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Date: January 22, 1999
``Ethical Issues in Managed Care'' to be Topic of Princeton Lecture
PRINCETON, N.J. -- John A. Balint, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Center for Medical Ethics, Education, and Research at Albany Medical College, will speak on ``Ethical Issues in Managed Care'' at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Wednesday, February 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.
Balint, a native of Budapest, began practicing medicine in 1949 in England. He came to the United States in 1958 to become a fellow in gastroenterology at the University of Cincinnati, and is 1963 was named associate professor of medicine and head of the Division of Gastroenterology at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY. In 1988 he was named the Richard T. Beebe Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, and in 1993 he was appointed the director of the Center for Medical Ethics, Education, and Research at the college. He is the chair of the Committee on Ethics of the American Gastroenterological Association, and is the author of more than 80 publications, a dozen book chapters, and nearly 70 abstracts.
He is a reviewer for numerous scientific journals, among them the American Journal of Physiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Gastroenterology, Respiration Physiology, and Proceedings of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for Health Care Strategies, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.