Emily Friedman is an independent
writer, lecturer, and health policy and ethics analyst based in
Chicago. She is contributing editor of Hospitals & Health
Networks and contributing writer for the Journal of the American
Medical Association, Health Progress, and other periodicals. She
is most noted for her work in health policy, health care trends,
health insurance and managed care, the social ethics of health
care, health care for the underserved, health care history, population
demographics, and the relationship of the public with the health
care system.
Grace-Marie Turner is president
of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that
she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market
ideas for health reform. She
speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more
competitive, consumer-driven marketplace in the health sector. Grace-Marie
is founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group,
which serves as a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks
around the country to analyze and develop health policy recommendations. And
she is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax
Reform, published by the University of Michigan Press.
Pete Earley: A former reporter
with The Washington Post, Pete Earley has been a journalist for
more than thirty years and has written eight nonfiction books and
three novels. CRAZY: A Father’s Search Through America’s
Mental Health Madness tells two stories. The first is about Mr. Earley’s struggle
to get his college age son help after he is diagnosed with a serious
mental illness. The second describes what Mr. Earley discovered during
a nine month investigation at the Miami Dade County Jail where he
followed prisoners with mental problems through the justice system
and into the community to observe what services were available to
them.
He has been described by Washingtonian magazine
as one of a handful of journalists in America “who have the power to introduce
new ideas and give them currency”. More than one million copies
of his books are in print.
Conference Co-Chairs:
Karen Edison, MD
Co-Director, Center for Health Policy; Chairman, Department of
Dermatology; Medical Director, Missouri Telehealth Network, University
of Missouri- Columbia
Kristofer Hagglund, PhD
Co-Director, Center for Health Policy; Interim Director, Master
of Public Health Program; Professor and Associate Dean
School of Health Professions
University of Missouri- Columbia
Planning Committee:
Lindsey Beckmann
Senior Continuing Education Coordinator, School of Medicine
University of Missouri- Columbia
Shirley Farrah, PhD, RN-BC
Assistant Dean
Nursing Outreach and Distance Education, Sinclair School of Nursing,
University of Missouri- Columbia
Stan Hudson
Health Policy Analyst
Center for Health Policy
University of Missouri- Columbia
Gwen Ratermann
Associate Director
Center for Health Policy
University of Missouri- Columbia
Allison Rentfro, MPA
Director, Continuing Medical Education, School of Medicine, University
of Missouri- Columbia
Marjorie Sable
Associate Dean
Research and Graduate Studies
College of Human Environmental Services, University of Missouri-
Columbia
Accreditation
The Office of Continuing Education, School of Medicine, University
of Missouri-Columbia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical
education for physicians.
The Office of Continuing Education, School
of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia designates this educational
activity for a maximum of 5.7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians
should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation
in the activity.
University of Missouri Sinclair School of
Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education
by the Missouri Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center’s
Commission on Accreditation. 5.7 contact hours are awarded for this
offering. Credit will be awarded to all individuals who attend
at least 80% of the offering and are paid in full. Provider
number 707-1.
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