Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD
University Professor, The University of Connecticut
“Addressing the Future of Health in America: Diversity, Racism and Health Disparities”
April 18, 2019
Alan I. Leshner, PhD
CEO-Emeritus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Former Executive Publisher of the journal Science
“Communicating Science Effectively”
April 19, 2018
2018 Ray Symposium Presentation
Dana Goldman, PhD
Professor, Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair and Director for the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
“Re-Thinking Value in an Era of Health Reform”
April 20, 2017
2017 Ray Symposium Presentation
Michael W. Kalichman, PhD
Professor, Director of the UCSD Research Ethics Program
“Science, Truth and the Public Trust”
April 21, 2016
2016 Ray Symposium Presentation
Ellen Peters, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Director of the Behavioral Decision Making Initiative, The Ohio State University
“Numeracy and Health: A Tyranny of Numbers”
April 30, 2015
2015 Ray Symposium Presentation
Eileen Crimmins, PhD
AARP Chair in Gerontology, USC Davis School of Gerontology
“Shorter Lives, Poorer Health”
April 17. 2014
Patricia B. Crawford, Dr. PH, RD
Director, Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health Cooperative Extension Nutrition Specialist
“Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention”
April 18. 2013
Joshua S. Benner, PharmD, ScD
President and CEO, RxAnte, Inc. and Visiting Scholar, The Brookings Institution
“Reforming Health Care: Policy, Politics, and Patient Care”
April 12, 2012
2012 Ray Symposium Presentation
William E. Evans, PharmD
Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD
President of The Institute for Safe Medication Practices
“Safe Medication Practices – Preventing Errors”
April 15, 2010
2010 Ray Symposium Presentation
David B. Reuben, MD
Director, Multicampus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology (MPGMG) and Chief, Division of Geriatrics at UCLA Center for Health Sciences
“Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce”
April 9, 2009
2009 Ray Symposium Presentation
Brian Smedley, PhD
Research Director and Co-founder of the Opportunity Agenda
“Eliminating Disparities”
April 17, 2008
2008 Ray Symposium Presentation
Lyle Bootman
Co-editor, 2006 National Institutes of Medicine Report – Preventing Medication Errors
“Preventing Medication Errors”
April 19, 2007
2007 Ray Symposium Presentation