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Cost Containment and Health Improvement in the Era of Health Care Reform
Kenneth Thorpe, PhD, is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Thorpe's health policy research and leadership have focused on the economic and health consequences of obesity and other risks for the chronic diseases that collectively consume over three quarters of the nation's $2.5 trillion in health care expenditures.
In the public sector, Professor Thorpe has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1993-95) and he regularly testifies before numerous committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
In his role as Executive Director of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (PCFD), Professor Thorpe works to improve chronic disease outcomes with a coalition of over 120 national and state-based organizations that include patients, providers, community organizations, business and labor groups, and health policy experts.
In his City Club presentation, Professor Thorpe will describe how regions and states can apply evidence-based approaches to preventing and managing chronic diseases that are enabled by the recently passed health care reform legislation.
This presentation is sponsored by the CWRU-MetroHealth System's Center for Health Care Research and Policy and its Lectureship in Health Care Economics and Policy, supported by a generous gift from Brian and Cynthia Murphy.
November 5, 2010