Patient care is now not just in the hands of doctors. Multiple constituents play an important role in the provision of high-quality medical care, including clinicians, for-and non-profit hospital systems, insurance providers, governmental bodies, pharma and biotech companies, investors, etc.
The symposium will explore how these stakeholders today interact in the provision of health care; the tensions between optimal patient treatment and the economics of healthcare delivery; and how ethical considerations in both medicine and business must intersect in order to ensure quality and trustworthy healthcare for patients.
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Program Schedule
8:30 am - 9:00 am — Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:15 am — Welcome and Opening Remarks - (Rebecca Scott, Director of Programs, FASPE; Steven Bander, MD, Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics)
9:15 am - 9:45 am — The Business of Health Care: Reconciling Medical and Commercial Values - (Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP)
By way of introduction, this session will lay out the challenges we face in 2025 in negotiating tensions that exist within the healthcare system between the delivery of optimal clinical care for the individual patient and considerations of financial viability and success for the organizations that provide the structure for care delivery and innovation.
9:45 am - 10:45 am — From the Individual Patient to the Volkskörper: Redefining the Purpose of Medicine in the Third Reich - (Thorsten Wagner)
Medical professionals and administrators in Nazi Germany recalibrated the priorities of healthcare, focusing on the health, strength, and productivity of the organism of the German Nation. Racial purity, but also economic rationality and efficiency, a potent labor force and a nation ready for war increasingly defined the focus of medical attention. Intertwining racist and utilitarian policy goals, the field of healthcare became a central area of implementing a murderous vision of a new society.
10:45 am - 11:00 am — Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:15 pm — Panel Discussion 1: The Medical Professional in 2025: Seeking to Deliver Healthcare within a Financial Structure: (Moderator: Fr. Michael Rozier, SJ, PhD; Panelists: Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP; Jay Malone, MD, PhD, HEC-C; William Parker, MD, PhD; Noemi Spinazzi, MD, FAAP)
The panel, composed of clinicians from different specialties, will discuss from the perspective of the medical professional the challenges of delivering optimal health care within a structure that requires financial considerations.
12:15 pm - 1:00 pm — Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm — Panel Discussion 2: The Business Interests in 2025; Seeking Financial Success While Serving Patients: (Moderator: Michaella Baker, JD, MBA, MPH; Panelists: Michelle Kramer, MD, MPH; Eric Larson; Matt Walsh, MHA)
The panel, composed of representatives from different healthcare organizations (e.g. hospitals, insurance companies, investment and life sciences firms, etc.), will discuss their approach to the delivery of health care and how patient interests factor into their business.
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm — Coffee Break
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm — Panel Discussion 3: Reconciling the Imperatives of Delivering Healthcare and Economic Viability: (Moderator: Victor Roy, MD, Panelists: Peter Angelos, MD, PhD; Karla Childers; Nathaniel Hibner, PhD; Brian Peckrill)
The panel, composed of medical and business ethicists, will discuss the reconciliation of medical and business imperatives—without sacrificing the ethical requirements of each.
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Closing Remarks: (Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, Linda Kohler Anderson Professor of Surgery and Surgical Ethics; Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Reception
