SAGES 2009 Annual Meeting
Surgical Spring Week Presentations

April 22-24, 2009
Phoenix Convention Center
Phoenix, Arizona

∇ 2009 Health Policy Lecture

Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH
Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association, Editor in Chief, Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications, Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Who to better update us, from the physician perspective, on the state of health policy in the U.S. than the physician who has served as the Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) since 2000. We are happy to welcome Dr. Catherine DeAngelis to Phoenix and the SAGES meeting. Her viewpoint is unique because she has been a nurse and a Pediatrician. She earned a Masters of Public Health from Harvard, and a certificate in the Business of Medicine including Managed Care.

She has been awarded seven honorary degrees including six as doctor of science, and one as doctor of humane letters. Dr. DeAngelis has also earned a plethora of other honors. In 2000 the Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD Visiting Lectureship for Women in Medicine was established at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Her career has led to academic appointments in Pediatrics at Roxbury Health Clinic, Boston; Columbia University, New York; University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, where her last appointment was as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty.

Dr. DeAngelis now serves as National Institute of Health Advisory Committee to the Director, and as a member of the Comptroller General’s Advisory Board, United States Government Accountability Office.