CHICAGO, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare leaders will meet in Chicago on April 15 and 16 at The Gleacher Center at The University of Chicago to work on the dramatic changes impacting healthcare and its future.
In a time when it is critical to manage the rapidity of change in healthcare in relation to finance, scientific research and development, technology, tort reform, legislation, and corporate governance, decisionmakers representing institutions, associations and corporations from across the nation will empower conference participants with strategies that are working. Keynote addresses and up-to-the minute briefings by those leaders who are impacting the direction of healthcare will be presented by senior representatives from many of the country’s leading institutions, associations and corporations. The Global Conference Institute’s 6th World Health Conference will be chaired by Herbert E. Pardes, MD, President & CEO, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Irwin Birnbaum, Esq. of Yale University School of Medicine. Pfizer Inc is the leading corporate sponsor of The Global Conference Institute’s 6th World Health Conference. Supporting sponsors are Siemens Medical Solutions, Aon, Chicago Medical Society, The American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians, IPOX Schuster, and Discovery Medicine.
“Pfizer is delighted to be a major sponsor of the Global Conference Institute’s 6th World Health Conference,” said Dr. Peter B. Corr, Senior Vice President for Science and Technology at Pfizer Inc. “We believe that this forum is critically important at a pivotal time in medicine and world health care. There is a pressing need for leaders and decision-makers from across all sectors of health care to share ideas and discuss solutions together -- face- to-face. This event creates a wonderful forum to make that possible partnership across diverse sectors a key to effective long-term solutions.”
Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., MD, renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, scientist and world health leader who gained world-wide recognition when he served as the principal surgeon in the 22-hour separation of the Binder siamese twins, will give a special address after he receives THE GLOBAL CONFERENCE INSTITUTE’S HEALTHCARE HUMANITARIAN AWARD FOR 2004. Dr. Carson, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, is recognized throughout the world for his tireless dedication to pediatric neurooncology (that is brain tumors in children and infants), for his humanitarian and education initiatives for children across the nation, and his indefatigable will and positive spirit championing the human condition. A film and a Broadway play on his life are in the works.
“Dr. Carson has attained the highest levels of achievement and humanitarianism in medicine, and he richly deserves the honor The Global Conference Institute is bestowing on him,” said Dr. Corr. “His work as a skillful, pioneering pediatric surgeon is internationally renowned, and the impact of his work is vast -- having touched lives in literally all corners of the world.
“Through his leadership -- as a caring physician, as an enlightened leader, and as an insightful author -- Dr. Carson serves as an inspiring role model for all citizens of the world.”
“In view of your countless achievements in the fields of neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery, your monumental contributions to world healthcare and medicine, the many initiatives you have spearheaded for the good of others, and your tireless commitment to others as both physician and world medical leader, I can think of no individual more deserving than you to be the recipient of The Global Conference Institute’s Healthcare Humanitarian Award for 2004,” said Deborah S. Ziskind, President & Chairman of the Board of the Global Conference Institute, to Dr. Carson.
“I feel very honored to be the recipient of THE GLOBAL CONFERENCE INSTITUTE’S HEALTHCARE HUMANITARIAN AWARD and am looking forward to receiving it in Chicago on the evening of April 15,” said Dr. Carson to Deborah S. Ziskind, President & Chairman of the Board of The Global Conference Institute. “We have in this award a mechanism for understanding what a healer is and the concern about the totality about the human being. Moreover, this award reflects upon the many advancements we are working on in science and medicine as well as the as well as the improvement of the human condition and the society in which we live,” said Dr. Carson.
The Global Conference Institute’s Healthcare Humanitarian Award was established in 1998 to recognize one individual in the world (on an annual basis) who has demonstrated a profound commitment and devotion to humanitarianism, has enhanced the quality of human lives through his or her work, and has influenced the course of history through ongoing contributions to healthcare and medicine, business, or in the individual’s given field of expertise in relation to healthcare. Past recipients include liver transplant pioneer Thomas E. Starzl, MD, Ph.D., Michael E. DeBakey, MD, Nancy Goodman Brinker, Founding Chair, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Sharon Stone, Chairman of the Campaign for AIDS Research, and Dana Reeve, moving force for The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
“We have in this award a mechanism for understanding what a healer is and the concern about the totality about the human being. Moreover, this award reflects upon the many advancements we are working on in science and medicine as well as the as well as the improvement of the human condition and the society in which we live,” said Dr. Carson to Deborah Ziskind.
The Global Conference Institute, its distinguished faculty, honored guests and conference participants will pay tribute to Dr. Carson on Thursday evening, April 15, 2004 in Chicago. Pfizer Inc is the corporate underwriter of The Global Conference Institute’s Healthcare Humanitarian Award for 2004 to Dr. Carson.
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