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Date: January 24, 1997
Health Care Lecture Series Continues
at the Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton, N.J.--The Health Care Lecture Series, begun in the spring 1996 at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, continues this semester and will feature a group of distinguished health care specialists speaking on a variety of timely and critical topics.
Emily Friedman, an independent writer, lecturer, and health policy and ethics analyst, will open the series on Thursday, February 27, with a lecture on "Rationing or Reason? The Battle over Managed Care" in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2, at 4:30 p.m. Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) Bruce Vladick will present the series' next lecture, "The Future of Medicare" on Wednesday, March 12, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1, at 4:30 p.m. Nancy-Ann Min, associate director for health and personnel of the Office of Management and Budget, and Christopher Jennings, special assistant to the president for health policy and development, follow on Wednesday, April 2, and Wednesday, April 16, respectively. Min will address "Health Care Policy from a Balanced Budget Perspective," and Jennings will speak on "The Clinton Perspective: The State of Health Care in the U.S. Today." Min's and Jennings's lectures will both be presented in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2, at 4:30 p.m.
The Speakers
Emily Friedman is the section editor for health policy of the Journal of the American Medical Association and is the author/editor of a number of books on health care, including The Right Thing: Ten Years of Ethics Columns from the Healthcare Forum Journal (1996); An Unfinished Revolution: Women and Health Care in America (1994); Choices and Conflict: Explorations in Health Care Ethics (1992); and Making Choices: Ethics Issues for Health Care Professionals (1986). She has won numerous awards for her work, such as the Corning Award from the Society for Health Care Planning and Marketing, the William R. Haney Award of Merit from the Forum for Health Care Planning, and an Honorary Life Membership in the American Hospital Association. Friedman also is an adjunct assistant professor at Boston University's School of Public Health and serves as a consultant on information dissemination to the Agency for Health Care Policy Research of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Bruce Vladeck was appointed in 1993 by President Clinton to the HCFA, where he directs the Medicare and Medicaid programs. A champion of affordable, accessible, high-quality health care, Vladeck also serves as a health policy adviser to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other administration officials. Prior to his post with the Clinton administration, Vladeck was president of the United Hospital Fund of New York (1983 93), assistant vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1982 83), assistant commissioner for health planning and resources development for the state of New Jersey (1979 82), and a teacher of health and political science at Columbia University (1974 79). The recipient of numerous awards for his efforts to improve health care in the United States, Vladeck is the author of Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy (1980) as well as of numerous articles of a variety of health care topics.
Nancy-Ann Min is responsible for budgetary and policy matters relating to all federal health programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, veterans' programs, and federal employee compensation and personnel practices. From 1987 to 1989, as commissioner of human services in the cabinet of Tennessee Governor Ned McWherter, she administered a 6,000-employee agency with a $500 million budget that oversees food stamps, AFDC, and child-welfare programs. Min is also a lawyer and has represented states in litigation involving federal health and welfare programs. She has also taught law at Vanderbilt University, and in 1994 was named one of "America's 50 Most Promising Leaders, Age 40 and Under" by Time magazine.
Christopher Jennings joined the Clinton administration in 1993. Working under the direction of Chief Domestic Policy Adviser Carol Rasco and National Economic Council Chair Laura D'Andrea Tyson, he is responsible for health care policy development, the evaluation of legislative proposals, and the coordination of tasks of all administration departments involved with health care policy. Prior to his White House appointment, Jennings was the senior legislative health reform adviser to the Health Care Financing Administration, assisting in the health reform work of the Office of Legislative Affairs. He also served on the staffs of three U.S. senators, and in 1989 was made deputy staff director of the Senate Aging Committee.
The lecture series is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center for Health Care Strategies, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.