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Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations: What? Why? Do They Exist? Brown Bag Seminar Series
Lawrence P. Casalino Livingston Farrand Associate Professor of Public Health and Chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research, Department of Public Health Weill Cornell Medical College
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Institute Conference Room, 30 College Ave.

Lawrence Casalino, M.D., Ph.D., is Livingston Farrand Associate Professor of Public Health and Chief, Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. He came to Cornell after nine years at the University of Chicago, where he was a tenured associate professor. Previously, he worked for 20 years as a family physician in private practice in Half Moon Bay, California. During that time he obtained a Ph.D. in Health Services Research at the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis on organization theory, institutional sociology, and institutional economics. Dr. Casalino’s research focuses on the organization of physician and hospital practice, with “organization” taken to mean both the structures of practice and the processes used to provide health care. He studies the effects of different forms of organization of practice on the quality and costs of health care, as well as the influence of public and private policies on the ways in which practice is organized. He is particularly interested in unintended consequences of policies and in the effects of policies and of the organization of practice on physician professionalism and on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care delivery. Dr. Casalino is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served on numerous national advisory committees and has worked extensively with the Federal Trade Commission and with physician groups and hospitals on anti-trust issues related to clinical integration of physicians and of physician-hospital organizations.

Cost Effectiveness, Policy and Politics of Second Generation Antipsychotics Brown Bag Seminar Series
Robert Rosenheck Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology and Public Health VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center
Thursday, November 19, 2009, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Institute Conference Room, 30 College Ave.

Dr. Rosenheck is Director of the VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC). At Yale Medical School he is a Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at the Child Study Center and Director of the Division of Mental Health Services and Outcomes Research in the Department of Psychiatry. He is an internationally known mental health service researcher who is leader in cost-effectiveness studies of behavioral health interventions and in monitoring quality of care and other aspects of the performance of large health care systems. He has over 18 years of experience evaluating, disseminating, and monitoring over 900 innovative mental health programs across the VA system, including: several hundred specialized VA programs for homeless veterans with severe mental illness; a national network of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams for veterans who suffer from severe and persistent mental illnesses; and specialized programs for veterans suffering from PTSD. Since 1994 he has published the annual Mental Health Report Card for the VA. He has been a prime architect of national VA collaborative programs with both the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Social Security Administration and he has directed evaluation for SAMHSA. He has published more than 400 scientific papers on these important topics covering mental health services quality of care, organization, and financing.

Slouching Toward Health Care Reform Brown Bag Seminar Series
Sara Rosenbaum Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Thursday, December 03, 2009, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm Institute Conference Room, 30 College Ave.

Sara Rosenbaum is Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy. She also holds an appointment as Professor of Health Care Sciences at GW's School of Medicine and Law. As a scholar, an educator and a national leader, Professor Rosenbaum has dedicated her career to promoting more equitable and effective health care policies in this country, particularly in the areas of Medicaid and Medicare, managed care, employee health benefits, maternal and child health, community health centers and civil rights in health care systems. Her commitment to strengthening access to care for low-income, minority and medically underserved populations has had a transforming effect on the lives of many Americans, particularly children. In addition to her responsibilities as Chair of the Department of Health Policy, which she founded and developed, Professor Rosenbaum is Director of the Center for Health Policy Research, the institutional home for many of the Department's research activities, and Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program. Professor Rosenbaum has been named one of the nation's 500 most influential health policy makers by McGraw Hill. Among other honors, she has received the Investigator Award in Health Policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has been recognized by the Department of Health and Human Services for distinguished national service on behalf of Medicaid beneficiaries. As a member of the White House Domestic Policy Council under President Clinton, she directed the drafting of the Health Security Act and oversaw the development of the Vaccines for Children program.

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