2007 John Eisenberg Legacy Lecture
was presented by Victor R. Fuchs, PhD on Thursday, December 13, 2007
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Dr. Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor Emeritus at Stanford University in the Departments of Economics and of Health Research and Policy. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Dr. Fuchs is a nationally and internationally known expert in health economics, health services research and health policy. He applies economic analysis to social problems of national concern, with special emphasis on health and medical care. He is author of nine books, is editor of six others, and has published over 200 papers and shorter pieces. His best known work, Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice, helps health professionals and policymakers to understand the economic and policy problems in health. He was President of the American Economic Association and has received numerous honors and awards for his work.
About the Eisenberg Legacy Lecture
The Eisenberg Legacy Lecture honors Dr. John Eisenberg, a renowned internist and health services researcher who directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) from 1997 to 2002. The lecture is funded by the California HealthCare Foundation and is co-sponsored by the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University; the Center for Health Research/School of Public Health at UC Berkeley; and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UC San Francisco.
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Celebrating a Life of Leadership and Service
in Health and Health Policy
September 2007 marked the 35th anniversary of the Institute for Health Policy Studies.
The Institute was founded in 1972 as the Health Policy Program in the School of Medicine, UCSF by Philip R. Lee, MD, after he had served as UCSF’s third Chancellor from 1969 through 1972. The Institute has grown from the small group of faculty and staff that made up the first health policy unit on the campus of a major academic health science center to the more than 100 faculty, research and administrative staff, and fellows that are part of the Institute today. In 1981, the Board of Regents of the University of California established the Institute for Health Policy Studies as an organized research unit. To honor Dr. Lee’s and the Institute’s contributions, we held two major UCSF campus-wide events at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center: a Symposium on September 24th and a Celebration Program on September 25th, when we acknowledged Dr. Lee’s many achievements and announced the renaming of the Institute, which is now the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Thanks to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the Symposium and Celebration Program can be viewed as a webcast at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/ucsf/24sep07.
To continue Dr. Lee’s legacy and commitment to teaching and mentoring, we also established the Philip R. Lee Health Policy Fellowship Program and Fund.
To contribute to the Fellowship Fund, please click here.
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