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Health care leaders offer industry analyses in Eller College Distinguished Speaker Series

January 22, 2008 – L. Ben Lytle – Distinguished Speaker Series
January 29, 2008 – Robert D. Reischauer, 2008 Fathauer Lecture in Political Economy

What

The Eller College of Management Distinguished Speaker Series presents L. Ben Lytle, health care entrepreneur, and Robert D. Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute. Lytle will present Health Care Business Opportunities Arising from Demographic Shifts and Reischauer will address The Economics and Politics of Health Care: 2008 and Beyond.

Receptions will follow both lectures in the Estes Atrium, McClelland Hall. RSVPs are requested for the Fathauer Lecture, January 29. Please RSVP online at www.eller.arizona.edu/lecture.

For more information about the Eller College Distinguished Speaker Series, please visit www.eller.arizona.edu/speakers.

Where: Berger Auditorium, McClelland Hall, 1130 E. Helen St., Tucson, AZ

When

• Tuesday, January 22, lecture 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m., reception to follow
• Tuesday, January 29, lecture 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m., reception to follow

Who

L. Ben Lytle has been a health care entrepreneur for over 30 years. As chairman and CEO of AXIA Health Management, LLC, which he and his son Hugh founded in 2004, Lytle oversaw the company’s rise to the nation’s largest provider of wellness services. He has been an advocate for healthy lifestyles and market-based health care reform his entire career. His entrepreneurial leadership and innovative strategies were cited by Tom Peters in his books Liberation Management and What Happy Companies Know and in several periodicals.

Robert D. Reischauer is the president of the Urban Institute, a nonprofit, non-partisan policy research and education organization in Washington D.C. which examines the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation. He served as the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1989 – 1995 and as chair of the National Academy of Social Insurance’s project, “Restructuring Medicare for the Long Term,” from 1995 to 2004. Reischauer is currently vice chair of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

The Eller College of Management at The University of Arizona is internationally recognized for pioneering research, innovative curriculum, distinguished faculty, excellence in entrepreneurship, and social responsibility. U.S.News & World Report ranks the Eller undergraduate program #12 among public business schools and five of its departments are among the top 25 — Entrepreneurship, MIS, Marketing, Management and Organizations, and Accounting. The MPA program in the School of Public Administration and Policy ranks in the top 50. Financial Times ranks the Eller MBA full-time program #27 in the U.S. and #57 in the world, and Forbes ranks the program among the top 50 nationwide. The College leads the nation’s business schools in generating grant funds for research. In addition to a full-time MBA program, the Eller College offers an evening MBA program, and the Eller Executive MBA. The Eller College of Management supports more than 5,100 undergraduate and 600 graduate students on the UA campus in beautiful Tucson, Arizona.

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