Panel Discussion Honoring Richard A. “Buz” Cooper, MD

“Healthcare Workforce Policy: Balancing Quality, Costs and the Impact of Poverty”

2:00p.m. – 3:30p.m. September 23, 2016

Henry A. Jordan, M’62 Medical Education Center, 3400 Civic Center Blvd

Moderator:

Daniel Polsky, PhD, Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Robert D. Eilers Professor in Health Care Management, the Wharton School, and Professor of Medicine

Panelists:

William M. Sage, MD, JD, James R. Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence in Law; Professor (Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care), The University of Texas at Austin

Thomas Getzen, PhD, Professor Emeritus; Risk, Insurance, and Healthcare Management Fox Business School, Temple University

Linda H. Aiken, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research

John Meurer, MD, MBA, Professor; Director, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin

Michael Whitcomb, MD, Former Senior Vice President for Medical Education of the Association of American Medical Colleges and Editor of Academic Medicine 

Reception and Tribute to Buz will follow panel discussion.

Read a tribute to Buz’s work, and an article about his book published posthumously.

Hosted by: The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, The Division of Hematology and Oncology, The Abramson Cancer Center, and The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research