THE STUART ROME LECTURE

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1 THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAW CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO THE STUART ROME LECTURE WILLIAM SAGE, MD, JD COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WILL SPEAK ON THE ROLE OF MEDICARE IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, :45 P.M. CEREMONIAL COURTROOM

2 THE STUART ROME LECTURE WILLIAM M. SAGE William M. Sage, MD, JD, is Professor of Law at Columbia University, where he teaches courses in health law, regulatory theory, antitrust, and the professions. He received his AB from Harvard in 1982 and graduated from Stanford in 1988 with his MD/JD. He served as an intern at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in San Diego and as a resident in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following his medical training, Professor Sage practiced corporate law at the law firm of O Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles, worked in the White House on the Clinton Administration s Health Security Act, and joined the faculty at Columbia Law School in Professor Sage has published extensively on health law and policy, including many articles and book chapters on medical malpractice policy. He is the lead editor of Medical Malpractice Reform in the United States: New Century, Different Issues (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2005). Professor Sage helped formulate the liability demonstration proposal of the Institute of Medicine s Committee on Rapid Advances in Health Care in 2002 and is a member of the liability and patient safety task force of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. From , he served as principal investigator of the Project on Medical Liability in Pennsylvania, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

3 THE ROLE OF MEDICARE IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM Efforts to reform our medical malpractice system in this country have been stalled for decades in large part because medical malpractice has never been connected to broader issues in American health policy. Notably, the Medicare and Medicaid programs which have shaped the way that much of our health care system operates are invisible where malpractice is concerned. A promising avenue for integrating malpractice policy with health policy, thereby focusing medical liability on patient safety while taking account of cost and access, is for the federal government to pioneer a program of administrative compensation applicable to Medicare patients, which would set the standard for the rest of the health care system. Under such a program, Medicare would establish a system of medical courts and link them to other quality-related initiatives involving patient safety, consumer information, and provider payment. The resulting regulatory system would transform what would have been private malpractice claims into an effective administrative mechanism to assure compensation for avoidable injury and encourage performance improvement. In this year s Rome Lecture, Professor William Sage, MD, JD, will discuss having Medicare lead medical malpractice reform in the United States. The Rome Lecture will be given during a day long conference at the School of Law entitled: Beyond the New Medical Malpractice Legislation: New Opportunities, Creative Solutions, and Best Practices for Patient Safety, Tort Reform and Patient Compensation. The agenda for the conference and information about registration is located on the next panel of this brochure. Attendance at the Rome Lecture, Commentary, and Reception is FREE, however, we request that you register in advance. Registration and parking information is available on the page immediately following the Agenda.

4 BEYOND THE NEW MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LEGISLATION: NEW OPPORTUNITIES, CREATIVE SOLUTIONS & BEST PRACTICES FOR PATIENT SAFETY, TORT REFORM & PATIENT COMPENSATION 8:30 9:00 REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 9:00 9:15 WELCOME Diane Hoffmann, JD, MS, Associate Dean, Director, Law & Health Care Program Roger Wolf, JD, Professor, Director, Center for Dispute Resolution at the University of Maryland PATIENT SAFETY 9:15 9:50 Narratives on Medical Liability, Disclosure and Safety Rosemary Gibson, MSc, Author, The Wall of Silence 9:50-10:45 What s Happening in Maryland and Other States? Robert W. Barnett, MA, Director, Patient Safety Center, New York Department of Health William F. Minogue, MD, FACP, Director, Maryland Patient Safety Center AVOIDING MEDICAL MALPRACTICE SUITS: EARLY INTERVENTION MAKES A DIFFERENCE 11:00-12:30 The Role of Early Apology Doug Wojcieszak, MS, Director, Sorry Works Getting the Benefit of Mediation and the Role of an Organizational Ombudsman Carole Houk, JD, LLM, Principal, Resolve Advisors, LLC Reducing Professional Liability Expenses and Indemnity with an Early Resolution System: The CHORDA Partners in Healing Program Karl Slaikeu, PhD, President, CHORDA Conflict Management Inc. 12:30 1:45 LUNCH The Role of the Patient-Physician Medical Dialogue in Shaping the Relationship: Why and How Communication Matters Debra Roter, DrPH, MPH, Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health CHANGING THE TRADITIONAL LITIGATION AND COMPENSATION PROCESS 2:00 2:30 Health Courts Paul Barringer, JD, General Counsel, Common Good 2:45 3:30 THE STUART ROME LECTURE The Role of Medicare in Medical Malpractice Reform William Sage, MD, JD, Columbia University 3:30 4:30 Commentary Randall B. Bovbjerg, JD, Principal Research Associate, Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute Timothy S. Jost, JD, Robert L. Willett Family Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law Toby Edelman, JD, Center for Medicare Advocacy 4:30 5:30 RECEPTION To register for the day long conference, go to Conference Fee: $75.

5 THE STUART ROME LECTURE The Stuart Rome Lecture was established by his family and friends to celebrate Stuart Rome s life and work as attorney, community activist, art patron and humanitarian. The annual lecture is designed to reflect his extraordinarily widespread interest and commitments, stimulating and challenging both those who speak and those who listen. A native of Baltimore, Mr. Rome graduated from City College in 1954, earned his LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1961, and later that year was admitted to the Maryland Bar. From 1961 to 1963, he served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Edward S. Northrup, and was an assistant state s attorney general for two years before joining Venable, Baetjer and Howard in In addition to his many hours of pro bono legal work, Mr. Rome devoted his time to numerous organizations, including the NAACP, Echo House, the Mayor s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture, the Baltimore Association of Retarded Citizens, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Board of Governors of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Baltimore Jewish Council, the American Jewish Committee and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Stuart Rome died in 1983 at the age of 46. This lecture is sponsored by the Law & Health Care Program. An article based on the lecture will be published in a forthcoming issue of the School of Law s Journal of Health Care Law & Policy. Public parking is available in the Baltimore Grand Garage across from the School of Law. The entrance is on Paca Street. To register for the Stuart Rome Lecture, Commentary and Reception, which is FREE, RSVP enter If you require special accommodations to attend or participate, please provide information about your requirements to Lu Ann Marshall, ( TTY/VOICE) at least five business days in advance.

6 UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND SCHOOL of LAW LAW & HEALTH CARE PROGRAM THE LAW & HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAW COMBINES AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO EDUCATION WITH RESEARCH ON EMERGING MEDICAL, HEALTH POLICY AND LAW-RELATED ISSUES. IN ADDITION TO AN EXTENSIVE CURRICULUM, THE PROGRAM INCLUDES A CLINICAL LAW COMPONENT AND HEALTH LAW PRACTICUMS AND EXTERNSHIPS. THE PROGRAM SPONSORS THE JOURNAL OF HEALTH CARE LAW & POLICY, AND STUDENTS MAY EARN FORMAL RECOGNITION FOR COMPLETION OF A CERTIFICATE IN HEALTH LAW. THE L&HCP SPONSORS A VARIETY OF CONFERENCES AND LECTURES ON CUTTING-EDGE HEALTH LAW TOPICS. 500 West Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Baltimore, MD Permit No. 2439