Showing posts with label keynote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keynote. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Meet Ezekiel Emanuel, Keynote Speaker at INQRI's Upcoming National Meeting

For those of you interested in learning more about the keynote speaker for INQRI's upcoming national conference, we have provided you with a short bio, in addition to some links to Dr. Emanuel's recent articles.

If you have not registered for our national conference, there is still time! Click here to find our further information and register for our upcoming national conference on April 26-27, 2012.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. From January 2009 to January 2011, he served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Since 1997 he was chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health and a breast oncologist. Dr. Emanuel received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. After completing his internship and residency in internal medicine at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and his oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He has since been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UCLA, the Brin Professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and the Kovitz Professor at Stanford Medical School and visiting professor at New York University Law School.

Dr. Emanuel has written and edited 9 books and over 200 scientific articles. He is currently a columnist for the New York Times.

Dr. Emanuel’s Recent Articles:

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

"The End of Health Insurance Companies" - An Op-Ed piece by Ezekiel Emanuel, Keynote Speaker at INQRI's Upcoming National Meeting

This past Monday, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Jeffrey B. Liebman wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times predicting the demise of health insurance companies as a result of the implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs). Drs. Emanuel & Liebman emphasize the importance of the transfer of risk from insurance companies to ACOs in this model of care and how it can lead to insurance companies becoming obsolete.

Click here to read the Op-Ed.

If you are interested in attending our national meeting (w/ no registration fee), which will take place in Washington, D.C. on April 26th-27th, please contact Heather Kelley-Thompson at hkelley@nursing.upenn.edu.