December 2012

Expanding Primary Care: Can The Existing Workforce Do It?

Six researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Workforce Workgroup discuss the challenges facing the country's primary care system. Physician shortages, inadequate payment systems and complex issues raised by implementation of the Affordable Care Act were some of the session's topics. | Participants: Joshua Metlay, Penn Professor of Medicine; Dan Polsky, Penn Professor of Medicine and Wharton School Professor of Health Care Management; Karin Rhodes, Director of the Center for Emergency Care Policy Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine; David Grande, Penn Assistant Professor of Medicine; Evan FieldstonPenn Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; and Jaya Aysola, Penn Assistant Professor of Medicine. |

October 2012

Inside Penn Medicine's Innovation Center

A roundtable discussion of four top innovation managers focuses on why it's crucial to scientifically test and validate innovative ideas for new policies and practices inside health care institutions. | Participants: David Asch, Executive Director, Penn Medicine Innovation Center; Roy Rosin, Chief Innovation Officer, Penn Medicine Innovation Center; Christian Terwiesch, Wharton School Professor of Operations and Management; and Raina Merchant, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Penn's Perelman School of Medicine. |

September 2012

Dissecting The Health Insurance Exchanges

Four members of the University of Pennsylvania's Health Insurance Exchange Research Group discuss some of the thorniest issues facing federal and state officials designing the nation's new network of insurance exchanges. | Participants: Mark Duggan, Wharton School Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Tom Baker, Penn Law Professor and expert in insurance law; Robert Town, Wharton School Associate Professor of Health Care Management; and Amanda Starc, Wharton School Assistant Professor of Health Care Management. |

June, 2012

Insurance, Health Care and The SCOTUS Decision

A panel of six top health care experts at Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of health Economics discuss the Affordable Care Act in the immediate wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's rulling upholding the law. | Participants: David Grande, Penn Assistant Professor of Medicine; Jonathan Kolstad, Wharton School Assistant Professor of Health Care Management; Scott Harrington, Wharton School Professor of Health Care Management and Insurance and Risk Managment; Tom Baker, Penn Law Professor and Deputy Dean of Penn Law School; Mary Naylor, Penn School of Nursing Professor; and Ralph Muller, CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

April, 2012

Physician Income in The New Age of Health Reform Frugality

Although one in five of them is among the wealthiest 1% of citizens, growing numbers of American physicians face unexpected financial challenges as the new frugalities of health reform continue to envelope thier profession. A panel of health policy experts explores why. | Participants: Mark Pauly, Wharton School Professor of Health Care Management; David Asch, Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics; David Grande, Penn Assistant Professor of Medicine; Zachary Meisel, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.

February, 2012

Penn Health Care Analysts Critique a PBS Documentary

A PBS documentatry suggesting that the techniques of a handful of unique health care centers that have successfully lowered costs and improved quality can be readily transferred to the rest of the country is analyzed and refuted by a panel of health policy experts at Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. | Participants: Mark Pauly, Wharton School Professor of Health Care Management; Janet Weiner, LDI Associate Director for Health Policy; Daniel Polsky, LDI Director of Research and Professor of Medicine at Penn's Perelman School of Medicine; and David Grande, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School.