The Millsaps College Else School of Management will host a forum, “A Discussion of Universal Health Care” on Thursday, April 17, 2008 in the Leggett Center on the Millsaps Campus. Breakfast will be at 7:45 a.m., with the program beginning at 8:30 a.m. The key note speaker for this forum will be Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler, Associate Professor Medicine and co-Director of the General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program at Harvard University. In 1986, she co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, which advocates a single-payer system of national health insurance for the United States. She has authored more than 50 research articles in major peer-reviewed journals on healthcare access and financing. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Following Dr. Woolhandler’s remarks, there will a panel discussion on the topic featuring Dr. Dan Jones, vice-chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center; Kurt Metzner, President and CEO of Mississippi Health Systems; and Andy Taggart, legal and strategic counsel, and former chief of staff for Governor Kirk Fordice.
The event is sponsored by The Bower Foundation, an organization committed to improving Mississippi’s quality of life and health care.
The public is invited. Admission is $15 at the door, however, seating is limited, and reservations are recommended. For more information, please call 601-974-1250.
