COVID-19: A Universal Experience"
Justin Mohatt, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College

November 18, 2020
"Vaccine Progress, Ethics and Politics in the Covid-19 Era"
Kristen Marks, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine/Clinical Trials Unit Co-Director
Division of Infectious Disease
Weill Cornell Medical College

Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P.
The E. William Davis, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics & Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Medical Ethics
Weill Cornell Medical College

December 2, 2020
"The Dalio Center for Health Justice: An Equitable Path Forward"
Julia Iyasere, M.D., M.B.A.
Executive Director, Dalio Center for Health Justice
Vice President, NewYork-Presbyterian
Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUIMC

December 9, 2020
"Choreographies of Racism and Reproduction"
Dana-Ain Davis, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Study of Women and Society
Director, MA Program in Women's and Gender Studies
CUNY Graduate Center

December 16, 2020
"Corporate Influence in Medicine and Public Health:
Lessons from the Opioid Crisis"
Jonathan H. Marks, M.A., B.C.L.
Director, Bioethics Program
Penn State University
Affiliate Faculty, Law, Public Policy & International Affairs

January 6, 2021
"Introduction to the Weill Cornell Office of Institutional Equity"
Jamal Lopez, J.D.
Senior Director,Office of Institutional Equity
Weill Cornell Medicine

Brittney Blakeney, J.D. and Mona Jha, J.D.
Investigators and Title IX Coordinators

January 13, 2021
"Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession: The Morrill Act and Beyond"
Kurt Anders Jordan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Anthropology/American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Director, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program
Cornell University

January 20, 2021
"Science Doesn't Speak for Itself: Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation in the Age of Media Bubbles"
David Scales, Mphil, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Faculty Scholar in Health Equity 2019-2020
Hospital Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

January 27, 2021
"Family Care Giving for Older Adults: Policies and Interventions for Caregiving"
Catherine Riffin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Medicine
Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 3, 2021
"Moving to Value: The Experience of New York Quality Care, the ACO of New York -Presbyterian, Columbia and Weill Cornell"
Paul Casale, M.D., M.P.H.
Executive Director, New York Quality Care
Accountable Care Organization of NYP, Columbia, Weill Cornell Medicine
Professor of Population Health
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 10, 2021
"Advancing Racial Justice and Equity Through Quality and Safety"
Karthik Sivashanker, M.D., M.P.H., CPPS
Vice President of Equitable Health Systems and Innovation
American Medical Association
Medical Director of Quality, Safety and Equity
Brigham Health

February 17, 2021
"My Life in Medicine"
Charles Bardes, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 24, 2021
"What Are We Going To Do About Health Care Costs?"
Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the Greater New York Hospital Association and LiveOnNY
Chairman of the Medicare Rights Center

March 3, 2021
"The Role of Community Investigators in Project STRIDE"
Al Richmond, M.S.W.
Executive Director, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Raleigh, North Carolina

March 10, 2021
"Progress or Decay: Where is Healthcare IT Heading?"
Curtis L. Cole, M.D., FACPP
Assistant Vice Provost, Information Services and Chief Information Officer
Weill Cornell Medicine

March 17, 2021
"Understanding and Addressing Social Determinants to Advance Cancer Health Equity"
Erica Phillips, M.D., M.S.
Assoc. Prof. of Clin. Med.
Assoc. Dir. Of Community Outreach & Engagement
Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center
Co-Associate Director of Community Engagement, Cornell Center of Health Equity
Weill Cornell Medicine

March 24, 2021
"The New Never Event: Why Charitable Hospitals Should No Longer Sue Their Patients"
Elisabeth R. Benjamin, M.S.P.H., J.D.
Vice President, Health Initiatives
Community Service Society of NY

March 31, 2021
"The Other Pandemic: A Public Health Response to Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose Deaths"
Bruce Trigg, M.D.
Consultant, NYS Department of Health
Office of Drug Use Health

April 7, 2021
"The Essence of Medicine"
Martin Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research
Division of General Internal Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

April 14, 2021
"Co2, Climate Change and Plant Based Allergies"
Lewis H. Ziska, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

April 21, 2021
"Vaccine Hesitancy and the End f the Pandemic"
Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P.
Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
Weill Cornell Medicine

April 28, 2021
"My Life in Medicine"
Laura E. Riley, M.D.
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Weill Cornell Medicine

May 5, 2021
"From Residency to Retirement: Physicians' Careers over a Professional Lifetime"
Terry Mizrahi, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Professor Emeritus, Silberman School of Social Work
Hunter College
City University of New York

May 12, 2021
"Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystems Elders (NICHE) - Ensuring Age - Friendly, Evidence-Based Care Across the Continuum"
Mattia J. Gilmartin, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
Executive Director

Jen Pettis, MS, RN, CNE, WCC
Acting Director of Programs
NICHE, Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystems Elders
New York University Rory Myers College of Nursing

May 26, 2021
"Superbugs: Lessons from the Pandemic"
Matthew McCarthy, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

September 4, 2019
"Moving from Scientific Racism and Medical Apartheid to Healthcare Equity"
Donald E. Moore, M.D., M.P.H.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Former Chair, Kings County Medical Society

September 11, 2019
"Lessons from the Cornell-Navajo Nation Many Farms Project:
Bringing Technology and Medical Care to an Underserved Native American Community"
B. Robert Meyer, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

September 18, 2019
"How Anti-abortion Laws and Ideology Raise the Question:
Are Pregnant Patients Persons?"
Lynn M. Paltrow, J.D.
Executive Director
National Advocates for Pregnant Women

September 25, 2019
"Problems of Patients Who Are Survivors of Torture"
Gunisha Kaur, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Weill Cornell Medical College

October 2, 2019
"Nuclear Energy – the Only Answer to Climate Change:
But is it Safe and Healthy?"
Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies
Queens College
City University of New York

October 16, 2019
"David E. Rogers and the Genetics of the Medical Career"
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
William T. Foley Distinguished Professor in Clinical Medicine, Emeritus
Weill Cornell Medical College
Co-Director of the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium

October 23, 2019
"Status of U.S. Health Insurance Coverage:
Stalled Gains, More Uninsured, 2020 Elections and Medicare for All"
Sara R. Collins, Ph.D.
Vice President
Health Care Coverage and Access
The Commonwealth Fund

October 30, 2019
"My Life in Medicine"
C. Ronald MacKenzie, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine in Rheumatology
Weill Cornell Medical College

November 6, 2019
"Employee Benefits Design: An Institutional Perspective"
Patrick V. Gallagher
Assistant Vice Provost
Operations and Support
Weill Cornell Medicine

November 13, 2019
"Can Hospitals Help Prevent Homelessness"
Kelly Doran, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Population Health
Urban Initiative
NYU Langone Health

November 27, 2019
"Improving Access, Affordability, and Education for Medicare Beneficiaries"
Frederic Riccardi
President
Medicare Rights Center

December 4, 2019
"School Health in New York City: Caring for Students Where They Are"
Roger Platt, M.D.
Assistant Commissioner for School Health
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

December 11, 2019
"Urban Health Challenges"
David Vlahov, Ph.D., R.N.
Associate Dean for Research
Professor of Nursing
Yale School of Nursing
Editor, Journal of Urban Health

December 18, 2019
"An Overview of the Legal and Ethical Environment within Health Care Organizations
And Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace"
Adam Herbst, J.D.
Senior Vice President
Blythedale Children's Hospital
Adjunct Professor of Law
New York Law School

January 8, 2020
"Wets for Vets: The Health Effects of Physical Exercise"
Jane Katz, Ed.D.
Professor, Health & Physical Education
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York

January 15, 2020
"The Center for Community Health Navigation: A Hospital-Community Partnership
Model Improving Outcomes for Vulnerable Patients and Their Caregivers"
Patricia J. Peretz, M.P.H. and L. Adriana Matiz-Zanoni, M.D., FAAP
Co-Leaders
Center for Community Health Navigation
New York-Presbyterian

January 22, 2020
"The Wonderland of Serious Mental Illness"
Nancy Farrell
Chair of the Board of Directors
Fountain House

January 29, 2020
"My Life in Medicine"
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Medical Humanities and Ethics & Professor of Medicine
Executive Director, Columbia Narrative Medicine
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons

February 5, 2020
"Using Medicaid Claims Data to Develop Evidence about
Returns on Investments in Social Determinants of Health"
James Knickman, Ph.D.
Robert Derzon Chair in Public and Health Affairs
Wagner School of Public Service
Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Medical School

February 12, 2020
"History of the Physician Wellness Movement: 1966 to Today"
Kristine Olson, M.D., M.Sc.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Physician Work-Life and Well-Being Program
Yale New Haven Hospital

February 19, 2020
"The Federal Role in Health Reconsidered:
Veterans Health Care System vs. Medicare for All"
Rosemary A. Stevens, Ph.D., M.P.H.
DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar
Department of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 26, 2020
"My Life in Medicine"
Estomih Mtui, M.D.
Professor of Anatomy in Radiology
Weill Cornell Medicine

March 4, 2020
"Drug Use, Addiction and the Criminal Justice System"
Jonathan Giftos, M.D.
Former Clinical Director of Substance Use Treatment
NYC Health + Hospitals/Division of Correctional Health Services
Medical Director, Addiction Medicine + Drug User Health at Project Renewal

May 6, 2020
"The Policy Pathway to Clean Food:
Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems in the Context of Climate Change"
Sara E. Abiola, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

May 13, 2020
"My Life in Medicine"
Holly J. Humphrey, M.D.
President
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

May 20, 2020
"COVID-19 and Telehealth"
Peter Fleischut, M.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Shauna Coyne
Director, Telehealth
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

September 5, 2018
"Bellevue: Three Centuries at America’s Most Storied Hospital"
David Oshinsky, Ph.D.
History Professor
Medical Humanities Director
New York University (NYU)

September 12, 2018
"Women’s Reproductive Health: The Significance of Roe v. Wade"
Sylvia A. Law, J.D.
Law, Medicine and Psychiatry Professor
Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program Codirector
NYU School of Law

September 26, 2018
"An Evolving Career in Health Equity Research: A Brief Reflection"
Said Ibrahim, MBA, M.D., M.P.H.
Strategy & Development Vice Chair
Health Care Policy & Research
Weill Cornell Medicine

October 3, 2018
"Overlooked and Undervalued: Home Care Workers in the US Health Care System"
Madeline R. Sterling, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Assistant Medicine Professor
General Internal Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

October 10, 2018
"David E. Rogers and Genetics of the Medical Career"
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
New York Academy of Medicine President Emeritus
Clinical Medicine and Public Health Professor Emeritus
David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium Codirector
Weill Cornell Medicine

October 17, 2018
"My Life in Medicine"
Carol Storey Johnson, M.D.
Senior Medical Education Advisor
Medicine Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine

October 24, 2018
"Aging: Natural Law and Public Policy"
Ruth Finkelstein, Sc.D.
Executive Director
Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging
Hunter College
City University of New York

October 31, 2018
"Health Care Trends in the Fall of 2018: Expectations vs. Reality"
Jack W. Rowe, M.D.
Health Policy and Aging Professor
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

November 7, 2018
"Pharmaceutical Policy: The Underbelly of Overpricing"
Peter B. Bach, M.D.
Center for Health Policy and Outcomes Director
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

November 14, 2018
"Reproductive Justice: No Place is Perfect - the Effects of Geography on Abortion Access in New York State and in the US"
Odile Schalit, L.M.S.W., M.S.
Brigid Alliance Program Director

November 28, 2018
"How Privatization of the Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System Will Impact Doctors and Patients Everywhere"
Suzanne Gordon
Assistant Adjunct Professor
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing
Affiliated Wilson Center Scholar
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Senior Policy Fellow
Veteran's Health Care Policy Institue

December 5, 2018
"Building Healthier Neighborhoods, Block by Block"
Ari Rosner, L.C.S.W.
Social Determinants and Behavioral Health Vice President
Cityblock Health

December 12, 2018
"A Single Payer Program That Unites a Divided Nation"
Joe Baker, J.D.
President
Medicare Rights Center

January 9, 2019
"Medical School Admissions: Trends and Travails"
Charles L. Bardes, M.D.
Medicine Professor
Associate Admissions Dean
Weill Cornell Medicine

January 16, 2019
"The Tobacco Settlement: Strategic Lessons for Other Public Health Problems"
Cheryl Healton, Dr.P.H., MPA
Dean
NYU College of Global Public Health

January 23, 2019
"Evidence, Policy and Politics"
Claire Wang, M.D., Sc.D.
Research, Evaluation and Policy Vice President
New York Academy of Medicine

January 30, 2019
"The Health of Immigrants During the Current Administration"
Xochitil Castaneda, M.D. and Marc Schenker, M.D., M.P.H.
Health Initiative of the Americas
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

February 6, 2019
"The Potential Role of Technology in Supporting the Health and Well-Being of Older Americans"
Sara Czaja, Ph.D.
Center for Aging and Behavioral Health Director
Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 13, 2019
"My Life in Medicine"
Jack D. Barchas, M.D.
Psychiatry Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 20, 2019
"Threats to Life: A Short List and Guide for the Perplexed"
Nathaniel Hupert, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Health Care Policy, Research and Medicine Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 27, 2019
"When Your Child Is Sick: A Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child Who Is Very Ill"
Joanna Breyer, Ph.D.
Psychologist
David B. Perini Quality of Life Clinic for Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Dana Farber Career Center, Boston, Massachusetts

March 6, 2019
"Transformative Education: Does It Exist? Will It Make a Difference? And for Whom?"
Danielle Laraque Arena, F.A.A.P., M.D.
Scholar-in-Residence
New York Academy of Medicine
Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Professor
Public Health & Preventative Medicine
State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University

March 13, 2019
"Where and How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fits into Medical Practice"
James K. Min, M.D.
Radiology and Medicine Professor
Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging Director
Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine
Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Editor-in-Chief

March 20, 2019
"Challenges of Translating New Science into Clinical Practice: Noninvasive Prenatal Testing of America’s Pregnant Women"
Alan Fleischman, M.D.
Neonatology, Epidemiology and Population Health Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center

March 27, 2019
"My Life in Medicine"
Benjamin Chu, M.D.
Managing Director
Manatt, Phelps and Phillips LLP

April 3, 2019
"The Global Movement for Universal Health Care"
Ariel Pablos Mendez, M.D., M.P.H.
Medicine Professor
Columbia University Medical Center

April 10, 2019
"Two Doctors, Two Generations: Medical Ethics Then and Now"
Baron H. Lerner, M.D.
Population Health Professor
Bioethics in the Underground Curriculum Director
NYU Langone School of Medicine

April 17, 2019
"The Opioid Crisis and What to Do About It"
Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D.
Professor
Senior Attending Physician
Rockefeller University

April 24, 2019
"My Life in Medicine"
Susana R. Morales, M.D.
Associate Clinical Medicine Professor
Associate Diversity Chair
Weill Cornell Medicine

May 1, 2019
"Alcohol Consumption and Worker’s Health: New Approaches for Analysis and Policy Action"
Alexander Irwin
Weill Cornell Medical College Class of 2019

May 8, 2019
"An Adolescent Nutrition and Culinary After-School Program: Potential Health and Policy Implications"
Tashara M. Leak, Ph.D., R.D.
Assistant Nutritional Science Professor
Cornell University

May 15, 2019
"Labor Exploitation Stigma, and Social Isolation of Chinese and Korean Immigrant Women Working in Illicit Massage Parlors: Implications for Health"
John J. Chin, Ph.D.
Urban Policy and Planning Master's Program Professor and Director
Hunter College
City University of New York

May 22, 2019
United States-European Union Medical Education Exchange Students in the Class of 2019
Rachel Orleans (UK), Nicole Aguirre (Germany), Stephanie Chen and Wesley Rogers (Scotland), Hayley Sacks (Spain) and Christopher Marnell (Sweden)

May 29, 2019
"The Public Hospital in the Late Twentieth Century"
Amy Zanoni
History Ph.D. Candidate
Rutgers University

September 6, 2017
Charles Branas, Ph.D.
"Discussing the Disease of Gun Violence in the US"
Gelman Professor and Chair
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

September 13, 2017
Susan Clark Ball, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
"Understanding AIDS – Historical Reflections"
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College

September 20, 2017
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D.
"My Life in Medicine"
Immediate Past President
New York Academy of Medicine

September 27, 2017
Cameron Webb, M.D.
"So Complicated: Tracking White House Healthcare Policy from Left to Right"
White House Fellow: 2016-2017
2016 Graduate
Internal Medicine Residency Program
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Cornell Medical Center

October 4, 2017
Oliver Fein, M.D.
"Who Was David Rogers?"
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Professor of Clinical Healthcare Policy and Research
Associate Dean (Affiliations)
Weill Cornell Medicine

October 11, 2017
Linnie Golightly, M.D.
"2017: Diversity at Weill Cornell"
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine in Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Dean (Diversity) Weill Cornell Medicine

October 18, 2017
Rahul Sharma, M.D., M.B.A., C.P.E., FACEP
"Telemedicine and the Transformation of Emergency Care"
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Professor of Clinical Healthcare Policy and Research
Weill Cornell Medicine
Emergency Physician-in-Chief
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

October 25, 2017
Barry Levy, M.D.
"Climate Change, Public Health and Medical Care"
Adjunct Professor of Public Health
Tufts University School of Medicine

November 1, 2017
Laura L. Ardizzone, DNP, CRNA, ACNP, DCC
"Why Florence Nightingale and Ignaz Semmelweis Are Still Relevant in Modern Healthcare"
Director, Nurse Anesthesia Services
Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

November 8, 2017
Itai Gurvich, Ph.D.
"Operations Management in Healthcare: A Processing Network View"
Associate Professor
Cornell Tech and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering

November 15, 2017
John Paul Triculis, PMP
"Innovations in Care Delivery in the DHK Building"
Director, Information Systems
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

November 29, 2017
Donald W. Light, Ph.D.
"Better Drugs at Lower Cost: An Ethical Perspective"
Recipient of the Pellegrino Medal in Bioethics, 2016
Affiliate, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU
Professor of Comparative Health Policy
Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine

December 6, 2017
Dana Spivak, M.D.
"My Life in Family Medicine"
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine in Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine
Attending Physician
Hoboken University Medical Center

December 13, 2017
Roosa Tikkanen, M.P.H., M.Res
"Hospital Care in New York City: Segregation by Race and Insurance Status"
Research Associate
International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations
The Commonwealth Fund

January 10, 2018
David Rosner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
"The Courts, the Historian and the Effort to End Childhood Lead Poisoning"
Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor
Sociomedical Sciences
Co-Director, Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

January 17, 2018
Herbert Pardes, M.D.
"Mental Health Reform"
Executive Vice Chairman of New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Former President of New York-Presbyterian Hospital

January 24, 2018
Chad E. Shearer, J.D., M.H.A.
"The Historic Promise and Uncertain Future of Medicaid"
Vice President for Policy
Director, Medicaid Institute
United Hospital Fund

January 31, 2018
Barbara Caress, M.A.
"How NYC’s Health Care System Depends on its Public Hospitals"
Adjunct Professor
Zicklin School of Business
The New School
Sarah Lawrence College

February 7, 2018
Carol Raphael. M.P.A., M.Ed.
"Challenges and Opportunities in the Long Term Care System"
Senior Advisor, Manatt Health
Former CEO, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Former Chair, AARP

February 14, 2018
Rosemary Stevens, Ph.D., M.P.H.
"Policy in Time: The Case of Services to Veterans"
DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College

February 21, 2018
Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D.
"The Road to Medicare for Everyone"
Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science
Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Yale University
Visiting Professor, Columbia University (Spring 2018)

February 28, 2018
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P.
"Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Academic Medicine and Health Care Reform"
E. William Davis, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics
Weill Cornell Medical College
Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics and the Law
Yale Law School

March 7, 2018
Theodore Marmor, Ph.D.
"Why is Health Care Reform so Bewildering/Confusing?"
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management
Yale University

March 14, 2018
Sherry Glied, Ph.D.
"Addressing Prices to Improve Value"
Professor of Public Service
Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
New York University
2018 Ralph and Lorraine Lubin Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department of Healthcare Policy and Research
Weill Cornell Medical College

March 28, 2018
Adam Herbst, J.D.
"Informed Consent: The Physician’s Obligation and Patient-Doctor Relationship"
Professor of Law
New York Law School
Vice President, Blythedale Children’s Hospital

April 4, 2018
Augustine M.K. Choi, M.D.
"My Life in Medicine"
Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean
Weill Cornell Medical College
Provost for Medical Affairs
Cornell University

April 11, 2018
Carol Paris, M.D.
"Advancing Single Payer in the Trump Era: Educate, Organize, Mobilize, Act"
National President
Physicians for a National Health Program

April 18, 2018
Michael S. Sparer, Ph.D., J.D.
"Buying into Medicaid: A Viable Path to Universal Coverage"
Professor and Chair
Department of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

April 25, 2018
Judith Salerno, M.D., M.S.
"Disparities in Breast Cancer:
Results of a Community-Wide Approach in Chicago"
President
New York Academy of Medicine

May 2, 2018
Julie Graves, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., FAAFP
"How Physicians Prepare for and Respond to Disasters"
Vice Chair for Education
Department of Family Medicine
Georgetown University Medical Center

May 9, 2018
Mary Beth Terry, Ph.D.
"Wag the Dog: Can High Risk Populations Provide Critical Evidence on the Role of the Environment in Cancer Causation"
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

May 16, 2018
Neal Flomenbaum, M.D., FACP, FAECP Editor Emeritus
"My Life in Medicine"
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medical Director of the Prehospital Care System
New York-Presbyterian Health Care System

May 23, 2018
Ariana Levin, Fabianna Krienes, Samuel Kim
US-EU Medical Exchange: Germany, Scotland and Spain
Class of 2018
Weill Cornell Medical College

May 30, 2018
"Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution"
Documentary Film

June 6, 2018
George E. Thibault, M.D.
"My Life in Medicine"
President
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

September 7, 2016
Edward H. Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.C.P., FACMI
"Acceptable EHRs: Reflection on Why the Obvious is Taking So Long"
Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Senior Advisor to the Dean
College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University
Adjunct Professor, Department of Healthcare Policy and Research
(Health Informatics), Weill Cornell Medicine

September 14, 2016
Marjorie Cadogan, J.D.
"The Impact of Race on Health"
Executive Deputy Commissioner
Office of Citywide Health Insurance Access
New York City

September 21, 2016
James Knickman, Ph.D.
"The Successes and Failures of the ACA"
Robert Derzon Chair in Public and Health Affairs
Wagner School of Public Service
Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Medical School

September 28, 2016
Jennifer A. Downs, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Jyoti S. Mathad, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Margaret L. McNairy, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Lindsey Reif, M.P.H., M.S.
Program Administrator
"The Women in Global Health Research Initiative"
Center for Global Health
Weill Cornell Medicine

October 5, 2016
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., M.A.C.P.
"Who Was David Rogers?"
The E. William Davis, Jr., M.D., Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

October 19, 2016
Adam Gaffney, M.D.
"The Physician's Proposal for Single Payer National Health Insurance"
Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

October 26, 2016
Mindy Fullilove, M.D.
"Root Shock:
How Tearing up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and
What We Can Do About It"
Professor of Urban Policy and Health
The New School

November 2, 2016
Karen Ignagni
E"mbracing Agility: Healthcare for the Modern Consumer"
President and CEO
Emblem Health, Inc.

November 9, 2016
Monika Safford, M.D., '86
"Health Equity in the 21st Century"
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

November 30, 2016
Marcus M. Reidenberg, M.D., FACP
"Getting Medicine to the People: the WHO Essential Medicines Program and Medicare Part D Drug Benefits"
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology
Departments of Pharmacology, Medicine, and Healthcare Policy and Research
Weill Cornell Medicine

December 7, 2016
Anne Moore, M.D.
"My Life in Medicine"
Weill Cornell Breast Center
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

December 14, 2016
Peter R. Orszag
"Healthcare Landscape after the Elections"
Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Managing Director of Lazard
Former Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget

January 4, 2017
Paul E. Kalb, M.D.
"My Life in Medicine and Health Law"
Sidley Austin, LLP

January 11, 2017
Alison O. Jordan, LCSW, CPPB
"Hotspotters Housed: Permanent Apartments to End the Cycle of Homelessness and Incarceration"
Senior Director
Reentry and Continuity Services
Rikers Island

January 18, 2017
Michael Fine, M.D.
"Neighborhood Health Stations:
Building the Delivery System from the Ground Up"
Senior Population Health and Clinical Officer
Blackstone Valley Community Health Care
Central Falls, Rhode Island
Former Director, Rhode Island Department of Public Health

January 25, 2017
Geraldine McGinty, M.D.
"The Relative Value Update Committee that Crafts Physician Payment:
Cartel or Collaborative"
Assistant Chief Contracting Officer
Physicians Organization
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 1, 2017
Rebecca A. Seawright
"Emerging Issues for the NYS Assembly"
New York State Assembly Member
76th District, 1365 First Avenue (Between 73rd & 74th St.)

February 8, 2017
Jonathan L. Jacobs, M.D.
"My Life in Medicine"
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Executive Director
Center for Special Studies
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 15, 2017
Martin Shapiro, M.D.
"Prospects for Justice for All in the U.S. Health Care System"
Former Chief
Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
U.C.L.A. Medical School

February 22, 2017
Rick Evans, M.S.
"Improving the Patient Experience at New York-Presbyterian Hospital"
Senior Vice President and Chief Experience Officer
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

March 1, 2017
Daniel Barchi, M.E.M.
"Managing Technology in Medicine Today"
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

March 8, 2017
Thomas F. Check, M.A.
"Health Information Exchange Comes of Age:
Connecting Patient Data at the National, State, and Regional Levels"
President and CEO
Healthix

March 15, 2017
Thomas D'Aunno, Ph.D.
"Improving the Performance of Health Care Organizations:
The Role of Physician Leaders"
Editor-in-Chief, Medical Care Research and Review
Director, Health Policy and Management Program
Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
New York University

March 22, 2017
Lisa Perry, M.B.A., M.P.P.
"Community Health Centers:
What They Are, Why They Matter and the Challenges They Face"
Interim President and CEO
Senior Vice President, Quality & Technology Initiatives
Community Health Care Association of NY State (CHCANYS)

March 29, 2017
Rev. Lula M. Phillips, R.N., M.E.D., M.Div., D.Min.
"Impacting Diabetes for Black Urban Immigrants from the Caribbean
Through Community Based Participatory Research"
Community Engagement & Research Manager
Weill Cornell Clinical Translational Science Center

April 5, 2017
Oliver Fein, M.D.
"Health Care Reform? ACA vs. AHCA vs. Single-Payer?"
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Healthcare Policy
Associate Dean (Affiliations)
Weill Cornell Medicine

April 12, 2017
Henry Moss, Ph.D.
"Critical Factors in Estimating the Long Term Care Needs of the Boomers"
Board Member
Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter

April 19, 2017
Christopher F. Koller
"Improving the Performance of Health Care Organizations:
The Role of Physician Leaders"
President
Milbank Memorial Fund

April 26, 2017
Thomas H. Lee, M.D., M.Sc.
"Catalyzing Competition on Value"
Chief Medical Officer
Press-Gainey
2017 Ralph and Lorraine Lubin Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department of Healthcare Policy and Research
Weill Cornell Medicine

May 3, 2017
David Ansell, M.D., M.P.H.
"The Death Gap: How Inequity Kills"
Professor of Medicine
Senior Vice President and Associate Provost for Community Health Equity
Rush University Medical Center

May 10, 2017
Gerald Markowitz, Ph.D.
"Poisoning Flint: An (Ongoing) American Story of Race, Class and Industrial Pollution"
Distinguished Professor of History
John Jay College and Graduate Center
City University of New York

May 17, 2017
Michael Nochomovitz, M.D.
"Regionalization of a Physician & Hospital Enterprise"
Senior Vice President
Chief of Clinical Integration and Network Development Officer
New York-Presbyterian Healthcare System

May 24, 2017
Xi Chen, David Dillon, Xiao Peng, Cindy Parra
US-EU Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, England, Germany, Spain
Class of 2017
Weill Cornell Medical College

May 31, 2017
Sejal Shah, B.A.
"Understanding School Absenteeism: A Case Study from Mumbai, India"
Global Health Teaching Associate
Weill Cornell Medical College

September 9, 2015
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
"My Life in Medicine"
Former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary
President Emeritus. Morehouse School of Medicine

September 16, 2015
Katie Robbins, M.P.H.
"Single-Payer Health Insurance for New York State:
Economic Impact, Political Possibilities, and Opportunities for Advocacy" 
Executive Director
Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter

September 30, 2015
José Pagán, Ph.D.
"Making the Case of Adoption of New Payment and Delivery System Initiatives" 
Director 
Center for Health Innovation
New York Academy of Medicine

October 7, 2015
Sandeep Jauhar, M.D.
"Internship: A Doctor’s Initiation"
Director, Heart Failure Program, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Cardiology
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

October 14, 2015
Warren D. Johnson, M.D.
"Who Was David Rogers and What Was the Pus Club?"
BH Kean Professor of Tropical Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Director, Global Health Center
Weill Cornell Medical College

October 21, 2015
Harold Varmus, M.D.
"The Role of Cancer in Global Health"
Lewis Thomas University Professor
Senior Associate Core Member
New York Genome Center
Senior Advisor to the Dean and Provost
Weill Cornell Medical College

October 28, 2015
Michael Gusmano, Ph.D.
"Federal Waivers as a Policy Tool in Health: ACA and DSRIP"
Research Scholar 
The Hastings Center

November 4, 2015
Trudy Lieberman
"Wrong Prescription? The Failed Promise of the Affordable Care Act"
Adjunct Professor of Public Health
CUNY School of Public Health

November 11, 2015
Fern Goodhart, M.P.H., R.M.C.H.E.S.
"Legislative Sausage Making: An Insider’s View"
Former Legislative Assistant
Office of U.S. Senator Tom Udall (New Mexico)

December 2, 2015
Jonathan N. Tobin, Ph.D.
"Engaging Communities, Clinicians and Scientists across the Translational Research Spectrum:
Partnering Community Health Clinicians with Laboratory Investigators"
President/CEO
Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN)
Co-Director for Community Engaged Research 
The Rockefeller University

December 9, 2015
Michael B. Mushlin, J.D.
"Solitary Confinement: Human Rights Violation, Public Health Threat"
Professor of Law
Pace Law School

December 16, 2015
Ernest Drucker, Ph.D.
"Decarcerating America: From Punishment to Public Health"
Research Professor, Departments of Criminal Justice and Anthropology
Director, Academy for Public Health and Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

January 6, 2016
Susan Schnall, R.N., FACHE 
"Agent Orange: the Lasting Legacy of the American War in Vietnam"
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School for Professional Studies
New York University

January 13, 2016
Lisa Mix, M.L.A.
"The Medical Center Archives: What’s in it for you?"
Head
NYP-Weill Cornell Medical Center Archives

January 20, 2016
Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D.
"Delivery System Reform, Accountable Care Organizations, and the
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation"
Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health
Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research
Weill Cornell Medicine

January 27, 2016
Arthur T. Evans, M.D., M.P.H.
"The Growth of Hospital Medicine"
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine
Department of Medicine
NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine

February 3, 2016
Robin Osborn, M.B.A. 
"Primary Care Physicians in Ten Countries Report Challenges Caring for 
Patients with Complex Health Needs"
Vice President
Director of the International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations
The Commonwealth Fund

February 10, 2016
Patricia J. Volland, M.S.W., M.B.A.
"Aging, Care Transitions and Care Coordination"
Distinguished Lecturer
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College

February 17, 2016
David A. Feinberg, M.B.A.
"Why Marketing? How Effective Marketing Contributed to Our Success"
Vice President of Marketing
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

February 24, 2016
"The Evolving Role of the Physician Business Person"
Mitchell Blutt, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Consonance Capital

March 2, 2016
Vivien Pender, M.D. 
"My Life in Medicine"
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College
Special Advisor to the United Nations

March 9, 2016
Julia Geynisman-Tan, M.D.
"Practical Aspects of Identifying and Responding to Sex Trafficking"
NYPH Resident in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Founder, Survivor Clinic
Weill Cornell Medical Center of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital

March 16, 2016
Margaret Hamburg, M.D.
"Looking Forward, Looking Backward:
Reflections on a Career at the Interface of Medicine, Public Health and Politics"
Former Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

March 23, 2016
Michael Sparer, Ph.D.
"Health Reform: Where Do We Go From Here?"
Director, Division of Health Policy and Management 
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University

March 30, 2016
Genevive R. Meredith, M.P.H., O.T.R.
"Committing to Make Change in Global Health – Taking a Systems Approach"
Associate Director for International Programs and MPH
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

April 6, 2016
Mary T. Bassett, M.D., M.P.H.
"Women Leaders in Global Health: Reflections from My Career"
Commissioner of Health
New York, City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

April 13, 2016
Anthony Shih, M.D., M.P.H.
"Accounting for the Broader Determinants of Health in Payment Policy:
Issues and Challenges"
Executive Vice President
New York Academy of Medicine

April 20, 2016
Kenneth Raske
"The Evolving Health Care Economy"
President and CEO
Greater New York Hospital Association

April 27, 2016
Lisa M. Kern, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
"When the Measures You Need Don’t Exist:
Advancing Measurement for Evaluation of Health System Change"
Associate Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine

May 4, 2016
Elisabeth R. Benjamin, M.S.P.H., J.D.
"How Can New York State Provide Health Insurance to Its Immigrant Residents?"
Vice President
Health Initiatives
Community Services Society of New York

May 11, 2016
Benjamin Kallos, J.D.
"Health Policy and the New York City Council"
Council Member
5th District of the New York City Council

May 18, 2016
Denmark – Pouya Jamshidi (Class of 2016)
England – Daniel Kornberg (Class of 2016)
Germany – Lauren Metterle (Class of 2016)
Spain – Elizabeth Cowell (Class of 2016)
US-EU Medical Education Exchange

Health Care Justice and Ethics

December 9, 2015
Michael B. Mushlin, J.D.
Solitary Confinement: Human Rights Violation, Public Health Threat
Professor of Law
Pace Law School

December 16, 2015
Ernest Drucker, Ph.D.
Decarcerating America: From Punishment to Public Health
Research Professor, Departments of Criminal Justice and Anthropology
Director, Academy for Public Health and Criminal Justice
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

January 6, 2016
Susan Schnall, R.N., FACHE
Agent Orange: the Lasting Legacy of the American War in Vietnam
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School for Professional Studies
New York University

Health Workforce

October 7, 2015
Sandeep Jauhar, M.D.
Internship: A Doctor's Initiation
Director, Heart Failure Program, Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Cardiology
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

January 27, 2016
Arthur T. Evans, M.D., M.P.H.
The Growth of Hospital Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Section of Hospital Medicine
Department of Medicine
NYP/Weill Cornell Medicine

February 3, 2016
Robin Osborn, M.B.A.
Primary Care Physicians in Ten Countries Report Challenges Caring for
Patients with Complex Health Needs
Vice President
Director of the International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations
The Commonwealth Fund

February 24, 2016
The Evolving Role of the Physician Business Person
Mitchell Blutt, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Consonance Capital

Health Politics

November 11, 2015
Fern Goodhart, M.P.H., R.M.C.H.E.S.
Legislative Sausage Making: An Insider's View
Former Legislative Assistant
Office of U.S. Senator Tom Udall (New Mexico)

May 11, 2016
Benjamin Kallos, J.D.
Health Policy and the New York City Council
Council Member
5th District of the New York City Council

Health System Transformation

September 30, 2015
José Pagán, Ph.D.
Making the Case of Adoption of New Payment and Delivery System Initiatives
Director
Center for Health Innovation
New York Academy of Medicine

October 28, 2015
Michael Gusmano, Ph.D.
Federal Waivers as a Policy Tool in Health: ACA and DSRIP
Research Scholar
The Hastings Cente

December 2, 2015
Jonathan N. Tobin, Ph.D.
Engaging Communities, Clinicians and Scientists across the Translational Research Spectrum:
Partnering Community Health Clinicians with Laboratory Investigators
President/CEO
Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN)
Co-Director for Community Engaged Research
The Rockefeller University

January 20, 2016
Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D.
Delivery System Reform, Accountable Care Organizations, and the
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health
Professor of Healthcare Policy and Research
Weill Cornell Medicine

February 10, 2016
Patricia J. Volland, M.S.W., M.B.A.
Aging, Care Transitions and Care Coordination
Distinguished Lecturer
Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College

February 17, 2016
David A. Feinberg, M.B.A.
Why Marketing? How Effective Marketing Contributed to Our Success
Vice President of Marketing
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

September 3, 2014
Sharon Stancliff, M.D.
Policy Issues in Opioid Overdose Mortality Prevention

September 10, 2014
Johanna Fernandez, Ph.D.
When the World Was Their Stage:
The Health Program of the Young Lords Party, 1968-1974

September 17, 2014
Nicholas Stine, M.D.
Accountable Care Organizations and the Public Hospital System

September 24, 2014
Hon. Richard Gottfried
New York Health: A State Single Payer Program

October 1, 2014
Alonzo Plough, Ph.D.
Who Was David E. Rogers: Culture Change at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

October 8, 2014
Kim J. Overby, M.D.
Disabilities in the Medical Setting: Visible and Invisible Challenges

October 15, 2014
Adam Stracher, M.D.
Plans for an Accountable Care Organization at the Weill Cornell Medical Center

October 22, 2014
Karoline Mortensen, Ph.D.
Innovative Payment Mechanisms in Maryland Hospitals

October 29, 2014
Charles L. Bardes, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

November 5, 2014
Richard Park, M.D.
How Urgent Care is Learning to Play in the Sandbox

November 12, 2014
Claudia Calhoon, M.P.H.
Immigrant Health Access in New York

November 19, 2014
Rosemary Sullivan, R.N., M.A.
The Pathway to Patient Care Excellence

December 3, 2014
Thomas A. Farley, M.D.
Solving ‘Shorter Lives, Poorer Health’: What Will It Take?

December 10, 2014
Gordon Schiff, M.D.
Crossing Professional-Patient Boundaries: Violation or Obligation

December 17, 2014
Jason Leider, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P.
HIV Prevention and Testing: It’s All Our Business

January 7, 2015
Brian Wansink, Ph.D.
Slim by Design

January 14, 2015
Orli Etingin, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

January 21, 2015
Steven B. Auerbach, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.
Health Professional Shortage Areas - What Are They and Why You Should Care

January 28, 2015
David Muller, M.D.
Theresa Soriano, M.D., M.P.H.
Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors: Keeping the Person in Population Health

February 4, 2015
Steven Brill, J.D.
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

February 11, 2015
Ronda Kotelchuck
Primary Care Imperatives in the Health Reform Era

February 18, 2015
Linda Fried, M.D., M.P.H.
Towards Understanding Loss of Resilience with Aging: The Syndrome of Frailty

February 25, 2015
Clyde Evans, Ph.D.
Unconscious Bias and Mentoring

March 4, 2015
Blair L. Sadler, J.D.
Knowing David Rogers – the Beginning Years at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1972-1977

March 11, 2015
Bruce Gellin, M.D., M.P.H.
Measles as Metaphor

March 18, 2015
Julie L. Mirkin, M.A., R.N.
NYP's Care Coordination Program

March 25, 2015
David Blumenthal, M.D.
The Affordable Care Act at 5

April 1, 2015
Raymond Downing, M.D.
My Life in Medicine: The Bronx, Appalachia and Africa

April 8, 2015
Taina Bien-Aime
Human Trafficking in New York and Around the World: Challenges and Solutions

April 15, 2015
Mona Sarfaty, M.D., M.P.H.
Physician Awareness of Climate Change

April 22, 2015
Kevin Vigilante, M.D.
How Connected Technologies are Changing our Concept of Access

April 29, 2015
Victor Sidel, M.D.
Barry Levy, M.D., M.P.H.
Adverse Health Consequences of War

May 6, 2015
Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
When Old is New: Health Teams for the Future of Aging Care

May 13, 2015
Rev. Cheryl Fox, M.Div., B.C.A.
In It for the Long Haul: Resilience for Physicians and Medical Students

May 20, 2015
Denmark – Ashley Lundgren (Class of 2015)
England – Sarah Coates (Class of 2015)
Germany – Timothy Judson (Class of 2015)
Spain – Evan Stewart (Class of 2015)

US-EU Medical Education Exchange

May 27, 2015
Javaid I. Sheikh, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

June 3, 2015
Sarah Phillips
Community Health Workers: Promoting Health in the Sacred Valley of Peru

September 4, 2013
Lester Blair, M.D.
Racial Disparities: Seeking a Cure

September 11, 2013
Theodore Brown, Ph.D.
The Painful Pursuit of Health Reform

September 18, 2013
Karen Hein, M.D.
My Life in Medicine:
From 'Border Babies' and HIV in Adolescents to Towers of Power in DC
to Single Payer in Vermont

September 25, 2013
James Knickman, Ph.D.
Ruminations on How New York State Will Achieve an All-Payer System

October 2, 2013
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
Who Was David E. Rogers?

October 9, 2013
Stanley Brezenoff
Consolidation Among New York Academic Health Systems

October 16, 2013
Devon Green, J.D.
The Affordable Care Act and Vermont:
Using a Health Benefit Exchange to Reach Single Payer

October 23, 2013
Josie Rodberg, Ph.D.
The Politics of Government Family Planning Programs
in a Time of Budget Deficits: The 1970's Revisited

October 30, 2013
Gail C. McCain, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
The IOM Report on the Future of Nursing

November 6, 2013
Betty Dugan
Medical Reserve Corps

November 13, 2013
Deborah Estrin, Ph.D.
mHealth as a Tool for Clinically-Informed Patient Self-Management

November 20, 2013
Mark Callahan, M.D.
Theresa Dolan, M.S.
Population Management in the Era of Health Care Reform:
Mount Sinai's Accountable Care Organization

December 4, 2013
Michael Dowling
North Shore-LIJ Health Care System

December 11, 2013
Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., A.I.A., A.S.L.A.
The Built Environment and Health

January 8, 2014
Yosef D. Dlugacz, Ph.D.
Quality Measurements and the Physician

January 15, 2014
Carol Storey-Johnson, M.D.
Weill Cornell's New Curriculum

January 22, 2014
Joanne Ahola, M.D.
Alexandra E. Tatum
Teaching at the Intersection of Public Health and Human Rights

January 29, 2014
Jason Baker, M.D.
Diabetes in the Developing World

February 12, 2014
James C. Robinson, Ph.D.
Strategic Pricing of Medical Devices

February 19, 2014
Daniel M. Fox, Ph.D.
The ACA and the Ongoing Commercialization of Healthcare

February 26, 2014
Cheryl Healton, Dr.P.H., M.P.A.
The Challenge of Improving Global Health: Applying a University-Wide Model

March 5, 2014
Ramon Castelblanch, Ph.D.
The Impact of the ACA on Concentration of Ownership in the Healthcare Industry

March 12, 2014
Elisabeth Rosenthal, M.D.
Prices, a Problem Physicians Can't Ignore

March 19, 2014
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

March 26, 2014
Kenneth Dudek
Ralph Aquilla, M.D.
Integrated Wellness for Serious Mental Illness: The Fountain House Approach

April 2, 2014
Steven J. Corwin, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

April 9, 2014
Sherry Glied, Ph.D.
The Affordable Care Act: Implementation Challenges

April 16, 2014
Alan Fleischman, M.D.
Regulating Research Involving Children: Health Policy and Ethical Debates

April 23, 2014
Diane J. Mason, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.
Adding Value to Health Care: Lessons from Nurse-Led Models of Care

April 30, 2014
May Tsung-Mei Cheng
Health Reform in China: The Role of Evidence Based Clinical Pathways and
Payment Reform in China's Rural Hospitals

May 7, 2014
Oliver Fein, M.D.
Medical School Global Health Curriculum and Health Care Reform

May 14, 2014
Ross Macdonald, M.D.
Healthcare on Rikers and the Health Risks of Jail

May 21, 2014
Anne Linker, Vladimir Thomas, Maricela Castillo
US-EU Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, Germany, and the UK

May 28, 2014
Marcus M. Reidenberg, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Determining Drug Benefits for Medicare Part D and Affordable Care Act

June 4, 2014
Neal Emery
Rwanda's Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Should Learn

September 5, 2012
Ross Wilson, M.D.
NYC's Health and Hospital Corporation:
The Impact of Health Reform on a Public Hospital System

September 12, 2012
Peter Bach, M.D.
Intrinsically Incompatible:
Comparative Effectiveness Research and Cost Containment and
Why They Won't Make Things Better

September 19, 2012
Alondra Nelson, Ph.D.
Health Activism in the African American Community in the 1960s:
The Experience of the Black Panther Party

October 3, 2012
Holly Atkinson, M.D.
The Necessity of Advocacy in Medicine

October 10, 2012
George S. Alexopoulos, M.D.
Depression in Late Life

October 17, 2012
Gerry Goodrich, J.D., M.P.H.
Weill Cornell Physicians Network:
Expanding the Weill Cornell Physician Presence in New York

October 24, 2012
Caroline Volel, M.D., M.P.H.
Public Health Aspects of School Health

November 7, 2012
Eric Manheimer, M.D.
Deep Histories: Patient Stories, Health, and Society

November 14, 2012
David A. Kindig, M.D., Ph.D.
Is Hospital Community Benefit Charity Care?

November 28, 2012
Gregory A. Petsko, D.Phil.
The Next Great Epidemic:
Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Aging Population

December 5, 2012
Ramon Castellblanch, Ph.D.
Basic Health Plans Under the ACA

December 12, 2012
Cathey Eisner Falvo, M.D., M.P.H.
Cholera in New York City in 1832

January 2, 2013
Howard Waitzkin, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.P.
One and a Half Centuries of Forgetting and Remembering:
Social Medicine Past, Present, and Future

January 9, 2013
Alexander Low
Health Insurance Exchanges:
Implications for the Academic Medical Center

January 16, 2013
Miriam J. Laugesen, Ph.D.
Fixing Medical Prices:
Organized Medicine and Physician Payment Policy

January 23, 2013
Marcus M. Reidenberg, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Meeting Drug Needs of Medicare and Medicaid Patients With the
Essential Medicines Program of the World Health Organization

January 30, 2013
Rev. Curtis W. Hart, M.Div.
Biography as an Art Form

February 6, 2013
Susan C. Nicholson, M.D., F.I.D.S.A.
The State of the Pharmaceutical Industry

February 13, 2013
Andrew Ryan, Ph.D.
The Effect of Electronic Health Record Implementation and Technical Assistance on Quality of Care in Practices Caring for Underserved Patents in New York City

February 20, 2013
Steven Shea, M.D., M.S.
Social Impact Analysis of the Effects of Telemedicine Intervention to Improve Diabetes Outcomes in an Ethnically Diverse, Medically Underserved Population:
Findings from the IDEATel Study

February 27, 2013
Laurie H. Glimcher, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

March 6, 2013
Arthur A. Klein, M.D.
The North Shore-LIJ Health System:
A System and Healthcare Delivery Model for the Northeast

March 13, 2013
Dianne Miller
Playing Politics with the Federal Budget:
The Effects of Sequestration in Health Care, Medical Research, and Student Aid

March 20, 2013
Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.
Will Evidence Alone Help in Rationing Health Care?

March 27, 2013
Lisa M. Kern, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
How Health Information Technology Is Transforming Health Care

April 3, 2013
Irwin Redlener, M.D.
Hurricane Sandy: Lessons Learned - Or Just Another Megadisaster

April 10, 2013
Victor A. Carrillo, M.P.A.
Robert Guimento
The Patient Centered Medical Home

April 17, 2013
Peter Muennig, M.D., M.P.H.
Toward the Healthy City:
A New Way of Thinking About Population Health

April 24, 2013
Lawrence Smith, M.D.
Curriculum for Tomorrow's Medicine

May 1, 2013
Steven M. Safyer, M.D.
A View from the Bronx: The Montefiore Model

May 8, 2013
Bhaswati Bhattacharya, M.D., M.P.H., H.H.C., F.A.B.P.M.
Health Policies for the 99%: Supporting Health in Non-Patients and Those Outside the Interventional Health Care System

May 15, 2013
Emme Deland, M.B.A.
Clinical Transformation: The Beginning of a Journey

May 22, 2013
Ali Mendelson, Bem Atim, Landon Roussel
US-EU Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, Germany, and the UK

May 29, 2013
Dennis Smith, Ph.D.
Gun Violence: A Public Health Urgency

June 5, 2013
Carrie Bronsther
Desegregation in Eastern Europe: A Look into Anti-Roma Discrimination in Schools

Nina Woolley
Hands-On Training in the Global Health Curriculum

September 7, 2011
Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D., M.P.H.
Improving Quality, Achieving Equity, and Eliminating Disparities: A View from the Field

September 14, 2011
Kieke Okma, Ph.D.
Consumer Driven Health Care in Switzerland and the Netherlands: Reality or Fiction?

September 21, 2011
David Rosner, Ph.D.
The Ethics of Studying Low Level Lead Exposure in Children: A Crisis for Public Health

September 28, 2011
Ken Raske
Politics of Health System Reform: The ACA and the Debt Ceiling Budget

October 5, 2011
Morton Bogdonoff, M.D.
Who Was David Rogers?: Reflections On His Life

October 12, 2011
Benjamin K. Chu, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.C.P.
Improving Patient and Community Health by Taking on Broader Responsibility and Restoring Joy to Delivering Health Care

October 19, 2011
Ann C. Beal, M.D., M.P.H.
Health Care Disparities

October 26, 2011
John A. Zebala, M.D., Ph.D.
My Experience with Drug Development

November 2, 2011
Margaret Heagarty, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

November 9, 2011
J. Emilio Carrillo, M.D., M.P.H.
The NewYork-Presbyterian Regional Health Collaborative: Building a Medical Village in an Urban Immigrant Community

November 16, 2011
Georges Benjamin, M.D., M.P.H.
Ensuring the Transformation from Sick Care to Wellness Care

November 30, 2011
Jim Cone, M.D., M.P.H.
World Trade Center: 10 Years On

December 7, 2011
Elliot J. Lazar, M.D., M.B.A.
The NYP HERCULES Project

December 14, 2011
Francesca Gany, M.D.
Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities: Future Steps

January 4, 2012
Neal Flomenbaum, M.D.
Emergency Medicine in New York in the 19th Century: Everything Old is New Again

January 11, 2012
Susan Reverby, Ph.D.
Escaping Melodramas:
The U.S. STD Inoculation Studies in Guatemala and their Aftermath

January 18, 2012
Debra G.B. Leonard, M.D.
Faculty Diversity: Personal and Institutional Perspectives

January 25, 2012
Dova Marder, M.D.
Preventing Deaths Among Homeless Populations:
A Review of Mortality Data and Recent Initiatives

February 1, 2012
Herbert Pardes, M.D.
Providing Quality Health Care, While Reducing Costs

February 8, 2012
Barry S. Levy, M.D., M.P.H.
Victor W. Sidel, M.D.
The Health Consequences of the 'War on Terror:' Lessons for the Future

February 15, 2012
Madelon Finkel, Ph.D.
Epidemiologic and Public Health Considerations of Shale Gas Production: The Missing Link

February 22, 2012
Catherine Lord, Ph.D.
Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Diagnosis to Intervention to Community Supports

February 29, 2012
Mark D. Schwartz, M.D.
How Should We Pay Physicians

March 7, 2012
Robert Bazell
How TV Presents Science and Medicine

March 14, 2012
Robert B. Baron, M.D., M.S.
Graduate Medical Education:
How Can We Train the Best Physicians and Achieve Public Accountability

March 21, 2012
Rev. Curtis W. Hart, M.Div.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Famous Patient

March 28, 2012
Theodore Marmor, Ph.D.
Understanding Medicare: Separating Myth from Fact (1965-2012)

April 4, 2012
Kenneth Lampert, M.D.
The Transformation of Medicaid in New York

April 11, 2012
Rainu Kaushal, M.D., M.P.H.
What Is the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy?

April 18, 2012
Joel Berg
Food Insecurity and Hunger: Flip Sides of the Malnutrition Coin

April 25, 2012
Andrea Leonard-Segal, M.D.
When Is A Prescription Unnecessary?

May 2, 2012
Steven M. Paul, M.D.
Why Big Bad Drug Companies Are Good for Your Health

May 9, 2012
Robert Padgug, Ph.D.
The Brooklyn Hospital Crisis: Could an All-Payer Reimbursement System Help?

May 16, 2012
Myrna Perez, J.D., M.P.P.
How Hospitals Can Help Protect the Vote

May 23, 2012
Marta Galecki and Matthew McConnell
U.S.-E.U. Medical Education Exchange: Denmark and the U.K.

May 30, 2012
Amita Kulkarni, B.A.
The Evolution of Weill Cornell's Global Health Curriculum:
Our Experience Developing a Global Health Program Within a Medical School

September 8, 2010
Marc A Nivet, Ed.D.
A Way Forward: Reframing the Value of Diversity

September 15, 2010
David Blumenthal, M.D.
The Future of Health Information Technology: Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records

September 22, 2010
Joanne Ahola, M.D. and Mary White, M.D.
The Physician and the Political Refugee: The Asylum Process

September 29, 2010
David Himmelstein, M.D.
Health Reform: Reboot, Retry

October 6, 2010
Alvin I. Mushlin, M.D., Sc.M.
Reflections on the Life of David Rogers

October 13, 2010
Danielle Ompad, Ph.D.
Adult Influenza Immunization: Challenges and Policy Implications

October 20, 2010
Diane Gray, M.A., M.B.B.S., M.Sc., F.F.P.H.
The NHS in England: Reorganize, Rearrange and Reform

October 27, 2010
Ted Schrecker, Ph.D.
Why are Some Settings Resource-poor and Others Not?
The Global Marketplace, Perfect Economic Storms and the Right to Health

November 3, 2010
Stephen C. Schoenbaum, M.D., M.P.H.
Mortality Amenable to Health Care:
The Role of Health System Performance

November 10, 2010
Nathaniel Hupert, M.D.
Can We Predict the Flu (Yet)?

November 17, 2010
Rashi Fein, M.D.
What Comes after Health Care Reform?

December 1, 2010
Kenneth Davis, M.D.
Health Care Reform: Implications for Urban Academic Medical Centers

December 8, 2010
Lester N. Wright, M.D., M.P.H.
Corrections Health: An Intersection Between Public Health and Medical Care

December 15, 2010
Peter W. Bach, M.D., M.A.P.P.
How Medicare Could use Comparative Effectiveness Research in Deciding on New Coverage and Reimbursement

January 5, 2011
Lois Uttley, M.P.P.
Reproductive Health in Health Reform: Will it be Covered?

January 12, 2011
John T. Walkup, M.D.
Community-Based Suicide Prevention in Native American Communities

January 19, 2011
Karen S. Heller, M.B.A.
The Impact of Health Care Reform and NYS Budget Cuts on New York's Hospitals

January 26, 2011
Sandro Galea, M.D., Dr.PH
The Social Causes of Death in the U.S.

February 9, 2011
Richard Besser, M.D.
The Media: An Underused Arm of Public Health

February 16, 2011
Pierce Gardner, M.D., F.A.C.P.
The Fogarty International Clinical Research Training Programs

February 23, 2011
Virginia L. Hood, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., F.A.C.P.
My Life In Medicine

March 2, 2011
Donald Light, Ph.D.
How Did Prescription Drugs Become a Leading Cause of Death?
The Risk Proliferation Syndrome

March 9, 2011
Perri Klass, M.D.
Doctors Who Write for the General Public

March 16, 2011
Bruce C. Vladeck, Ph.D.
The Impact of ACA on Medicare

March 23, 2011
Martin Donohoe, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Corporate Influence on Health Care

March 30, 2011
Lynn Black, M.D., M.P.H.
Disaster Response: Personal Preparedness and Resiliency

April 6, 2011
Marc Bard, M.D.
Accountable Care Organizations: A Bard's Eye View

April 13, 2011
Michael Birnbaum, M.Sc., M.Phil.
Medicaid in New York: The Road Ahead

April 20, 2011
Gale A. Brewer
The Politics of Paid Sick Time Legislation

April 27, 2011
John Dittmer, Ph.D.
Sick and Tired: Race and Health Care During the Civil Rights Years

May 4, 2011
Marcia Angell, M.D.
Conflicts of Interest in Medicine

May 11, 2011
Mary K. Crow, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

May 18, 2011
Surafel Tsega, Michael Day, Maria Keating
U.S.-E.U. Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, Germany, and the U.K.

May 25, 2011
Diane Gray, M.A., M.B.B.S., M.Sc., F.F.P.H.
Physicians' Perspectives of Value in Healthcare: Views from Three Different Angles

June 1, 2011
Elizabeth Francis
From New York City to Lima Peru:
A Retrospective of the Weill Cornell Global Health Fellowship's Evolution

September 9, 2009
Jaclyn Van Lieu Vorenkamp, M.D., M.P.H. and Nathaniel Hupert, M.D., M.P.H.
Swine flu and You (and your hospital): Preparing for Now

September 16, 2009
Honorable Major Owens
How Congress Works: A View From the Black Caucus

September 23, 2009
Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D.
What's Happening in Health Care Reform

September 30, 2009
Holly Atkinson, M.D.
Should Medical Professionalism Include Advocacy?

October 7, 2009
Adam Kaufman
Channeling Dr. David E. Rogers: The Moral Imperative for Health Care Reform

October 14, 2009
Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D.
Stretching the Boundaries of Medicine: Drugs, Sports and the Ethics of Enhancement

October 21, 2009
Kenneth Olden, Ph.D.
An Academic Model to Address the 21st Century Challenges in Public Health

October 28, 2009
Jonathan Lee-Melk, M.D.
Borderland Pediatrics: Building a Medical Home on the US/Mexico Frontier

November 4, 2009
George Thibault, M.D.
The Educational Implications of Healthcare Reform: Time for a New Flexner Report

November 11, 2009
Andrew Schafer, M.D.
Is the Physician-Scientist Vanishing

November 18, 2009
David Skorton, M.D.
My Life in Medicine

December 2, 2009
Myint Oo, M.D.
My Life as a Doctor in Today's Burma

December 9, 2009
Eric Coleman, M.D., M.P.H.
Listen to Our Patients: They are Telling Us How to Improve the Quality of Transitional Care

December 16, 2009
Kathleen Klink, M.D.
The Patient Centered Medical Home: Panacea or Boondoggle?

January 6, 2010
John E. Jacoby, M.D., M.P.H.
The Quest for Primary Care: On the Life of Dr. Robert Levitt

January 13, 2010
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
National Health Reform: Where Do We Go From Here?

January 20, 2010
Dani Filc, M.D.
Circles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel

January 27, 2010
Danielle Ofri, M.D., Ph.D., D Litt (Hon), FACP
Journeys With Our Patients: Multiculturalism in a Two-Person Canoe

February 3, 2010
Sally Faith Dorfman, M.D., M.S.H.S.A.
My Lives In Medicine

February 17, 2010
Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan
The Rule of Law, Torture and the U.S. Military

February 24, 2010
Peter M. Fleischut, M.D.
How to Engage Housestaff in Quality and Patient Safety

March 3, 2010
Mathew Spitzer, M.D., D.T.M.H. (Class of 1995)
Emergency Medical Assistance in the Presence of the U.S. Military

March 10, 2010
Terry Fulmer, R.N., Ph.D.
The Future of Nursing - Notes from the RWJ/IOM Panels

March 17, 2010
Richard Cooper, M.D.
Geographic Variation and the Myths of Health Care Reform

March 24, 2010
Elizabeth Swain, M.A.
Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Mode for Our Time?

March 31, 2010
Mary Simmerling, Ph.D.
Emerging Complications in Organ Transplantation: The Ethical Challenges of Transplant Tourism

April 7, 2010
Theresa V. Horvath, PA-C, M.P.H.
The Health Initiatives of the Young Lords Party:
How a Group pf 1960s Radicals Made Health a Revolutionary Concern

April 14, 2010
Capt. Steven B. Auerbach, M.D., M.P.H.
HRSA: The Access Agency

April 21, 2010
Deborah Bachrach, J.D.
Medicaid and Health Insurance Reform

April 28, 2010
Marc A. Nivet, Ed.D.
Pursuing Excellence: A Rationale for Diversity and Inclusion

May 5, 2010
Neal Cohen, M.D.
The Public Health Perspective on Mental Health Policy and Practice

May 12, 2010
Alan Aviles, J.D.
Health Reform and the Future of NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation

May 19, 2010
Jamie M.Gree, Giselle D. Torres, and Erica L. Greenberg
US-EU Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, Germany and the U.K.

May 26, 2010
Ralph Nachman, M.D.
Flexner Redux

June 2, 2010
Victor Sidel, M.D.
Health Consequences of War: Diversion of Resources

September 3, 2008
"Reframing High School Dropouts as a Public Health Issue"
Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH

September 10, 2008
"Home Visits: Reflections on 10,000 House Calls"
Donald Moore, M.D., M.P.H.

September 17, 2008
"Faith-based Response to Global Health Issues"
Rev. Dr. Peter Le Jacq, M.D.

September 24, 2008
"Hospitals and Civil Rights: Racial Integration of Healthcare in the U.S."
Preston Reynolds, M.D., Ph.D.

October 1, 2008
"David E. Rogers and the Genetics of a Medical Career"
Jeremiah Barondess, M.D.

October 8, 2008
"How are Medicine and Public Health Related"
Linda Fried, M.D.

October 15, 2008
"The 'Medical Excuse' in Living Organ Transplantation"
Mary Simmerling, Ph.D.

October 22, 2008
"Strengthening Medical Education in Tanzania: The Weill Cornell Program in Bugando"
Daniel Fitzgerald, M.D.

October 29, 2008
"A Man Behind Every Broom: Public Health in New York City, 1894-1898"
Robin Nagle, Ph.D.

November 5, 2008
"The Globalization of Health Care"
Kenneth Ouriel, M.D.

November 19, 2008
"Preparing for the Aging of Our Population"
Pat Volland, M.S.W., M.B.A.

November 26, 2008
"The Saga of Anthrax"
Victor W. Sidel, M.D.

December 3, 2008
"Breast Feeding: Moving from Dogma to Doable"
Susan Burger, Ph.D., I.B.C.L.C.

December 10, 2008
"What's In a Word? Aide in Dying or Assisted Suicide? Reflections on the Oregon Experience"
Judith Schwarz, Ph.D., R.N.

December 17, 2008
"Health and Exercise Through the Holidays"
Jane Katz, Ed.D.

January 7, 2009
"Health Care in Indigenous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico"
Linnea Capps, M.D.

January 14, 2009
"Is America's Health Policy Healthy?"
Jo Ivy Boufford, M.D., M.P.H.

January 21, 2009
"Health Reform in China: Why It Matters to You"
David Zakus, B.Sc., M.E.S., M.Sc., Ph.D.

January 28, 2009
"Medical Homes and Accountable Care Systems"
Lawrence P. Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

February 4, 2009
"My Life in Medicine"
Gerald Thomson, M.D.

February 11, 2009
"Medicare and Cancer Drug Prices"
Peter Bach, M.D., M.A.P.P.

February 18, 2009
"Cervical Cancer Screening: Challenges in the Developing World"
Madelon Finkel, Ph.D.

February 25, 2009
"Health Reform: Can We? Will We?"
James R. Tallon, Jr.

March 4, 2009
"Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: Are We Ready?"
Siobhan Dolan, M.D., M.P.H.

March 11, 2009
"From Eliminating Polio to Preventing Birth Defect and Prematurity
– The March of Dimes Makes a Difference"
Alan Fleischman, M.D.

March 18, 2009
"The U.S. Commitment to Global Health"
Harold Varmus, M.D.

March 25, 2009
"White House Health Care Summit: A Participant's Account"
Oliver Fein, M.D.

April 1, 2009
"Mental Health and Primary Care:
Drowning in the Mainstream or Left on the Banks"
Harold Pincus, M.D.

April 8, 2009
"My Life in Medicine"
Michael McGarvey, M.D.

April 15, 2009
"Community Health Centers and Healthcare Reform"
Ronda Kotelchuck, M.R.P.

April 22, 2009
"The Concept of 'The Nudge'in Transforming Health Policy:
Reflections on Two Decades of Minimalist Intervention in Health Care Systems"
James Wilk, Ph.D.

April 29, 2009
"Options for Health Insurance in New York State"
James Knickman, Ph.D.

May 6, 2009
"Single Payer Health Reform: A Medical Emergency"
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D.

May 13, 2009
"Fundamental Reform of Physician Payment: The Coming Paradigm Shift"
Allan Goroll, M.D.

May 20, 2009
"US-EU Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, Germany and the U.K."
Ryan Wong, Scott Montgomery, and Naola Austin

May 27, 2009
"My Life in Medicine"
Michael Stocker, M.D.

June 3, 2009
"Latinos and the Census"
Clara Rodriguez, Ph.D.

September 5, 2007
"New Jersey Commission on Health-Care Restructuring:
To Downsize or Not to Downsize"
Gerry Goodrich, J.D., M.P.H.

September 12, 2007
"What Writing Can Do For Medicine and What Medicine Can Do For Writing"
Charles Bardes, M.D.

September 19, 2007
"Medical Professionalism: Should it Include Advocacy?"
Holly Atkinson, M.D.

September 26, 2007
"The Daughters of Aesculapius:
How Are Medicine and Public Health Related?"
Alfred Sommer, M.D.

October 3, 2007
"Reflections on the Life of David Rogers"
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., F.A.C.P.

October 10, 2007
"How Long Will We Live? A Demographer's Perspective"
John Bongaarts, Ph.D.

October 17, 2007
"Back to the Future?
Health Benefits, Organized Labor, and the Future of Health Care Reform"
Marie Gottschalk, Ph.D., M.P.A.

October 24, 2007
"New York City's Program in Health Literacy"
Anthony Tassi, Fatima Ashraf, Katharine Goheen

October 31, 2007
"Health Policy Implications of Studying the World Trade Center Disaster"
Jacqueline Moline, M.D., M.Sc.

November 7, 2007
"The Revised Black Box for Antidepressants Sets a Public Experiment in Motion"
Andrew C. Leon, Ph.D.

November 14, 2007
"The Future of Abortion in the U.S."
Beverly Winikoff, M.D., M.P.H.

November 28, 2007
"My Life in Medicine and Science"
Nancy Wexler, Ph.D.

December 5, 2007
"The Impact of Cancer on Racial Differences in Life Expectancy:
Implications for Prevention, Screening, and Treatment"
Mitchell Wong, M.D., Ph.D.

December 12, 2007
"Can Health Professionals Be Conscientious Objectors?"
Adrienne Asch, Ph.D.

December 19, 2007
"Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research: A Personal Story"
Josh Greenberg

January 9, 2008
"The Impact of Religiously-Based Health Provider Restrictions
on Patients' Rights and Access to Care"
Lois Uttley, MPP

January 16, 2008
"Community Service Initiatives at Weill Cornell Medical College"
Students from WCMC Community Service Groups

January 23, 2008
"The History of Health Reform"
Rosemary Stevens, Ph.D.

January 30, 2008
"The Role of School Health in New York City"
Roger Platt, M.D.

February 6, 2008
"My Life in Medicine"
Laura Forese, M.D.

February 13, 2008
"Should Cost Constrain What (Instead of Who) We Cover?"
Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPH

February 20, 2008
"Managed Care Abuses: The Urgent Need for Reform"
David Rosen, M.S.

February 27, 2008
"U.S. Physician Work Force:
Expanding Enrollment, New Schools, and New Careers in Medical Education"
Dan Hunt, M.D., M.B.A.

March 5, 2008
"The Italian Health Care System:
Specificities, Sustainability, and Prospective Evolution"
Guiseppi Turchetti, Ph.D.

Match 12, 2008
"Moving from Outputs to Outcomes: World Class Commissioning –
A New Direction for the National Health Service"
Charles Alessi, M.D.

March 19, 2008
"Immunizations and Public Policy"
Sheila Palevsky, M.D., M.P.H.

March 26, 2008
"Truth and Misunderstandings About Health Care Reform in the Netherlands"
Kieke G.H. Okma

April 2, 2008
"Physician Discipline in New York State"
Jack Richard, M.D.

April 9, 2008
"The Latest News in Pharmaceutical Drug Development"
Susan Nicholson, M.D.

April 16, 2008
"Cornerstone for Coverage: Towards a Universal Health Plan for New York State'
Elisabeth Benjamin, M.S.P.H., J. D.

April 23, 2008
"My Life in Medicine"
William Speck, M.D.

April 30, 2008
"Unexpected New York"
Chester Burger

May 7, 2008
"The German Health Care System – Myths and Truths"
Katharina Janus, Ph.D.

May 14, 2008
"Ethical Challenges in Global Medical Education"
John Fung, M.D., Ph.D.

May 21, 2008
"US-EU Medical Education Exchange: Denmark, Germany, and the U.K."
Avnish Deobhakta, Brett Lenart, and Kenny Hung

May 28, 2008
"Update on Weill Cornell Medical College – Qatar"
Daniel Alonso, M.D.

June 4, 2008
"Update on HIV Special Needs Programs"
Eli Camhi, LMSW

September 6, 2006
"NYS Medicaid Programs:
Policy Questions for the Next Administration"
Paula Wilson, M.S.W.

September 13, 2006
"Tanzania and the TOUCH Foundation: Investing in Human Resources for Health"
Lowell Bryan

September 20, 2006
"Brain Injury and the Politics of Stupor"
Joseph Fins, M.D.

September 27, 2006
"Quality Improvement Strategies to Reduce Healthcare Disparities"
Karen Scott Collins, M.D., M.P.H.

October 4, 2006
"Student-Run Free Clinics: Crossing the Insurance Gap"
Ankit Patel and Shobha Sadasivaiah, Class 2009
Yasmin Meah, M.D. and Laura Gelfman, Class 2007

October 11, 2006
"My Life in Medicine with Reflections on David Rogers"
June E. Osborn, M.D.

October 18, 2006
"My Life in Medicine"
Bry Benjamin, M.D.

October 25, 2006
"Why Our Hospitals are not Safer"
Mark Chassin, M.D., M.P.P., M.P.H.

November 1, 2006
"Rating Hospital Quality: the US News & World Report Approach"
Mark Callahan, M.D.

November 8, 2006
"Health Information Technology: A Tool to Improve Patient Safety"
Rainu Kaushal, M.D., M.P.H.

November 15, 2006
"What is the Role of Academic Medicine in Solving the Global Health Crisis?"
David Stern, M.D., Ph.D.

November 29, 2006
"My Life in Medicine: Exploring Huntington Disease"
Nancy Wexler, Ph.D.
"Improving Maternal and Child Health in Rural Tanzania:
A Case for Public-Private Partnerships"
Neema Mgana

December 6, 2006
"The World Health Organization Program for the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines"
Marcus M. Reidenberg, M.D., F.A.C.P.

December 13, 2006
"Sustaining Caregivers: Occupational Health for the Humanitarian Workforce"
Sheila M. Platt, M.S.W.

January 3, 2007
"Who Needs Insurance Companies Anyway"
Leonard Rodberg, Ph.D.

January 10, 2007
"Public Hospitals- For and Against: A Debate"
Robert Meyer, M.D. and Melissa Schori, M.D.

January 17, 2007
"Childhood Lead Poisoning: Past to Present"
Jacqueline Ehrlich, M.D., M.P.H. (Class of '93)

January 24, 2007
"Technology Transfer: A Journey from Bench to Bedside"
Brian Kelly, Ph.D.

January 31, 2007
"Physician as Advocate:
Experiences at the Pennsylvania Health Law Project"
Gene Bishop, M.D.

February 7, 2007
"My Life in Medicine"
Lee Goldman, M.D., M.P.H.

February 14, 2007
"A New Paradigm for Performance"
Mary Reich Cooper, M.D., J.D.

February 21, 2007
"U.S. Military Action in Vietnam and Iraq:
Similarities, Differences, and Health Consequences"
Victor W. Sidel, M.D.

February 28, 2007
"Millennium Village Project: Progress Report"
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, M.D., M.P.H.

March 7, 2007
"The Child Soldiers Health Initiative:
the HIV Crisis in a Vulnerable Population"
Nonkulie Dladla, M.D.

March 14, 2007
"Ventilator Allocation in a Flu Pandemic"
Tia Powell, M.D.

March 21, 2007
"Nineteenth Century 'Nervous' Disorders:
The James Family and J.P. Morgan"
Jean Strouse

March 28, 2007
"Politics and Public Health"
Joshua M. Scharfstein, M.D.

April 4, 2007
"Muslim Societies and Western Nations:
Rejecting the Clash of Civilizations"
Shamil Idriss

April 11, 2007
"My Life in Medicine"
Peter Auld, M.D.

April 18, 2007
"What's Happening in Congress on Health Care"
Diane Miller

April 25, 2007
"Managing Complex Chronic Care in the Community"
Claudia Fine

May 2, 2007
"Community Midwifery –
Lessons to be Learnt from a Grassroots Experience in Mexico"
Nadine Goodman, C.S.W., M.P.H.

May 9, 2007
"Broken Promises, Broken Dreams:
The Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience"
Alice Rothchild, M.D.

May 16, 2007
"US-EU Medical Exchange Program: Denmark, Germany, and the U.K."
Jennifer Lesko, David Dreizin, and Folorunsho Osamuede Ebodor-Osula

May 23, 2007
"My Life in Medicine"
Bruce Ballard, M.D.

June 6, 2007
"The Pathology of Poverty: HIV/AIDS in Kenya"
Kathleen Harrison, Ph.D.

September 7, 2005
"Social Injustice and Public Health"
Barry Levy, M.D., M.P.H., and Victor W. Sidel, M.D.

September 14, 2005
"Physician Executive: An Oxymoron"
Matthew Fink, M.D.

September 21, 2005
"Medical Professionalism: Should It Include Advocacy?"
Holly Atkinson, M.D.

September 28, 2005
"Race Medicine: BiDiL Plus"
Charles K. Francis, M.D., F.A.C.P.

October 5, 2005
"Who was David Rogers?"
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.

October 12, 2005
"Reflections on my Life in Medicine"
Robert Buchanan, M.D.

October 19, 2005
"A Consumer-Information Perspective on Consumer Directed Health Plans"
Soshanna Sofaer, Dr.P.H.

October 26, 2005
"The Health-Workforce and Global Health"
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D.

November 2, 2005
"Is There a Need for a Settlement House on the Upper East Side?"
Warren Scharf

November 9, 2005
"The Challenge of HIV Treatment Roll-Out in Africa"
Nomi Levy and Nathaniel Hupert, M.D.

November 16, 2005
"Health and the Millennium Development Goals"
Joanna Rubinstein, Ph.D.

November 30, 2005
"WMC Research Initiatives: Ithaca, Houston and Qatar"
Harry Lander, Ph.D., M.B.A.

December 7, 2005
"Daring to Talk About Sex: HIV and Psychiatric Institutions in South Africa?"
Pamela Collins, M.D., M.P.H.

December 14, 2005
"New Technology: Issues in a Surgical Subspecialty"
Michael Stewart, M.D.

January 4, 2006
"Restructuring Clinical Research: The Clinical and Translational Science Award"
Julianne L. Imperato-McGinley, M.D.

January 11, 2006
"My Life in Medicine"
Herbert Pardes, M.D.

January 18, 2006
"Underage Drinking Implications for College Campuses"
Lisa Staiano-Coico, Ph.D.

January 25, 2006
"Drug "Safety" or Drug "Toxicity"
Marcus Reidenberg, M.D.

February 1, 2006
"Concepts in Chinese Medicine"
Carlyle Miller, M.D.

February 8, 2006
"Genetic Suffering and Justice"
Immaculada de Melo-Martin, Ph.D.

February 15, 2006
"Policy Implications of Declines in Birthrates"
Wendy Chavkin, M.D.

February 22, 2006
"The Uneasy Present and Uncertain Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry"
Mark Horn, M.D.

March 1, 2006
"My Life in Medicine"
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D., D.Phil.

March 8, 2006
"Learn: Language Enhancement Activation: Responding to Needs"
Francesca M. Gany, M.D.

March 15, 2006
"Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Patient Education in the 21st Century"
Bruce B. Dan, M.D.

March 22, 2006
"The Challenge of Language Assistance Services for Patients with Limited English Proficiency"
Rick Evans, M.A.

March 29, 2006
"How Low Can We Go?
Driving Down the Price of Anti-retroviral Therapy in the Developing World"
Dai Ellis

April 5, 2006
"Health Promotion and Behavior Change:
Strategies for Local Health Departments"
Mary T. Bassett, M.D., M.P.H.

April 12, 2006
"My Life in Medicine"
Robert Michels, M.D.

April 19, 2006
"Reaching NYC's Uninsured:
The City's Strategies and Approaches to Expanding Health Insurance Access"
Marjorie Cadogan

April 26, 2006
"Silence is Not Golden: Medical Error Disclosure"
Steven Reichert, M.D.

May 3, 2006
"My Life in Medicine"
Roger Greif, M.D.

May 10, 2006
"EU-US Medical Exchange Program: Germany, Denmark, and the U.K."
Amy Wittle, Adam Weitzman and Caroline Groft

May 17, 2006
"MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines"
Kate Evans

May 24, 2006
"Controversies in Pharmacology"
Marcus Reidenberg, M.D.

May 31, 2006
"The Global Gun Epidemic: From Saturday Night Specials to AK-47s"
Victor W. Sidel, M.D.

September 8, 2004
"Leadership in Quality Care: Changing the Future of Medicine"
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A.

September 15, 2004
"Health Care Reform: How Far Are We From the Tipping Point?"
Humphrey Taylor

September 22, 2004
"Narrative Medicine: Attention, Representation, and Affiliation"
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D.

September 29, 2004
"The Nuclear Threat: Prognosis, Proliferation, Prevention"
Victor Sidel, M.D.

October 6, 2004
"Reflections on the Life of David Rogers: A Cornell Student Perspective"
Robert M. Greenberg, M.D.

October 13, 2004
"Research and Public Policy in the Pharmaceutical Industry:
An Attempt to Get Understanding, If Not, Love"
Ronald Kuntzman, Ph.D.

October 20, 2004
"The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America"
Ernest Drucker, Ph.D.

October 27, 2004
"Health Care and the American Political System"
Bruce Vladeck, Ph.D.

November 3, 2004
"WHO Essential Medicine Concepts for Rich Countries"
Marcus Reidenberg, M.D.

November 10, 2004
"Influenza Vaccine 2004:
You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone"
Bruce Gellin, M.D., Ph.D.

November 17, 2004
"Conflicts of Interest:
Physician-Pharmaceutical Industry Relations"
Robert Goodman, M.D.

December 1, 2004
"Biotechnology Drug Development: Issues and Challenges"
Herb Conrad

December 8, 2004
"Asthma: The Effect on Children in the Inner City"
Gerald Loughlin, M.D.

December 15, 2004
"In the Name of Research: Locking in High Drug Prices Here and Abroad"
Donald W. Light, Ph.D.

January 5, 2005
"From Contract to Covenant in Advanced Care Planning"
Joseph Fins, M.D.

January 12, 2005
"A Prescription for Change in U.S. Health Care"
Raymond Gilmartin

January 19, 2005
"Deposed But Not Forgotten:
A Personal Reflection on History, Health, and the Courts"
David Rosner, Ph.D.

January 26, 2005
"Health Disparities and Quality of Care"
Anne C. Beal, M.D., M.P.H.

February 2, 2005
"Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development"
David Hamburg, M.D., Ph.D. & Beatrix Hamburg, M.D., Ph.D.

February 9, 2005
"The Media and Medicine"
Myrna Manners

February 16, 2005
"Problem Solving for Better Health: A Global Experience"
Barry Smith, M.D., Ph.D.

February 23, 2005
"Dietary Supplements: Balancing Public Health and Consumer Choice"
Tim Powell, M.D.

March 2, 2005
"Managed Medicaid: Cost Savings vs. Quality"
James H.T. Tan, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.

March 9, 2005
"Integrating Screening for Behavioral Risk Factors Into Reproductive Health Care"
Kathryn Miller

March 16, 2005
"Just Call Us Children: Tsunamis, AIDS, Orphans, and Vulnerable Kids"
Karen Hein, M.D.

March 23, 2005
"The Science of Reading:
Brain Mechanisms, Cognitive Development and Education Policy"
Bruce McCandliss, Ph.D.

March 30, 2005
"Physicians for a National Health Program: Mission and Mechanics"
Joanne Landy, M.P.H.

April 6, 2005
"Expanding Access to Treatment for HIV/AIDS in Africa"
Miriam Raskin, M.D., M.P.H.

April 13, 2005
"Change in Abortions and Births Following the Texas Parent Notification Statute"
Ted Joyce, Ph.D.

April 20, 2005
"Suburban Shaman: A Physician-Writer's Experience of Medicine in Apartheid South Africa, Family Practice in Britain and Encounters with Traditional Healers"
Cecil G. Helman, M.B.C.H.B., F.R.C.G.P.

April 27, 2005
"Palliative Care in Resource Poor Countries"
Kathleen M. Foley, M.D.

May 4, 2005
"Nursing and the Health Care System: Current Policy Issues"
David Keepnews, Ph.D., J.D., R.N.

May 11, 2005
"Reflections on European Health Systems: US-EU Medical Education Exchange"
Cyrus Nozad, Alden Chiu, and Michael Walton (Class of 2005)

May 18, 2005
"The Emergency Medical Response in Indonesia: Notes from the Field"
Rachel Moresky, M.D., M.P.H.

May 25, 2005
"The After-Life of Terri Schiavo and Her Legacy for End-of-Life Care"
Joseph J. Fins, M.D., F.A.C.P.

September 10, 2003
"Improving Quality of Care in Complex Organizations:
The Role of Leadership"
Mark Callahan, M.D.

September 17, 2003
"Globalizing Biomedical Sciences"
Harold Varmus, M.D., Ph.D.

September 24, 2003
"The Role of Public Hospitals in Health Care Delivery"
Benjamin Chu, M.D.

October 1, 2003
"Racial Disparities in Access to Medical Care: Beyond Health Insurance"
Gerald Thomson, M.D.

October 8, 2003
"Reflections on the Life of David Rogers"
Jeremiah Barondess, M.D.

October 15, 2003
"The Toronto Sars Experience"
Kamran Khan, M.D., M.P.H., F.R.C.P.C.

October 22, 2003
"The Social Responsibility of Academic Health Centers and Systems"
Oliver Fein, M.D.

October 29, 2003
"Forensic Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster"
Charles Hirsch, M.D.

November 5, 2003
"Medical Chaos in Gilded New York:
The Origins of Cornell University Medical College"
Paul Kligfield, M.D.

November 12, 2003
"The Hospice Approach to End of Life Care"
Fred Schwartz, M.D.

November 19, 2003
"AIDS and STDs in Haiti:
Moving to National Screening and Treatment"
Bruce Schackman, Ph.D. & Daniel Fitzgerald, M.D.

December 3, 2003
"Disaster Mental Health Preparedness"
Jane Plapinger, M.P.H.

December 10, 2003
"Psychiatric Care in the 21st Century:
The More Things Change, The More Things Stay The Same"
Virginia Susman, M.D.

December 17, 2003
"The Right to Die and the Right to Care:
Catastrophic Brain Injury as Oxymoron"
Joseph Fins, M.D.

January 7, 2004
"The Uninsured and the Benefits of Medical Progress"
Sherry A. Glied, Ph.D.

January 14, 2004
"Physicians for Human Rights-Israel:
Its Work With Palestinians in the Occupied Territories"
Zvi Bentwich, M.D.

January 21, 2004
"Reduction of Harm: The Rarely Mentioned Approach to the Malpractice Crisis"
Stephen C. Schoenbaum, M.D.

January 28, 2004
"Nursing Education and Its Impact on the Future Nursing Work Force"
Hila Richardson, R.N., Dr.P.H., F.A.A.N.

February 4, 2004
"Measuring Professionalism as a Competency"
David Stern, M.D.

February 11, 2004
"Improving Living Conditions as a Strategy for Improving Public Health in New York City: Toward an Agenda for Research and Action"
Nick Freudenberg, DrPH

February 18, 2004
"The Origins of Dialogue Between Religion and Psychiatry"
Reverend Curtis Hart, M. D.I.V.

February 25, 2004
"The Current Challenge in Humanitarian Aid:
Examples from Afghanistan and Treatment of Neglected Cases"
Brigg Reilly, M.P.H.

March 3, 2004
"Medicare Reform: Now Who is the Beneficiary?"
Robert M. Hayes

March 10, 2004
"Preparedness and Public Health: What do we Need to Know?"
Irwin Redlener, M.D.

March 17, 2004
"Fighting AIDS in Africa:
A Pilot HIV/AIDS Treatment Project in Nigeria"
Rachel Yassky, J.D., M.B.A.

March 24, 2004
"The Development and Testing of a New Method to Identify Preventable Hospital Complications"
Norbert I. Goldfield, M.D.

March 31, 2004
"International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC): A Report From Guatemala"
Dan Jamieson, Joan May, M.A. & Oliver Fein, M.D.

April 7, 2004
"Caring and Advocating for Asylum Seekers in the Post-9/11 World"
Allen S. Keller, M.D.

April 14, 2004
"Using Information Systems to Improve Quality in Health Care"
Gilad Kuperman, M.D., Ph.D.

April 21, 2004
"The Current Medical Malpractice Crisis:
Déjà Vu or Something New?"
John Campano, Esq.

April 28, 2004
"Mainstreaming Early Abortion in Primary Care"
Joan Fleishman, M.D.

May 5, 2004
"The International Business Community:
A New Weapon in the Fight Against AIDS"
Trevor Neilson

May 12, 2004
"Reflections on European Health Systems: US-EU Medical Education Exchange"
Jenice Forde, James Bartscher & Andrew Wong (Class of 2004)

May 19, 2004
"Progress on Covering the Uninsured?"
Rima Cohen, M.P.P.

May 26, 2004
"The Impact of Income Support Policies on Health"
Peter S. Arno, Ph.D.

September 4, 2002
"Pharmaceutical Company Influence on Prescribing Behavior"
Susan Nicholson, M.D.
Medical Director of Infectious Diseases
Bristol Myers Squibb

September 11, 2002
"Psychological Impact of 9/11 on New York City"
David Vlahov, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies
New York Academy of Medicine

September 18, 2002
"Measures of Healthcare Quality in the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System"
Eliot Lazar, M.D.
Vice President for Medical Affairs
NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System

September, 25, 2002
"Report from a Member of the White House Commission on Complementary
And Alternative Medicine Policy: A Dissenting Voice"
Joseph Fins, M.D.
Director of Medical Ethics
NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center

October 2, 2002
"Who was David Rogeers"
Barbara Rogers, Morton Bogdonoff, M.D. and Alvin Mushlin, M.D.
Widow and past Colleagues of Dr. David Rogers

October 9, 2002
"Racial Disparities in Access to Health Care"
Gerald Thomson, M.D.
Lambert and Sonneborn Professor of Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

October 16, 2002
"Children's Mental Health in NYC Post 9/11: A Public Health Agenda"
Christina Hoven, Dr.P.H.
Child Psyhiatric Epidemiologist
School of Public Health, Columbia University

October 23, 2002
"Medical Error in the Cultural Context"
Nancy Berlinger, Ph.D., M.Div.
Deputy Director
Hasings Center

October 30, 2002
"Bioterriorism, The National Pharmaceutical Stockpile and You"
Nathaniel Hupert, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine
Weill Cornell College of Cornell University

November 6, 2002
"The Future of Politics and Health on the Day After (the elections)"
Jarrold Nadler
Member of Congress
United States House of Representatives

November 13, 2002
"Exploring Models of Geriatric Inpatient Care"
Eugenia Siegler, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medical Director, Geriatric Inpatient Service
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

November 20, 2002
"Residency Hours: Fifteen Years Later"
Bertram Bell, M.D.
Distinguished University Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

December 4, 2002
"General Internal Medicine: Past, Present and Future"
Oliver Fein, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univeristy

December 11, 2002
"Health Care Reform in the United States"
Thomas Newman, M.D.
Professor of Epidemiology Biostatistics, Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine
University of California San Francisco

December 18, 2002
"An Overview of the Nursing Shortage"
Karen Ballard, M.A., R.N.
Director of Practice and Government Affairs
New York State Nurses Association

January 8, 2003
"Smallpox Vaccination: A Melange of Science and Politics"
William Schaffner, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Prevention Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

January 15, 2003
"Contextual Determinates of Illicit Drug Use"
Sandro Galea, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Epidemiologist and Associate Director
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies
New York Academy of Medicine

January 22, 2003
"Medicaid Managed Care: Facts of Fiction"
Katheryn Haslanger, J.D., M.E.R.P.
Vice President
United Hospital Fund

January 29, 2003
"Disaster Relief Medicaid After 9/11"
Susan Dooha, J.D.
Executive Director
Center for Independence of the Disabled

February 5, 2003
"NewYork-Presbyterian Service Line Strategy"
Steven J. Corwin, M.D.
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

February 12, 2003
"Economic Recession: What Does it Mean for Health Care in New York City"
Deborah Bachrach, J.D.
Partner
Manatt, Phelps and Phillips

February 19, 2003
"A Physician's Prespective on Health Care Reform"
Melissa M. Brown, M.D., M.N. M.B.A.
Direcotr, Center for Evidenced-Based Health Care Economics
Immediate Past President, Montgomery County Medical Society, Pennsylvania
2002 Republican Candidate for Congress

February 26, 2003
"Does the U.S. Have Too Many Primay Care or Specialist Doctors?"
Michael Whitcomb, M.D.
Senior V.P. for Medical Education
Association of American Medical Colleges
Editor-in-Chief, Academic Medicine

March 5, 2003
"Like Father, Like Son:
The Correspondence Between Carl R. Roders, Ph.D. and David E. Rogerss, M.D."
James L. Gehrlich, M.Div.
Head of Archieves
NewYork Weill Cornell Medical Center

March 12, 2003
"Improving Health Care Service"
Lenoard Berry, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Marketing
M.B. Zale Chair in Retailing and Marketing Leadership
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University

March 19, 2003
"Beyond the "Ick" Factor:
Can the Lessons Learned from IVF Apply to Human Cloning?"
Jennifer Rosato, Esq.
Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Co-Director, Center for Health Law and Policy

March 26, 2003
"Unemployment: Personal and Societal Reflections"
Luis R. Macros, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, New York University
Former President, NYC Health and Hospital Corporation

April 2, 2003
"Developments in Primary Care: The British National Health Service"
Richard Alderslade, M.D.
Senior External Relations Officer
World Health Organization

April 9, 2003
"The Dilemma of Physician Assisted Suicide: Hippocrates vs. Kevorkian"
Sherwin Nuland, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Yale School of Medicine

April 16, 2003
"Creating Consensus on Coverage Choices:
Leadership Roles for Academic Institutions"
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
President, Commonwealth Fund

April 23, 2003
"Evidenced-Based Management: Problems and Issues"
Anthony Kovner, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Policy & Management
New York University

April 30, 2003
"Patterns of Heart Disease and Treatment in Three World Cities:
New York, Paris and London"
Victor Rodwin, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Policy and Management
New York University
Michael Gusmano, Ph.D. and Daniel Weisz, M.D.
International Longevity Center

May 7, 2003
"High Touch, High Tech: Osteopathic Medicine"
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O.
Dean/Provost for Medical Affairs
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine

May 14, 2003
"Growing a System of Rual Health Care: Lessons from the Adirondacks"
John Rugge, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer
Hudson Headwaters Health Network

May 21, 2003
"Reports from the U.S.-E.U. Medical Education Exchange"
Steven Balt, Lindsay Smithen, and Annie Wu
(Class of 2003)

June 4, 2003
"Population-Based Data on the Effectiveness of Early Detection and Treatment for Prostate Cancer"
Michael J. Barry, M.D.
Director, Health Services Research Program
Chief, General Medicine Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital

The Willian D. Stubenbord Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Health
Sponsored by the Louis Calder Foundation

September 6, 2000
"The Rise and Fall of Equitable Medical Care in China"
Victor Sidel, M.D.
Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

September 13, 2000
"Urban Public Health: The Housing Connection"
Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D.
Associate Dean
Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health in Psychiatry
Columbia School of Public Health

September 20, 2000
"Medicare and Prescription Drugs"
Bruce Valdeck, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Medicare Practice
Professor of Healthy Policy and Geriatrics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

September 27, 2000
"Stratigic Management in Today's Environment:
Worthwile or A Wast of Time?"
Susan Swift, M.P.A., D.P.A.
President
Susan S. Swift, Ltd.

October 4, 2000
"The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Research in Integrated Delivery Systems"
Alvin Mushlin, M.D., Sc. M
Hirsch Ruchlin, Ph.D.
Mark Callahan, M.D.
Department of Public Health
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

October 11, 2000
"Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness:
A 20-Year Retrospective"
Kim Hopper, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
NYS Office of Mental Health

October 18, 2000
"Resource Allocation for Cardiovascular Disease Preventive Services:
Applying Cost-Effectiveness Analysis When Resources are Limited"
Marc D. Silverstein, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Medical University of South Carolina

October 25, 2000
"Surveillance of West Nile Virus"
Michael Eisenberg, M.D.
Resident in Preventive Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

November 1, 2000
"The Four Phases of For-Profit Medicine"
Howard Berliner, Sc.D.
Associate Prefessor of Healthy Policy
Milano Graduate School
New School University

November 8, 2000
"The Politics of Palliative Care"
Joseph Fins, M.D.
Director of Medical Ethics
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

November 15, 2000
"Clinical Integration in the NYP Healthcare System"
Eliot Lazar, M.D.
Vice President for Medical Affairs
NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System

November 29, 2000
"AIDS in South Africa"
Sally Guttmacher, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Studies
New York University

December 6, 2000
"The Incarceration Epidemtic:
The Impact of the Rockefeller Drug Laws"
Michael Mushlin, J.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor of Law
Pace University School of Law

December 13, 2000
"The Meaning of Race in Science and Society"
Harold Freeman, M.D.
President
North General Hospital

December 20, 2000
"Cost-Effectiveness of New Drugs for Alzheimer's Disease"
Peter Neumann, Sc.D.
Assistant Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences
Department of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

January 10, 2001
"Surviving the Fall: Lessons from the First Decade of the AIDS Epidemic"
Peter Selwyn, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

January 17, 2001
"Tapwater: To Drink or Not to Drink – How Its Quality is Regulated"
Cathey Falvo, M.D., M.P.H.
Program Director, International and Public Health
New York Medical College

January 24, 2001
"Issues Facing Academic Group Practices"
Nancy Farrell, M.P.A., M.B.A.
Chief Administrative Officer
Cornell Physicians Organization
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

January 31, 2001
"Will Lowering Prices for Pharmaceuticals Jeopardize Break-Through Research?"
Donald Light, Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Health Systems
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

February 7, 2001
"Medicine and the Internet"
Holly T. Atkinson, M.D.
President
iVillagehealth

February 14, 2001
"How Will Medicine Withstand the Challenge of Managed Care and Cost Containment?"
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.
President and CEO
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

February 21, 2001
"IVF: Past, Present and Future"
Zev Rosenwaks, M.D.
Revlon Distinguished Professor of Reproductive Medicine
In Obstretics and Gynecology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

February 28, 2001
"Physicians As a Target of Violence: Epidemiology and Prevention"
Tariq Malik, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Internal Medicine Associates
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

March 3, 2001
"Medicare Reform: Now Who is the Beneficiary?"
Robert M. Hayes

March 7, 2001
"Strengths and Challenges of New York City's Public Hospitals"
Luis R. Marcos, M.D.
President
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

March 14, 2001
"Medical Errors: When Murphy Speaks, Listen!"
Harold Kaplan, M.D.
Director of Clinical Labs
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center

March 21, 2001
"Community Schools: Health Care Opportunity"
Joy Dryfoos
Independent Researcher and Writer

March 28, 2001
"Conflicts in the World Health Organization
Essential Drugs Program: Can They Be Resolved?"
Marcus Reidenber, M.D.
Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

April 4, 2001
"Public/Private Partnerships in Research and Developemnt for Orphan Diseases"
Ariel Pablos-Mendez, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director in Health Equity
Rockefeller Foundation

April 11, 2001
"Equity, Food Security and Environmental Protection"
Robert Lawrence, M.D.
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Dean for Professional Education
John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health

April 18, 2001
"Hippocratic or Hypocritical:
Can Oaths Shape What Doctors Do?"
Natianiel Hupert, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine
Weill Medical College of Dornell University

Alice M. Crary, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
The New School University

April 25, 2001
"Parent/Patient Preferences in the Pediatric Emergency Department"
Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
University of California Davis Medical Center

May 2, 2001
"Globalizing Medical Education: The Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar"
Daniel Alonso, M.D.
Dean, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

May 9, 2001
"Reflections of Cornell Students on the Health Systems of Denmark, Germany and Sweden"
Julie Clarks, Rotonya McCants and Will Savage
Fourth-Year Weill Medical College Students

May 16, 2001
"Closing the Quality Gap with Information Technology"
Mark Callahan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine
Chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

May 23, 2001
"Including Aid In Dying In the Continuum of Care Near the End of Life"
Richard MacDonald, M.D.
President
World Federation of the Right to Die Societies

May 30, 2001
"Ethics in Third World Research:
What do American Investigatiors Abroad Owe Their Subjects"
David Rothman, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Study of Society and Medicine
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

June 6, 2001
"Financing Medical Education: Student Peerspectives and Experience"
Shantanu Agrawal – Class of 2003
Vassily Eliopoulos – Class of 2003
Kavita Parikh – Class of 2004
Lillian Wang – Class of 2004

June 13, 2001
"Community Service and Researvh: Where do they Meet?"
Caroline Volel, M.D., M.P.H.
Preventive Medicine Resident
Department of Public Health
Weill Medical College

September 8, 1999
"Defining the Interface Between Public Health and Medicine"
Alvin I. Mushlin, M.D.
Chair, Department of Public Health
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

September 15, 1999
"The Future of the Academic Health Center"
Herbert Pardes, M.D.
Vice President for Health Sciences and
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University

September 22, 1999
"The New York Presbyterian Healthcare System"
Barbara A. DeBuono, M.D., M.P.H.
Chief Executive, New York Presbyterian Healthcare Network
Executive Vice President
New York Presbyterian Healthcare System

September 29, 1999
"Some Issues Facing Academic Health Centers"
Paul A. Marks, M.D.
President and CEO
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

October 6, 1999
"Overview of Minority Health"
Susana Morales, M.D.
Director, Center for Multi-Cultural and Minority Health
Department of Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

October 13, 1999
"The Future of Academic Medicine in the Current Business Climate"
John Tooker, M.D.
Deputy Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
American College of Physicians

October 20, 1999
"Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Serious Problem"
Sidney Wolfe, M.D.
Director
Public Citizen Health Research Group

October 27, 1999
"Managed Care in Latin America"
Howard Waitzkin, M.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Community and Social Medicine
University of New Mexico

November 3, 1999
"Eliminating Racial Disparitites in Health:
The Peculiar Legacies of A Divided System"
David B. Smith, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Healthcare Management Programs
Temple University School of Business Management

November 10, 1999
"The Aging Factor in Health and Disease"
Robert Butler, M.D.
President and CEO
International Longevity Center

November 17, 1999
"Mandatory Medicaid Managed Care: It's Finally Here"
Walid Michelen, M.D.
Executive Director
Ambulatory Care
New York-Presbyterian Hospital

November 24, 1999
"The Uninsured: Who Are They and What Can be Done to Help Them"
Sherry Glied, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Head Division of Health Policy Management
Columbia University

December 1, 1999
"Medical Care in Cuba"
Rebecca Gee
2nd Year Medical Student
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

December 8, 1999
"Dr. David E. Rogers and His Legacy:
A Student's Perspective"
Robert Greenberg, M.D.
Weill Medical College Graduate '98
Resident in Emergency Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

December 15, 1999
"Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results"
David A. Kindig, M.D. Ph.D.
Professor of Prevention Medicine
Former Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
Uiversity of Wisconsin-Madison

January 5, 2000
"Asthma in Homeless Children in NYC"
Diane McClean, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Second Year Medical Student
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

January 12, 2000
"Teaching Residents Managed Care Competencies
The Experience of Partnerships in Quality Education"
Michael Yedidia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Center for Health and Public Servie Research
New York University

January 19, 2000
"Minority Recruitment in the U.S. Medical Schools:
The Current Picture"
Bruce Ballard, M.D.
Associate Dean
Student Affairs and Equal Opportunity Programs
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

January 26, 2000
"Establishing the Link Between Cultural Competency and
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health"
Joseph R. Betancourt, M.D.
Associate Director
Center for Multi-Cultural and Minority Health
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Internal Medicine Associates

February 2, 2000
"The New Genetics: Problems and Possibilities"
Jessica Davis, M.D.
Co-Director, Division of Human Genetics
Weill Medical Colege of Cornell University

February 9, 2000
"The Rockefeller Foundation's Public Health Programs
In 1920's Mexico"
Anne Emanuelle Birn, Ph.D.
Assitant Professor
The New School

February 16, 2000
"Improving Heart Failure Care Among Minority Patients"
Jane Sisk, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Policy
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

February 23, 2000
"Relationship of Hospital Volume on Outcomes of Lung Cancer Surgery:
What are the Policy Implications?"
Peter Bach, M.D.
Outcomes Researcher
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

March 1, 2000
"Improving End of Life Care: Current Policy Initiatives"
Kathleen M. Foley, M.D.
Professor of Neurology and Clinical Pharmacology
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

March 8, 2000
"Should Managed Care Organizations Support Medical
Education and Other Social Goods"
Richard Bernstein, M.D.
Corporate Senior Medical Director
AETNA-US Healthcare

March 15, 2000
"An Overview of Pharmaco-Economics"
Hirsch Ruchlin, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics in Public Health
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

March 22, 2000
"For Patients Not for Profits: Health Policy
For the 21st Century"
David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School

March 29, 2000
"Environmental Chemicals and Health of Children:
Science and Policy"
Philip Landrigan, M.D. M.Sc.
Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

April 5, 2000
"Medicaid and the Uninsured:
The Perspective of the Public Hospitals"
Van Dunn, M.D., M.P.H.
Senior Vice President, Medical and Professional Affairs
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation

April 12, 2000
"Science and the Next 1000 Years"
Jesse Ausubel
Director, Program for the Human Environment
Rockefeller Univeristy

April 19, 2000
"The Digital World Reshapes the Medical Library"
Robert Braude, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean (Information Resources)
The Frances and John Loeb Librarian
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

April 26, 2000
"Columbia's Telemedicine Demonstration:
Implications for Policy"
Steve Shea, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Chief, Division of General Medicine
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

May 3, 2000
"Graduate Medical Education Funding and Physician
Workforce Policy"
Patricia Wang, J.D.
Senior VP, Finance and Managed Care
Greater new York Hospital Association

May 10, 2000
"Harvard Pilgram Health Care: What Happened?"
Stephen Schoenbaum, M.D.
Senior Vice President
Commonwealth Fund

May 17, 2000
"New Policy Approaches to Publi Health"
Joan Y. Reede, M.D., M.P.H. M.S.
Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Diversity
Harvard Medical School

May 24, 2000
"Health Insurance Coverage of Immigrants"
Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D. M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

May 31, 2000
"Conflicts in Medical Memory and History: Recent Medical
Reconsiderations of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study"
Susan M. Reverby, Ph.D.
Professor of Women's Studies
Wellesley College

June 7, 2000
"Reflections on the New Curriculum: PBL and MPS"
Justin Fraser – Class 2001
Catherine Harrison-Restelli – Class 2005
Julie Myers – Class 2003
Jessica Pena – Class 2003
Sonali Sharma – Class 2005

June 14, 2000
"Health Policy and History"
Adele Lerner, M.L.S.
Archivist
New York Weill Cornell Medical Center

September 9, 1998
"Elder Abuse: Recent Findings and Policy Implictions"
Mark Lachs, M.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Geriatrics Division

September 16, 1998
"The Future of Medicare"
Bruce Vladeck, Ph.D.
Professor of Health Policy
Mount Sinai medical Center

September 23, 1998
"Community Marginalization and Diffusion
In Disease in the U.S."
Roderick Wallace, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
New York State Psychiatric Institute

October 7, 1998
"Decision-Making for Whole Health Systems"
Jim Herm, M.Ed.
Consultant
World Health Organization and the World Bank

October 14, 1998
"Common Sense Drug Policy"
Ethan Nadelmann, M.D.
Director
Lindesmith Center

October 21, 1998
"History of Cornell University Medical College"
Paul Kligfield, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Cornell University Medical College

October 28, 1998
"The Future of the Academic Health Center"
William T. Speck, M.D.
President and Chief Operating Officer
New York Presbyterian Hospital

November 4, 1998
"What is the Role of Philanthropy in a Changing Health Environment?"
Joyce Bove
Vice President, Programs and Projects
New York Community Trust

November 11, 1998
"Health and Human Rights: Impact of Economic Embargoes"
Richard Garfield, RN, Dr.Ph
Clinical Professor, School of Nursing
Columbia University

November 18, 1998
"Evolution of AIDS in Haiti"
Warren Johnson, M.D.
Chief, Division of International Medicine and Infections Disease
Weill Medical College of Cornell university

November 25, 1998
"Regulating Research with Incapacitated Adults"
Alan Fleischman, M.D.
Vice President
New York Academy of Medicine

December 2, 1998
"Malpractice and Managed Care"
William Sage, M.D., J.D.
Associate Professor of Law
Columbia University

December 9, 1998
"Beyond the Blue Horizon:
A Health Insurer Struggles to Survive"
Michael R. McGarvey, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey

December 16, 1998
"Standards for Health Plans"
David Abernethy
Senior Vice President
Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs
HIP Health Plans

January 6, 1999
"Responsive Medical Professionalism:
Integrating Education, Practice and Community in a Market Driven Era"
David M. Frankford, J.D.
Professor of Law, Rutgers University
Institute for Health Care Policy and Aging Research

January 13, 1999
"Medicaid Managed Care: A National Perspective"
Steven Somers, Ph.D.
President, Center for Health Strategies
Director, RWJ Medicaid Managed Care

January 20, 1999
"Health Care Politics in the U.S."
Larry Brown, Ph.D.
Head, Division of Health Policy and Management
School of Public Health, Columbia University

January 27, 1999
"Public Hospitals and Managed Care"
Van Dunn, M.D.
Senior Vice President
Medical and Professional Affairs
NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation

February 3, 1999
"Immigrant Health in New York City"
Suzanne Michael, Ph.D.
Acting Director
Center for the Study of Family Policy
Hunter College

February 10, 1999
"The Role of Cultural Competence in a Competitive
Health Care Marketplace"
Dennis Andrulis, Ph.D.
Director, The Officer of Urban Populations
New York Academy of Medicine

February 17, 1999
"The Trend of Switching from Prescription Medicine to
Over the Counter Sales"
Marcus Reidenberg, M.D.
Chief, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

February 24, 1999
"A Managed Care Trust Fund:
Financing the Patient's Bill of Rights"
Joseph J. Fins, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

March 3, 1999
"Healthcare Without Harm: Advocacy for Vulnerable Population"
Michael McCally, M.D.
Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine
Center for the Study of Family Policy
Mount Sinai Medical School

March 10, 1999
"Provider-Owned Not-for-Profit Managed Care: A Solution"
Michael Siegel, M.D.
Senior Vice President and Medical Director
HealthFirst

March 17, 1999
"Re-Engineering Medicine: Managed Care As a
Positive Force for Change"
Gordon Moore, M.D.
Professor, Ambulatory Care and Preventive Medicine
Director, Partnerships for Quality Education
Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

March 24, 1999
"Clinical Experiences for First Year Medicine
Students at Columbia"
Bruce Armstrong, DSW
Associate Clinical Professor
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

March 31, 1999
"Adolescents: At the Crossroads and in the Crosshairs"
Karen Heink, M.D.
President
William T. Grant Foundation

April 7, 1999
"Introduction to Malpractice Insurace at the Academic Medical Center"
George Meeker
Director of Risk Management
Weill medical College of Cornell University

April 14, 1999
"No One was Turned Away:
The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City"
Sandra Opdyke, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Fordham institute of Innovation in Social Policy

April 21, 1999
"Research Directions at the Weill Medical College"
Lisa Staiano-Coico, Ph.D
Senior Associate Dean
Research and Sponsored Programs
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

April 28, 1999
"Medical School Elective As a Career Turning Point: Vietnam 1969"
Mark S. Rapoport, M.D., M.P.H.
Former Medical Director
Oxford Health Plans

May 5, 1999
"Is There Choice Without Access?"
Alexander C. Sanger
President
Planned Parenthood of New York City

May 12, 1999
"Capitated Health Care in New York: New Developments"
Roger Platt, M.D.
Vice President
Mt. Sinai Medical System
Medical Director, Community Practice Network

May 19, 1999
"Health and Spirituality"
Larry VandeCreek
Director, Pastoral Research
The Health Care Chaplaincy

May 26, 1999
"Why Complementary Medicine?"
Raymond Chang, M.D.
President
Institute of East-West Medicine

June 2, 1999
"First Encounters with Managed Care:
A Medical Student Perspective"
Student Panel
Melissa Brosanders, Jenny Frances
Rebekah Gee, Glen Rosenbluth, Steven Stein
Weill Medical College of Cornell University

June 9, 1999
"A Health Professions National Service Program:
Combining Opportunities of Public Service, Career Enhancment
And Reduction of Educational Debt"
Jules Cohen, M.D
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education (Retired)
University of Rochester Medical Center

June 16, 1999
"Medical Care in Chiapas"
Linnea Capps, M.D.
Chief, Division of General Medicine
Harlem Hospital

September 10, 1997
"Why is it Easier to Have Sex Than to Talk About It?"
Peggy Clark, MPH
Immediate Past President and Chief Executive Officer
The American Social Health Association

September 17, 1997
"Inpatient Rounder Program: Are the Hospitalists Coming?"
Andrew Halpert, M.D.
Chief of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Division of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital

September 24, 1997
"Reflections on the Changing Environment for Academic Health Centers"
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. M.D.
Dean and Provost
Cornell University Medical College

October 1, 1997
"The For-Profit Transformation of American Medicine"
Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D.
Director of Health and Science Policy
New York Academy of Medicine

October 15, 1997
"Medicaid Managed Care: How New York Got Its Waiver
And Prospects for the Future"
Elisabeth R. Benjamin MSPH, JD
Staff Attorney
Legal Aid Society

October 22, 1997
"The Kaiser-Georgetown Partnership:
Educational Duet in Chaotic Times"
Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D.
Residency Program Director, Department of Medicine
Georgetown University

October 29, 1997
"Academic Health Centers and Managed Care:
The Duke University Joint Venture"
Diana Murray, M.A.
Former VP, Business Development
New York Life Care Health Plans

November 5, 1997
"Reflections on a Quarter Century of Outmoded Practice"
Harvey Klein, M.D.
William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine
Cornell University Medical College

November 12, 1997
"Caught in the Riptide:
Managed Care in the New York City Public Hospitals"
Andre Broussard, M.D.
Director, Ambulatory Care Services

November 19, 1997
"Caught in the Riptide: Managed Care in the New York City Public Hospitals"
Andre Broussard, M.D.
Director, Ambulatory Care Services

December 3, 1997
"The Last WQuarter Century in Health Care:
What will Historians Make of It"
Rosemary Stevens, Ph.D.
Professor, History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania

December 10, 1997
"Chicago Managed Care Market: Case Study"
Leighton B. Smith, M.D.
Primary Care Medical Director
Physicians Organization
Cornell University Medical College

December 17, 1997
"Children, Race and Power: Foster Care in New York City Since 1945"
David Rosner, M.D.
University Distinguished Professor
The City University of New York

January 7, 1998
"U.S. Public Health Service: Reorganizing for the Future"
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D.
Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

January 14, 1998
"Insurance Operations for the Uninsured (I.O.U.)
In New York State"
Rima Cohen
Vice President, Insurance Operations Development

January 21, 1998
"Patient-Centered Care"
Margaret E. Mahoney
President, MEM Associates, Inc.

January 28, 1998
"Designing a Curriculum in End of Life Care for Vulnerable Populations"
Sheila Rothman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scholar
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons

February 4, 1998
"The Future of Medical Education: The Power of Ideas"
Eric J. Cassell, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Public Health
Cornell University Medical College

February 11, 1998
"Update on Drug Addition:
Results of the NIH Consensus Conference"
Elizabeth Khuri, M.D.
Director, Adolescent Development Program
Cornell University Medical College

February 18, 1998
"Medical Education in South Africa"
Jeffrey Dumo Baqua, M.D.
Professor of Primary Care
University of Capetown Medical School

February 25, 1998
"Getting Rid of Patients: A Retrospective on the Experience of Being a Resident"
Terry Mizrahi, Ph.D.
Hunter College School of Social Work

March 4, 1998
"Nursing in the New Millennium: It's Already Here"
Martha Orr, R.N. M.N. CAE
Executive Director
New York State Nursing Association

March 11, 1998
"Medicine and Public Health"
Roz Lasker, M.D.
Director, Division of Public Health
The New York Academy of Medicine

March 18, 1998
"Strategic Planning in Academic Health Centers: A UCSF Perspective"
John Showstack, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco

March 25, 1998
"Commonsense Drug Policy"
Ethan Nadelmann, M.D.
Director, Lindesmith Center
Drug Policy Research institute

April 1, 1998
"Primary Medical Care for the Poor"
Robert Zufall, M.D.
Director, Dover Community Clinic
Karyn Zufall, M.A.
Admiistrative Manager, Dover Commuinty Clinic

April 8, 1998
"The Physician Role in the Academic Center"
Robert Ascheim, M.D.
President and C.E.O.
Physician Partners Corporation

April 15, 1998
"Epidemiology at a Crossroads"
Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr. PH
Director, Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies
New York Academy of Medicine

April 22, 1998
"How to Turn Policy into Program and Practice:
Lessons in Child Health"
Louis Cooper, M.D.
Chair, Department of Pedicatircs
St. Lukes's/Roosevelt Hospital

April 29, 1998
"The NHS at 50 Years: Implications of the New White Paper"
Brian Jarman, M.D.
Professor of Primary Health Care
Imperial College School of Medicine – London, UK

May 6, 1998
"The Fate of Caregiving Under Market-Driven Health Care"
Suzanne Gordon
Author and Journalist
Life Support: Three Nurses on the Frontlines

May 13, 1998
"Post-Cairo: Where is Population Movement Heading"
Sheldon J. Segal, Ph.D.
Distinguished Scientist
Population Council

May 20, 1998
"Reflections on Being a Medical Student: A Student Roundtable"
Jessica Black, David Gerber
Elaine Rabin and Bianca Santomasso
Medical Students

May 27, 1998
"Medical Futility: How to Give Patients What They Want"
Norton Spritz, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
New York University

June 3, 1998
"Is the Population Explosion Over?"
Steven Sinding, Ph.D.
Director of Population Sciences
The Rockefeller Foundation

June 10, 1998
"Medicaid Managed Care: An Update"
Foster Gesten, M.D.
Medical Director, Office of Managed Care
New York State Department of Health

September 11, 1996
"Long Term Care Policy in the U.S."
Monsignor Charles Fahey
Third Age Center
Fordham University

September 18, 1996
"Skadden Legal Fellowship"
Susan Butler Plum
Director, Skadden Fellowship Foundation
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

September 25, 1996
"Critical Pathways: Who Benefits?"
Mary Cooper, M.D.
Critical Pathways Coordinator
Cornell University Medical College

October 2, 1996
"Developments in Managed Mental Health Care"
Gary Tischler, M.D.
Executive Vice Chair/Medical Director
New York Hospital-Westchester Division

October 9, 1996
"The Future of Academic Health Centers"
Eli Ginzberg, Ph.D.
Director, Eisenhower Center for Conservation Human Resources
Columbia University

October 23, 1996
"How Many People Can the Earth Support?"
Joel Cohen, Ph.D., Dr. PH
Abby Rockefeller – Mauzé Professor of Population
Rockefeller University

October 30, 1996
"Family Practice in the U.S."
Howard Rabinowitz, M.D.
Professor and Vice Chair – Department of Family Medicine
Jefferson Medical College

November 6, 1996
"Preventing Adolescent Drug Abuse:
Approaches, Evaluation Evidence, Policy Implications"
Gilbert J. Botvin, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health & Director
Institute for Prevention Research
Cornell University Medical College

November 13, 1996
"The Future of Public Hospitals"
Howard Berliner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Chair
Health Services Management & Policy
Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management & Urban Policy
The New School

November 20, 1996
"Providing Health Care in the Developing World:
A Case History in Guatemala"
Glenn Lopez, M.D.
Director
Guatesalud

November 27, 1996
"The Changing Role of the Nursing Home:
Who Should Live There?"
Steven Zweig, M.D.
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
University of Missouri – School of Medicine

December 4, 1996
"Telemedicine...Opportunities and Obstacles"
Martin Gardy, M.D.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Associate Professor of Medicine
Cornell University Medical College

December 11, 1996
"Health Issues Facing the Next Congress"
Representative Carolyn Maloney
Congresswoman from the 14th Congressional District

December 18, 1996
"International Health Policy: End-Stage Effects of
International Monetary Fund Structural Adjustment Programs
On Third World Health Care Facilities"
Father Peter LeJacq. M.M., M.D., M.T.M.
Maryknoll

January 8, 1997
"Managed Care: A Traditional Insurer Rises to the Challenge"
Lisa Behnke, M.D.
Senior Medical Director
Empire BlueCross Blueshield

January 15, 1997
"Physician Unemployment as a Reflection of the
Changing Nature of Health Care Delivery"
Steve Wartman, M.D.
Chair of Medicine
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

January 22, 1997
"What's to Worry about with the Current State of the AIDS Epidemic?"
June E. Osborn, M.D.
President
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

January 29, 1997
"The 25th Amendment and Presidential Disability"
Joseph Fins, M.D.
Director of Medical Ethics, New York Hospital
Associate of Medicine, The Hastings Center

February 5, 1997
"The French Health System and Managed Care"
Victor Rodwin, Ph.D.
Director of the International Initiative
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Robert F. Wagner Graduate Scholl of Public Service
New York University

February 12, 1997
"Health Crisis in Care for Immigrants to the U.S."
Rachael Fruchter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
SUNY - Brooklyn

February 19, 1997
"Physician Discipline in New York State"
Jack Richard, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

February 26, 1997
"Quality: The Real World Use of Outcome Measures"
Richard Greene, M.D.
Associate Chief of Staff
Clinical Research Management
Presbyterian Hospital

March 5, 1997
"Using Outcomes Data to Change Physician Behavior"
Mark Callahan, M.D.
Director of Outcomes Research
New York and Presbyterian Hospitals Care Network, Inc.

March 12, 1997
"Women's Health...A Discipline for the 90's"
Orli Etingin, M.D.
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

March 19, 1997
"Medicine and Human Rights at Home and Abroad"
Jack Geiger, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
CUNY Medical School

March 26, 1997
"Enhancing Patient Doctor Communication
In the New Health Care Environment"
Bella August C.S.W.
Project Consultant for SHARE
A Self-Help Organization

April 2, 1997
"The Impact of Welfare Repeal on the Health
And Well-Being of Children"
Ruth Sidel, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Hunter College

April 9, 1997
"Developments in Managed Mental Health Care"
Gary Tischler, M.D.
Executive Vice Chair/Medical Director
New York Hospital-Westchester Division

April 16, 1997
"Carrie Buck and Oliver Wendell Holmes: an Unlikey Duo"
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
President
New York Academy of Medicine

April 23, 1997
"Medical Education: Will the Center Hold?"
Jack Ende, M.D.
Chief Department of Medicine
Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA

April 30, 1997
"Venture Capital and Healthcare"
Mitchell Blutt, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Professor of Medicine-CUMC
Principal, Chemical Venture Partners

May 7, 1997
"Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Industry:
Implications for Patients and Providers"
Maureen Sullivan
Senior Vice President, Strategic Consulting Services
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association

May 14, 1997
"Institutional Approach to the Changing HIV Epidemic"
Jonathan Jacobs, M.D.
Associate Professor & Medical Director of the Center for Special Studies
Cornell University Medical College

May 21, 1997
"The Future of the Adademic Health Center"
David B. Skinner, M.D.
President
New York Hospital

May 28, 1997
"Measuring Quality in Providing Care for Injured Workers"
David Michaels, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology
CUNY-Medical School

June 11, 1997
"Preparing Pre-Medical Students for Medical School Admissions"
John L. Ford, M.D.
Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley
Dean of Students
Cornell University

June 18, 1997
"Unfairness in our Medical System:
Is there a Commitment to Address It?"
Gerald Thomson, M.D.
Associate Dean
Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons

September 13, 1995
"The Future of Medicare"
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
President, Commonwealth Fund

September 20, 1995
"Vaccine Development Policy and Politics"
Anthony Robbins, M.D.
Editor, Public Health Reports
U.S. Public Health Service

September 27, 1995
"Problems Facing Contraceptive Research in the U.S."
Allan Rosenfield, M.D.
Dean of Columbia University
School of Public Health

October 11, 1995
"The Future of the Academic Medical Center"
Kenneth I. Berns, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Microbiology,
Cornell University Medical College

October 18, 1995
"The Future of Medicare"
Christine Cassel, M.D.
Chief of Internal Medicine
University of Chicago

October 25, 1995
"The Oregon Health Plan: Ration or Reason"
Kathleen Gaffney, M.D., M.P.H.
Commissioner of Health
Nassau County Department of Health

November 1, 1995
"The Other Upper East Side"
Nancy Wachstein, M.S. W.
Executive Director, Lenox Hill Neighborhood Center

November 8, 1995
"Reassessing Roles of the Local Health Department
In an Era of Health Care Reform"
Gary Butts, M.D.
Deputy Commissioner, Family Health Service

November 15, 1995
"Religion, Health and Media"
Donald W. Shriver, Ph.D.
Professor of Ethics, Union Theology

November 29, 1995
"The Origins of PKU Testing: Science and Suffering"
Paul J. Edelson, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Cornell University Medical Center
Chair, Deparment of Pediatrics
NY Methodist Hospital

December 6, 1995
"Graduate Medical Education:
Federal Financing and Managed Care—The Big Squeeze"
Oliver Fein, M.D.
Associate Dean for Network Affairs
Cornell University Medical College

December 13, 1995
"The Future of Academic Medical Centers"
Stuart Bondurant, M.D.
Director of Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies
New York Academy of Medicine

December 20, 1995
"The Goals of Medicine"
Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
President, Hasting Center

January 31, 1996
"Influence of Managed Care on Graduate Medical Education"
J. Emilio Carrillo, M.D. M.P. H.
Medical Director
The New York Hospital Community Health Plan

February 7, 1996
"Effects of Managed Care"
Nancy Neveloff Dubler, LLB
Director of the Division of Bioethics
Montefiore Medical Center

February 14, 1996
"RWJ Health Tracking Initiative:
Managing the Changing Health Care Environment"
Jim Knickman, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research and Evaluation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

February 21, 1996
"Managed Care Bill of Rights"
Richard Gottfried
State Assemblyman
64th District

February 28, 1996
"Narrative Knowledge in Medicine: An Example from Virginia Woolf"
Rita Charon, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University

March 6, 1996
"Advanced Practice Nursing"
Mary Mundinger, R.N. Dr. Ph, FAAN
Dean and Centennial Professor in Health Policy
Columbia University School of Nursing

March 13, 1996
"Inequalities in Health: Developments from the UK"
Peter Townsend, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus Department of Social Policy and Planning
University of Bristol

March 20, 1996
"Institutional Review Board: Facing the 90's"
Phyllis August, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Institutional Review Board
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center

April 3, 1996
"The Goals of Medicine"
Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
President
Hastings Center

April 10, 1996
"What Does it Take to Measure Quality?"
Mark Chassin, M.D.
Chair, Department of Health Policy
Mt. Sinai Medical Center

April 17, 1996
"Health Care Economics Makes News"
Christine Weicher, M.S.
CBS Evening News

April 24, 1996
"Career Preferences – Does the Marketplace Have an Effect?"
Rob Greenberg, Class of '98, Moderator
Cathy Han, Class of '96
Yasmin Holsey, Class of '98
David Place, Class of '99
Student Panel

May 1, 1996
"General Practitioner Fundholding in the UK"
Donald Light, Ph.D.
Professor
Division of Social and Behavioral Medicine
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

May 8, 1996
"The Media and Medicine"
Holly Atkinson, M.D.
Executive Vice President
Reuters Health Information Service, Inc.

May 15, 1996
"Networks of Innovation: Public/Private Partnerships for Vaccine R &D"
R. Gordon Douglas, M.D.
President of Merck Vaccine Division
Merck & Company Inc.

May 29, 1996
"Evaluating Alternative Medical Therapy"
Joe Jacobs, M.D. M.B.A.
Former Director
Office of Alternative Medicine, N.I.H.

June 5, 1996
"The Future of Public Hospitals and the Safety Net"
Bruce Siegel, M.D.
Senior Fellow Health Services Management & Policy
New School for Social Research

June 12, 1996
"Managed Care – The Perspective of the Payer"
Mark Tabak
President of AIG Managed Care
American International Group

June 19, 1996
"Health Policy after November"
Brian Biles, M.D.
Senior Vice President
Commonwealth Fund

June 26, 1996
"The Future of the Academic Medical Center"
Robert Michels, M.D.
Dean
Cornell University Medical College