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Events for November 02, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, Nov 02, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, Nov 02, 2007 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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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
University Calendar
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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WATER: A PRECIOUS RESOURCE, TAKEN FOR GRANTED
Fri, Nov 02, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Tariq Hussain,Vice President,URS Corporation,Santa Ana, CA ABSTRACT:We human beings take water for granted and why shouldn't we? Look around you - three quarters of the globe consists of water, but how much of this precious resource is available for human consumption? Less than 1%. 3% if you count the water trapped in the snowpacks. The basic fact remains that water supply remains constant while the population is increasing at a brisk pace. Demand for fresh water supply is growing faster than the population growth. It is estimated that by 2015, at least 40% of the world's population will lack an adequate water supply. Ten years after that in 2025 almost 33% of the worlds population and its economy will be affected by shortage of water. This water shortage scenario affects us here in California also. Let us not forget that California's greatness is due, in part, to the vision of previous generations who built our statewide water system. But now that system cannot cope with the increasing demands of population growth, frequent droughts, and environmental concerns include global warming. If we are able to maintain a constant supply of fresh water to our population we must take steps immediately, starting with raising the level of concern in every single household.URS is actively engaged on a day-to-day basis in addressing these challenges on behalf of our public and private sector water, wastewater and water quality clients. Mr. Hussain has been involved in projects in related to reinforcing or renovating California's current and future water/wastewater facilities and developing a group to efficiently tackle these tasks.
Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Dr. Kensall Wise
Fri, Nov 02, 2007 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Dr. Kensall WiseUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor"Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS):
Coming Revolution in the Gathering of Information"Abstract
Wireless integrated microsystems promise to become pervasive during the coming decade in applications ranging from health care and environmental monitoring to homeland security. Merging low-power embedded computing, wireless interfaces, and wafer-level packaging with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), the resulting button-sized modules will serve as smart information-gathering nodes that will effectively wire the planet, extending communication
networks to a wide range of new information-gathering applications. These microsystems will be 1cc or less in size, dissipating less than 1mW and communicating over ranges from 1cm to 1km or more. They will be built on generic platforms that are digitally compensated and self-testing, customized by software and by front-end sensor
selection. This talk will highlight several emerging microsystems. A wristwatch-size environmental monitor is being developed to measure parameters such as pressure, temperature, humidity, and air quality. The microsystem includes an integrated gas chromatograph capable of analyzing complex gaseous mixtures with sensitivities in the parts-per-trillion range and response times of a few seconds. It offers exciting possibilities for enhancing homeland security and reducing global pollution. A chronically-implantable neural microsystem integrates high-density three-dimensional microelectrode arrays with embedded signal processing and wireless telemetry. Such neural interfaces are creating breakthroughs in neuroscience and offering new hope for the treatment of disorders such as deafness, blindness, paralysis, and Parkinson's disease.Bio
Kensall D. Wise received the BSEE degree with highest distinction from Purdue University in 1963 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1964 and 1969, respectively. From 1963 to 1965 and from 1972 to 1974, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where his work was concerned with the exploratory development of integrated electronics for use in telephone communications. From 1965 to 1972 he was a Research Assistant and then a Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford, working on the development of micromachined solid-state sensors. In 1974 he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he is now the J. Reid and Polly Anderson Professor of Manufacturing Technology and Director of the Engineering
Research Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems. His present research focuses on the development of integrated microsystems for health care and environmental monitoring.
Dr. Wise organized and served as the first chairman of the Technical Subcommittee on Solid-State Sensors of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). He was General Chairman of the 1984 IEEE Solid-State Sensor Conference,
served as IEEE-EDS National Lecturer (1986), and was Technical Program Chairman (1985) and General Chairman (1997) of the IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators. Dr. Wise received the Paul Rappaport Award from the EDS (1990), a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Michigan (1995), the Columbus Prize from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation (1996), the SRC Aristotle Award (1997), and the 1999 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Field Award. In 2002 he was named the William Gould Dow Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. He currently holds the 2007 Henry Russel Lectureship at the University, is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.Location: Hedco Neurosciences Building (HNB) - 100
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ericka Lieberknecht
