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| 21st Century Healthcare Forum is an ongoing show dedicated to healthcare and it's affects on you. Hosted by Marc Holland. |
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 As president of the Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada leads the foundation's efforts to help develop and deliver low-cost, life-saving health tools for the developing world. He oversees our global health grant portfolio and Global Health Advocacy. Before joining the foundation, Yamada served as Chairman of Research and Development and was a member of the Board of Directors at GlaxoSmithKline. Prior to that, he was chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and Physician-in-Chief at the University of Michigan Medical Center. |
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 Warner C. Greene, M.D., Ph.D., is founding director and senior investigator of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology and professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. Under his direction, the Institute has established an international reputation for excellence in the study of HIV and AIDS. Dr. Greene also serves as co-director of the federally funded UCSF-Gladstone Center for AIDS Research. After completing a B.A. (with greatest distinction) at Stanford University in 1971, he began his medical and research training in the Medical Scientist in Training Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where he received his M.D. and Ph.D. in 1977. For the next two years, he was an intern and resident in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 1979, he became an investigator and later senior investigator in the Metabolism Branch of the National Cancer Institute. During his time at NCI, he also volunteered as an attending physician at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1987, Dr. Greene was named Professor of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1992 he accepted his current appointments at Gladstone and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Greene’s research focuses on studies of the molecular basis for HIV and HTLV-I retroviral pathogenesis and the biochemical mechanisms underlying the regulation and action of the NF-κB/Rel family of eukaryotic transcription factors. The author of more than 280 scientific papers, Dr. Greene has been honored by outstanding investigator awards from the American Federation for Clinical Research and the American College of Rheumatology and has been recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 100 most-cited scientists in the world.  |
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Dr. Richard G. Fessler is a professor of Neurosurgery at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine and the director of Northwestern's new NeuroMusculoskeletal Institute (NMSI) in Chicago. He is an international researcher, inventor and educator with expertise in artificial spinal discs, minimally invasive surgical techniques and stem cell transplantation for spinal cord injury. Dr. Fessler has made key contributions in the development of several innovative spinal technologies including the BRYAN® Cervical Disc System which is expected to have FDA approval in early 2008. He has published more than 15 books and 100 peer reviewed manuscripts. He is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the North American Spine Society, and the Joint Section in Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, as well as several other regional, national, and international professional organizations. He graduated from the University of Chicago Medical School and is currently a student at the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago working on a Masters of Divinity. He is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery and currently holds a license in Illinois. |
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Treating Chronic Kidney Disease Carmine Durham, Vice President Marketing, Bone Care International www.bonecare.com Pharmacuetical Marketing Practices: Understanding The Risks Gabriel Imperato, Partner, Broad and Cassel www.broadandcassel.com Equal Opportunity Healthcare John Render, Partner, Hall Render Killian www.hallrender.com The Fight Against AIDS Rob Dintruff, Director, Global Care Initiatives, Abbott Laboratories www.abbott.com Women's Health: What We Can Do Manfred Eggersdorfer, Head of Global R&D, DSM Nutritional Products www.dsm.com Planning For Your Elder Care Paul A. Sturgul, Attorney, Elder Law & Estate Planning Specialist www.sturgullaw.com Improper Payment Practices & HMOs Edith M. Kallas, Partner, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP www.milbergweiss.com The War On Frivolous Malpractice Suits Jeffrey Segal, Founder, Medical Justice Services www.medicaljustice.com The New Healthcare Law: A Risky Proposition Glen Reed, Chair, Healthcare Practice Group, King & Spalding www.kslaw.com |
New Developments In Stem Cell Research Douglas Armstrong, Chairman, President & CEO, Aastrom Biosciences www.aastrom.com Solving Heathcare's "Big Three" Eric Klein, Partner, Katten Muchin Zavis www.kmzr.com "Successful Aging" Lawrence Haspel, President of the Board of Directors, American College of Osteopathic Internists www.acoi.org Healthcare Providers Under Seige Joshua S. Levine, Partner, Danziger & Markhoff www.dmlawyers.com Preventing The Collapse Of Managed Care Michael H. Bernstein, Partner, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold www.sdma.com Is Medicaid Failing Our Children? Fred Cohen, Principal, Goldberg Kohn www.goldbergkohn.com The Healthcare Mandate James Bream, Shareholder, Querrey & Harrow www.querrey.com Compliance And The New Medicare Drug Benefit T. Reed Stephens, Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal www.sonnenschein.com |
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