If It's Broke, Fix It: Health Care Providers and Health Reform

August 31, 2006, 5:00pm – 6:30am

About This Event

The American health care system is broken and requires fundamental change. Change that ensures that all Americans have affordable health coverage, rather than living with the financial and emotional insecurity of being uninsured. Change that controls escalating health care costs that burden American families and American businesses. Change that ensures that patients maintain their choice of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. And change that makes prevention, wellness and health promotion a centerpiece of the American health care system. Doctors, nurses and other health professionals struggle daily with our broken health care system. They know, better than anyone else, how the problems with coverage, quality, autonomy and inefficiency leave patients with higher costs and lower-quality care. Please join the Center for American Progress for an exploration of the challenges the current health care system poses for health professionals, patients and policymakers, and a discussion of how doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can use their unique insight and real-life experiences to steer the nation towards a solution.

HealthSpace Cleveland
8911 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 231-5010
Maps and Directions

Featured Speaker:
Fmr. U.S. Senator Tom Daschle, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

Introduction by:
Michael Devereaux, M.D., Professor of Neurology at the Case Western Reserve University

Moderated by:
Arthur Lavin, MD FAAP, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Location

Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW
Washington, DC 20005

Biographies

Tom Daschle is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Senator Daschle's work for the Center focuses on health care policy and global economic, security and health issues. Senator Daschle is also a member of the Global Alliances' steering committee, an international coalition of progressive leaders dedicated to the development and exchange of progressive policy ideas, and a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, where he conducts student seminars, presents guest lectures, and holds public discussions related to politics and policymaking. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978, Tom Daschle served there until 1986 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from South Dakota. He became Minority Leader of the Senate in 1994 and Majority Leader in 2001. He was the second longest serving Democratic leader in history. Daschle now serves as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Washington office of the law firm Alston and Bird.  Senator Daschle attended South Dakota State University and graduated in 1969. He served for three years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Command.

Dr. Devereaux is Professor of Neurology at the Case Western Reserve University.  He is also the Vice-President of Clinical Integration at University Hospitals of Cleveland and the Medical Director of UHHS/Richmond Heights Hospital.  He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine.  He did an internship in Mixed Medicine and a residency in Neurology at the Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center.  Thereafter, Dr. Devereaux completed Fellowships in Neuroophthalmology and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Neurological Institute of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons.  He has been named in “Best Physicians in America” and as one of the Top Doctors in America by the Center for the Study of Services.  He is a Fellow of American Academy of Neurology, the American College of Physicians and the Epilepsy Society of America.

Arthur Lavin, M.D, F.A.A.P. is a pediatrician with over 20 years of experience in the practice of medicine.   Dr. Lavin received his MD degree from the Ohio State University, was trained in general pediatrics and the specialty of neonatology at Harvard, and has been on the faculty of Harvard University, MIT and Case Western Reserve University, where he currently is an associate clinical professor of pediatrics.  In Cleveland, he participates on the medical staffs of both the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital Health Systems.  He has published original research in a number of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals on novel approaches to treating severe jaundice, the prevention of adult cardiac disease in childhood, and the use of electronics to improve immunization rates.  He also has an intensive interest and involvement with the community dimension of medicine, having leadership positions on multiple boards of foundations and associations.  He maintains a private practice, Advanced Pediatrics, on the East side of Cleveland.