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New Rochelle, New York, July 27, 2000 - In a first for Iona College, seven graduate students in the College's Master's Program in Health Care Administration, will present their master's theses at the general, not student, sections of the 10th World Congress on Social Economics, to be held at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK, from August 6-9, 2000.

The conference, sponsored by the Association for Social Economics, was founded to advance scholarship and writing about the great questions of economics, human dignity, ethics and philosophy.

The students' presentations, accepted after blind peer review of their abstract proposals, will address the Congress's theme "Social Economics Speaks to Contemporary Human Issues." They are:

• Camille Francesca Edwards - "Methadone, Medicaid and Managed Care: The U.S. Experience;"
• Steven Freifeld - "Financing Long Term Care for the Elderly;"
• Irene Giarolo - "Genetic Engineering's Impact on Society;"
• Nichole Michaels - "The Socioeconomic Applications of Holistic Care within First and Third World Countries;"
• Marcia Nevers-Smith - "The Economics of the Impending Nursing Shortage;"
• Brian P. Quinn - "Medicare Caps: Decline in Rehabilitation Services and the Effect on the Elderly;" and
• Maureen Quiles - "The Social Economic Implications of the Federal Regulations on Informed Consent."

Their faculty mentor, Vincent Maher, JD, assistant professor of Health Care Programs at Iona, will chair two sessions and will also present two papers : "The Economics of Incredulity" and "The Economic Cost of Humane Health Law," presented with Dr. Joseph W. Ford. Dr. Ford will be joined by other distinguished Iona faculty, Dr. Charles O'Donnell and Dr. Irene Hammerbacher, who together will present "Women and Old Age" and "Survivor's Insurance Programs."

"The participation of these students, currently employed in the health care industry at such notable institutions as Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mt. Sinai-New York University Medical Center and Health Care System, Montefiore Medical Center, Sound Shore Medical Center and St. Charles Hospital and Medical Center, demonstrates the value-added character of an Iona education," commented Dr. Warren Rosenberg, dean of the School of Arts and Science, at a reception for the students and faculty, held on campus in July. "Each addresses the issues of ethics, human dignity and justice, within an economic framework, and these are precisely the issues that form the core of an Iona education."

For questions or more information please contact:
Meghan Finn
Public Relations Office
Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801
tel: 914 633-2005 fax: 914 637-2711

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