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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Kaestner [mailto:kaestner_at_uic.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:50 AM
To: Grossman, Michael; Theodore Joyce; Sanders Korenman; Dubay, Lisa; Kenney, Jenny; Jose Guardado; Lorens Helmchen; Anthony T. Lo Sasso; Saul Weiner
Subject: Fw: Please Distribute
New Perspectives on Health and Health Care Policy
Sponsored by:
The Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois
The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
This conference brings together leading researchers in health care policy to present and discuss new perspectives on health and health care policy.
Monday, March 22: 12:30pm to 6:30pm
Tuesday, March 23: 8:00am to 2:00pm
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Third Floor Conference Center
230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60604
The conference includes:
* An address by James Heckman of the University of Chicago, and winner of the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, on "Developmental Origins of Health"
* Presentations by David Cutler of Harvard University and Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania on current health care reform and policy followed by panel discussion.
* Presentations of new research by:
o Laurence Baker, Stanford University
o Ken Chay, Brown University
o Leemore Dafny, Northwestern University
o James Hilliard, University of Georgia
o David Howard, Emory University
o Karen Norberg, Washington University in St. Louis
o Tomas Philipson, University of Chicago
o Heather Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara
o Mark Votruba, Case Western Reserve University
* Topics to be discussed include:
o The competitiveness of insurance markets
o Evaluations of new incentive based policies to improve individual health behavior
o Studies on the value of comparative effectiveness research
o The role of technology on health care costs and quality
o Lessons from the introduction of Medicare
The conference is free but attendees must preregister at the conference website. Attendance is limited. For more information on speakers, papers, and accommodations, please visit the conference website at
http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/events/2010/new_perspectives_on_health_and_health_care_policy.cfm
Received on Wed Feb 03 2010 - 10:53:04 EST
