The CHEPS Seminar Series was launched in September of 2003, under the direction of Richard Lindrooth (Associate Director of CHEPS). The series is designed to facilitate discussion of current issues within health economics, health services research, and health policy. The quality of the research presented and of the speakers participating has been exceptionally high, placing the CHEPS Seminar Series among the best such outlets in the United States. The seminars are generally held on a semi-monthly basis. Participants from all disciplines at MUSC, as well as College of Charleston and University of South Carolina, are invited. There has been remarkable attendance from all disciplines across MUSC’s campus. Speakers from all over the country have presented at the CHEPS Seminar Series including speakers from: - University of Wisconsin - Madison
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School of Management)
- University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill & Greensboro
- Yale University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Columbia University
- National Institutes of Health
- University of South Carolina
- Princeton University
- Cornell University
- University of South Florida
- University of Maryland
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Minnesota
- Florida State University
- University of Pennsylvania, College of Nursing
- College of Charleston
- University of Arizona
- Harvard Medical School
- The RAND Corporation
- University of Hawai'i at Hilo
- University of Tennessee at Memphis
Listed below are the currently scheduled speakers for Winter - Spring 2008. All Seminars will be held from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm in CHP B403. Bring your lunch! Beverages will be provided.
Winter/Spring 2008 - 1/25/2008 Health Services Research Seminar
Christopher Hollenbeak, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, presented "Are Surgical Outcomes Related to the Surgeon's Other Procedures? Evidence of Cross-Volume Effects in Carotid Endarterectomy".
- 2/8/2008 Health Services Research/Policy Seminar
Anouk Grubaugh, Ph.D. and Richard Lindrooth, Ph.D., MUSC, presented “Effect of Shortages of Psychiatric Acute Care Beds on Hospitals and the Community: A Mixed Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis”.
- 2/22/2008 Health Services Research Seminar
Teresa Waters, Ph.D., University of Tennessee at Memphis, presented "Nonurgent Emergency Department Use: Are Things Ever Going to Change?".
- 3/14/2008 Health Services Research Seminar
David Meltzer, MD, Ph.D., University of Chicago, presented "Learning by Doing and Social Network Effects: Results from a Multicenter Trial of Academic Hospitalists".
- 4/25/2008 Health Services Research Seminar
Barbara Dickey, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, presented “Toward a Model for Testing the Relationship between Quality of Care and Costs”.
For a list of seminars from previous years, click here. | 
