Future of Health Care

2002 Lecture by Dr Patrick Dixon, ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 2005). Health care trends, future of pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology, stem cells, human cloning, organ regeneration, longevity, ageing, negligible senescence. Life expectancy, genetic modification, pharmacogenomics, medicare and health care budgets. Government health care policy, health care planning and community care trends. Gene therapy and new treatments. Patient choice and health care rationing. Health care inequalities and ethics. Biotechnology startups and venture capital investment. lecturer: Patrick Dixon