[Bioundgrd] BMES Debate: The Impending Healthcare Crisis: Can it Be Averted?

[Kathleen Long]

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>"The Impending Healthcare Crisis: Can it Be Averted?"
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>Heard vague rumblings about the "impending healthcare crisis?" Don't
>know what it really meansŠ or why you should care? Come get some free
>grub, and check out world renowned MIT alums and profs duke it out over
>a) what the crisis is, and b) how to fix it.
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>Wed April 27th
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>Debate 7-9 pm in 6-120
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>Reception @ 6:30
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>Featuring Experts in:
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>Venture Capital
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>Business
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>Pharma
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>Public Policy
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>Wearable Technology
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>Panelists Include:
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>Jerome Grossman - Director, Harvard/Kennedy School Health Care Delivery
>Policy Program, former CEO New England Medical Center
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>Alex (Sandy) Pentland - MIT Media Lab, pioneer in developing wearable
>technology to revolutionize healthcare
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>Alan Sager - Director, Health Reform Program Boston University School of
>Public Health
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>Katherine Swartz - Harvard School of Public Health, Dep't Healthcare
>Policy & Managment
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>Moderated by:
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>Karl Ruping - Expertise in intellectual property and venture capital in
>life science arena
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>For more details: http://web.mit.edu/bmes/www/
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>Sponsored by: MIT Dept of Biological Engineering & the MIT Undergraduate
>Association