You are invited to attend a seminar on hospital payment methods, during which current funding models for hospitals and other care delivery systems will be discussed. This meeting is the first in a series of seminars organized under the auspices of an international network focused on the legal and policy aspects of health care funding. This meeting will include representatives from the network, and local and national experts and practitioners.

Hosted by The School of Public Policy, the Institute for Health Economics and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the Cumming School of Medicine, the seminar will feature four sessions addressing crucial organizational and economic issues.

Speakers include:

• Joshua M. Sharfstein, Associate Dean, Public Health Practice & Training, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
• Jason Sutherland, Associate Professor, UBC School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
• Stafford Dean, Senior Program Officer – Analytics, Alberta Health Services
• Braden Manns, Svare Professor in Health Economics, Department of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary

Where:

University of Calgary Downtown Campus
Nexen Technology & Conference Centre
5th Floor, 906 8th Ave., S.W.
Calgary, AB

8:00 a.m. Registration and breakfast
8:30 a.m. Program begins
12:00 p.m. Program concludes