CHI to Host Conversation with George Shultz, Leading Economists, and Biomedical Industry to Address Healthcare Reform and Income Security

Business Wire, April 29, 2008

STANFORD, Calif. -- California Healthcare Institute:

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George P. Shultz, professor of economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, served as the 60th U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. The previous year, he chaired President Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board. From 1972 to 1974, he was secretary of the treasury. He served as secretary of labor from 1969 to 1970 before his appointment as director of the Office of Management and Budget.

John B. Shoven, Ph.D., is the Charles R. Schwab professor of economics and director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Victor Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, in the Departments of Economics and Health Research and Policy. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He applies economic analysis to social problems of national concern, with special emphasis on health and medical care. He is author of nine books, the editor of six others, and has published over two hundred papers and shorter pieces. His current research focuses on comprehensive health care reform, inequality in life expectancy, and the economics of aging.

"A Conversation on Healthcare Reform and Income Security" is sponsored by Fenwick & West LLP and hosted by David Gollaher, President and chief executive officer, CHI - California Healthcare Institute; Henry Nordhoff, Chairman and CEO, Gen-Probe, Incorporated; John Martin, President and CEO, Gilead Sciences; Ted Love, Chairman and CEO, Nuvelo; and Philip Pizzo, Dean, School of Medicine, Stanford University.

CHI represents more than 250 leading biotechnology, diagnostics, medical device and pharmaceutical companies and public and private academic biomedical research organizations. CHI's mission is to advance responsible public policies that foster medical innovation and promote scientific discovery. CHI's Web site is www.chi.org.