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event website URL: http://kaiserfam-livepush.wm.llnwd.net/kaiserfam_livepush

start date and time: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM

end date and time: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 2:35 PM

categories:   health & wellness   interactive discussion   political

event description:

video webcast -

The Kaiser Family Foundation presents a panel on Today's Topics in Health Disparities - Are Health Disparities Back on the National Agenda? - Examining the Impact of a New Administration and Congress.

The panelists will examine opportunities for President-elect Obama's new administration to tackle racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.

Panelists are -

- moderator - Cara James, Ph.D. - Senior Policy Analyst, Race/Ethnicity & Health Care at the Kaiser Family Foundation

- Peter Bach, M.D. - Former Senior Advisor, Office of the Administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Associate Attending Physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

- Representative Hilda Solis (Democrat-California) - Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Health and the Environment Task Force

- Brian Smedley, Ph.D. - Vice President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies; Director of the Joint Center Health Policy Institute

Submit questions before or during the webcast to:
ask@kaisernetwork.org

sponsor's website: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/