About this event:  

This virtual event is the inaugural event of the Penn-Fudan Virtual Series on Global Issues and Governance jointly launched by the Penn Wharton China Center and the Institute for Global Public Policy at Fudan University. We invited top executives and scholars from the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Fudan University School of Public Health, and Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University. The panelists will have a comparative dialogue on hospital management practices between the U.S. and China, and two top ranked hospital systems which are both at the forefront of fighting Covid-19.

Event time: 8 AM Eastern Time, 8 PM Beijing Time, May 25th 2021

Venue: Zoom Meeting

Language: English (with Mandarin simultaneous interpretation)

Registration: https://yoopay.cn/event/06407441?mode=DY (The link will be distributed through an email at 5 PM Beijing Time on May 25th.)

Opening Remarks:

Yijia Jing

Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, Professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University

Prof. Yijia Jing is a Chang Jiang Scholar, Seaker Chan Chair Professor in Public Management, Dean of the Institute for Global Public Policy, and Professor of the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. He got his BA/MA in Economics from Peking University, MA in Sociology from University of Maryland College Park, and Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Ohio State University. He conducts research on privatization, governance, and collaborative service delivery. He is founding editor-in-chief of the journal Global Public Policy and Governance and co-editor of International Public Management Journal. He is the founding co-editor of the Palgrave book series, Governing China in the 21 Century.

About the Moderator:

Dan Guttman

Professor, Tianjin University Law School; Adjunct Professor, Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University, Affiliated Scholar, New York University US Asia Law Institute  

Dan Guttman is a teacher, lawyer, and has been a public servant. Following 2004-6 years as a China Fulbright scholar he has worked with China and US colleagues teaching and developing programs in comparative governance, and practices law in the U.S. He served as Executive Director of a Presidential Advisory Commission on bioethics, was a Commissioner of the U.S. Occupational Health and Safety Review Commission, directed U.S. Senate investigations on government use of private expertise, and was UNDP and EU China “foreign expert advisor” on environmental law.  

Dan is a Professor at Tianjin University Law school, an Adjunct Professor at Fudan University IGPP and a fellow at New York University US Asia Law Institute. He has taught at Peking, Tsinghua, Nanjing, Shanghai Jiao Tong, NYU Shanghai and Johns Hopkins (in the US).As a U.S. lawyer, he has represented cities, states, citizens, and workers in energy, environmental, antimonopoly anti-discrimination and anti-corruption litigation, currently as of counsel to Guttman, Buschner and Brooks. He is the author and coauthor of many books and articles. He has testified/spoken before the US Congress and many other public bodies, shared in journalism awards and is a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration. Dan was graduated from the University of Rochester and Yale Law School.

About the speakers:

Patrick J. Brennan

Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Penn Medicine

Professor, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

Patrick J. Brennan, MD is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Brennan leads implementation of Penn’s Blueprint for Quality, a strategic effort to improve clinical accountability and the outcomes of care.  

Dr. Brennan oversees the departments of Healthcare Quality, Patient Safety, Regulatory Affairs, and Medical Affairs. He has developed a Center for Evidence Based Practice to apply scientific evidence to clinical operations. Dr. Brennan is an infectious diseases physician and previously served as Director of Infection Control for 11 years at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and for periods of time held the same post at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. He also served as Director of Tuberculosis Control for the City of Philadelphia for seven years  

Dr. Brennan is a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and in 2008 served as SHEA’s president. From 2004 to 2010 Dr. Brennan chaired the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), which advises the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a broad range of issues related to control of infectious diseases. 

Dr. Brennan is a member of the Patient Safety Advisory Group of The Joint Commission. He is past chair of the Board of Directors of the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF), an independent, nonprofit organization that leads health care initiatives aimed at improving the safety, outcomes and care experiences of patients in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Philip Okala

Chief Operating Officer, Penn Medicine

Phil Okala is Chief Operating Officer at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In this role, he has executive oversight for the health system’s hospitals, clinical service line operations and integration. Prior to this role, he was Senior Vice President for Business Development at Penn Medicine, overseeing strategy and business development initiatives. He provided executive leadership on major health system initiatives for strategic marketing positioning, which included expanding clinical service lines, successful mergers and strategic alliances across Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  

Before joining Penn Medicine in 2007, Phil held executive positions at other organizations including: System Vice President of the Cancer Service Line at Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA; Vice President for Clinical Strategic Planning at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY; and management positions at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. He has a master’s in Healthcare Administration from Texas Woman’s University; Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Houston – University Park; and an advanced certification in Healthcare Executive Leadership from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. He is involved with numerous community and professional organizations and is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and Healthcare Financial Management Association (FHFMA).

Chouwen Zhu

Chief Physician, Vice President of Zhongshan Hospital (affiliated to Fudan University)

Professor Chouwen Zhu, Chief Physician, is the Vice President of Zhongshan Hospital (a top tertiary-care general hospital) affiliated to Fudan University. He was the team leader of Shanghai Medical Support Team to Hubei province in 2020. 

He earned his MD degree from Peking Union Medical College after completing 8-year curriculum and was a visiting scholar at the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester. He got his MSc degree in Health Development from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He is currently an associate professor at Shanghai Medical College, specializing in clinical medicine (gastroenterology), clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine. 

After working as the Deputy Director of Medical Service of Zhongshan Hospital, he has served as the Vice Director and Director of Foreign Affairs Office, Director of Medical Center Office, and Director of the China Medical Board Affairs at Fudan University. Now Dr. Zhu is the President of ChinaCLEN International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), China.

Yingyao Chen

Professor, Associate Dean of the School of Public Health

Professor Yingyao Chen is the Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, Fudan University. He earned his PhD degree from Fudan University and was a visiting scholar at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. 

His research interests include health technology assessment and hospital management. He is the author of the books Evaluation of Health Services (in Chinese) and Economic Evaluation of the Burden of Disease and Prevention Strategies for Birth Defects in China (in Chinese). 

He has published extensively in economic evaluation of maternal and child health technology, technical evaluation of medical equipment and hospital management and regulations. He has been engaged in funded research projects with support from the World Health Organization, China's Ministry of Health, China's Ministry of Science and Technology, National Science Foundation, among others.

About the event organizer and partners:

Penn Wharton China Center

The Penn Wharton China Center (PWCC), opened in Beijing in 2015, represents the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School’s long-standing commitment to advance its engagement with China in an increasingly interconnected global environment. To learn more about The Penn Wharton China Center, please visit whr.tn/about-pwcc.

Fudan University Institute for Global Public Policy

The Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy (IGPP) highlights Fudan University’s initiative to innovate research and education in social sciences and particularly in public policy. In partnership with LSE-Fudan Research Centre for Global Public Policy, the Institute aims to advance research on global public policy, to produce world-class research outputs, and to generate global academic and social impacts, in response to unprecedented global policy and governance challenges that call for designed and coordinated human actions. The Institute has been establishing a series of graduate degree programs in multiple policy and governance areas including global political economy, global social policy, public administration and policy, environment, global health, international development, and science and technology. These highly international degree programs admit both Chinese and international students and endeavor to educate the future generations of researchers and practitioners of global public policy and governance for both China and the world. For more on IGPP, please visit https://igpp.fudan.edu.cn/igppen/.

Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine is the University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine. Penn Medicine includes six acute-care hospitals and hundreds of outpatient locations throughout the region, as well as educational facilities at the Perelman School of Medicine.Penn Medicine is a world-renowned academic medical center in Philadelphia with hospitals ranked among the nation’s top hospitals and #1 in Philadelphia. Penn Medicine is also an internationally recognized leader for discoveries that advance science and patient care.