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The Center for Public Health Initiatives Public Health Research in Action Speakers Series When: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 2:00pm to 3:00pm Where: Houston Hall (3417 Spruce St) The Golkin Room (2nd floor) RSVP: [email protected] Featured Speaker: David Blumenthal, MD, M.P.P. Doctors, Universities and Industry: Managing the Mix David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. is Director, Institute for Health Policy and Physician at The Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. From 1987-1991 he was Senior Vice President at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a 720-bed Harvard teaching hospital. From 1981 to 1987 he was Executive Director of the Center for Health Policy and Management and Lecturer on Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. During the late 1970s, Dr. Blumenthal was a professional staff member on Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on several editorial boards, including the American Journal of Medicine and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He is also a National Correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Blumenthal was the For additional founding chairman of AcademyHealth (formerly the Academy for Health information or to Services Research and Health Policy), the national organization of health RSVP email: services researchers. He is also Director of the Harvard University Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement. He has served as a trustee of the University of Chicago Health System and currently serves as [email protected] a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine). .

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