Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

-2009-

Ninth Annual Marshal J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 4:30 pm

Speaker: Alan Garber, MD, PhD
Center for Health Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, School of Medicine, Stanford University

Topic: "The Real Promise of Comparative Effectiveness Research"

Location: Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medican Education Center, HMS, 260 Longwood Avenue

For further information, please contact Lindsay Craw.

- 2008 -

Eighth Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 4:30 p.m.

Speaker: Peter R. Orszag, MSc, PhD
Director, Congressional Budget Office

Topic: "New Ideas About Human Behavior in Economics and Medicine"

Location: Carl W. Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston MA 02115

For further information, please contact Lindsay Craw.

- 2007 -

Seventh Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Date: Monday, April 9, 2007, 4:00 p.m.

Speaker: Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD
Visiting Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and The American Enterprise Institute; Former Administrator, CMS; Former Commissioner, FDA

Topic: "Improving Quality and Value for Medicare Beneficiaries"

Location: Amphitheater, New Research Building, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

For further information, please contact Lindsay Craw.


- Previous Seidman Lectures -

Sixth Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Speaker: Zach W. Hall, PhD
President and Chief Scientific Officer, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Topic: "Stem Cell Research in California: The Intersection of Science, Politics and Culture"

Fifth Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Speaker: William H. Frist, MD
US Senate Majority Leader; HMS Class of 1978

Topic: "Bioterrorism and the Rise of Infectious Disease: Combating the Greatest Global Threat of the 21st Century"

Fourth Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, PhD
President, Harvard University

3rd Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Speaker: Gail R. Wilensky, PhD
John M. Olin Senior Fellow; Project HOPE

Topic: “1991 Revisited — Can We Be Smarter the Second Time Around?”

Second Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Speaker: Victor R. Fuchs, PhD
Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Topic: “Non-Medical Determinants of Health”

First Annual Marshall J. Seidman Lecture on Health Policy

Speaker: Robert Reischauer, PhD
Urban Institute; Former Director, Congressional Budget Office

Topic: "Hard to Swallow: Expanding Medicare to Include Prescription Drug Coverage"