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Disparities in Health Care and Insurance
Disparities in access to health care among various races, social classes and other demographics is a huge issue in the U.S. today. What can be done to remedy the situation? Is a national health care plan the answer?
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William Peck
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine
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Peck, former dean of the School of Medicine, directs the University's Center for Health Policy. Revolutionary scientific advances promise great improvements in the prevention and diagnosis of disease and the treatment of patients. But major obstacles must be overcome before this enormous potential ...
Expertise: Health care policy, health care costs, disparities in access to care, workforce issues
Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu
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Will Ross
Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Diversity
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Ross has an interest in health policy and resolving health-care disparities. He has delivered lectures, sponsored symposiums and produced educational videos on eliminating medical disparities. Over the past three years, he has served as president of the Mound City Medical Forum, a leading minority ...
Expertise: Health care policy, disparities in health care, minority health care advocacy
Media assistance: (314) 286-0126 / pattoner@wustl.edu
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Edward Lawlor
Dean and the William E. Gordon Professor
Edward Lawlor is a nationally-recognized expert in healthcare policy, particularly in the areas of medical indigence, health-care reform and administration, and policy for the aged and poor.
His groundbreaking work in Medicare policy is recognized for its originality and insightful analysis. Lawlor's ...
Expertise: health care policy, medical indigence, health care reform, health care administration, policy for the aged, policy for poor, Medicare
Direct contact: (314) 935-6693
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elawlor@gwbmail.wustl.edu
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Katherine Jahnige Mathews
assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology
As co-director, with her colleague Dione Farria, M.D., of the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) at the Siteman Cancer Center, Mathews has coordinated efforts to promote breast health in the St. Louis area. Drawing together partners in Siteman and the local region, she helps ...
Expertise: cancer and minority communities, breast cancer, health care disparities
Media assistance: (314) 286-0141 / ericsong@wustl.edu
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Universal health care - expert available for comment
Major health care proposals ignore the 'Big Leak,' says health insurance expert
Sept. 18,
2007 -- "Universal health care is getting the attention it deserves, but unfortunately, the proposals receiving the most attention ignore the 'Big Leak,'" the enormous non-benefit costs incurred by health care providers who must match their billions of billings with thousands of differing private health care plans," says Merton C. Bernstein, a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. "Putting everyone under the Medicare umbrella would eliminate that leak," he says. Bernstein is available to discuss current universal health care proposals as well as the Medicare-for-all option.
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Critical Condition
WUSTL to host public forum on Medicaid financing, June 8
May 23,
2007 --
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| Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, will be among the speakers at a June 8 conference on Medicaid financing. |
Rising healthcare costs and diminishing health insurance coverage will be among critical issues debated by leading medical policy experts as Washington University hosts a daylong public forum on Medicaid financing June 8 in the School of Medicine's Eric P. Newman Education Center. Participants include top administrators from a half dozen major research hospitals and a range of academic, government and think-tank policy experts, including Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Indebted donors
Researchers study reimbursing living organ donors for out-of-pocket expenses
Nov. 9,
2006 --
More than 80,000 people in the United States are on waiting lists for organ transplants. Some will have to wait for the death of a matching donor, but more and more people are receiving organs from living donors. In an effort to close the gap between organ supply and demand, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, the University of Michigan and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons are studying ways to reimburse living donors for some of their out-of-pocket expenses when they choose to donate an organ.
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Campus Health's Hidden Costs
U.S. News & World Report online
Feb. 1,
2008 -- Debra Harp, WUSTL's associate director of Student Health Services, comments on mandatory health insurance mandates by universities, including WUSTL.
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Washington U. studies creation of public health school
St. Louis Business Journal
and 3 others
Dec. 28,
2007 -- WUSTL is exploring the possibility of increasing its involvement in the health of the region by establishing its own school of public health.
As part of a strategic planning process currently under way at the university, WUSTL medical school dean Larry Shapiro and social work dean Edward Lawlor are investigating how the university can expand its focus on public health, according to Rob Wild, assistant to the chancellor.
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The Cataracts Are Gone -- and So Is the Need for Glasses
U.S. News & World Report
Dec. 17,
2007 -- For the millions of baby boomers who will eventually need cataract surgery, here's some cheering news: New types of implantable lenses promise to restore your youthful vision. Unlike the standard single-power lenses doctors have been implanting for 30 years, the newer multifocal intraocular lenses and accommodating lenses allow patients to see near, far, and in between--and even to shed their glasses.
WUSTL ophthalmology professor Jay Pepose talks about one of the options.
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Don't ignore your body's warning signs
MSNBC.com
Aug. 1,
2007 -- Article looks at why people tend to dismiss symptoms that can indicate a serious illness.
Research has shown that your personality can affect how you react to medical symptoms too.
A 2005 WUSTL study found that men with low overall anxiety levels were more likely to ignore symptoms of rectal cancer and delay treatment. Those with at least moderate anxiety levels, on the other hand, tended to quickly recognize symptoms such as rectal bleeding as a sign of a serious illness.
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What's Lacking in 'Sicko'
The New York Times
and 3 others
July 9,
2007 -- WHEN it comes to economic decisions, there are always trade-offs. Gain one thing and you lose something else. This is particularly true in health care, a market in which a scarce good is ridiculously expensive, but needed by everybody.
WUSTL economist Charles Courtemanche looks at the economic points in Michael Moore's movie 'Sicko.'
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