Ezekiel on Healthcare Reform (JSPAN) posted by: kenmyers

Summary: Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel will address Health Care Reform at The Pyramid Club, sponsored by the Jewish Social Policy Action Network.

Description: "Health Care Reform and the Future of American Medicine" is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's topic at the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Social Policy Action Network. New JSPAN officers and directors will be installeed and a dessert buffet will be served. The public is welcome to this event.   Admission including the dessert buffet is just $10. JSPAN members with 2012 dues paid will be admitted free.  Reduced rate parking is available at 1700 Market Street.  Reservations are necessary at jspan@jspan.org or by phone at 215-635-2554. Dr. Emanuel is the new Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. During the drafting and enactment of the Affordable Care Act, Dr. Emanuel was special advisor for health policy to the White House Office of Management and Budget.  He founded the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Emanuel has written or edited nine books and more than 200 scientific articles, and is a columnist for the New York Times as well as a frequent television commentator. Health care reform is a major focus of JSPAN, the Jewish Social Policy Action Network.  JSPAN develops policy and action programs for positive social change, to advance equality and opportunity in our nation's pluralistic democracy.  Recent JSPAN educational programs have addressed end of life choices, the death penalty, and international criminal law since the Nuremberg trials.

Where:   The Pyramid Club - Mellon Building   1735 Market Street, 52nd floor   Philadelphia, PA   19103

When: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM