Haas Business of Health Care Conference

Berkeley’s first Health Care Conference will provide the premier interdisciplinary forum to exchange cutting-edge information and innovative approaches that span the entire spectrum of the complex health care landscape. We plan to have the conference bring together and leverage tremendous academic, political, scientific, and business expertise in an integrated effort to understand and strike an impact on emerging challenges facing the dynamic and multifaceted health care world. This event will draw on and capitalize on all the unique and valuable health care resources at UC Berkeley and in the Bay Area.

Project mission:

Our goal is to create a conference that provides the premier interdisciplinary forum to exchange cutting-edge information and innovative approaches that span the entire spectrum of the complex health care landscape. We plan to have the conference bring together and leverage tremendous academic, political, scientific, and business expertise in an integrated effort to understand and strike an impact on emerging challenges facing the dynamic and multifaceted health care world. We will achieve this by drawing on all the unique and valuable health care resources at UC Berkeley and in the Bay Area. In addition, by using the elements "Innovation, Integration, Impact!" as guiding principles we hope to make the actual conference experience and content unique. (see Additional Information section below)

Potential impact:

To put UC Berkeley and on the map as a leader in health care business.

Required resources:

1. Total project needs: $50,000
2. Other:

   The conference is expected to cost around $50K, however any sponsorship amount would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Clare to get more information on the multiple sponsorship levels.

Project page URL:

• http://www.haashealthcareconference.org

Links to other projects by the same organization:

• http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/haasbio/events.htm
• http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/hcc/events06.htm

Additional info:

Innovation - Innovation speaks to our intent to have the conference disseminate the newest, most innovative ideas and methods of addressing the major issues in health care. Haas, and UC Berkeley as a whole, is a recognized leader in entrepreneurship and this entrepreneurial spirit is the key to fostering innovation in any industry.

Integration - Health care is an industry unlike any other that encompasses a wide range of disciplines. We plan to bring in expertise and perspectives from all of these disciplines so that people from every facet of health care can share ideas and learn from each other. As part of this integration effort we plan to draw UC Berkeley’s resources campus-wide and have already started tapping into student interests and faculty expertise in the School of Public Health, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and Boalt. In addition, we plan to bring in experts from UCSF.

Impact - In addition to sharing information, we want our conference to emphasize how health care companies can, should, and do make an Impact in the world. In this vein, we plan to emphasize topics like corporate social responsibility and discuss issues pertaining to international health care. We also hope to make the conference as interactive as possible, by hosting workshops as well as panels. Further, we plan to host a case competition following the event, in which students who attended the conference can use what they learned to analyze a health care case.