BAYLOR-STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
CONFERENCE ON HEALTH CARE POLICY
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, Baylor University
   
15:45 - 16:30 Summary Panel Discussion 
Participants: 
  • GAIL WILENSKY
  • JOHAN CALLTORP
  • BOONE POWELL
  • 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, 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