Health Policy Track
Lecture Series Schedule

2009-2010

September 23, 2009
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
Track Director
Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
"Doctors of the Future: Global and Local Physician Workforce Policy"

October 14, 2009
Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH
Research Professor, Department of Health Policy
"A Life in Health Policy"

November 16 & 23, 2009 (MSI)
Mike Whitcomb, MD
Formerly VP for Medical Education at the Association of American Medical Colleges and Editor and Chief, Academic Medicine
"Introduction to Health Policy I & II"

November 20, 2009
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc
Chief Medical Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Department of Health and Human Services
"Health Policy and Comparative Effectiveness: Perspective from a Physician at HHS"

2008-2009

September 15, 2008
Victor Barbiero, PhD
Visiting Professor, GW School of Public Health and Health Services, Dept of Global Health
"HIV and Development: Critical Issues on the Reauthorization of the HIV/TB/Malaria Bill"

October 13, 2008
Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Chair, Department of Health Policy and Professor of Health Policy of Health Service Management
"Health Policy and the Election"

November 14 and 21 , 2008
Mike Whitcomb, MD, Editor and Chief, Academic Medicine and formerly VP for Medical Education at the Association of American Medical Colleges
"What is Health Policy I/II?"

November 17 , 2008
Candice Chen, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
"The Medical Education Future's Study"

January 28, 2009
Joseph Wright, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Children's National Medical Center, The Child Health Advocacy Institute
"Child Health Advocacy in the Academic Medical Center"

February 13, 2009
Jordan Cohen, MD
Professor of Medicine
"Medical Education and Health Care Reform"

March 23, 2009
Vanessa Gamble, MD, PhD
University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of History
"History, Health Disparities, and Health Policy"

March 26, 2009
Sreehdar Potarazu, MD
GWU Medical School alumni, author, physician and entrepreneur, who has written the book, "Get Off The Dime."
"Who is Paying for Health Care? What Every Doctor and Medical Student Needs to Know, but Doesn't"

2007-2008

September 10, 2007
Bruce Siegel, MD
Research Professor of Health Policy and of Health Services Management and Leadership
"A Life in Health Policy"

October 22, 2007
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
Murdoch Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, GWU
“Medical Education Futures Study: A Real-Time Exercise in Health Policy”

December 3, 2007
Anjali Jain, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, Children’s National Medical Center and The George Washington University
“Obesity and Health, Health care, and Health Policy”

January 14 and 28, 2008
Michael Whitcomb, MD
Editor-in-Chief, Academic Medicine
"What is Health Policy?"

February 11, 2008
Steven Wartman, MD, PhD
President, Association of Academic Health Centers
"Education Policy and Academic Health Centers"

April 2, 2008
Dan Derksen, MD
RWJ Health Policy Fellow, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
"Health Reform: A View from the Hill"

April 9, 2008
Melissa Goldstein, J.D.
Associate Research Professor of Health Policy and Health Sciences at The George Washington University Medical Center
"Medical Ethics and the Law"

2006-2007

September 7, 2006
Stan Reiser, MD, MPA, PhD, GW Welling Visiting Professor
"High Technology Medicine: It's Influence on Patients, Providers and Policy"

September 29, 2006
Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP
Medical Director, Baltimore Health Systems, Inc.
"Managing the Safety Net of Medicine"

October 11, 2006
Steve Schroeder, MD
Former President and CEO, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"Overview of Health Policy"

November 1, 2006
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
Murdoch Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, GWU
"Life in Health Policy"

January 8, 19, 2007
Mike Whitcomb, MD
Editor and Chief, Academic Medicine and formerly VP for Medical Education at the Association of American Medical Colleges
"Introduction to Health Policy I/II"

January 24, 2007
Fitzhugh Mullan, MD
Murdoch Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, GWU
"Healers at Home and Abroad: Issues in Globalism and Health Workforce"

April 4, 2007
Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD
President of Omni Med
"Global Health Inequality: A Call to Understanding and Action"

April 11, 2007
Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Professor of Health Law and Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, GWU
"Medicine and the Third Branch: The Implications of Recent Judicial Decisions for Medical Care Practice and Health Policy"

2005-2006

September 23, 2005,
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
"An Introduction to Health Policy"

November 9, 2005
Josh Sharfstein, M.D.
Government Reform Committee
"A Doctor on Capitol Hill"

November 21, 2005
Charles Allen and David Chandra
DC Primary Care Association
"Grass Roots Medicine and Health Policy: Where's the Connection?"

January 25, 2006
Michael Whitcomb, M.D.
Association of American Medical Colleges
"What is Health Policy?"

February 3, 2006, 12-1 pm, Ross Hall 117, Michael Whitcomb, M.D., Association of American Medical Colleges, "The Policy Making Process"

February 24, 2006
Bruce Siegel, M.D., M.P.H.
Research Professor of Health Policy and of Health Services Management and Leadership
"Health Policy and Politics: The Things They Won't Teach You in Medical School"

March 24, 2006
Robert Zarr, M.D, M.P.H.
Unity Health Care
"Universal Health Care: An American Dream or Reality"