Expert to Address Health Care Access, Cost Control Today

The campus community is invited to hear Mark Smith, CEO and president of the California HealthCare Foundation, who will address"Advocacy for Access and Cost Control in Health Care: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us" next week. Smith will present the lecture on Thursday, April 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., in the UCSF School of Nursing building, room N 225. Smith, a UCSF internist and attending at the San Francisco General Hospital AIDS clinic, is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a board member of the National Business Group on Health. The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) is an independent philanthropy committed to improving the delivery and financing of health care in California. Its goals are to ensure access to affordable, quality health care for all Californians and improve the health status of Californians. CHCF projects have contributed to public reporting of quality data on hospitals, development of Internet technology for health care delivery, and efforts to improve chronic disease care and expand coverage for the uninsured. Smith served on the Performance Measurement Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the editorial board of the Annals of Internal Medicine. He was executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Smith received his MD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MBA in Health Care Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. Smith's presentation is co-sponsored by the UCSF School of Medicine's "Health Care System and Physician Leader" Area of Concentration, the Institute for Health Policy Studies and the School of Medicine Health Policy Student Interest Group.