University of Massachusetts Medical School

Introduction:
Key health policy issues affecting the practice of medicine

Jay Himmelstein, MD, MPH
Director
UMass Center for Health Policy and Research
slides

Robert Baldor, MD
Scruples Cases
Medicare vs. Medicaid
"Assessing the New Medicare Prescription Drug Law"

Plenary Session:

I. Healthcare policy: a national perspective

II. Access to health care: a state perspective

I.
Stuart Altman, PhD
Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Brandeis University

II.
John McDonough, Dr. P.H.
Executive Director
Health Care for All
  slides

Panel Discussion:

How the changing practice of medicine will affect you: the perspective of physician leaders

Amphitheatre I

MODERATOR: Jerry Gurwitz, MD

Craig Samitt, MD, MBA, Chief Operating Officer, Fallon Clinic

Andrew Sussman, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President, UMMHC

Randy Wertheimer, MD, Vice Chair, Family Medicine and Community Health