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October
21, 2002
FTC
Chair to Give Keynote Address
CHICAGO
--- Timothy J. Muris, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission,
will discuss health care and competition in his keynote address
at 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, at Northwestern University School
of Law’s seventh annual Competition in Health Care Forum.
The
two-day forum on recent developments in the changing legal and regulatory
landscape of the health care industry will take place Nov. 7 and
8 at the School of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave.
Muris
also will answer questions in a session led by Mark Taylor, legal
affairs reporter for Modern Healthcare Magazine.
"The
forum brings together government regulators who set policy and decide
what challenges to bring," said R.A. Pete Wentz, associate
dean for executive and professional education and communications.
"Executives and economists who influence and are affected by
policy will have significant opportunity to interact with them and
to have their questions and concerns addressed."
Topics
to be covered on Thursday include:
"Whither
Antitrust? The Uncertain Future of Competition Law in Health Care"
"New
Economic Tools for Market Definition -- A Critical Look at ‘Critical
Loss’"
"Challenging
Dominant Providers: Are the Traditional Tools Up to the Job?"
"Ethical
Challenges for Lawyers, Directors, and Management: How to Avoid
Being Dragged"
"Down
in a Corporate Collapse…Lessons from Enron, AHERF, Allina"
Topics
to be covered on Friday include:
"A
Closer Look at Clinical Integration -- Pro-Competitive Elixir or
Fairy Dust?"
"Open
Marriage: Physicians in Competition with Their Hospitals"
Sponsors
of the seventh annual Competition in Health Care Forum include Epstein
Becker & Green; Gardner Carton & Douglas; Horty, Springer
& Mattern; Lexecon Inc.; Modern Healthcare and Modern Physicians
Magazines; and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice.
As
a program sponsored by Northwestern University School of Law, the
Competition in Health Care Forum is recognized for mandatory continuing
legal education credit in New York, California, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri,
Wisconsin and other states. Tuition is $550.
For
more information go to www.law.northwestern.edu/contexec
or call (312) 503-8932.
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