PHILADELPHIA — Immediately following Thursday's anticipated Supreme Court of the United States ruling on the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- which called for sweeping changes that would provide health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans -- Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics will convene a panel of top health services research experts for a round table discussion on the impact of the ruling.
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Leonard Davis Institute Auditorium
Colonial Penn Center
3641 Locust Walk (near the intersection of 37th Street and Locust Walk)
Philadephia, PA 1901 |
| WHEN: |
June 28, 2012
Noon to 1:30 PM |
| WHO: |
Panel participants will include:
- Ralph W. Muller, Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Dave Grande, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
- Tom Baker, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Penn Law
- Mary Naylor, Professor, School of Nursing
- Scott Harrington, Professor of Health Care Management and Insurance and Risk Management, The Wharton School
- Jonathan T. Kolstad, Assistant Professor of Health Care Management, The Wharton School
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The LDI is one of the country's largest health services research centers, coordinating the work of more than 200 senior fellows investigating the medical, economic, and social issues that influence how health care is organized, financed, managed, and delivered across the United States. The Institute and its senior fellows are among the pioneers in interdisciplinary health services research that has helped guide health policies at all levels of government and the private sector.
Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, excellence in patient care, and community service. The organization consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Penn’s Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school.
The Perelman School of Medicine is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $550 million awarded in the 2022 fiscal year. Home to a proud history of “firsts” in medicine, Penn Medicine teams have pioneered discoveries and innovations that have shaped modern medicine, including recent breakthroughs such as CAR T cell therapy for cancer and the mRNA technology used in COVID-19 vaccines.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System’s patient care facilities stretch from the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania to the New Jersey shore. These include the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and Pennsylvania Hospital—the nation’s first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional facilities and enterprises include Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine at Home, Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital, and Princeton House Behavioral Health, among others.
Penn Medicine is an $11.1 billion enterprise powered by more than 49,000 talented faculty and staff.