2012 MacEachern Symposium
What Happened to Altruism in Healthcare?
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
James L. Allen Center
Evanston Campus of Northwestern University

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Registration/Continental breakfast/Alumni Networking Breakfast (7:30 – 8:30am)

Welcome/Setting the Stage: David Dranove, Ph.D, Walter J McNerney Professor of  Health Enterprise Management, Kellogg (8:30am)

Keynote Speaker: Steve Burrill, CEO, Burrill & Company (8:35am-9:30am)
Topic: Biotech 2012: Innovating in the New Austerity
                                   
Malcolm MacEachern Memorial Lecture: Professor David Cutler, PhD, Harvard University, Department of Economics (9:30am-10:30am)
Topic:  Will Health Reform Squeeze Out Altruism? 

Keynote Speaker: Peter Budetti, Deputy Administrator for Program Integrity of the CMS
(11:00am-12:00pm)
Topic: Halting Medicare Fraud

Keynote Speaker: Dick Clarke, President and CEO, Health Care Financial Management Association (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Topic: Hospitals Financial Responsibilities to Charitable Care

Sg2 and Modern Healthcare Luncheon & Forecasting Panel, sponsored by Sg2 (1:00 – 2:45pm)

Introductions by Prof. E.F.X. Hughes, MD and Michael Sachs
Panelists:
Michael Sachs, Chairman and CEO, Sg2
Brad Buxton, President BTB Associates and former Sr. VP of Healthcare Service Corp  and President of  HMO Illinois
Prof. Leemore Dafny, Kellogg School of Management
Prof. Kathryn McDonald, Exec. Dir., Center for Health Policy, Stanford University
David Burda, Editor, Modern Healthcare (Moderator)

Alumni Awards and Honors: Patty Riskind. President HEMA Alumni Association (Moderator) (2:45-3:00pm)

Learn about the 2011 Malcolm MacEachern Symposium

Malcolm T. MacEachern, M.D. was a legendary figure in healthcare management and in the drive to improve the standards of quality in medical care delivery.  A physician from Canada, Dr. MacEachern joined the staff of the American College of Surgeons in the 1920s to head up their quality improvement efforts.   After 30 years of championing high clinical quality standards, in 1954  the healthcare field developed the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations – the national accrediting body for hospitals in the United States, Dr. MacEachern also devoted himself to training students in the hospital administration program (now Kellogg’s Health Enterprise Management Program), which he founded in 1943 at Northwestern, the oldest accredited program in the nation and the first to establish itself in a business school.  Dr. MacEachern wrote the very influential book Hospital Organization and Management in 1935, which in various editions, served as the standard textbook for hospital administration for over 30 years.  Dr. MacEachern died in 1956. His students/graduates started the Malcolm MacEachern Lecture in 1976 in his honor, which under the leadership of Prof. Edward Hughes the lecture evolved in 1983 into a full day Symposium. In 1961, the alumni had previously endowed a lecture given at a national meeting during the annual convention of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the 30,000 member professional society for hospital executives.