CHICAGO, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthcare leaders representing providers, academic medical centers, physician groups, the United States government, corporate industry and other health associations will meet in Chicago on April 15 and 16, 2004 at The Gleacher Center at The University of Chicago to address and work on the dramatic changes impacting healthcare and medicine today.
In a time when it is critical to manage the rapidity of change in healthcare in relation to finance, reform, technology and scientific research and development, decisionmakers from Chicago's major medical centers and others from across the country will empower conference delegates with strategies that are working. Pfizer Inc is the leading corporate sponsor of The Global Conference Institute's 6th World Health Conference THE ONGOING TRANSFORMATION OF HEALTHCARE: EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE and is the underwriter of The Global Conference Institute's Healthcare Humanitarian Award to Benjamin S. Carson, M.D. Supporting sponsors are Siemens Medical Solutions, Aon, The American Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians, IPOX SCHUSTER, and Discovery Medicine, the official publication sponsor of The Global Conference Institute's 6th World Health Conference.
Keynote addresses and up-to-the minute briefings by those leaders who are significantly impacting the direction of healthcare include James L. Madara, M.D., Richard T. Crane Professor, Dean, Division of Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine, University Vice-President for Medical Affairs at The University of Chicago on THE FINANCING OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: HOW AND WHY; James L. Schroeder, M.D., President and CEO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation on THE LIABILITY CRISIS: A CALL TO ACTION / TORT REFORM AND MEDICAL MALPRACTICE; Leo M. Henikoff, M.D., President Emeritus, Rush University on THE FUTURE OF MANAGED CARE; Herbert Pardes, M.D., President and CEO, New York Presbyterian Hospital/The University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell on THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE; Benjamin Chu, M.D. President and CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation on TRANSFERRING CARE THROUGH THE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY and Irwin Birnbaum, Esq., Chief Operating Officer of Yale University School of Medicine on COMPLIANCE, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, AND EFFORT REPORTING. William G. Plested, III, M.D., Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The American Medical Association, will address the legislative update from Washington on The Global Conference Institute's annual UPDATE FROM WASHINGTON session.
Peter B. Corr, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Science and Technology for Pfizer Inc will give the opening keynote address on Friday, April 16, 2004. Dr. Corr, a recipient of the Established Investigator Award from The American Heart Association, will address A COMMITMENT TO HEALTHCARE: FIVE PILLARS OF TRANSFORMATION.
Benjamin S. Carson, M.D., renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, scientist and health leader who is Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, will give a special address after he receives THE GLOBAL CONFERENCE INSTITUTE'S HEALTHCARE HUMANITARIAN AWARD FOR 2004. Dr. Carson is also the President of the Benevolent Endowment Network Fund which provides grants to assist families with non-covered medical care expenses of pediatric neurosurgery patients with complex medical conditions.
"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.
The Global Conference Institute's Healthcare Humanitarian Award was established in 1998 to recognize one individual in the world 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, M.D., Ph.D., Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., Nancy Goodman Brinker, 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 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 delegates will honor Dr. Carson on Thursday evening, April 15, 2004 in Chicago. Deborah S. Ziskind, President and Chairman of the Board of The Global Conference Institute will pay tribute to Dr. Carson at the awards dinner gala.
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