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EVENTS ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION holds its Workshop on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:30 a.m. - Overview of the Health Care Marketplace: Structural, Legal, and Policy Issues
William Brewbaker, University of Alabama
Competition and Antitrust in Health Care
William Vogt, Carnegie Mellon University
Recent Developments in the Health Care Market
Cara Lesser, Center for Studying Health System Change
FTC's Health Care Initiatives
11:45 a.m. - Joe Simons, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
J. Howard Beales III, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission
David Scheffman, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
DOJ's Health Care Initiatives
12:15 p.m. - Deborah P. Majoras, United States Department of Justice
State Attorneys' General Health Care Initiatives
Ellen Cooper, Office of the Attorney General, State of Maryland
2 p.m. - Health Care Services: Provider Integration
Dr. Ellen Burkett, Med South
Henry R. Desmarais, Health Insurance Association of America
Stuart Fine, Grand View Hospital
Warren Greenberg, George Washington University
Catherine I. Hanson, California Medical Association
Stephanie Kanwit, American Association of Health Plans
John Wiegand, Federal Trade Commission
3:45 p.m. - Health Insurance: Payor/Provider Issues
Helen Darling, Washington Business Group on Health
Henry R. Desmarais, Health Insurance Association of America
Stephen Foreman, Pennsylvania Medical Society
Stephanie Kanwit, American Association of Health Plans
Donald J. Palmisiano, American Medical Association
Mark Botti, Department of Justice
DATE: September 9, 2002
LOCATION: Room 432 at the FTC headquarters, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-326-2622
WEB ADDRESS:ftc.gov
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES holds a meeting to discuss Research Standards and Practices to Prevent Destructive Application of Advanced Biotechnology
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:45 a.m. - Biology, Chemistry and the Future of Biochemical Warfare
Dr. Malcolm Dando, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
United Kingdom
1 p.m. - Defining "Sensitive" Information in the Life Sciences
Dr. Parney Albright
Dr. Rachel Levinson, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
4 p.m. -Defining "Sensitive" Information in the Life Sciences - The NIH Perspective
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
DATE: September 9, 2002
LOCATION: 2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Arthur M. Sackler Gallery holds a press preview for the exhibition Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection.
AGENDA: Prints were among the first of the Japanese arts to become widely appreciated outside Japan. Illusions presents, in two parts, 138 prints from the collection of more than three hundred formed over a period of more than thirty years by Anne van Biema. The prints reveal her fascination with legend and imagination as expressed in Japanese prints through the combined skills of artists, block engravers, and printers who worked under the direction of publishers.
DATE: September 9, 2002
LOCATION: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C.
1050 Independence Avenue, SW
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY TOMMY THOMPSON AND SURGEON GENERAL RICHARD CARMONA hold a remembrance ceremony of the September 11th attacks.
DATE: September 9, 2002
LOCATION: 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-690-6343
WEB ADDRESS: hhs.gov
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER holds a briefing with Jimmy Gurule, Under Secretary of Treasury for Enforcement discussing "Update on Tracking the Financial Assets of Terrorists: One Year Later."
DATE: September 9, 2002
LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, National Press Building, Room, 898, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-724-1640
WEB ADDRESS:fpc.state.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program discussing Living and Working in Turkmenistan: An American View
WHO: The speakers are:
John Kropf, former USAID Country Director for Turkmenistan (August 2000-May 2002)
Michael Clarke, Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan (1998-2001)
Thomas Mark, Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan (September 1999-September 2001)
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS:rferl.gov
