National Healthcare Leaders to Discuss Critical Issues at IUPUI Symposium
(Originally published August 17, 2006)
INDIANAPOLIS - "Health and Philanthropy: Leveraging Change" will be the theme of the Center on Philanthropy's 19th annual symposium to be held August 24-25, 2006, at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
The conference will be held at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel, 850 W. Michigan St. The event will bring together top healthcare and nonprofit leaders and scholars from across the country to debate the role of philanthropy in healthcare, both in the United States and globally.
This year's symposium begins at 9:15 a.m. Thursday, August 24 with a keynote speech about philanthropy's role in addressing global health issues by Ambassador Stephen Lewis, Special Envoy to the United Nations for HIV/AIDS in Africa and former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations.
The event concludes with an address at 12:30 p.m. Friday, August 25 by Dr. John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society, on how creativity, collaboration and change have the potential to conquer cancer in the 21st century.
Keynote speakers during the symposium also include Mr. Greg Simon, president of FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions and Dr. Henrie Treadwell, director of Community Voices at Morehouse School of Medicine.
Symposium presenters will speak on timely issues such as funding for ethically-sensitive medical research, ensuring access to health care, alternative funding strategies for improving public health, and the critical role of public-private partnerships in facing the global challenge of infectious diseases. As the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, speakers also will address how expectations for disaster relief organizations are changing.
As part of the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, the Center on Philanthropy operates programs on the IUPUI and IU Bloomington campuses.
The complete symposium agenda is available at http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/Symposium2006Announce.html.
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