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Iona College to Host Second Annual "Town Hall
Debate" Oct. 11
Asking "Health Care in America: From Here to Where?" New Rochelle, NY, October 1, 2002 - Iona College will host its second "Town Hall Debate" at 5:30 pm on Friday, Oct. 11, at Spellman Hall on the main campus of the college, located at 715 North Ave. The debate, co-sponsored by Iona College and Our Lady of Mercy Health Care System in the Bronx, will consider the question "Health Care in America: From Here to Where?" and will feature four experts in the medical field. The event is free and open to the public. A wide range of issues will be discussed, including rising costs, disease management, uninsured patients, quality of care, managed care, and providing medical coverage for the estimated 43 million uninsured United States residents. Gerard Villucci, vice president of the D'Urso Pavilion, Our Lady of Mercy Health Care System, will serve as moderator for the event. The debate will include seven-minute presentations by each of the following experts, followed by 25 minutes of questions from the audience: · Sunil S. Jhangiani, MD, MBA, chief of Clinical Nutrition at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center and chief of Endoscopy at its Florence D'Urso Pavilion. Jhangiani is also an assistant professor of Medicine at New York Medical College and founder of Change Health Care Services, which streamlines nutrition & digestive health solutions and empowers patients to take control of their own health. His practice provides quarterly newsletters and monthly nutrition education classes for the community. · Joshua Lipsman, MD, Westchester County commissioner of Health. Lipsman's prior experience includes working as staff physician and community health director for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, serving as medical director and administrator for the system of public health clinics in Houston, Texas, and directing the Alexandria, Virginia, Department of Health for seven and a half years. Lipsman is also a former executive director of the Gay Men's Health Crisis Center in Manhattan. · Gail Wilder, MD, Network Medical director for Aetna, Inc. She was an experienced primary care physician for 15 years before joining Aetna in 1997. Her responsibilities include promoting positive physician relations, overseeing network quality initiatives and acting on quality and policy concerns in addition to ensuring grievance resolution and compliance with NCQA Standards. She is a founding member of the Westchester Diabetes Coalition and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Westchester County Red Cross where she the physician advisor. · Kenneth S. Abramowitz joined The Carlyle Group in March 2001 as a managing director in the Healthcare Group based in New York. Prior to joining Carlyle, he spent 23 years as an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. where he covered the medical supply, hospital management and HMO industries, and was voted top hospital supply and/or service analyst in the Institutional Investor Magazine "All-America Research Team" 14 out of 19 years since 1980. Over the last decade, he has published 11 major health care studies and numerous articles in industry publications. Founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, Iona College is a private, co-educational institution of learning in the tradition of American Catholic higher education. Iona offers undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science, and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous post graduate certificate programs. (-30-) 0203-010
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