CEO of New York-Presbyterian Medical Center to Discuss Impact of Health Care Reform on Academic Medical Centers, Medical Innovation at NPC 'NEWSMAKER' Media Briefing

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Mar 17, 2011, 02:23 ET

Date and Time: March 31 at 10 a.m.

Place: Zenger Room, National Press Club (529 14th St. NW, 13th floor)

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What will be the impact of the U.S. health care reform law on academic medical centers and medical innovation? Dr. Herbert Pardes, president and CEO of New York-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, the nation's largest nonprofit, non-sectarian hospital, will discuss how to achieve health care reform through innovation at a March 31 Newsmaker.

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Among the potential challenges to medical innovation that Pardes sees are:

How Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) can develop new models of care and payment that health care reform needs.
Whether primary care provides a sufficient means to address all the health care needs of Americans.
How lack of coverage for undocumented immigrants will affect AMCs.

Pardes has served as dean of Columbia University's medical school, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, president of the American Psychiatric Association, and assistant U.S. surgeon general from 1978-84.

SOURCE National Press Club