Health Management & Policy 
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Professor Howard Markel to discuss his recent book
Thursday, January 26
3-5 p.m., Michigan League, Michigan Room (2nd floor)
As part of the LSA Research Theme Semester, HMP Professor Howard Markel, M.D., will be discussing his recent
book titled: An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug Cocaine. In
addition to his appointment in HMP, Dr. Markel is the George E. Wantz Professor of History of Medicine,
Professor of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases, director of the Center for History of Medicine, and
professor of psychiatry (Medical School) and history (LSA).
Read The New York Times book review
 Special Screening of the new documentary "Addiction Incorporated"
Thursday, January 26
7 p.m., Angell Hall, Auditorium A
This groundbreaking film, which debuted just last month in New York, is being shown as part of the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Research Theme Semester, "Hooked: Addiction, Society, Culture." Clifford E. Douglas, director, University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network and lecturer, SPH HMP, will
introduce the film on behalf of the U-M Substance Abuse Research Center, sponsor of this showing. For more
information on this documentary, visit http://www.addictionincorporated.com.
 Griffith Leadership Speaker Series
Thursday, January 12
3:30-4:30 p.m., SPH II Auditorium (M1020)
"The Health Care Reform Express-and Efforts to Derail It," Jonathan Cohn, senior editor, The New Republic and 2012 Griffith Leadership Fellow
Christy Harris Lemak was awarded the 2011 Excellence in Teaching Award from the Academy of Management's Health Care Management Division.
The Excellence in Teaching Award was established in 2005 and recognizes innovative and outstanding teaching that takes place in our classrooms and provides the opportunity to encourage, recognize and reward the work of excellent, dedicated and inspiring teachers. Dr. Lemak is the Director of the Griffith Leadership Center, the Academic Officer for the National Center for HealthCare Leadership and most importantly an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.
Reaching Excellence in Health Management and Policy
A Symposium including Professor John Griffith’s retirement lecture
November 5 - 6, 2010
Reaching Excellence in Health Management and Policy will focus on high performing health care organizations and how they achieve results today and position themselves for the management and policy requirements of the future. The program will include a discussion of how policy decision makers and organizational leaders work together to achieve positive community health results. In addition, there will be presentations by and discussion with executive leaders from several organizations on how they deliver excellent health care and public health services in a changing policy landscape.
The day will be capped off by John R. Griffith, professor at the University of Michigan for more than 50 years and author of the #1 selling textbook in health management, The Well Managed Health Care Organization. This will be Professor Griffith's final lecture before his retirement from the University of Michigan.
This symposium will feature internationally recognized leaders in the health care field. The symposium is organized by the Griffith Leadership Center in Health Management and Policy and the Department of Health Management and Policy. We are expecting more than 300 executives from health systems, insurance companies, law firms, foundations, public health and government organizations as well as faculty, students and alumni from across the country to attend.
List of events
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HHS announces "Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: A Tobacco Control Strategic Action Plan," co-chaired by Clifford Douglas of Health Management and Policy and the Tobacco Research Network.
Read news release
Action Plan (pdf)
Center for Law, Ethics, and Health receives grant
The Center for Law, Ethics and Health received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to be a regional coordinator for the Public Health Law Network.
Read news release
U-M's concept of Value-Based Insurance Design featured in major journal
Health Affairs, the nation's premier health policy journal, is featuring a cluster of papers in its November issue about growing interest in and adoption of Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID). The concept was first developed and named by HMP faculty A. Mark Fendrick and Dean Smith, along with Michael Chernew, formerly of U-M and now at Harvard Medical School.
Watch video interview
 John Griffith's latest publications: Reaching Excellence in Healthcare Management
and The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization (now in its 7th edition).
Summer Enrichment Program
Two dozen undergraduates from across the U.S. assembled in Ann Arbor in June, in preparation to become future leaders in addressing health disparities. After 3 days of orientation, they began highly competitive summer internships sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Public Health Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) in Health Management & Policy.
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Daniel Eisenberg was awarded the 2010 John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators at the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) annual meeting in Portland this summer. Eisenberg was recognized for his contribution to knowledge in health services, including his research project, Healthy Minds Study, a national survey of college students. In addition, he has been heavily involved in mentoring doctoral students and developing new initiatives to enhance the Health Services Organization and Policy doctoral program. --Also at the AUPHA meeting: UM SPH's Christy Lemak and John Griffith’s poster tied for first place. The poster, Towards Competency in Management of Health Care Organizations, was also co-authored by Kenneth R. White of Virginia Commonwealth University.
 Health Care Reform in the 111th Congress with Rep. John Dingell. Paula Lantz and other policy experts join the discussion. Watch the video from Feb 16.
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