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FED: Maimonides Society Event
Join us Tuesday, May 13th, at 7:30pm for a zoom event hosted by the Federation’s Maimonides Society for physicians. Mark Fendrick, MD, PhD (Schools of Medicine and Public Health, University of Michigan) and Michael Chernew, PhD (Harvard Medical School) will be speaking on a panel moderated by Jonathan Trobe, MD.
Michael Chernew, PhD, is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and Director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. His PhD is in economics from Stanford University. He is the chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and has served on several advisory panels for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors and the Massachusetts Health Connector Board. A recipient of multiple awards for his work in healthcare policy, he focuses his research on improving the healthcare system through improvements to benefit designs, payment models, and regulation of both private and public health care markets, including the Medicare Advantage program.
Mark Fendrick, MD, PhD is Professor of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine and Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. His bachelor’s degree is from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Residency in internal medicine was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. He conceptualized Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID) and currently directs the V-BID Center at the University of Michigan, which advocates for development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative health benefit plans. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, serves on the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee, and has presented testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health, and the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel.
Learn more about the Maimonides Society here.
