Larson Lecture - Past Speakers

Michael Beschloss, Historian and Author
“Presidential Courage”

Sister Mary Roch Rocklage, RSM, Chair of the Sponsor Council, Sisters of Mercy Health
  System, St. Louis, MO
"Habits of the Heart"

Karen Davis, Ph.D., President, The Commonwealth Fund, New York, NY
"A Patient-Centered Health System"
 PowerPoint Presentation

Regina Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., Bayou LeBatre Rural Health Clinic
"Making a Difference in People’s Lives"

John W. Kenagy, MD, MPA, Director, Kenagy & Associates, LLC
"Fixing a Broken Health Care System: Why There is no Toyota in U.S. Health Care "

4/28/03

Samuel O. Thier, MD
Professor of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School Former President and CEO, Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
" Marriage Counseling for Hospital Mergers "

4/8/02

Gail Warden
President and CEO, Henry Ford Health System
" Building Upon Our Values: Health Care’s Promises to Its Patients and Communities "

4/30/01

Hamilton Jordan
Former Chief of Staff, Carter Administration
" No Such Thing as a Bad Day "

1/31/00

Dr. Stanley M. Davis
Consultant and Author
" Preparing Health Care for the New Economy "

2/1/99

Scott S. Parker
Retired President and CEO, Intermountain Health Care
"A Letter to my Son, Tom "

2/2/98

Senator Mark Hatfield (Retired)
"The Need to Adequately Fund Medical Education and Research"

9/29/97

Reed Tuckson, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Professional Standards
American Medical Association
"Improving Community Health and the Quality of Life"

8/5/96

Russell Coile
Health Care Futurist
Competition, Capitation and Collaboration: Adapting to Changes In Health Care

8/21/95

Emily Friedman
Health Policy Analyst, Writer/Lecturer
"The Past as Future: What We Can Learn from the History of Health Systems"

8/8/94

David C. Thomasma, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Medical Humanities Program
Loyola University Medical Center
"Ethical Issues of Health Care Reform"

8/9/93

Rob McCord, Executive Director
Congressional Institute for the Future
"Health Care Reform and Transitioning from Medicine to Health"

7/27/92

Nancy K. Austin, president
Nancy K. Austin, Inc.
"Quality and Service through Innovation and Collaboration"

7/29/91

The Honorable Dan Rostenkowski
U.S. House of Representatives, Chairman, Ways and Means Committee
"The Politics of Health Care Reform"

7/30/90

C. Everett Koop, M.D., former U.S. Surgeon General, Chairman, National Safe Kids Campaign
"The State of the Nation's Health"

7/31/89

Merlin (Monte) K. DuVal, M.D., Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs, Samaritan Health Services
"As Values Change, Can Culture be Far Behind?

8/8/88

Robert H. Ebert, M.D., Special Program Consultant, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
"Looking Ahead at American Health Care"

7/26/87

Arnold S. Relman, M.D., Editor, New England Journal of Medicine
"What Are Hospitals For?"

8/4/86

Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D., James Madison Professor of Political Economics, Princeton University
"Rationing in the Age of Plenty"

7/29/85

Robert A. Derzon, Vice President, Lewin & Associates
"Hospital Leadership in the 1980s. Balancing Old Values and Skills in a New Management Age"

3/24/84

James E. Burke, Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson
"Decentralization and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship and Crisis Management"