Shaping Neurosurgerys Future – A Global Enterprise May 2-6 2009 San Diego Calif

San Diego Skyline

The 77th AANS Annual Meeting, themed Shaping Neurosurgery’s Future: A Global Enterprise, will be held in sunny and inviting San Diego May 2-6, 2009. Sander E. Connolly, MD, chair of the AANS Meeting Committee, and Vincent Traynelis, MD, chair of the Scientific Program Committee, together with their committee members and numerous others, already have been working to create a landmark meeting that offers relevant and well-researched science complemented by an entertaining and enjoyable social program.

Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD

The conference’s keynote speaker is Cushing Orator Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD. A prominent economist and health policy analyst, Dr. Reinhardt delivered a compelling, informative and frequently humorous talk in which he explored the comparatively high cost of the U.S. healthcare system, among other pressing issues, during the socioeconomic session at the 2004 AANS Annual Meeting. This year’s presentation, which will be delivered in the first few months of a new president’s administration, promises to be particularly relevant.

Dr. Reinhardt, a native of Germany, has taught at Princeton University since 1968. He is currently the James Madison Professor of Political Economy and professor of Economics and Public Affairs. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1964, when he was also awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal as most distinguished graduate of his class. He earned a doctorate degree in economics from Yale University in 1970. His doctoral dissertation, entitled Physician Productivity and Demand for Health Manpower, was subsequently published as a book.

In 1998 the Columbia University School of Nursing honored him with the Second Century Award for Excellence in Health Care. He also has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, and from the College of Optometry of the State University of New York.

In 1978 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, serving on the Governing Council from 1979 to 1982. At the institute he has served on a number of study panels, among them the Committee on the Implications of For-Profit Medicine.

Professor Reinhardt has served on numerous governmental committees and commissions. From 1986 to 1995 he served three consecutive three-year terms as a commissioner on the Physician Payment Review Commission. Currently, he is a member of the Council on the Economic Impact of Health Reform. He is also on the Board of Advisors of the National Institute of Health-Care Management, a Washington-based think tank devoted to issues in managed care.

In 1997 he joined the Pew Health Professions Commission and was appointed to the External Advisory Panel for Health, Nutrition and Population of The World Bank. In 1998 he was appointed as commissioner of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Since then, he has served on the Board of Trustees of the Duke University Health System, and he has chaired the Coordinating Committee of the Commonwealth Fund’s International Program in Health Policy.

Dr. Reinhardt has been or is a member of numerous editorial boards, among them the Journal of Health Economics, the Milbank Memorial Bank Quarterly, Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Additional information about the 2009 AANS Annual Meeting is available at https://www.aans.org/annual/2009/default.asp.

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