April 2001 • Volume 7 • Number 4
Economist Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., to keynote Scientific Assembly
Just how dysfunctional is the current health care system, and what should be done to make it well?
Join your colleagues at the AAFP Scientific Assembly in Atlanta this October to hear health systems economist Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., share his perspective on these and related questions. Reinhardt will be the keynote speaker at the Assembly Oct. 3.
Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., has studied the health system and workforce issues since his college days. He served three terms on the (then) Physician Payment Review Commission. A member of the Institute of Medicine, he has been on IOM panels studying the implications of a physician surplus, for-profit medicine, technical innovation in medicine and the nursing shortage. He currently serves on the board that guides the institute's health services research.
In 1997, he joined the Pew Health Professions Commission, which explores the implications of health systems change on the health workforce. Since 1998, Reinhardt has chaired the coordinating committee of the Commonwealth Fund International Program in Health Policy and has served on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
Watch your mailbox for the Assembly promotion brochure and registration materials, to be mailed to active members in May.
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