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Exchanging Horizons
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This year the Student Turning Point Society will be hosting the Eighth Annual Exchanging Horizons as a series of networking events spread throughout the Spring semester. Our two speakers this year are listed below.
March 23, 2009: J.B. Silvers, Ph. D.
Date: Monday, March 23, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Place: Nursing Student Lounge, First Floor of the School of Nursing
J.B. Silvers, Ph.D., is the Elizabeth M and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Health Systems Management and Professor of Banking and Finance at the Weatherhead School of Management, serves as the Faculty Director of the Health Systems Management Center and holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine - all at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Silvers' research in the areas of financial management and health services has published in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Medical Care, Health Services Research and many others.
From 1997 to 2000, while on leave, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of QualChoice – a health plan and insurance company in Cleveland, Ohio. During his time there, enrollment grew 30%, profitability improved by $10 million and the HMO received a J.D. Powers Award as the best in the area. After earlier degrees in engineering and industrial management from Purdue, Professor Silvers received a Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University and served on the management faculties of Stanford, Harvard, Indiana University, and Case Western Reserve University.
Professor Silvers currently serves on the board of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and their finance and audit committee (Vice-Chair), Nursing Advisory Council and Work Group on Public Policy. For seven years he was a Commissioner on the Prospective Payment Assessment Commission (ProPAC, the predecessor of MedPAC) advising Congress on Medicare payment, as well as serving on other state and federal commissions. He also was Senior Associate Dean of the Weatherhead School of Management for several years.
He lives in Rocky River, Ohio with his wife, Leah Gary.
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March 25, 2009: Dr. Shannon French
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Place: Inamori Center, Crawford Hall Basement
Shannon E. French, Ph.D., began her tenure as director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence and Inamori Professor of Ethics at Case Western Reserve University on September 8, 2008.
Prior to leading the Inamori Center, French was the associate chair of the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States Naval Academy, where she had been a member of the civilian faculty since 1997.
At Case Western Reserve, she'll serve as a tenured faculty member in the philosophy department in the College of Arts and Sciences in addition to her leadership duties at the Inamori Center.
French's research and scholarly interests are primarily in the area of military ethics, but also include leadership ethics, professional ethics, moral psychology, biomedical and environmental ethics. She has contributed articles and chapters on present-day conduct of war issues such as defining terrorism, the use of torture, warrior transitions and the moral responsibility of leaders not to erode values that provide the foundation for restraint and limit the awful scope of war. Her 2003 book, The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values, Past and Present, features a forward by Senator John McCain.
Currently working on her second book, French has published numerous other works and is an associate editor for the Journal of Military Ethics and the Encyclopedia of Global Justice.
French has presented papers at prestigious international conferences around the globe. In 2004, she helped design and present four-day training seminars on moral reasoning and ethical advisement for the U.S. Navy's Chaplain Corps at Navy and Marine Corps bases around the United States and in Italy and Japan. The success of that program resulted in the development and presentation of a similar series of seminars on the subject of character development in 2006.
French received her bachelor's degree in philosophy, classical studies and history from Trinity University in San Antonio in 1990. She was recognized in 1990 as one of the 20 "Best and Brightest College Students in America" by USA TODAY. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University before joining the Naval Academy faculty.
French succeeds Gregory L. Eastwood, M.D. (MED '66), who had served as director of the Inamori Center since May 7, 2007.
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Please contact the Director of Programming for STPS, Julia Rose Judge, with any questions concerning the Exchanging Horizons Series.
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