An Open Dialogue on the Role of Health Care Providers

November 2, 2006, 12:00pm – 1:00pm

About This Event

The American health care system is broken and requires fundamental change. Change that ensures that all Americans have affordable health coverage, rather than living with the financial and emotional insecurity of being uninsured. Change that controls escalating health care costs that burden American families and American businesses. Change that ensures that patients maintain their choice of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers. And change that makes prevention, wellness, and health promotion a centerpiece of the American health care system.

Doctors struggle daily with our broken health care system. They know, better than anyone else, how the problems with coverage, quality, autonomy, and inefficiency leave patients with higher costs and lower-quality care.

We hope you will join us as the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine hosts the Center for American Progress in a discussion with John Podesta that will explore the challenges the current health care system poses for health professionals, patients, and policymakers, and how doctors can use their unique insight and real-life experiences to steer the nation towards a solution.

Featured Speaker:
John Podesta, President and C.E.O. of the Center for American Progress Action Fund

Introduction by:
Bob Haynie, MD ‘78, Ph.D, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Opening Remarks by:
Arthur Lavin, MD, FAAP, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Location

Biomedical Research Building
2109 Adelbert Road
Sullivan Conference Center-Floor 11
Cleveland, Ohio 44106

Biographies

John Podesta is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. He served as Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton from October 1998 until January 2001, where he was responsible for directing, managing, and overseeing all policy development, daily operations, Congressional relations, and staff activities of the White House. He coordinated the work of cabinet agencies with a particular emphasis on the development of federal budget and tax policy, and served in the President's Cabinet and as a Principal on the National Security Council. A frequent guest of Sunday morning news programs, Podesta is known for his straight talk and acerbic wit. He also served the Clinton administration from 1997 to 1998 as both an Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff. Earlier, from January 1993 to 1995, he was Assistant to the President, Staff Secretary, and a Senior Policy Adviser on government information, privacy, telecommunications security, and regulatory policy.

Bob Haynie, MD ‘78, Ph.D is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He serves on numerous committees at CWRU, including the Admissions Committee, Committee on Students, Steering Committee of the Faculty Council, Board of Trustees of the CWRU Medical Alumni Association, Committee on Medical Education, Core Clerkship Directors Committee, and the Dean’s Minority Advisory Committee. Dr. Haynie obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in June of 1972 and his MD in 1978 both at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Haynie has received numerous awards, including Outstanding Professor at CWRU, Outstanding Professor of the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, The Mt. Sinai Medical Society Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, and was the recipient of the 1995 CWRU School of Medicine Clifford J. Vogt, M.D.’34 Alumni Service Award. Dr. Haynie is currently a member of the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) and was granted the designation ASH Specialist in Clinical Hypertension. He is also a member of the Cleveland Medical Association, the National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program, and the High Blood Pressure Council of Greater Cleveland. Dr. Haynie has published a number of articles, primarily in the field of hypertension.

Arthur Lavin, M.D, F.A.A.P. is a pediatrician with over 20 years of experience in the practice of medicine. Dr. Lavin received his MD degree from the Ohio State University, was trained in general pediatrics and the specialty of neonatology at Harvard. He has been on the faculty of Harvard University, MIT, and Case Western Reserve University where he currently is an associate clinical professor of pediatrics. In Cleveland, he participates on the medical staffs of both the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital Health Systems. Dr. Lavin has published original research on novel approaches in medicine including the use of electronics to improve immunization rates in a number of leading peer-reviewed journals. He is the co-author of Who's the Boss: Moving Families from Conflict to Collaboration (Collaboration Press, 2006), a book to help parents of young children manage their most common conflicts. His office was recognized by Microsoft as the only physician's office in the country to showcase the use of technology in Microsoft's official launch of Office 2003. Dr. Lavin has also had an intensive interest and involvement with the community dimension of medicine. In Cleveland, he has served as president of the Northern Ohio Pediatric Society, Chair of the Urban Pediatrics Group, member of the United Way Vision Council process, as well as board member of the Medical Mutual of Ohio Charitable Foundation, County Commissioners Forum on Health Care, and the Joint Advisory Council on Medicaid. At the state level he has served on the Ohio Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on School Health. Nationally he has served on three committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics, helping draft the definition of community pediatrics and manuals on how to teach American pediatricians to care for children with special health care needs. Dr. Lavin is married with three children, and maintains a private practice on the East side of Cleveland, Advanced Pediatrics.