Disparities in Healthcare and Health Outcomes
All events will take place in the Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (unless otherwise noted)
Wednesday, November 30
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Racial Inequalities in Health Care: The Evidence of Blacks versus Whites
Speaker: Arnold Epstein, M.D., M.A.
Chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. The Physician and Health Disparities
Speaker: Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D.
Professor of Surgery; Associate Dean, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, December 1
7:30– 9:00 a.m. Achieving Equality in Access and Outcomes
Breakfast Session at The Union Club, 1211 Euclid Ave.
Speaker: Joseph Betancourt, M.D., MPH
Senior Scientist, Institute for Health Policy; Director for Multicultural Education, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Panel: Ralph Horwitz, M.D. (moderator)
Dean, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Local hospital and civic leaders to participate
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Inequalities: The Patient’s Dilemma
Speaker: Gretchen Berland, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale University
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Health Inequalities in Cleveland
Speakers: Terry Allan, RS, MPH
Health Commissioner, Cuyahoga County Board of Health
Ash Sehgal, M.D.
Director, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Ethics, and Epidemiology
and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; Nephrologist, MetroHealth Medical Center
5:15 – 6:00 p.m. Reception
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Understanding Inequalities in Health
Speaker: Sir Michael Marmot, MBBS, MPH, Ph.D., FRCP, FFPHM
Director, International Institute for Society and Health; Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London
Friday, December 2
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Dimension of Healthcare Inequalities
Speaker: Glenn Flores, M.D., FAAP
Associate Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin; Director, Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children; Director, Community Outcomes, Department of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin
Speaker: Charles Modlin, M.D.
Urological Institute, Section of Renal Transplantation, The Cleveland Clinic; Co-Medical Director, Minority Men’s Health Center, The Cleveland Clinic
10:15 – 11:30 a.m. Conference Summary and Overview
Speakers: Neil Smelser, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel D. Federman, M.D., MACP
Senior Dean for Alumni Relations and Clinical Teaching, Harvard Medical School
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