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The 10th Annual Inland Empire Health Care Conference, organized by the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Riverside, will focus on restructuring health care and is scheduled from 7:30 a.m. to noon, Thursday, June 7, at the Riverside Convention Center, 3443 Orange St.

Keynote speaker Martin Kitchener, an assistant adjunct professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, will give a talk titled, "Lessons from the UCSF/Stanford Merger," at 8:30 a.m. He studied the five-year merger attempt between the medical centers at Stanford University and UCSF. The arrangement was formally dissolved in April 2000. A question-and-answer session will follow Kitchener's talk.

At 9:45 a.m., Bryan Rogers, the chief executive officer at Riverside Community Hospital, will give a talk titled "Improving Patient, Employee and Physician Satisfaction…While Having Fun!" Rogers' talk will also be followed by a question-and-answer session.

A panel discussion is scheduled at 10:30 a.m. titled, "Restructuring Health Care…Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow." Panelists include Douglas Beeman, health care writer with The Press-Enterprise newspaper; Steve Larson, M.D., of Riverside Medical Center; Christopher Ohman, president of CapMetrics, LLC; and Bruce Satzger, president of Community Hospital of San Bernardino.

Alan Lewis, assistant dean for external affairs at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management will give the opening and closing remarks. Cost to attend is $95 per person and includes a buffet breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.

Additional information is available from Michelle Skiljan, assistant director at the Center for Entrepreneurial Management at AGSM at (909) 787-3732.

The University of California, Riverside (www.ucr.edu) is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 21,000 students. The campus opened a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion.

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