Yale experts to discuss future of healthcare in the city and beyond

- by Anonymous (not verified)

May 27, 2014

The Yale community is invited to join graduates of the School of Medicine as they explore the future of healthcare in the city, the state, and beyond in two sessions being offered on Saturday, May 31, as part of the school’s Alumni Reunion Weekend.

 “Current Issues Facing Healthcare in Connecticut and Beyond” will begin at 9 a.m., and “What Will Healthcare in New Haven Look Like in 2024?” will begin at 10:15 a.m. Both sessions will held in Harkness Auditorium, Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.

Healthcare in Connecticut

The first session will be feature Richard Foster ’63, ’66 Ph.D., the newly appointed special adviser to Yale President Peter Salovey for health care innovation. In this role, he is interviewing university healthcare educators and administrators as well as collaborating with state officials to advise on the future of healthcare at Yale and beyond.

Foster is an emeritus director of McKinsey & Company, Inc. where he was a director and senior partner. While at McKinsey he founded several practices including the healthcare practice and the private equity practices, the technology practice and innovation practice. Since retirement from there, he has been active in many healthcare-related activities, including serving on boards with Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the medical committee of the Keck Foundation, and the Dean’s Council for the Yale School of Medicine. At Yale, Foster teaches “Managing in Times of Rapid Change” at the School of Management and serves as the executive-in-residence at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute.

Healthcare in New Haven

In the second session, Foster will lead a panel discussion on where New Haven might be headed during the next decade in terms of primary care delivery, analyzing big data, and the existence of private practices.

The panelists will be Marna P. Borgstrom ’79 M.P.H., chief executive of Yale-New Haven Hospital and president and CEO of the Yale New Haven Health System; Paul D. Cleary, dean and the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health; and Margaret Grey, ’76 M.S.N., dean and the Annie Goodrich Professor of Nursing at the Yale School of Nursing.

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