Health Forum at UCLA

Health Forum at UCLA (SPH)

With the ongoing challenges of health reform taking center stage nationally, the UCLA School of Public Health is pleased to host The Health Forum at UCLA (SPH), a series of regularly scheduled free public programs featuring health leaders discussing and debating the way forward.

The list of our scheduled events can be found below. Future dates will be added throughout the year. If you want to ensure you receive notifications of these events, please send an email to publichealth@support.ucla.edu with the subject line "Health Forum" and we will add you to our distribution list.

If you have missed any of our previous Health Forum events, see the "Archive" list at the upper-right of this page or visit our library of recorded events by clicking the "Video Archives" link. Please allow a few days for new recordings to be posted.

If you have any questions, please contact the Development Office at 310.825.6464.

April 25th - The Impact of ACOs on a Fragmented Healthcare System

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are one of the crucial elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ACOs are comprised mostly of hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare professionals. The various providers within an ACO need to work with one another to provide coordinated care to the beneficiary population, align incentives and lower overall healthcare costs. In "The Impact of ACOs on a Fragmented Healthcare System," we will hear from case studies from physicians groups and hospitals representing different patient populations who are in the process of organizing ACOs. We will also hear lessons learned from Kaiser and other Southern California healthcare organizations.

When: Wednesday, April 25th, 6:00-8:00pm

6:00-6:30pm: Coffee and Reception

6:30-7:15pm: Panel Presentations

7:15-8:00pm: Question and Answer Session

Where: Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA, 635 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles

Panelists include:

Mr. Tom Gordon
Senior Vice President

Cedars-Sinai Health System

Dr. Hector Flores

Medical Director

Family Care Specialists

Dr. Michael Kanter

Regional Medical Director, Quality and Clinical Analysis

Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Moderated by:

Dr. Thomas Rosenthal

Chief Medical Officer

UCLA Health System

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February 29th - California's Health Benefit Exchange: How Will it Work?

"California's Health Benefit Exchange: How Will it Work?"

Health Benefit Exchanges are one of the crucial elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Ideally, they will operate as "one-stop supermarkets" for individuals to buy health insurance. The responsibility for setting up exchanges falls to individual states, but so far only 13 states, including California, have adopted plans to do so. In "California's Health Benefit Exchange: How Will it Work?", we discussed how California's exchange is designed to work and how public and private insurance plans aim to participate.

When: Wednesday, February 29th, 6:00-8:15pm

6:00-6:30pm: Coffee and Reception

6:30-7:30pm: Panel Presentations

7:30-8:15pm: Question and Answer Session

Where: Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA, 635 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles

Panelists include:

Peter Lee
Executive Director

California Health Benefit Exchange

Tom Epstein

Vice President, Public Affairs

Blue Shield of California

Howard Kahn

Chief Executive Officer

L.A. Care

Moderated by:

Gerald Kominski

Director
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

If you missed this event or other previous health forum events hosted by the UCLA School of Public health, please visit the "Archive" list at the upper-right of this page, or visit our library of recorded events by clicking the "Video Archives" link.

Health Forum events are held in partnership with:

Video Archive

January 25th - Filling the Primary Care Physician Gap

"Filling the Primary Care Physician Gap"

60 million Americans -- or nearly one in five -- lack adequate access to primary care due to a shortage of primary care physicians, and the deficit is only expected to grow. The consequences could be dire, with an increase in disease and death. In this Health Forum we explored different remedies to fill the gap.

Panelists included:

Patrick Dowling, MD, MPH
Chair, Department of Family Medicine

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

Colleen Keenan, PhD, FNP-BC, WHNP-BC

Director, Nurse Practitioner Program

UCLA School of Nursing

Edward Ellison, MD

Executive Medical Director-Elect

Southern California Permanente Medical Group

Moderated by:

Arthur Kellerman, MD, MPH

Vice President and Director

RAND Health

Health Forum events are held in partnership with:

Video Archive

November 30th - Year of Change: The Provider Perspective

With the ongoing challenges of health reform taking center stage nationally, the UCLA School of Public Health announces The Health Forum at UCLA (SPH), a series of regularly scheduled free public programs featuring health leaders discussing and debating the way forward.

"Year of Change: The Provider Perspective"

When: Wednesday, November 30th, 6:00-8:15 pm

Where: Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium, UCLA, 635 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles

Panelists included: