Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture
on Health Policy

David Lawrence, MD, MPH, and Chairman Emeritus of Kaiser Permanente, to deliver 20th annual Lourie Lecture on team-based medicine

Friday, September 26, 2008, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Sheraton University Hotel, 801 University Avenue

Dr. Lawrence is returning for his second Lourie Lecture. He spoke in 1995 about Health Care: Public Good or Private Enterprise? This time his topic is team-based medicine, a concept he discussed in his 2002 book, From Chaos to Care: The Promise of Team-Based Medicine.

Many of the pieces that we need to create an outstanding and affordable medical-care system are already in place. But they are scattered, disjointed, isolated from one another, fragments of a vast and costly puzzle that is still missing critical pieces. Medical care is like the chaos in an ant colony7 that occurs immediately after the nest is stirred with a stick. Our challenge is to leave that chaos behind, to identify innovations that work, and to knit the pieces together into something that works for patients and across the nation (page xviii).

This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. There will be limited free parking in the Sheraton garage; bring your parking stub to the lecture to have it validated.

If you want to receive an invitation to the next Lourie Lecture in the mail, please contact:

Martha W. Bonney
Center for Policy Research
426 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-1020
Telephone (315) 443-2703 | FAX (315) 443-1081
 mbonney@maxwell.syr.edu.

About the Lourie Lecture

The Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture is jointly sponsored by Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Central New York Community Foundation, Inc., and administered by the Center for Policy Research.

Herbert Lourie, MD, was a distinguished member of the national and international medical communities in the field of neurosurgery, as well as a physician who understood medicine as a high calling that demands the utmost of skill, intellect, compassion and character. With his untimely death in 1987, our community lost a beloved healer, teacher, and leader. A generous outpouring of money by his many friends, patients, colleagues, and family funds this lecture series on health care policy and the allocation of health care resources.

Past lecturers include:

 


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