U.S. Civil Rights Commission to Hold Public Briefing on Health Care Disparities Between Minorities and Non-Minorities, and Busine...(emorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center pu...),Health

Date:6/3/2009

emorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, pulmonary and critical care physician, former Senior Adviser to the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and author, Racial Disparities and the Site of Care, and Primary Care Physicians Who Treat Blacks and Whites; Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University - Kennedy School of Government, author, Hospital-Level Racial Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treatment and Outcomes, Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Hospitals That Disproportionately Treat Black Patients, and Do Race-Specific Models Explain Disparities in Treatments after Acute Myocardial Infarction?; Garth Graham, M.D., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; Herman A. Taylor Jr., M.D., Principal Investigator/Director, Shirley Professor for the Study of Health Disparities, Jackson Heart Study (JHS); Barbara Howard, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Strong Heart Study, Medstar Research Institute, Hyattsville, Maryland, and lead author, Rising Tide of Cardiovascular Disease in American Indians: The Strong Heart Study; William Lewis, M.D., for the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines, Chief of Clinical Cardiology and Associate Professor of Medicine, Metro Health Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; and Bruce Siegel, M.D., Co-Director, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quality Improvement Collaborative, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.

MEETING AGENDA

I. Approval of Agenda

II. Approval of Minutes of May 15, 2009 Meeting

III. Announcements

IV. Staff Director's Report

V. Program Planning

• Discussion of 2009 Statutory Re
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