Assistant Professor Robert Bonney will serve as a panel member at the Kansas Health Institute's April 6th program on "Meeting the Challenges of Underinsurance".
HPM masters and doctoral students were elected to fill all executive officer positions on the KUMC Graduate Student Council for 2010.
President - Kayla Schuster
Vice President - Aruna Rao
Treasurer - Ben Miller
Secretary - Tiffany Aubrey
President: Brett Kollars
Vice - President: Ronald Nguyen
Treasurer: Andrew Warnes
Liaison Officer: Ben Miller
Communications: Savanna Trent
Planning: Heidi Waldschmidt
Visit the JHAWK web site.
On February 27 Dr. Robert Lee presented an overview called "Practical Steps for Reform: What Employers Should be Thinking About" at the University of Missouri-KC Community Conversations about Health Care Reform.
On Monday, February 22 Dr. Marci Nielsen will be presenting a tele-seminar: "The American Health Care System" to Yerevan State Medical University in Armenia.
Professor Mary Zimmerman has just had a paper entitled "The Role of Governments in Health Care: Implications for Women's Health and Access to Care" accepted for publication in the journal,Women's Health Issues. The paper is co-authored with Elizabeth Legerski.
Dr. Marci Nielsen will present a Federal Overview on Friday, February 26 at the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City's 2010 Advocacy Day.
JHAWK will be hosting a networking session with members of the KCPLC, the KC metro area's ACHE chapter. Contact Vishal Patel at vpatel@kumc.edu for more info.
MHSA program - April 15th
JHAWK will be hosting a networking session with members of the KCPLC, the KC metro area's ACHE chapter. Contact Vishal Patel at vpatel@kumc.edu for more info.
HPM 875 Health Care and Social Policies in Sweden and Finland, is accepting applications (Deadline March 15). Visit www.studyabroad.ku.edu/programs
Assistant Professor Dr. Marci Nielsen spoke to the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce on January 13 regarding what should be included in a Chamber's federal position on Higher Education and Research.
HPM students participated in KUMC’s Project Eagle this holiday season by adopting five children and collecting $242 from students and faculty for gifts.
Dr. Michael Fox, Professor, has accepted a position as Associate Director for Science in the Division of Human Development and Disability, National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities with the CDC, where he will help guide research and policy related to the health of persons with disability nationally.
Dr. Peter Almenoff, Assistant Deputy Under-Secretary for Health for Quality and Safety,
U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs, visited the department December 9 and spoke to HPM faculty and students.
Dr. Robert Lee gave a talk entitled, "Outcomes of Culture Change" as a part of a symposium called "There’s No Place Like Home: Measuring Culture Change in Nursing Homes" at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 19, 2009.
On October 10, 2009 nine HPM students and faculty participated in Christmas in October.
On September 14, 2009, Tom Bowser, CEO and President of Blue Cross Blue Shield, visited the Department of HPM to speak to the MHSA students on health care reform.
Economics for Healthcare Managers, second edition, authored by Dr. Robert Lee, was published by Health Administration Press in July of 2009.
Dr. Ellen Averett participated in a poster presentation entitled “Evaluation of Kansas City, Missouri Health Department’s Mandatory Food Handler Training Programs” to the National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Conference, July 30, 2009 in Orlando, Florida
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