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March
20, 2001
Contact: Steve Townsend, (313) 577-1429,
stownsen@med.wayne.edu
WSU School of
Medicine to host
discussions on future of health care:
Heads of Michigan community health
department, DMC,
School
of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center to speak
Two events next week
at the Wayne State University School of Medicine could give a good indication
what the future holds for the health of our community.
The Dean’s
Distinguished Lecture, on Tuesday, March 27, will feature three crucial players
in Michigan health care. WSU Dean John Crissman, MD, will moderate presentations
by James Haveman, director of the Michigan Department of Community Health, and
Arthur Porter, MD, president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center.
All three presenters
have seen their respective organizations undergo massive transformations during
their stewardships and can provide invaluable insight into what the future holds
in the areas of patient care, medical research and the training of our
health-care professionals.
At the Robert Mack,
MD, Lecture, on Thursday, March 29, the School of Medicine will shift its focus
to the future of health care in the urban settings. Spencer Forman, MD is
president of New York’s Montefiore Medical Center, the academic medical center
for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, New York, and one of
the nation’s leading experts on urban health care. Dr. Forman will present a
lecture entitled “Montefiore: Developing an Urban Survival Strategy for the 21st
Century.”
Both events will
begin at 4 p.m. and will be held in WSU’s Gordon Scott Hall of Basic Medical
Sciences (540 E. Canfield). Those interested in attending are asked to call the
Office of the Dean at (313) 577-1335. Media are asked to call (313) 577-1429 for
more information.
With more than 1,000
medical students, WSU is among the nation’s largest medical schools. Together
with the Detroit Medical Center, the school is a leader in patient care and
medical research in a number of areas including cancer, genetics, pediatrics and
the neurosciences.
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