8:00-8:30 AM

 Registration and Continental Breakfast
  • Grand Horizon Room, Covel Commons

 

8:30-8:35 AM       

Introduction

  • Judi Ann Turner, PhD, and Jason Yeh, UCLA School of Medicine    

 

8:35-8:45 AM

Welcome

  • Gerald S. Levey, MD, Provost, Medical Sciences and Dean, UCLA School of Medicine

 

    

8:45-8:50 AM       

Introduction of Paul Torrens, MD, MPH

  • Adam Craig Schlifke, UCLA School of Medicine    

 

8:50-9:55 AM Defining the Problem: Access to Health Care
  • Paul Torrens, MD, MPH Professor of Health Services, Director of the Executive MPH Program and Health Sevices Management and the Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Health Services Management

 

9:55-10:00AM

BREAK

 

10:00-11:15 AM

Panel Discussion: Improving Access to Health

  • Moderator: Patrick Dowling, MD, MPH, Professor and Chairman, Department of Family Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
  • Single-Payer/ National Health Plan

    • Vishnu Lingappa, MD, PhD, University of California-San Francisco

  • Organized Medicine: Medicare/Medicaid, Employer Mandated Programs

    • Marie Kuffner, MD, President-Elect, California Medical Association

  • Community Centered Care

    Gail Margolis, JD, Attorney for Venice Free Clinic

 

 

11:15-11:20 AM       

Introduction of The Honorable Zev Yaroslavsky

  • Adam Craig Schlifke, UCLA School of Medicine    

 

11:20-12:05 AM       

Featured Speaker: Access to Health Care in Los Angeles County    

  • The Honorable Zev Yaroslavsky, Supervisor, Los Angeles County

 

12:05-12:55 PM    

Round Table Lunch with the Experts

  • A chance for students to pose questions to the experts about health care policy, the unisured, and access to health care.

 

12:55-1:25 PM    

Closing Statements

  • Aalok Vijay Agarwala and Candace Nicole Howe, UCLA School of Medicine