What:

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Association of Academic Health Centers, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will host a special symposium to explore key policy issues on racial and ethnic diversity in the health professions. The program will feature a distinguished panel of health care leaders and educators, who will share their perspectives on the future of diversity, current admission and matriculation trends of under-represented minority students, the status of affirmative action programs, and the role of diversity in training health professionals. The afternoon keynote address is entitled, "Building Human Capital: From South Africa to North America."

Who:

• Lee Bollinger, President, University of Michigan
• Mark Smith, M.D., M.B.A., President and CEO, California Health Care Foundation
• Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D., Project Hope
• Raynard Kington, M.D., Ph.D., Research Physician and Policy Analyst
• Lisa Tedesco, Ph.D., Vice President and Secretary, University of Michigan
• Michael Nettles, Ph.D., Center for Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education, University of Michigan
• Alan Herman, M.D., Ph.D., Dean, National School of Public Health, Medical University of South Africa
• Kevin Grumbach, M.D., Chief, Family and Community Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital/Community Health Network
• Patricia Gandara, Ph.D., Division of Education, University of California, Davis
• Thomas Perez, J.D., former Director, Office of Civil Rights/DHHS
• Marta Tienda, Ph.D., Director, Office of Population Research, Princeton University

When: Friday, March 16,2001, 8:15 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

Where: Auditorium, National Academies Building, 2100 C Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Jennifer Bush at (202) 828-0041 or via e-mail by Wednesday, March 14. Those who cannot attend the public briefing are invited to participate by listening to a live audio Webcast and submitting questions using an e-mail form. Both the Webcast link and the form will become available at the time of the event.The Webcast requires RealPlayer software, available free of charge.

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The Association of American Medical Colleges represents the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; some 400 major teaching hospitals, including 74 Veterans Administration medical centers; 87 academic and professional societies representing nearly 88,000 faculty members; and the nation's 67,000 medical students and 102,000 residents. Additional information about the AAMC and U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals is available.

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The Association of Academic Health Centers (AHC) represents those institutions comprised of a medical school (allopathic or osteopathic), at least one other health professions school or program, and one or more teaching hospitals (owned or affiliated). These institutions are the nation's primary resources for education in the health professions, biomedical and health related research, and many aspects of patient care services. The AHC institutional representatives are the CEOs of each academic health center who have full (or partial) responsibility for the health professions schools and the clinical enterprise.

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The Institute of Medicine is a private, nonprofit institution that provides health policy advice under a congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences.

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