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Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine

Portrait of Ezekiel Emanuel
October 3, 2013
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Room 160 Meiling Hall, 370 W. 9th Ave.

 

"Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine" describes the pressing need for health care reform, the key innovations in the Affordable Care Act, and how they are likely to impact the actual delivery of care. From improving efficiency with "inter-operable" electronic health records to restructuring care delivery to improve outcomes and lower cost, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel will provide an insider's view of the vision driving health care reform, the challenges looming, and the future of American medicine.

Trained both as an oncologist (MD, Harvard Medical School) and a political scientist, Ezekiel Emanuel is one of the leading practitioners shaping healthcare reform and the transformation of American medicine. From February 2009 to January 2011, Emanuel was a special advisor for health policy to the White House Office of Management and Budget. As one of the most prominent voices advising the White House about healthcare, he had a signifi­cant impact on federal healthcare budgets and the Affordable Care Act.

Today, Dr. Emanuel holds a joint position at the Wharton School and the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he chairs the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy. He is a founding chair at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Until 1997, he was an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School. Emanuel is also a fellow at the Hastings Institute, a center for nonprofit bioethics research. Emanuel is the author of Healthcare: Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America (Public Affairs 2008) and The Brothers Emanuel (Random House 2013), a memoir about brothers Rahm, mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff, and Ari, a Hollywood superagent.

This Humanities Institute event is co-sponsored with the Wexner Medical Center, OSU College of Medicine; OSU College of Nursing; OSU College of Public Health; The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute; OSU College of Arts and Sciences; LiteracyStudies@OSU; and COMPAS – Conversations on Morality, Politics, and Society.