American Healthcare in Year 2015: Pathways to Change AgeVenture News Service With a shortage of physicians and nurses, climbing prices for prescription drugs, and overall costs higher than all but four countries in the world, healthcare in America is a system under mounting stress. The School of Health Management and Policy at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business provides a national platform for the discussion of these issues at the “Transforming American Healthcare Over the Next Decade: Pathways to Change” symposium April 5 and 6 at the Arizona Biltmore, Phoenix. “We have chronicled the successes and growth of the US healthcare system for many years. But while science and technology have brought amazing advances, the management and costs of the ‘system’ have been characterized by most observers as out of control for 30 years,” said Robert Mittelstaedt, dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business. “This symposium leverages the resources of the School of Health Management and Policy to bring leading thinkers together to ask whether we have finally reached a point where the healthcare system will begin to behave like other sectors of our economy and benefit from improved quality, productivity and outcomes without constantly increasing cost,” Mittelstaedt said. The symposium examines healthcare from four perspectives, each an avenue of change - economics, biotechnology, policy and research, and knowledge management. Newt Gingrich of the American Enterprise Institute and former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, will deliver the keynote address at lunch. The following speakers will anchor the panels: Economics - Edward C. Prescott (W. P. Carey School of Business) and Robert Fogel (University of Chicago) both recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics Biotechnology - George Poste of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Policy and research - Stuart Altman of Brandeis University. Knowledge management - Stephen Shortell of the University of California, Berkeley Following each speaker, panels of experts, including researchers and industry leaders, will present alternative points of view on the topics, followed by a moderated discussion. Symposium participants represent the healthcare industry, policy makers and leading scholars. Throughout the day a summary bulletin and video from each session will be available on the web at http://wpcarey.asu.edu/shmp For more information please contact Liz Farquhar at (480) 965-7774, or liz.farquhar@asu.edu. “This symposium is an example of the leadership that the School of Health Management and Policy at ASU brings to the healthcare sector,” said the school’s director, Jeffrey Wilson. “Operating within a leading business school at a large research university, we provide graduate management education to healthcare professionals while pursuing an aggressive research agenda on health topics. The symposium brings these two objectives together as we moderate a discussion of the most pressing issues in our discipline.” The School of Health Administration and Policy offers the full-time W. P. Carey MBA/Master in Health Management dual degree, which includes a specialization in supply chain management, finance, services marketing or information technology. The school also offers a part-time program culminating in the Master of Health Sector Management with tracks in epidemiology, policy and management. For more details about the “Transforming American Healthcare” symposium including speaker biographies and registration see: www.wpcarey.asu.edu/hmp The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University is one of the largest business schools in the United States with more than 150 faculty, 1,000 graduate and 2,600 upper-division undergraduate students. The school is internationally recognized for its leadership in supply chain management and services marketing and highly regarded for its faculty’s research productivity. The L. William Seidman Research Institute focuses on applied research in economics, leveraging the research capabilities of the school’s faculty. The school is ranked 25th nationally for its undergraduate programs and 29th for the W. P. Carey MBA.