Health Policy Institute for Continuing Education Units

Sponsored by George Mason University, the College of Health and Human Services Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, the Washington Health Policy Institute hosts its 16th annual meeting from June 3rd through 6th of 2008.At the meeting, “academics and health professionals interested in health policy research can learn firsthand about current policy issues and how policy is made through lectures and discussion with some of the nation’s leading policy makers. Students can also earn graduate credit through the Institute by attending morning didactic sessions and completing an analytic policy paper. An additional Institute option is the Policy Leadership Training Program for post-baccalaureate students and health professionals with a desire to enhance leadership capacity and skills in policymaking, research, and advocacy.”

Here’s a list of invited speakers –

BILL FINERFROCK
Vice President, Health Policy
Capitol Associates Inc.PATRICK FINNERTY
Director, Virginia Department
of Medical Assistance Services

PAULA HOLLINGER, RN
Associate Director, Health Workforce
Maryland Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene, and Former Senator,
Maryland General Assembly

DIANA MASON, PhD, RN, FAAN
Editor in Chief, American Journal of Nursing

ERIN McKEON
Associate Director, Government Affairs
American Nurses Association

ALAN MORGAN, MPA
Executive Director
National Rural Health Association

FRANK PURCELL
Director, Federal Government Affairs
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists

CATHY RICK, RN, CNAA, FACHE
Chief Nursing Offi cer
Veterans Health Administration

ALLISON WEBER SHUREN, MSN, JD
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC

PEGEEN TOWNSEND, JD
Senior Vice President, Legislative Policy
Maryland Hospital Association

Since this meeting is slanted towards eligible graduate credit or CEU’s, I encourage students and policy practitioners with a few days in Washington D.C. to spare to attend.

After this affair, you may piggy back off the 25th annual AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, which follows soon after George Mason University’s affair.

Register for Raising Women’s Voices National Conference in Boston

“HEAR US NOW!
RAISING WOMEN’S VOICES FOR THE HEALTH CARE WE NEED!

Thursday & Friday, April 17 and 18, 2008
Hosted by: Simmons College
Boston, Massachusetts

Featured Keynote Speakers
Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Former Surgeon General
Miriam Yeung, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
Byllye Avery, Avery Institute for Social Change, Black Women’s Health Imperative

Join us and more than 300 other activists, mothers, daughters, sisters, caretakers, consumers and community leaders for this national conference to learn and strategize about how we can get quality, affordable health care for all. Together we will discuss and plan for health care reform that will meet the needs of women and families.

This conference will launch a network of trained and outspoken women who are mobilized to work for a health care system that:

• Includes comprehensive reproductive health services
• Meets the needs of diverse women and our families
• Bridges the inexcusable gaps in services and care that we face in the current system
• Provides quality health care that is affordable and accessible for women and our families across the life-span.

To get the health care debate to reflect women’s issues and concerns, we must join the conversation!

REGISTER by March 12 FOR EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION RATES!
Questions? 866-210-3114

Register for Academy Health’s 25th Annual Research Meeting

The creme de le creme health care policy research meeting returns with a big bang, celebrating its quarter century anniversary!

Registration for Academy Health’s 25th Annual Research Meeting (ARM) begins tomorrow, Friday, February 15th. This milestone event will be held at headquarters in Washington, D.C. during June 8-10. Early birds can save $100 prior to April 7th registration.

Not a member? No worries, membership purchase in itself pays for registration and will not cost you a penny more when compared to existing members. Registration fees are tiered by individual, organization affiliate, speaker, fellow, and student. Daily passes are also available.

The preliminary agenda is likely to evolve in the next few months, and quarter century anniversaries are likely to attract a respectable powerhouse of policymakers, researchers, and upcoming movers and shakers.

Plan on arriving/staying a day or two prior to/after the event to meet with interest groups. Meetings announced thus far:

Meeting on Saturday June 7th
Child Health Services
Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues
Public Health Systems Research
State Health Research and Policy

Meeting on Tuesday June 10th
Disability Research

See you there!

AcademyHealth 24th Annual Research Meeting

I am kicking off this blog live from AcademyHealth’s 24th Annual Research Meeting in sunny Orlando, FL. The meeting is actually in Lake Buena Vista in the all-inclusive resort town of DisneyWorld. There are a fair share of interesting and provocative speakers as there are soporific lectures. I will blog about the salient issues that are on the bleeding edge of health care financial policy.

Personally I am looking forward to the following speakers and panelists:

David Cutler, Harvard University
Keynote address on New Approaches to Health Care Reform
Paul Ginsburg, Ph.D. Center for Studying Health System Change
Panel Chair
John Hsu, M.D., M.B.A., M.S.C.E., Kaiser Division of Research, Kaiser Institute for Health Policy, University of California at San Francisco
2007 Article of the Year Awardee for Unintended Consequences of Caps on Medicare Drug Benefits”
Mark V. Pauly, Ph.D., Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
2007 Distinguished Investigator Awardee
James Robinson, Ph.D., M.P.H., University of California, Berkeley
Panelist
Kevin Volpp, M.D., Ph.D., Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion at the Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center and University of Pennsylvania
2007 Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Awardee

Marked session topics of interest:

SCHIP Reauthorization: Moving Forward, Standing Still or Sliding Back?
Ten+ Years of Tracking Health System Change: What Does It Tell Us About the Potential for Markets in Health Care?
CMS Research Update
Use of State Level Research for State Initiatives to Expand Coverage
Medicaid Coverage, Policies & Performance
Improving Health & the Use of Medical Services: Analyzing the Contributions of Medicaid & SCHIP
Powerful Data, Meaningful Answers: An Introduction to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Public Policy & Health Care Markets: Intended & Unintended Effects
Best Papers & Article-of-the-Year
Politics & Policymaking in State Coverage Expansion Efforts, 2007: Challenges & Opportunities