Global Medical Forum Foundation

	Day One Morning: Monday, 22 March 2004		Site Links Executive Summary GMF I Program GMF II Program Day One, Morning Day One, Afternoon Day Two, Morning Day Two, Afternoon Day Three, Morning Day Three, Afternoon Contact the Foundation
	Opening Plenary Session: An introduction to the main issues of the conference This first plenary session of GMF III presented an overview of current pressing issues in medicine and healthcare delivery seen through the prism of the various attempts by many different sectors to improve the well-being of humankind. The outcome of the session was not a general theory of healthcare discovery or delivery – such as that analogous to Herbert Spencer’s “General Theory of Evolution” – but rather an education in the array of tools currently at the disposal of the global civilization’s medical leaders. To achieve this goal, the program mixed science and public policy – innovation in both realms – in order to encourage meaningful debate over the three days of the conference.




	Opening Plenary Session: An introduction to the main issues of the conference 1100 hrs. to 1300 hrs.

	Introduction Prof. Dr. Raphael H. Levey; Chairman, Global Medical Forum Foundation Welcome Dr. Stephan Kux; Canton of Zurich, Head of Office for Economy and Labor The role of the corporate credo in the healthcare industry Mr. Dirk Collier; VP Administration and Information Management & Chairman, Johnson & Johnson Corporate Social Responsibility Committee Europe The healthcare reform agenda in China: 2004–2010 Dr. Jiefu Huang; Vice Minister, Ministry of Health, China Structural biology in biomedical research Prof. Dr. Kurt Wüthrich; Prof. Dr. Kurt Wüthrich, Institute for Molecular Biology, ETH Zürich; 2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry The meaning of Patients without Borders Prof. Bernard Kouchner; Professor of Public Health, Health and development department, Conservatoire National des Arts Et Métiers (CNAM) Conflict of Interest, Clinical Trials, and Peer Review Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D.; Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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