September 17 — “National Health Insurance: Facts, not Rhetoric”
What are better objective ways of measuring the quality of a health care system? How can we better understand the facts about aspects of health care reform on the health care system? How do we gain better insight in the ways in which we could reform our health care system to improve access, quality, or cost? Important questions, expect some serious answers.
When: Wednesday September 17, 12:00 PM
Where: Methodist Hospital, Building A Petticrew Auditorium
The Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics has provided the Fairbanks Ethics Lecture Series since 2005 as an educational outreach to physicians and staff of Clarian Health Partners hospitals and interested others in the central Indiana community. Lectures are free, open to all, and do not require pre-registration. Continuing education credit is offered to physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains at no charge, regardless of their institutional affiliation.
Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is currently an associate professor of Pediatrics in the Children’s Health Services Research Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1998. He completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He stayed at the University of Washington to complete a health services research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. During that time he received his masters degree in Health Services. Dr. Carroll’s current research interests include the use of information technology in pediatric health care, decision analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis, and health policy and professionalism.
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