Monday, May 28, 2001

9:00 - 9:30	Registration and Reception
9:30 - 10:00	Welcome and Opening Comments:  LYNDON OLSON, JR., U.S. Ambassador to Sweden  LEIF LINDMARK, Professor and President, Stockholm School of Economics  TERRY MANESS, Professor and Dean, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University  PER GUNNAR HOLMGREN, Conference Chairman, Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Medicin Assisting moderators throughout the conference: Nils Hyllienmark and Hasse Karlsson, both of Dagens Medicin.
10:00 - 12:00	Health Policy in the U.S. and Sweden: An Overview Moderators:  PER GUNNAR HOLMGREN, Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Medicin  BENGT JÖNSSON, Stockholm School of Economics  Presentations:  GAIL WILENSKY, Project HOPE  JOHAN CALLTORP, Göteborg University and Västra Götaland Region
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	Public Policy and Health Care Administration  Moderator:  ANDERS MILTON, Secretary General, Swedish Medical Association  Presentations:  BOONE POWELL, JR., Chairman, Baylor Health Care System  KJELD HOUGAARD, Expert Adviser to the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs  Discussion  CAROLA LEMNE, CEO,Danderyd Hospital  AGNETA DREBER, Director, Stockholm County Council
14:30 - 15:00	Break
15:00 - 15:45	Financing Health Care: Public and Private Models  Moderators:  HASSE KARLSSON and NILS HYLLIENMARK, Dagens Medicin  Presentations:  MARK V. PAULY, Professor and Chairperson, Health Care Systems Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania  JAMES HENDERSON, Professor of Economics, Baylor University
15:45 - 16:30	Summary Panel Discussion  Participants:  GAIL WILENSKY JOHAN CALLTORP BOONE POWELL, JR. KJELD HOUGAARD MARK PAULY
16:30 - 18:00	Free time
18:00 - 19:30	Reception at residence of Ambassador Lyndon Olson, Jr., Nobelgatan 2

Tuesday, May 29, 2001

9:00 - 10:15	Health Care and Research: How Can They Be Combined?  Moderator:  BENGT JÖNSSON, Stockholm School of Economics  Presentations:  DAVID J. BALLARD, Sr. Vice President, Health Care Research and Improvement, Baylor Health Care System  KJELL THOR, Managing Director, Sophiahemmet  MAJ-LEN SUNDIN, Hospital Director, Karolinska Hospital  GÖRAN B KLINTMALM, Chairman of the Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Baylor Health Care System
10:15 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 12:15	Biotech: Industry of the Future and a Force for Change Moderator:  CLAES HANDIN, Managing Director, SmithKline Beecham AB  Presentations:  LARS GATENBECK, Managing Director, H&B Capital LP  CHRIS KEARNEY, Assistant Professor of Biology and director of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory at Baylor University  CONNY BOGENTOFT, Managing Director, Karolinska Innovations AB
12:15 - 13:15	Lunch
13:15 - 14:30	Pharmaceuticals: International Competition and Costs Moderator:  BOONE POWELL JR., Chairman, Baylor Health Care System, and board member, Abbott Laboratories  Presentations:  TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago  HÅKAN ÅSTRÖM, Pharmacia Corporation, USA  STEFAN CARLSSON, Managing Director, Apoteksbolaget AB
14:30 - 15:00	Break
15:00 - 16:00	Pharmaceuticals: International Competition and Costs (continued)  Panel discussion. The presenters will answer questions posed by NILS HYLLIENMARK and HASSE KARLSSON
16:00 - 16:15	Summary PER GUNNAR HOLMGREN, Editor-in-Chief, Dagens Medicin
16:15 - 19:30	Free time
18.00	BY INVITATION: Boat ride from the Grand Hotel to Villa Pauli, Djursholm
19:30 - 22:00	BY INVITATION: Dinner at Villa Pauli