Lessons from the Edge

The Schedule

Wednesday, December 3, 1997

• 9:30 am       “Welcome & Introdcution” Curt Lindberg
  
  
• 10:00 am      “The Science of Complexity - A Broad View”
                         Julien (Clint) Sprott, PhD, University of Wisconsin
  
  
• 11:30 am      “Complexity Science & Health Care Organizations:
                          Leadership in Complex Systems”
                         Jeffrey Goldstein, PhD, Adelphi University
  
                         “New Ways of Thinking about Organizations and Managing Change”
                         Gareth Morgan, PhD, York University
  
  
• 1:50 pm       “Some Business and Healthcare Stories”
                         Tom Petzinger, Wall Street Journal columnist
                         Mary Anne Keyes, VP, Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center
                         Brenda Zimmerman, PhD, York University
  
  
• 2:40 pm       “Healthy Fractal Complexity: Breakdown & Disease”
                         Ary Goldberger, MD, Beth Israel New Deaconess Medical Center,
                         Harvard Medical School
  
  
• 3:40 pm       “Cellular Automata, Collective Intelligence and Phase Transition”
  
  
• 8:00 pm       “Three Evening Sessions”
                         Curt Lindberg
                         Roger Lewin, PhD
                         Birute Regine
                         Paul Plsek
                         Jeff Goldstein, PhD
                         Kevin Dooley, PhD

• 8:45 am      “A Health Care Application Story: The Politics of Change”
                        James Taylor, University of Louisville Hospital
                        Tom Petzinger
                        Gareth Morgan, PhD
  
  
• 9:10 am      “Health Care Stories”
  
  
• 10:45 am     “Showcase of Learning Resources: Edgeware”
                        Brenda Zimmerman, PhD
                         Paul Plsek, Paul Plsek & Associates
  
  
• 1:00 pm      “Self-Organization Opportunities”
                         H.L. Perry Pepper, The Chester County Hospital
                        Jeffrey Goldstein, PhD
                        Gareth Morgan, PhD
                        Paul Plsek Brenda Zimmerman, PhD
  
  
• 2:30 pm      “Closing Commentary”
                         Tom Petzinger
                         Gareth Morgan, PhD
                         Conference participant