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MHC's Annual Symposium and Luncheon
on Workforce Challenges
Featuring Buz Cooper as our Keynote Speaker

This year’s keynote was given by Richard “Buz” Cooper, M.D. speaking on health workforce shortage in his presentation Exploring the Dynamics of Health Workforce Shortages 2010-2025. 

The shortages in the health workforce supply, and the challenges they will soon bring are issues of concern to all industry leaders. Join us to discover what lies ahead for our workforce to stimulate dialogue among our state’s healthcare leadership in addressing this critical issue. 
 
The Building Michigan's Healthcare Workforce Awards ceremony was also held at the luncheon.

2011 Award Recipients

Highlights of the day:

Handouts: 

Workforce Trends and the Myths of Health Care Reform - Presentation
It's Time to Address the Problem of Physician Shortages - Article
Gaps in the Supply of Physicians, Advance Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants - Article
 
Richard “Buz” Cooper, M.D. is an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Since the mid-1990s, Dr. Cooper has been a national leader on issues related to the supply of physicians and non-physician clinicians and the dimensions of the health care system. Contrary to the conventional wisdom at the time, that the nation was developing a surplus of physicians, his “Trend Model” projected physician shortages of a magnitude now being experienced, and he has been a consistent voice urging expansions of both medical education and the education of advance practice nurses and physician assistants. For more information about Buz, visit his website at www.buzcooper.com

 

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