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Sessions will feature:
Susan Alpert, PhD, MD, MILI Executive in Residence
Stephen Parente, PhD, Director, Medical Industry Leadership Institute
Michael Ramlet, Director of Healthcare Policy, American Action Forum
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Carlson School of Management -- 1-135
321 19th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455
If you are unable to attend in person we invite you to join the conversation via web conference. To participate in the meeting follow the links below:
Date |
Link |
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| June 24, 2013 | https://umconnect.umn.edu/mililnl/ |
| July 29, 2013 | https://umconnect.umn.edu/mililnl/ |
| August 26, 2013 | https://umconnect.umn.edu/mililnl/ |
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Please check back in the fall for details on our next Actuarial Seminar.
We want to thank UnitedHealth Group for its sponsorship of the UnitedHealth Group Actuarial Scholarship Program and this seminar series.

Bates White's Washington, DC Office
The program will include presentations of academic papers, case studies drawn from current areas of litigation and regulatory activity in the industry, and a panel discussion on reverse settlements.
Speakers include:
Ernst, Perndt, PhD - Drug Shortages
David Bradford, PhD - Off-Label Perscribing
Iain Cockburn, PhD - Price Inflation in Clinical Trials
Henry Grabowsky, PhD - Biosimilars of Paragraph IV
David Meltzer, MD, PhD - Comparative Effectiveness or Clinical Management
Tomas Philipson, PhD - Health Policy and Medical Innovation
David Ridley, PhD - Pharmaceutical Innovation
John Rizzo, PhD - Markets for Biosimilars
Marta Wosinska, PhD - Drug Shortages
Case studies will cover topics such as off-label/fraud, exclusionary conduct, co-pay coupons, and injunction analysis.
Panelists include:
Kent Bernard, JD - Professor, Fordham University School of Law
Leemore Dafny, PhD - Deputy Director, Bureau of Economics, FTC
Eric Grannon, JD - Parnter, White & Case
Scott Hemphill, PhD, JD - Professor, Columbia Law School
For more information email events@bateswhite.com.
Washington, DC
HOCON is produced by the American Research & Policy Institute (ARPI), one of the leading information sources on the trend towards consumerism in healthcare. Headquartered in Washington, DC, ARPI and its subsidiary organization the Consumer Driven Healthcare Institute (CDHCI) are publishers of the CDHS Market Data Advisory, a quarterly report on consumer healthcare spending and investment. The University of Minnesota's Medical Industry Leadership Institute is also a sponsor of HCON 2013 and long-term institutional partner with ARPI and CDHCI. In addition, leading key Washington health policy makers and industry leaders will present key information about payment and technology trends that will likely shape their future of healthcare payments. Past speakers at previous events have included Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI).
Click here for conference details.
With two treks offered a year, MILI Director Steve Parente leads trips to San Francisco in January and Washington, D.C. in March. By meeting with industry leaders located outside of the Midwest, students and alumni are able to expand upon their classroom learnings and broaden their national networks.
DATES FOR THE JANUARY AND MARCH 2014 TRIPS WILL BE POSTED IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS.
At the recent American Society of Health Economists meeting at the Carlson School, Kerri Miller of MPR moderated a discussion on health reform. The conversation included Jonathan Gruber, professor of economics at MIT and Stephen Parente. Link to program audio here.