John Lantos - Medical Humanities & Bioethics Program and IPHAM: co-sponsored lecture - Can We Control Drug Prices?
When:
Thursday, September 26, 2019
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor/Baldwin Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: FREE
Contact:
Myria Knox
(312) 503-7962
p-knox@northwestern.edu
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings, Grand Rounds
Description:
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.