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  • Presentations on Health Policy & Managed Care by Two Senior Policy Makers

    Fri, Nov 02, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 03:30 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    SCHOOL OF POLICY, PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT PRESENTSFriday, November 2, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m., Ralph & Goldy Lewis Hall 219Space is limited! RSVP to melissgg@sppd.usc.edu or 213.740.2984.This is an extraordinary opportunity to meet and learn from two key government health policy leaders in the area of managed healthcare! LUCINDA 'CINDY' EHNES, ESQ: Director, California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), Sacramento [dmhc.ca.gov]DAVID W. SAYEN: Associate Regional Administrator, Medicare Health Plans, Region IX, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), San Francisco [www.cms.hss.gov]The presentations will focus on:§ Role & Direction of the CA Department of Managed Health Care§ Strategic Direction of CMS§ Trends in Healthcare in California and the nationThis session is part of the PPD608 Leadership Symposium in Health Management and Policy course led by Professor Glenn Melnick and guest faculty, Dr. Richard Merkin.ABOUT OUR PRESENTERSLucinda "Cindy" Ehnes, Director, California Department of Managed Health Care Cindy Ehnes (pronounced Ee-nis) is an attorney with 25 years of legal experience, much in the area of health insurance and regulatory law. She served previously in the Department as the Deputy Director for Plan and Provider Relations, as a liaison to HMOs, doctors, hospitals and other providers. Her most recent position was as division manager of the self-funded health plans unit serving 300,000 members at the California Public Employees' Retirement System. Cindy brings a substantial patients' rights and health care background. She is the author of The Prentice Hall ADA Compliance Advisor, one of two books she has written on the rights of persons with disabilities. She served for nine years as Consumer Representative and Chairman of Colorado's insurance plan for uninsured, high-risk individuals. Cindy was the Enforcement Director for the Consumer Affairs section at the Colorado Division of Insurance, where she oversaw passage of several patients' rights initiatives, including new rules for patients with chronic conditions and for newborns. She also developed the quality assurance audit procedures for HMOs, and served as legislative affairs director for the Commission on Family Medicine in Colorado. After moving to California in June 2002, Cindy served as the interim executive officer at the California Board of Optometry in the Department of Consumer Affairs. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO), seeking health information technology solutions and the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), focusing on pay-for-performance measures for provider groups. Cindy is a graduate of George Washington University and Catholic University Law School, both in Washington, D.C. and is a resident of Fair Oaks, CA. David W. Sayen: Associate Regional Administrator, Medicare Health Plans, Region IX, CMSDavid Sayen is the Associate Regional Administrator for Medicare Health Plans Operations at the San Francisco Regional Office of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). There, he is responsible for all Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug operations and compliance activity in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and the Pacific, serving 2.5 million beneficiaries.Mr. Sayen previously served as the Associate Regional Administrator for Financial Management in the same office. Before coming to San Francisco, he was a Team Manager in the Office of Information Services at the agency's Baltimore headquarters, where he was responsible for maintenance, testing and millennium renovation of two of the standard Medicare claims processing software systems. Prior to that he was the Branch Chief responsible for Medicare Customer Service and Managed Care Operations in CMS's Philadelphia regional office.Mr. Sayen received the HHS Secretary's Distinguished Service Award in 1999 and in 2000. In 2002, he completed the Excellence in Government fellows program and now is a Senior Fellow of the Council for Excellence in Government. He received his MBA in Health Administration from Temple University in Philadelphia.

    Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 219

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Surface Flattening and Developable Freeform Surface Modeling

    Tue, Nov 06, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR"Surface Flattening and Developable Freeform Surface Modeling"Charlie C.L. Wang, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanicaland Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong KongABSTRACT: The research presented in this talk is motivated by the development of 3D design automation systems for freeform products in those industries where the products are fabricated from two-dimensional patterns of sheet material (e.g., metal in ship industry, fabric in apparel industry and toy industry, and leather in shoe industry and furniture industry). How to determine the shape of 2D pieces from given 3D surface patches now becomes the bottleneck problem of the modeling cycle. An energy minimization based surface flattening technique will firstly be introduced to solve this problem. The surface flattening is later equipped with a novel signature – Length-Preserved Free Boundary (LPFB) so that a given model can be segmented into quasi-developable patches and flattened. Computing the 3D/2D mapping is also formulated as a problem for modeling developable freeform surfaces, where a novel Flattenable Laplacian (FL) mesh modeling scheme will be introduced. Lastly, the speaker will present how a woven fitting based surface flattening technique is conducted in the geometric design of custom-made medical assistant braces. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2007, GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309, 3:30-4:30 PM------------------BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Charlie C.L. Wang received his B.Eng. degree (1998) in mechatronics engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, his M.Phil. degree (2000) and Ph.D. degree (2002) in mechanical engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Since 2003, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wang is a member of IEEE and ASME, an editorial board member of International Journal of Virtual Reality, and a guest editor of international journals Computer-Aided Design and Computers in Industry. His current research interests include geometric modeling in computer-aided design and manufacturing, biomedical engineering, and computer graphics, as well as computational physics in virtual reality, which leads to over 60 academic papers published in the relevant areas and the Best Paper Award from ASME DETC/CIE 2001 conference. Dr. Wang has served in program committee of various major international conferences including ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling 2007, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software & Technology 2007, International CAD Conference 2005 to 2008, and International Conference of Geometric Modeling and Processing 2006 and 2008, etc.

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • To Be Announced

    Wed, Nov 07, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ISE 650 SEMINAR:Title to be AnnouncedSamim GhamamiPhD Student, USC Epstein ISE DepartmentWednesday, October 10, 2007
    3:30 - 4:30 PM, KAP 158

    Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 158

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Nanostructured Materials: From Thermoelectric Properties to Energy, Sensor...

    Thu, Nov 08, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR"Nanostructured Materials: From Thermoelectric Properties to Energy, Sensor, and Therapeutic Applications"Li Shi, Ph.D.Associate Professor and Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at AustinABSTRACT: Transport of charge, heat, and light can be manipulated in nanostructured materials via confinements of electrons, phonons, and photons in one or more dimensions. Various classical and quantum size confinement effects on thermal and thermoelectric properties have been suggested by theoretical calculations, but have not been experimentally verified because of the difficulty in nanoscale thermal transport and thermoelectric measurements. During the past few years, we have developed a number of methods based on scanning probe microscopy and nanofabricated devices for thermal and thermoelectric characterizations of nanomaterials. These methods have enabled us to observe for the first time record-high thermal conductivity in individual single-wall and multi-wall carbon nanotubes, suppressed thermal conductivity and enhanced thermoelectric figure of merit in semiconducting thin films and nanowires. The findings suggest an escalating self-heating problem in nanoelectronic devices, as well as novel uses of nanomaterials for thermal management and for direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion. In related exploratory efforts, we have demonstrated ultrasensitive and stable nerve agent detectors based on SnO2 nanowires integrated into MEMS, nanowire plasmonic probes for near field scanning optical microscopy, and high-throughput nano-imprint manufacturing of shape-specific, disease-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for drug and imaging agent delivery. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2007, GERONTOLOGY BUILDING (GER) ROOM 309, 2:00 – 3:00 PM----------------BIOGRAPHY: Li Shi received his B.E. degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 1991, M.S. degree from Arizona State University in 1997, and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley in 2001. Dr. Shi was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Division from 2001 to 2002. He joined UT Austin Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute as an assistant professor in January 2002 and became an associate professor from September 2006. He received the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2003, the Young Investigator Award from Office of Naval Research in 2004, the ASME Transaction Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2005, and the Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering at UT Austin in 2007.

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Inventories with Multiple Supply and Demand Sources and Networks of Queues with Overflow Bypasses

    Fri, Nov 09, 2007 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    INFORMATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT - MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS PRESENTSDr. Jeannette SongProfessor of Operations Management, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University"Inventories with Multiple Supply and Demand Sources and Networks of Queues with Overflow Bypasses"Abstract: Consider an inventory system with multiple supply sources.
    The replenishment leadtimes from each source are stochastic, representing congestion and disruption. We develop performance evaluation tools for a family of reasonable order policies. These policies take into account real-time supply information, which can be obtained through tracking technologies such as GPS and RFID.Performance evaluation of such state-dependent policies is generally hard. The main thrust of the paper is to show that, under these policies, the supply system becomes a network of queues with special routing mechanism called an overflow bypass. The solution has a simple product form. Thus, we obtain closed-form performance measures. These results reinterpret and extend Moinzadeh and Schmidt's analysis of a system with two sources having deterministic leadtimes. We further extend the analysis to batch ordering policies and multiple demand classes.Friday, November 9, 2007, Hoffman Hall 418, 10:30 - 12:00 PM________________________________________________________________________Professor Song received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Beijing Normal University, a M.S. degree in Operations Research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Management Science & Operations Management from Columbia University. Before joining Duke University, she served on the faculties of University California, Irvine and Columbia University, and held a visiting position at the University of California, Berkeley.
    She also worked as a research fellow in the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

    Location: H. Leslie Hoffman Hall Of Business Administration (HOH) - 418

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) Opportunities

    Wed, Nov 14, 2007 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    Mindy Ver SteegtDirector, SIFE USA Programs, 1959 E. Kerr St., Springfield, MO 65803, 800-235-9585 ext. 318, mversteegt@sife.org, www.sife.orgOpen Meeting and Information Session, RGL 105, Wednesday, November 14, 10:00 AMStudents In Free Enterprise is the largest collegiate organization in the world, with active SIFE teams on more than 1400 campuses in 47 countries; this is truly a worldwide student movement. Supported by corporate and individual donors from around the world, SIFE provides a plethora of opportunities for faculty, students, and the college/university.For students, SIFE provides the opportunity to take what is being taught in the classroom and practically apply it to life, while in college. In addition, students will have numerous career and internship opportunities through our Career Opportunity Fairs and the SIFE virtual career fair. Students also have the chance to network and interact with students from other campuses and with some of the leading CEOs, business executives, and entrepreneurs from around the world.For faculty, SIFE provides the same amazing networking opportunities. Above all, SIFE will provide faculty the chance to see students bring to life the principles they are striving to teach every day in their classroom. Through the projects completed by the SIFE team faculty will see students grow, mature, and become teachers themselves.Through SIFE, colleges and universities have the chance to be recognized locally, nationally and internationally through participation in SIFE Expositions, through local and national press coverage, and through involvement with the business community. SIFE has been the feature of articles in publications such as Fortune, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, USA Today and a host of local newspapers. Radio and news stations across the nation have also done feature stories on SIFE, including coverage on NBC's Today Show and CNNfn.

    Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 105

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Xerox PARC – A Creative Ecology

    Mon, Nov 19, 2007 @ 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    Please join us for a special event on Monday, November 19, 2007.Xerox PARC – A Creative Ecology?John Seely Brown, USC Senior Fellow John Seely Brown is currently a senior fellow at USC and advisor to the Provost. Prior to that he was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)—a position he held for nearly two decades. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, knowledge management, complex adaptive systems, and nano/mems technologies. He was a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL). His personal research interests include the management of radical innovation, digital youth culture, digital media, and new forms of communication and learning. Part scientist, part artist and part strategist, JSB's views are unique and distinguished by a broad view of the human contexts in which technologies operate and a healthy skepticism about whether or not change always represents genuine progress. www.johnseelybrown.com.Dr. Brown will discuss PARC and how it became such a creative environment. He also answers the question: Did Xerox really fumble the future to Apple Computer?This event is one of several conversations with innovative thinkers as we develop a university-wide research initiative on creativity with funding from the John Templeton Foundation.Monday, November 19, 2007, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m., Leavey Library AuditoriumSeating is limited so please RSVP to creativity@college.usc.edu Sincerely, Lloyd Armstrong, Antonio Damasio, Donald Miller

    Location: Leavey Library Auditorium

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Distinguished Lecture - Reddy

    Tue, Nov 20, 2007 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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    Technology and Society - Dr. Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon UniversityBIO:Dr. Raj Reddy is the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His current research interests include Million Book Digital Library Project; Fiber To The Village Project; and Learning by Doing. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Reddy was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Mitterand in 1984, the ACM Turing Award in 1994, the Honda Prize in 2005 and Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. He served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1999 to 2001
    ABSTRACT:Technology and SocietyThis talk will present several examples of how Technology, in particular Information Technology, can contribute to a wide range of human activities. In particular we will discuss societal applications of Robotics, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Computer Vision, Human Computer Interaction, Language Understanding Systems, and Artificial Intelligence.

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Greontology Center Auditorium

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Christine Martin

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  • VRPSYCH Laboratory for Virtual Reality, Psychology, Rehabilitation, and Social Neuroscience

    Wed, Nov 28, 2007 @ 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING ISE 650 SEMINAR:"VRPSYCH Laboratory for Virtual Reality, Psychology, Rehabilitation, and Social Neuroscience"Dr. Thomas D. ParsonsResearch Scientist, Neuropsychologist, Co-Director VRPSYCH Lab, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Marina del Rey, CAABSTRACT: Thomas D. Parsons, PhD will be presenting on the VRPSYCH Laboratory for Virtual Reality, Psychology, Rehabilitation, and Social Neuroscience at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. The VRPSYCH Lab is engaged in a broad program of research on the brain mechanisms that underlie neurocognitive functioning and emotion regulation in persons throughout the life course. We make use of virtual environments to study associations between the essential neural correlates of cognitive functioning and emotion regulation to assess the mechanisms of brain-behavior relations. In particular we investigate frontal subcortical circuits that underlie neurocognitive functioning and emotion regulation in persons throughout the life course. Included among the disorders we have recently studied are mood and anxiety disorders (PTSD), stroke, mild traumatic brain injury, ADHD, autism, Alzheimer's, and pain distraction.Thomas D. Parsons, PhD is a Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychologist, and Research Scientist at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. Dr. Parsons was recruited to the University of Southern California in 2006 by the Institute for Creative Technologies. Prior to coming to ICT, Dr. Parsons was in the Neurology Department at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's Medical School, where he conducted research on the frontostriatal system and the cognitive sequelae of deep brain stimulation. He currently codirects the VRPSYCH Laboratory with his longtime collaborator, Dr. Skip Rizzo, helping to facilitate research integrating Virtual & Augmented Reality, Psychology, Rehabilitation, and Social Neuroscience.Dr. Parsons can be reached by e-mail: tparsons@usc.edu, Tel: (310) 574-1632.Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 3:30 - 4:30 PM, GER 309

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Not Your Grandmothers Genetic Algorithm

    Thu, Nov 29, 2007 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Presents"Not Your Grandmother's Genetic Algorithm"Dr. David E. GoldbergJerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignABSTRACT: Genetic algorithms (GAs)--search procedures inspired by the mechanics of natural selection and genetics--have been increasingly applied across the spectrum of human endeavor, but some researchers mistakenly think of them as slow, unreliable, and without much theoretical support. This talk briefly introduces GAs, but quickly shifts to a line of work that has succeeded in supporting GA mechanics with bounding design theory that has been used to demonstrate GA scalability, speed, and range of reliable applicability. Key elements of this theory are discussed to give insight into this accomplishment and to make the point that fast, scalable GAs may also be viewed as first-order models of human innovative or inventive processes. The talk highlights recent results in breaking the billion-variable optimization barrier for the first time. It also discusses recent experience with GA-inspired creativity or innovation support systems.THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2007, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY BLDG (GER) 309-------------------------------BIOGRAPHY: David E. Goldberg, a leader in the field of genetic algorithms, is the Jerry S. Dobrovolny Distinguished Professor in Entrepreneurial Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also co-founder and chief scientist of Nextumi, Inc., a web2.0 startup company. Trained as a civil engineer at the University of Michigan, where he earned his B.S.E. and took his Ph.D. in 1983, Dr. Goldberg has held positions at Michigan, Alabama, and Illinois. The founding chair of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, he is co-chair of the inaugural Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering held at TUDelft, and he co-founded the initiative on Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois (ETSI). Among many honors, he is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Wickenden Award presented by the American Society for Engineering Education, and an Outstanding Instructor Award presented by the National Technological University. In addition to articles in professional journals, he is the author of two books on genetic algorithms, the widely-cited Genetic Algorithms in Search, Organization, and Machine Learning (1989) and The Design of Innovation (2002), and, most recently, The Entrepreneurial Engineer, which was published in 2006 by Wiley.

    Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 309

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • Healthcare Reform: Whats Happening Whats Next

    Fri, Nov 30, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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    USC SPPD Center for Health Financing, Policy and ManagementAn Invitation to a Special Half-day Conference"Healthcare Reform: What's Happening? What's Next?"Date: Friday, November 30, 2007Time: 9:00 AM to NoonWhere: Davidson Conference Center, Los AngelesRegistration: Complimentary. Reservation required.RSVP to melissgg@sppd.usc.edu or 213.740.2984.The Director of the USC SPPD Center for Health Financing, Policy and Management invites you to attend a complimentary half-day conference on Friday, November 30th at the USC Davidson Conference Center. "Healthcare Reform: What's Happening?, What's Next?" is a very timely program being hosted by the Center. Its purpose is to brief students, university faculty, and friends in the healthcare community regarding what has been happening in California's healthcare reform movement, and what we can expect in the coming months at both the state and national levels. An extraordinary group of policymakers and healthcare and business professionals has agreed to share the latest information concerning healthcare reform, and to set the context for upcoming state and national initiatives. Through presentations and interactive discussion, our panelists will engage with you in an exploration of the critical issues, constraints and opportunities that lie ahead. Presenters include: Herb Schultz: Senior Health Policy Advisor for the Office of the Governor, State of CaliforniaPeter Harbage: Senior Program Associate, New America Foundation, Washington, DC, and President, Harbage ConsultingScott Bain: Consultant, California Assembly Health CommitteeGlenn A. Melnick, Ph.D.: Professor and Director, USC SPPD Center for Health Financing, Policy, and ManagementDonald Crane: CEO, California Association of Physician GroupsMichael Cousineau, Dr. PH: Associate Professor and Director, USC Center for Community Health StudiesJim Lott: Executive Vice President, Hospital Association of Southern CaliforniaJamie Court: President of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (invited)Sam Garrison: Director of Pubic Policy, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce (invited)Howard A. Kahn: CEO, LA Care Health Plan (invited) Moderator--William Barcellona, Vice President, Government Affairs, CAPG The event will begin at 9:00 a.m., preceded by a networking breakfast, starting at 8:15 a.m. Because space is limited, a reservation is essential. Parking at Davidson Conference Center Gate #4 is available for $8.00. Please RSVP today, November 26, 2007. A special thanks to the USC Center for Community Health Studies and the California Association of Physician Groups (CAPG) for their collaboration.

    Location: Charlotte S. & Davre R. Davidson Continuing Education Conference Center (DCC) -

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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  • CS 402 Placement Exam

    Fri, Nov 30, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 AM

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science

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    The Computer Science Department will be offering the 402 Placement Exam on November 30 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm in SAL 101. Be sure to sign up on the CS website beginning November 9th.For further information please contact:
    Jeanne Herman
    Student Services Specialist
    Department of Computer Science, USC
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
    SAL 311
    213-740-3310

    Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Christine Martin

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  • Continuous Quality Improvement

    Fri, Nov 30, 2007 @ 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM

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    The STUDENT HEALTH COUNCIL is PROUD to PRESENT our Fall 2007 Speaker, Dr. Rus Billimoria, L.A.
    Care's Senior Director for Medical Management!Who: YOU attending this event and representing MHAs for Dr. Billimoria's visitWhy: It's a great opportunity to learn more about L.A. Care and network with your fellow MHAsWhat: Topic will be on Continuous Quality Improvement (among other things)When: Friday, November 30, 2007 at 6:00pmWhere: RGL 308Please join us in welcoming Dr. Billimoria. FOOD and drinks will be provided!To RSVP, please email Imee Maragay at maragay@usc.edu OR Penny Saephan at saephan@usc.edu no later than November 27, 2007.

    Location: Ralph And Goldy Lewis Hall (RGL) - 308

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Georgia Lum

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