Cover the Uninsured Week Event at Drexel

Posted by on March 14, 2003

GRAND ROUNDS ON COVERING THE UNINSURED

A Drexel Health Sciences Grand Rounds on Covering the Uninsured, will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall B, Center City Hahnemann Campus, on Thursday, March 20, 2003. The program is being held in celebration of Cover the Uninsured Week, a national awareness campaign funded primarily by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation along with multiple other influential organizations, to sensitize the public and opinion leaders to the plight of the uninsured.

The Grand Rounds is co-sponsored by the College of Medicine, College of Nursing and Health Professions, School of Public Health, and Office of Government and Community Relations. Panelists from the three health sciences schools include:

William Hickey, PhD, SPH
Jarone Lee, SPH
Debra McGrath, MSN, CRNP, CNHP
Vincent Zarro, MD, COM
Monica Medina, PA-C, CNHP
Robert Sigmond, PhD, SPH

Dr. Marla Gold, Dean of the School of Public Health, will serve as moderator.

One of America’s biggest health challenges is that more than 41 million Americans are currently uninsured and their numbers are growing. Families that do not have access to affordable health insurance live sicker and die younger as a result. Being uninsured is not just a problem for the unemployed, as 8 out of 10 uninsured Americans are in working families.

Faculty, staff and students from across Drexel University are invited to attend this open dialogue on a most important topic for us all. For more information, contact Cynthia M. Livingston, Government and Community Relations, at 215-762-8120 or Livingston@drexel.edu