A Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health event - "Priorities in Health: Can We Make Better Decisions?"

Overview

Session 1: Making better decisions in the U.S.: Medicare and Private Insurance

• Speaker: Muriel Gillick, MD
  Clinical Professor, Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Speaker: Steven D. Pearson, MD, MSc, FRCP
  President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), Harvard Medical School, Senior Fellow at America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC.

Morning Break

Session 2: Panel Discussion: Can we improve decision making?

• Muriel Gillick, MD, Clinical Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Steve D. Pearson, MD, MSc, FCPR
  President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), Harvard Medical School, Senior Fellow at America's Health Insurance Plans, Washington, DC
• Jim Sabin, MD
  Clinical Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention and Psychiatry; Clinical Professor of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Ethics Program, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
• Jerome L. Avorn, MD
  Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston

Discussion and Q&A

End of conference