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Professor Mark V. Pauly of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania delivered the 2008 Malcolm T. MacEachern Memorial Address. Photo © Nathan Mandell

MacEachern Symposium

MacEachern Symposium 2009: Medical Innovation and Technology-
How Far Should the Government Go?
October 30, 2009 (8:00am-4:00pm)
Tribune Auditorium, Allen Center

REGISTRATION (click here)
Faculty, Staff and Students $20
Kellogg/NU Alums $75
Corporate $125

AGENDA

7:15-8:30am	Registration/Continental breakfast/Alumni Networking
8:30-9:00am	Welcome by David Dranove, Walter J McNerney Professor and Director of Health Enterprise Management, Kellogg School of Management
9:00-9:45am	Opening Speaker: Herbert Meltzer, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt School of Medicine Topic: A Researcher's Look at Technology Evaluation (TE)
9:45-10:30am	Robert Honigberg, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, GE Healthcare Topic: How A Supplier Views TE
10:30-11:00am	Break
11:00am-12:00	Allan Detsky, MD, Ph.D, Professor of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; and Physician-in-Chief, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto Topic: Lesson's from Canada
12:00-1:00pm	Malcolm MacEachern Memorial Lecture Joseph P. Newhouse, PhD, John D. MacArthur Professor of Economics, Harvard University
1:00-2:30pm	Lunch & Forecasting Panel, sponsored by Sg2 Dave Burda, Editor, Modern Healthcare (Moderator) Maureen Sullivan, Senior Vice President, BCBSA Michael Sachs, Chairman and CEO, Sg2 Joseph Newhouse, Harvard University Edward Hughes, Kellogg School of Management
2:30-2:45pm	Awards/Honors: Patty Riskind (Moderator)
2:45-4:00pm	Michael Millenson, Mervin Shalowitz, MD, HEMA Fellow, Kellogg School of Management, (Moderator) Topic: Healthcare Reform: How we got to where we are, and what are the policy implications. David Dranove, Kellogg School of Management Leemore Dafny, Kellogg School of Management
4:00pm	Concluding remarks

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.