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WEEK AHEAD EVENTS FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2002
Tuesday June 11, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: HEALTH SYSTEMS CHANGE holds its Seventh Annual Wall Street Comes to Washington.
AGENDA: Panelists will discuss the impact of broad trends shaping the health care system, including rising costs for employers and consumers, managed care's ability to control costs, hospital and physician capacity constraints and the role of pharmaceuticals in health care.
WHO: The speakers are:
Joe France, Director, Equity Research, Credit Suisse First Boston
Roberta Walter Goodman, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
Joy M. Grossman, Associate Director, Center for Studying Health System Change
Robert Reischauer, President, The Urban Institute
William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Care Issues, U.S. General Accounting Office
Ed Shapoff, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
Ken Weakley, Managing Director, UBS Warburg
Paul B. Ginsburg, President, Center for Studying Health System Change
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: Grand Hyatt Hotel, 1000 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-264-3484
WEB ADDRESS: hschange.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Toward a North American Community?
Changing Identities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
WHO: The speakers are:
Stephanie Golob, CUNY
Laura Macdonald, Carleton University
Alejandro Moreno, ITAM
The Emerging Relationship between Mexico and Canada
Isabel Studer, FLACSO
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg, FOCAL
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA SERVICES holds a press breakfast on Growing Evidence of Risk to Children from Toxic Chemicals.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: The Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-6670
WEB ADDRESS:ems.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "The Future of Peacekeeping," with Jean-Marie Guehenno, Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Ambassador Jonathan Dean, adviser on International Security Issues to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
DATE: June 11, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum on Digital Copy Protection: Mandate It? Ban It? Or Let the Market Decide?
WHO: The speakers are:
Rick Lane, News Corporation
Jonathan Potter, Digital Media Association
Sarah B. Deutsch, Verizon
Stewart Verdery, Vivendi Universal
Jonathan Zuck, Association for Competitive Technology.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Agreement for the Conservation of Marine Life of the Black and Mediterranean Seas: Regional Approaches with William C.G. Burns, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, Burlingame, CA, and EES Short-term Scholar.
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Reinventing the Alliance: U.S.-Japan Security Relations in an Era of Change.
WHO: The speakers are:
Thomas Berger, Boston University
Takashi Inoguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
John Ikenberry, Georgetown University
Michael Mastanduno, Dartmouth College
Jitsuo Tsuchiyama, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "America's New Aid Program for Afghanistan: Work of the Central Asia Task Force" with Leticia Kelly Butler, director of policy planning at USAID,
DATE: June 12, 2002
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
Thursday, June 13, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE NATIONAL LEGAL CENTER FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST host former Attorney General of the United States Griffin Bell for a presentation titled "Asbestos Litigation and Judicial Leadership."
DATE: June 13, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 8:45 a.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a program on The 401(k) Fix: Preventing Future Enrons.
WHO: The speakers are:
Jim Klein, President, American Benefits Council
David Certner, Director of Federal Affairs, AARP
Rick McGahey, Managing Vice President, Abt Associates, Inc.
David John, Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation
Michael Calabrese, Public Assets Program Director, New America Foundation
Peter Gosselin, Columnist, LA Times
Leon Panetta, Chairman, Center for National Policy
DATE: June 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES holds its 2002 annual luncheon program featuring CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour.
DATE: June 13, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-986-2600
WEB ADDRESS: nationalpartnerships.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES IN TAX POLICY holds a program on "Will Changing Budget Estimates Improve Policy?"
WHO: The speakers are:
Dan Crippen, Congressional Budget Office
Eric M. Engen, AEI
Norman Orenstein, AEI
Kevin A. Hassett, AEI
DATE: June 13, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. Keith C. Mitchell, discussing "The Challenge of Free Market Enterprise To Small State Development."
DATE: June 13, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
Friday, June 14, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "The Rwandan Perspective on the Great Lakes Crisis."
WHO: The speakers are:
Patrick Mazimaka, Rwandan Special Envoy to the Great Lakes
Charles Muligande, Rwanda Patriotic Front Secretary-General
Dr. Emmanuel Ndahiro, the President's Advisor on Security.
DATE: June 14, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 9:15 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE Health Policy Discussion on"Is More Health Information Better? The Effects of Health Report Cards on Care Providers."
WHO: The speakers are:
David Dranove, the Walter J. McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University,
Daniel Kessler of Stanford University
Mark McClellan, at the time at Stanford University and now at the Council of Economic Advisers
Mark Satterthwaite of Northwestern University
DATE: June 14, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
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