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Recipient of Joint Award From IU Schools of Medicine, Law to Lecture on Managed Health Care Policy Issues

INDIANAPOLIS - Managed health care policy issues will be the focus Oct. 3 and 4 when the IU schools of Medicine and Law present their joint award honoring a distinguished scholar in a field of common interest.

Clark C. Havighurst, the William Neal Reynolds Professor at Duke University School of Law, is this year's recipient of the McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Award. As award recipient, Havighurst will present three lectures.

Havighurst will lecture on "The Backlash Against Managed Care and What to Do About It" at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Room 116, IU School of Law-Indianapolis, 735 W. New York St. The McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Lecture is part of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis' Distinguished Visitor Series. A 9 p.m. reception in the law school's Daily Lounge will follow the lecture.

Havighurst is known as a leading and innovative proponent of policies that would rely more on competition and consumer choice to guide industry development and look less to government and medical professions for direction.

The visiting speaker is author of "Health Care Law and Policy: Readings, Notes, and Questions," a law school casebook now in its second edition. His writings also include articles on regulation in the health services industry, medical malpractice, and the use of private contracts to reform American health care.

Havighurst will also lecture from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Myers Auditorium, Wishard Hospital. His topic will be "Vicarious Liability: A Proposal to Relocate Responsibility for the Quality of Medical Care."

The award lecture series ends with a luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 1B 301-302 in the Medical Research and Library Building, 975 W. Walnut St. The topic will be "Comeuppance? The Class Actions Against Managed Care Organizations."

The McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Lecture and Award series is funded by a gift to the Indiana University Foundation from Dorothy M. Ketcham, the author of several books and director of social services at the University of Michigan Hospital in the 1920s. Ketcham earned a bachelor's degree in economics and master's degree in sociology from Indiana University in 1914 and 1915, respectively.

The lecture award is named after Ketcham's mother, Jane Merrill Ketcham; and her father William A. Ketcham, and grandfather, David McDonald, both Indianapolis attorneys.

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