How Does Healthcare in the United States Compare With Healthcare in the United Kingdom and China?

UC Riverside’s G. Richard Olds, dean of the School of Medicine, will participate in panel discussion on Aug. 8

By Iqbal Pittalwala on August 2, 2012

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Dr. G. Richard Olds, the founding dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, will be a member of a panel that will focus on healthcare in the United States, the United Kingdom and China.

Free and open to the public, the interactive panel discussion, titled “Healthcare in the United States, United Kingdom and China,” will take place at 5:30 p.m., Aug. 8, 2012, at the Riverside Medical Clinic, 7117 Brockton Avenue, Riverside, Calif.  Light refreshments will be served.

Olds will talk about designing a medical school for Inland Southern California.  He will be joined on the panel by the following people:

Dr. H.S. Dhillon, chair of the Department of Surgery at Riverside Medical Clinic, who will talk about the United Kingdom National Health Service of yesteryear (25 years ago);

Pawanjit Hare, a medical student at the University of Leeds, the United Kingdom, who will talk about the United Kingdom National Health Service of today;

Charles Sands, the dean of the College of Allied Health at the California Baptist University, who will discuss allied health and its effect on the quality of healthcare in the Inland Empire;

Dr. Albert Ma, vice chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Riverside County Regional Medical Center, who will shed light on healthcare reform in China; and

Dr. Steven Larson, chief executive officer and medical director at Riverside Medical Clinic, who will talk about the “future and now” of the Inland Empire.

For more information, please call (951) 782-5177.

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