Langfitt Memorial Lecture Debate on Universal Health Care

12th Annual Thomas Langfitt Jr. Memorial Symposium

Innovative Approaches to Universal Health Coverage:

Massachusetts and Beyond



Wednesday, November 8th
6:00 PM
BRB II/III Auditorium (421 Curie Blvd.)
(Reception with wine and hors d'oeuvres to follow)

~~ RSVP by November 3rd~~

Stuart H. Altman, PhD, Dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and central architect of the new Massachusetts universal coverage legislation. One of the nation's leading experts on health care policy and economics, Professor Altman is a member of The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Chair of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored Council on the Economic Impact of Health System Change, and was a senior member of the Clinton-Gore Health Policy Transition Team. In August 2003 Modern Healthcare named him among the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare.

Steffie Woolhandler, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Harvard General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program. Dr. Woolhandler has been one of the most passionate advocates for single-payer universal coverage since co-founding Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) in 1987. She has also been one of the most outspoken critics of the new Massachusetts universal coverage legislation.

Patricia Danzon, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Health Care Systems Department at Wharton. Professor Danzon is a renowned health care economist whose major research interests include the international pharmaceutical industry, health care economics and policy, managed care, and medical liability systems. She is also an associate editor of the Journal of Health Economics and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Moderated by Sandford Schwartz, MD, Professor of Medicine, Health Care Management, and Economics, and Nicholas Stine, 2nd-year Penn medical student.

The Langfitt Memorial Symposium is named for the son of the late Dr. Thomas W. Langfitt, a longtime and cherished chairman of neurosurgery at Penn and former president ofthe Pew Charitable Trusts. Sponsored by The Langfitt Family, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics