The Trent Center For Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series presents

Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA
Professor of Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
Professor of Business Administration
Duke University Fuqua School of Business

Health Care, Health Insurance, and the Future of the Health System

Thursday, October 8, 2009
12:00-1:00 pm
Duke North Hospital Lecture Hall 2002

Lunch provided at NOON
Talk begins at 12:15 pm

President Obama describes the cost of health care as the problem, but economists suggest that health insurance is a factor in the cost. So what is the relationship between health costs and health insurance, and what are potential pathways forward for the system?

Kevin Schulman, MD, MBA, is a professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics and as an associate director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He serves as the director of the Health Sector Management Program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Dr. Schulman also holds appointments in the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham VA Medical Center, the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine. Dr. Schulman is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a recipient of the Alice S. Hersh Young Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research (now AcademyHealth), and the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Herbert W. Nickens Epidemiology Award from the Association of Black Cardiologists.

His research interests include economic evaluation in clinical research; health services research and policy, including access to care and the impact of reimbursement and regulatory policies on clinical practice; and medical decision making, especially in patients with life-threatening conditions. He has written extensively and published peer-reviewed articles in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is currently a member of the editorial/advisory boards of five journals, including the American Journal of Medicine, the American Heart Journal, Health Services Research, and Value in Health.

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