The University of Illinois Medical Centerat Chicago’s
Department of Clinical Ethics
PRESENTS
“The Ethics of Healthcare Reform”
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
9:30 am – 4:00 pm
University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Center Building West (The Chicago Room A&B)
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Chicago, Illinois60612
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PRESENTATIONS
Ethical Concerns in Illinois with single payer reform
Dr. Quinton Young
Chicago-based physician who is recognized for his efforts in advocating for single-payer health care in the United States.
Chair the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board
Paradigms of Interest in the Health Reform Debate
Dr. Thomas May, PhD
Director of Graduate Studies at the MedicalCollege of Wisconsin
Center for the Study of Bioethics.
Ethics of Healthcare Reform - Panel Discussion
Dr. Quinton Young
Dr. Thomas May
Dr. Norman Daniels
Keynote Address:
Getting more Justice in Health and Healthcare through Health Reform
Dr. Norman Daniels, PhD
Mary B. Saltonstall Professor
Professor of Ethics and Population Health, HarvardSchool of Public Health
Healthcare Reform: The Morality of Health Policy
Daniel Swartzman, JD, MPH
Associate Professor, Associate Director in the Division of Health Policy
and Administration of the UIC School of Public Health
Healthcare Reform and the Medically Underserved
Dr. Linda Murray
Chief Medical Officer Ambulatory & Community Health Network
President-Elect, American Public Health Association
Open Discussion
The Ethics of Healthcare Reform
The University of IllinoisMedicalCenter at Chicago Department of Clinical Ethics
March 3, 2010 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
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UIC Clinical Ethics Conference
The Ethics of Healthcare Reform
Conference Agenda
March 3, 2010
CIU West (Student Center West)
8:30 Registration / Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome
Michael Schrift, DO
Director, Neuropsychiatry, UIC
Co-Chair, UICMC Ethics Committee
Dr. William Chamberlin
CMO, UIC Healthcare System
9:15 – 10:15Ethical Concerns in Illinois with Single Payer Reform
Dr. Quinton Young
Moderator: N. Daniels
10:15 – 11:15Paradigms of Interest in the Health Reform Debate
Dr. Thomas May
11:15 – 12:00 PANEL: Ethics of Healthcare Reform
Dr. Quinton Young
Dr. Thomas May
Dr. Norman Daniels
12:00 – 1:15Keynote Address
Getting more justice in Health and Health Care
Through Health Reform
Dr. Norman Daniels
1:15 – 2:00 Lunch (Box lunch in Chicago room)
2:00 – 3:00 Healthcare Reform: The Morality of Health Policy
Dan Swartzman, J.D., MPH
3:00 – 4:00Healthcare Reform and the Medically Underserved
Linda Murray, MD, MPH
4:00 – 4:15 Evaluation /Adjourn
Dr. Norman Daniels is Mary B. Saltonstall Professor and Professor of Ethics and Population Health at Harvard School of Public Health. Formerly Goldthwaite Professor, Chair of the Tufts Philosophy Department, and Professor of Medical Ethics at Tufts Medical School, where he taught from 1969 until 2002, he has degrees from Wesleyan (B.A. Summa, 1964), Balliol College, Oxford (B.A., First Honors, 1966), and Harvard (Ph.D., Plympton Dissertation Prize, 1971). He has written widely in the philosophy of science (Thomas Reid's `Inquiry': the Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism (1974; Stanford, 1989), ethics, political and social philosophy (including Reading Rawls (1975; Stanford, 1989) and medical ethics. He has published over 150 articles in anthologies and journals; is a member of the Institute of Medicine, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a Founding Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and of the International Society for Equity in Health, he has consulted with organizations, commissions, and governments in the U.S. and abroad on issues of justice and health policy, including for the United Nations, WHO, and the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine.
He served as a member of the Ethics Working Group of the Clinton White House Health Care Task Force (Spring 1993), as a member of the Public Health Service Expert Panel on Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Preventive Medicine, as a member of a National Academy of Social Insurance study panel on the social role of Medicare, and as a member of a Century Fund task force on Medicare reform. He served four years as a founding member of the National Cancer Policy Board, established by the Institute of Medicine and the Commission on the Life Sciences, and on the Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation project on Medicine as a Profession, and on the International Bioethics Advisory Board of PAHO. He served recently on an IOM Committee on the use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in regulatory contexts. He has held Fellowships and Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Retirement Research Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and others. He held a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator's Award for the period 1998-2001, as well as a Rockefeller Foundation grant for the international adaptation of the benchmarks.
Dr. Thomas May is Director of Graduate Studies at the Medical College of Wisconsin's Center for the Study of Bioethics. Dr. May serves as a consultant to the Florida Department of Public Health on ethical issues related to triage during a potential pan-flu epidemic. This appointment follows his service as chair of two Centers for Disease Control special emphasis panels on vaccination issues. Dr. May also has served on the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, and as chair of the American Public Health Association's Ethics Forum. In addition, Dr. May serves as a reviewer for Oxford University Press, Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Journal of Value Inquiry, the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, and the Journal of Palliative Medicine.
Dr. Linda Murray Chief Medical Officer Ambulatory & Community Health Network has spent her career serving the medically under served. She is currently the president- elect for the American Public Health Association. She has worked in a variety of settings including practicing Occupational Medicine at a Workers Clinic in Canada, Residency Director for Occupational Medicine at MeharryMedicalCollege, Bureau Chief for the Chicago Department of Health under Mayor Harold Washington. More recently Dr. Murray served as Medical Director of the federally funded health center, Winfield Moody, serving Cabrini Green Public Housing Project in Chicago. Dr. Murray has been an active member of a wide range of local and national organizations including serving as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), and the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Board of Directors of Trinity Health (a large Catholic Health system).
Dr. Murray served as Chief Medical Officer - Primary Care for the twenty three primary care and community health centers comprising the Ambulatory & Community Health Network of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services. The Cook County Bureau of Health is one of the nation’s largest public system of medical care and operates three hospitals, the public health department for suburban Cook County, health services a County Jail and the network of health Centers (ACHN) operated by the County. Today she serves as the Chief Medical officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health of the Cook County Health & Hospital System, the state certified public health agency for suburban CookCounty. She practices as a general internist at WoodlawnHealthCenter, is an attending physician in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at CookCountyHospital and is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the University Of Illinois School Of Public Health (Occupational & Environmental Health and the Health Policy & Administration Departments). She plays a leadership role in many organizations including NACCHO’s (National Association of City & County Health Officers) Health Equity & Social Justice Team, the national executive board of American Public Health Association and serves on the board of the Chicago based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group.
She has been a voice for social justice and health care as a basic human right for over forty years.
Daniel Swartzman, JD, MPH, is an associate professor and the associate director in the Division of Health Policy and Administration of the UIC School of Public Health (SPH).
Dr. Swartzman has been teaching management online for eleven years. He is co-author of the upcoming textbook, Principles of Public Health Management, to be published by Jossey-Bass. As a teacher, Professor Swartzman has been nominated for the Golden Apple twenty-one times and has won this award three times. He was nominated by alumni for the UIC Flame Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001 and by the SPH faculty for the Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has twice been a recipient of the campus-wide Teaching Recognition Award, given by the UICCouncil on Excellence in Teaching and Learning. In 2008, he was chosen as a member of the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Within the UIC School of Public Health, Dr. Swartzman has served as associate dean for student affairs, program director for the Master of Public Health program and as the associate director of the Master of Health Administration program.
Dr. Swartzman has held a number of leadership positions in local, state and national organizations, including serving as president of a statewide environmental lobbying group in the 1970s, managing a county-wide political campaign in the 1980s, and most recently serving as the president of his synagogue. In addition, he has practiced law in Chicago for over 30 years, currently as the managing partner for a small law firm. Professor Swartzman received his law degree cum laude from NorthwesternUniversity and a Master of Public Health degree from UIC. He is an adjunct professor of law at the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law and a fellow of the UICHonorsCollege.
Dr. Quentin Young is a Chicago-based physician who is recognized for his efforts in advocating for single-payer health care in the United States. An activist who opposed the Vietnam War and worked on the Civil Rights movement, Young is best known for speaking out about social justice in the realm of health policy. Young attended NorthwesternUniversityMedicalSchool from 1944 to 1947. He interned at CookCountyHospital in 1947 and did his residency there.
In addition to his distinguished career as a physician, Dr. Young has been a leader in public health policy and medical and social justice issues. In 1980, Dr. Young founded the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, of which he is currently chairman. Dr. Young is also the National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, a Chicago-based organization of over 6,000 physicians who support single payer national health insurance. He has served as Chairman of the AmericanCollege of Physicians’ Subcommittee on Human Rights and Medical Practice and has been a member of both the Humana-Michael Reese Medical Board and the AmericanCollege of Physicians Health and Public Policy Committee. Every Tuesday morning, Dr. Young hosts "Public Affairs" on WBEZ, Chicago public radio.
In April 2008, Young retired from his private practice in Hyde Park, Chicago, which he co-ran with fellow activist David Scheiner. He is currently National Coordinator and CEO for Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).
April 17. 2009, Dr. Young was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to Chair the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board
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