John Wallis Rowe, professor of health policy and management at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, will present the Fall 2011 Dean’s Lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, in the Junker Auditorium on the campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine. Rowe’s lecture, titled “How Will Doctors and Hospitals be Paid in the Future?” will draw upon his extensive background and expertise in health policy research and health care administration.
Before joining the faculty at Columbia, Rowe served as chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc, one of the nation's leading health care and related benefits organizations, from 2000 until late 2006. Prior to his tenure at Aetna, he served as president and chief executive officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation's largest academic health care organizations, from 1998 to 2000. Before that, Rowe was a professor of medicine and the founding director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as chief of gerontology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.
Rowe has received many honors and awards for his research and health policy efforts regarding care of the elderly. He was director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and currently leads the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on An Aging Society. Rowe has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and Lincoln Center Theater. He also served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees at the University of Connecticut and serves as chairman of the Board at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.