„Spreestadt-Forum“ zur Gesundheitsversorgung in Europa

„Spreestadt-Forum“
zur Gesundheitsversorgung in Europa
Einladung zu dem Gastvortrag von
David U. Himmelstein M.D. und
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., MPH, City University of
New York/ Harvard Medical School *
zum Thema
„Is U.S. Health Care Policy an Infectious Disease?“
Montag, 29. Juni 2015, 18:00 Uhr c. t.
* CV der beiden ReferentInnen:
David U. Himmelstein M.D. is a Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York, a Lecturer
in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine and staff physician
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center. He graduated from Columbia
University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, completed a medical residency at Highland Hospital in
Oakland, California, a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Harvard, where he remained on the faculty
and practiced primary care internal medicine in Cambridge, Massachusetts for 28 years. He has authored
or co-authored more than 100 journal articles and three books, including widely-cited studies of medical
bankruptcy and the high administrative costs of the U.S. health care system. His 1984 study of patient
dumping led to the enactment of EMTALA, the law that banned that practice. In 1986 he co-founded
Physicians for a National Health Program, an activist physician group that now has over 18,000 members.
Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., MPH is a primary care doctor, a Professor at The City University of New York
School of Public Health, and a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School where she was previously a Professor of
Medicine. A native of Louisiana, she graduated from LSU Medical School in New Orleans, and completed
an internal medicine residency at Cambridge Hospital. She completed a research fellowship in General
Internal Medicine at Harvard, and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship at the Institute of
Medicine in Washington, DC. She has published more than 150 journal articles, reviews, chapters and
books on health policy and is a leading advocate of non-profit national health insurance for the United
States. She co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program.
Wissenschaftliche Leitung:
Prof. Klaus-Dirk Henke, Prof. Reinhard Busse, Prof. Thomas Mansky und
Prof. Marco Runkel
Veranstaltungsort:
„Verbändehaus“ von Kassenärztlicher Bundesvereinigung (KBV),
Deutsche Krankenhausgesellschaft (DKG) und Bundesärztekammer (BÄK),
Herbert-Lewin-Platz 2 (Wegelystr. 3), 10623 Berlin, Konferenzraum 2, EG
www.spreestadtforum.tu-berlin.de
Tel.: 030 314-29805 • Fax: 030 314-29806 • anne.hoffmann.2@tu-berlin.de