Case All-Star Symposium
 The Case All-Star Symposium on "Access, Quality and Cost: Health Care for our Nation's Citizens" and "Moving After Paralysis" will be from 1-5 p.m. Monday, October 4 at the InterContinental Hotel & Conference Center.
Schedule for Case All-Star Symposium
1:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
2:15 p.m.
4:15 - 5:30 p.m. |
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Keynote Address
Break
Breakout Sessions
Reception |
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Access, Quality and Cost: Health Care for our Nation's Citizens
One of the most pressing and dire issues is the nation's current health care crisis. This symposium will explore new advances in technology and research while still ensuring the need to balance the cost, quality and access to health care. Ceci Connolly, a national staff writer at the Washington Post, will moderate this session.
Panelists will include Bruce Bradley, director of health plan strategy and public policy for General Motors Health Care Initiatives.; John Rother, director of policy and strategy for the American Association of Retired Persons; and Ralph Horwitz, vice president for medical affairs, dean of the Case School of Medicine and director of the Case Research Institute.
For more information about this session and panelists, please click here (PDF format).
Moving After Paralysis
Other issues of importance to Americans are those surrounding biomedical engineering, particularly advances in neural technology.
This session in the Case All-Star Symposium will be moderated by William Heetderks, Associate Director for Extramural Scientific Programs at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).
Panelists will include John P. Donoghue, chair of the department of neuroscience at Brown University and founder of Cyberkinetics; Jerrold L. Vitek, co-chair of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Neurological Restoration; and Hunter Peckham, Case professor of biomedical engineering and orthopaedics and director of the Cleveland FES Center.
For more information about the "Moving After Paralysis" sessions and speakers, please click here (PDF format).
Shuttle Bus to the Symposium
Case School of Engineering students, faculty and staff are invited to take advantage of a special shuttle bus running from the 1st floor of Nord Hall on the Case quad to the Inter-Continental Hotel & Conference Center. The shuttle runs in a continuous loop from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Directions: As you enter Nord Hall from the quad, walk through the Atrium to its far right corner. Take the glass enclosed elevator (which only goes down) down to the 1st floor. The elevator opens to a door to parking Lot 1A.
 The Ohio 8: Ohio's History in Presidential Politics sponsored by KeyCorp
The Cleveland Museum of Art will be presenting a national authors symposium on presidential biographers, The Ohio 8: Ohio's History in Presidential Politics sponsored by KeyCorp, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. October 5 at the museum.
The program, co-sponsored by Case and the Western Reserve Historical Society, is open to the public. Tickets are available through the art museum ticket office: (216) 421-7350.
The symposium will include three panel discussions: Ohio Saves the Nation, Ohio Sets the Agenda for Nation Building and the Emergence of a World Power and Ohio from FDR to 2004.
Ohio Saves the Nation
Panelists will discuss how Ohio and its presidents helped to save a struggling and precarious country during the Civil War and its immediate aftermath.
The discussion will feature Professor Andrew Cayton, Miami University faculty member; Brooks Simpson, Arizona State University faculty member; Ari Hoogenboom, Brooklyn College professor emeritus; Ken Ackerman, author of "The Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield;" Allan Peskin, author of the book "Garfield;" Charles Calhoun, East Carolina University faculty member; Murney Gerlach, executive director of the Hayes Presidential Center; Stephen Hayes, a descendant of President Hayes; and a descendant of James Garfield to be determined.
Ohio Sets the Agenda for Nation Building and the Emergence of a World Power
Focusing on the consolidation and growth of the country into a world power, including the growing pains of industrialization and imperialism, this panel will discuss how Ohio influenced the course of the nation and the national agenda from the election of 1896 through the 1920s.
Panelists include Wayne Morgan, University of Oklahoma retired faculty member; Carl Sferrazza Anthony, author of "America's First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House" and "First Ladies: The Saga of The Presidents' Wives and Their Power;" John Dean, author of "Warren G. Harding;" and members of the McKinley, Taft and Harding families to be determined.
Ohio from FDR to 2004
A panel chaired by Case's own Alexander P. Lamis, associate professor of political science, will discuss Ohio's influence in the election of the modern presidents and then turn to the election of 2004.
The panel will feature John Green, University of Akron's Bliss Institute; Mike Curtin, Columbus Dispatch publisher; Brent Larkin, Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial page director; and two members of the Republican and Democratic parties in Ohio to be determined.
For more about featured speakers and the symposium program, click here (Web press release).
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