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POSSIBLE PROGRAM - RMP CONFERENCE

 

December 6, 1991 - National Library of Medicine

Chairman - Arthur E. Rikli

9:00 Welcome
Speaker: Donald A. B. Lindberg

9:15 The Context for RMPs: Regionalization of
Health Care in the United States
Speaker: Karl Yordy

9:50 The DeBakey Commission Report and Its
Relationship to RMPs
Speaker: Michael DeBakey

10:25 Coffee Break

10:50 The Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke
Amendments of 1965 and the Authorization of
RMPs
Speaker: Paul Rogers

11:25 Implementation of the RMP Mechanism
Speaker: Robert Marston

Noon Lunch

1:30 Evaluation of RMPs: What Did They Accomplish
or Fail to Accomplish?
Speaker: Paul Sanazaro

2:05 RMPS in Action
A videotape featuring excerpts from videotaped
interviews with former heads of RMPs, such as
Arthur Rikli, Paul Ward, Ralph Engels, William
MacBeth, Mark Musser

2:35 Information Services in RMPs
Speaker: a medical librarian who was involved
with RMPs

3:10 coffee Break

3:35 Why Were RMPs Terminated?

Panel of up to four individuals from both
sides of issue (i.e., those who favored
terminating RMPs and those opposed to this
action), such as Robert Margulies, James
Cavanaugh, Merlin Duval, Edward Friedlander,
William Mayer
Lessons to be Learned from RMPs

Panel of up to four individuals, such as
Vernon Wilson, Edmund Pellegrino, Paul Ward, a
historian or sociologist interested in recent
health policy such as Daniel Fox (President,
Milbank Fund) or Rosemary Stevens (Professor
of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania)

Concluding Remarks
Arthur Rikli

Adjourn Conference