Health Care Workforce Issues of the 21st Century

The Fourteenth Princeton Conference

May 23 and 24, 2007

Agenda

Fourteenth Princeton Conference Agenda

Papers

• Uwe's Letter to Attendees
• Analyzing Cause and Effect in the U.S. Physician Workforce
• Economists on Academic Medicine: Elephants in a Porcelain Shop?
  

  Uwe E.Reinhardt, Ph.D.
  James Madison Professor of Political Economy
  Princeton University

• What Works: Healing the Healthcare Staffing Shortage
  PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute

Presentations

• The Imperative to Increase Physician Supply
  Richard A. Cooper, M.D.
  Professor of Medicine
  University of Pennsylvania
• The Ultimate Question: Should We Invest Billions of Dollars to Expand Physician Training Rates?
  David C. Goodman, M.D., MS
  Professor of Pediatrics and of Community and Family Medicine
  Dartmouth Medical School
• Reflections
  Kevin A. Schulman, M.D.
  Director, Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics
  Duke University Medical Center
• Were the Projections of a Physician Surplus Wrong? If So Why? and Can We Learn from Our Mistakes?
  Edward Salsberg, MS
  Director of the Center for Workforce Studies, Associate Vice President
  The Association of American Colleges
• New Projections of Physician Supply
  Douglas Staiger, Ph.D.
  Professor of Economics
  Dartmouth College
  
  David Auerbach
  Principal Analyst, Health and Human Services Division
  Congressional Budget Office
  
  Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
  Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing
  Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Women in the Physician Workforce
  Phyllis L. Carr, M.D.
  Associate Dean of Students
  Boston University School of Medicine
• The Changing Demographics of the Physician Workforce
  Joan Y. Reede, M.D., MPH, MS
  Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership
  Harvard Medical School
  
• Nursing Shortages: Is There a Crisis? If So, What Are the Implications?
  Linda H. Aiken, Ph.D.
  The Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor of Nursing
  Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
  University of Pennsylvania
• Nursing Shortages - Is There a Crisis?
  Peter I. Buerhaus, Ph.D., RN, FAAN
  Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing
  Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• Breaking the Cycle: Developing the Next Generation Model of Care Delivery and Staffing for Physicians and Nurses.
  Jack Rodgers, Ph.D.
  Managing Director of Health Policy Economics
  PricewaterhouseCoopers
  
• Lessons from the Limeys
  Alan Maynard
  Professor of Health Economics
  University of York
  
• Survival of the Fittest: What Is the Mission of the Teaching Hospitals?
  Uwe E. Reinhardt, Ph.D.
  James Madison Professor of Political Economy
  Princeton University
• Medicare Payments & Workforce Issues
  Mark E. Miller, Ph.D.
  Executive Director
  Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
• The Collapsing Primary Care Foundation: Why It Matters and What to Do About It
  Kevin Grumbach, M.D.
  Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine
  University of California, San Francisco
• Evidence, Value and the Role of Doctors of Nursing Practice
  Mary O'Neil Mundinger, Dr.P.H.
  Dean and Centennial Professor in Health Policy
  Columbia University School of Nursing
• The Supply and Demand of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in the U.S.
  Roderick S. Hooker, Ph.D., MBA, PA
  Medical Staff - Rheumatology
  Department of Veterans Affairs, Dallas VA Medical Center
  
• Trouble in Paradise: The US and the Health Workforce of the World
  Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
  Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
  George Washington University
• Effects of Using International Medical Graduates and Professionals in the U.S.: An International Perspective
  Onyebuchi A. Arah, M.D., D.Sc.
  Center for Prevention and Health Services Research
  National Institute for Public Health
• Can We Use the Health Care Workforce More Efficiently?
  Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., MPH
  Professor of Medicine
  Dartmouth Medical School
• Workforce Planning: Expansion vs. Restructuring
  Jerome H. Grossman, M.D.
  Senior Fellow
  John F. Kennedy School of Government