The City Club of Portland presents a Friday Forum in collaboration with Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program:
What can other nations teach Oregon about healthcare?
Oregon, like all states, struggles to provide better care to more people for less money. Much of Oregon’s efforts are untried or unproven. Other nations have succeeded in this goal through a variety of formats, some of which may or may not be models for Oregon to follow. What are the lessons Oregon should learn from the successes and failures of other healthcare systems?
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016 from 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm, doors open at 11:30 am
Panelists: Dr. Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus of the Yale University School of Management, and Dr. Kieke Okma, Visiting Pro-fessor of International Healthcare at McGill
Moderated by Serena Cruz, Executive Director of Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation
Venue: The Sentinel Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97205
Registration: City Club of Portland Event website: www.pdxcityclub.org/calendar_list.asp
Co-sponsors: Please see the City Club event website.
Theodore R. Marmor, PhD is emeritus professor of public policy and management at Yale University School of Management. Dr. Marmor has written and presented extensively on social security, healthcare policy, and healthcare reform since his participation in the creation of Medicare in 1965 as aide to the Sec-retary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The author or co-author of eleven books, Marmor has published over a hundred articles in a wide range of scholarly journals, as well as being a frequent op-ed contributor to U.S. and Canadian newspapers. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis and the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy and Law. He is also our national senior doubles squash champion.
Kieke Okma, PhD is Visiting Professor at McGill University, Canada and has spoken around the world on international healthcare policy. She has been Senior Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands, Advisor to the World Bank on Health Policy, and a participant in other inter-national health policy agencies. She has been published in several languages on healthcare policy and eco-nomics. One of her most recent articles, co-authored with her husband Dr. Marmor, was “A Dutch Model for Medicare? Sobering Lessons from the Netherlands’ Experience with Competition” (2011) in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Serena Cruz is the Executive Director of the Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation, raising funds and doing public relations for the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center (a Federally Qualified Health Cen-ter serving Washington and Yamhill county residents). She’s a former Multnomah County Commissioner, where she collaborated with regional leaders to further access to health care for the uninsured, housing for families who were homeless, and, sustainable solutions to transportation issues.
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