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John Lantos - Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program and IPHAM: co-sponsored lecture - Can We Control Drug Prices?

Thursday, September 26, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor/Baldwin Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
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The Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program and IPHAM

presents a co-sponsored lecture

Can We Control Drug Prices?

John Lantos, MD
Director of Pediatric Bioethics; Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Medicine
Research Professor of Pediatrics,
Kansas University Medical Center Children’s Mercy Hospital

The learning objectives of this lecture are:

1.  Discuss the long history of political efforts to control drug prices
2.  Analyze the difficulty of determining what is a "fair" price
3.  Compare policies to control drug prices in the US with those in the rest of the world.

Cost: FREE

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

p-knox@northwestern.edu

Interest

  • Academic (general)
  • Medicine

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