Society of Primary Care Policy Fellows

CAPITOL HILL ROUNDTABLE

February 27, 2007

Hurricane Katrina:  Lessons Learned for Primary Health Care

The SPCPF organized the event to facilitate discussion of the deficiencies in the US health care system highlighted by the Hurricane Katrina disaster and to increase awareness of health care policy options to address system deficiencies.  Moderated by SPCPF President Gary Colangelo, DDS of Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield, the session featured an impressive panel of speakers:

Gloria WilderBrathwaite, MD, MPH, President/CEO of CORE HEALTH and the Founder of JUSTICE SPEAKS;

Robert L. Phillips, MD, MSPH,  Director of the Robert Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care; and

Sara Rosenbaum, JD, Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy, Professor of Health Care Sciences, George Washington School of Medicine and Law.

The Kaisernetwork.org recorded the event as a webcast. To access the archive of the event, go to:

 http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2061

See the www.kaisernetwork.org, Healthcast section, for other webcasts on related topics.

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