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MILWAUKEE’S ECONOMY:
WORLD-CLASS POTENTIAL? Milwaukee area businesses skillfully design, build, and innovate.
But do we produce what others want?
Does Milwaukee business have the world’s attention?
Will success in the world require unified, focused commitment?
Forum Date: January 12, Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, January 13, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, January 15, 9AM
MPTV Show Number 1011: Click or copy and paste - http://www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=1069
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
With Guests TOM BARRETT
Mayor of Milwaukee
LEAH NEWMAN, PhD
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
JIM PAETSCH
Vice President
Milwaukee 7 Regional Economic Development
WISCONSIN’S BUSINESS CLIMATE: HOT, COLD, JUST RIGHT?
What is a welcoming business climate?
Who creates those conditions where businesses take solid root and grow?
And can a competitive business climate accommodate
human needs as well as the environment?
Forum Date: January 19, Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, January 20, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, January 22, 9AM
MPTV Show Number 1004: Click or copy and paste - http://www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=1076
With Host DENISE CALLAWAY
Business and Community Partnerships Coordinator
Milwaukee Public Schools www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
With Guests CORRY JOE BIDDLE
Executive Director
FUEL Milwaukee
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce
ANDREW FELDMAN, MPP, PhD
Director and Founder
BadgerStat
ERIC ISBISTER
CEO and Co-owner
Gen Met Manufacturing
HOWARD SNYDER
Executive Director
Northwest Side Community Development Corporation
ARTS, SPORTS, AND MILWAUKEE’S ECONOMY Brewers, ballet, Bucks, and brass. Milwaukee’s feast of arts and sports enriches lives, pours millions into the economy, and generates jobs. But the players - on stage and on the field - need philanthropic and government help. Can the investment pay off for all of us? If so, how?
Forum Date: January 26, Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, January 27, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, January 29, 9AM
With Host Raul Vasquez
4th Street Forum Host
With Guests CHRISTOPHER BOSTON
Director of Sustainable Communities
LISC Milwaukee
STEVE COSTELLO
President and CEO
Bradley Center Sports and Entertainment Corporation
ROB HENKEN
President
Public Policy Forum
DEANNA TILLISCH
President and CEO
United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF)
February 2012 Schedule
Five-Part Series on
Issues of Health Care
Part One – AFFORDABLE CARE ACT:
CURE FOR US HEALTH CARE?
American health care costs too much and covers too few.
The Affordable Care Act is tackling the problems, piece by piece.
But how will this law change American health care?
Will it help people with poor or no insurance?
And will the Act survive the courts, lobbyists, and legislators?
Forum Date: February 2, Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, February 3, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, February 5, 9AM
With Host DENISE CALLAWAY
Business and Community Partnerships Coordinator
Milwaukee Public Schools www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
With Guests SUSAN GIAIMO, PhD
Visiting Professor of Political Science
Marquette University
Author of Markets and Medicine:
The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States
ROBERT KRAIG, PhD
Executive Director
Citizen Action of Wisconsin
PATRICIA McMANUS, RN, PhD
Executive Director
Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin
WILLIAM PETASNICK
President and CEO
Froedtert Hospital System
Part Two - HEALTH CARE IN FLUX:
THE BATTLE FOR PATIENTS
Hospital systems compete for your health care dollars. Premiums continue to rise. Specialists outnumber family doctors. How does the patient fare as American health care grows
more sophisticated, and costly, each year?
Forum Date: February 9, Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, February 10, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, February 12, 9AM
With Host Raul Vasquez
4th Street Forum Host
With Guests TITO IZARD, MD
President and CEO
Milwaukee Health Services
PATRICK REMINGTON, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Public Health
Professor of Population Health Sciences
UW-Madison
THOMAS WILLET, OD
Sole Family Practitioner
Green Lake, Wisconsin
Part Three - STELLAR AMERICAN HEALTH CARE: IS IT POSSIBLE?
Will we solve our health care cost and coverage crises? New ideas abound. What solutions will do the most for patients and their pocketbooks? Will passionate advocates be able to change the practice of American health care?
Forum Date: February 16, Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, February 17, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, February 19, 9AM
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
With Guests DAVID KRUEGER, MD
Emergency Physician and Medical Director
Bellin-ThedaCare Healthcare Partners
SALLY LUNDEEN, RN, PhD
Dean, College of Nursing
UW-Milwaukee
JOHN RAYMOND, MD
President and CEO
Medical College of Wisconsin
Part Four - WISCONSIN’S ALCOHOL PROBLEM
The Badger State ranks highest in the U.S. for binge drinking,
and we are more likely to drive drunk.
Our over-the-top drinking culture claims lives and costs a lot of money.
Do we need to sober up and change how we use alcohol?
Can Wisconsin kick its drinking problem?
Forum Date: February 23, Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, February 24, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, February 26, 9AM
With Host Raul Vasquez
4th Street Forum Host
This Week We’re ON THE ROAD to
Marquette University College of Nursing
Part Five - THE POVERTY OF HEALTH CARE
Poverty and poor health go together. We spend a lot of money to treat sick, poor people.
Is this the best way to tackle illness and poverty?
Should we instead spend more on prevention, on strategies to improve health?
This program is also in collaboration with the schools of nursing
at Concordia University Wisconsin and UW-Milwaukee
Forum Date: WEDNESDAY at 1PM, February 29
ON THE ROAD LOCATION:
Marquette University College of Nursing
Emory Clark Hall, 530 N. 16th St (Just north of W. Clybourn St.)
MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, March 2, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, March 4, 9AM
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
With Guests KELLI JONES, RN
Clinical Instructor
Community Health Nursing
Marquette University College of Nursing
DAVID RIEMER, JD
Director
Public Policy Institute, Community Advocates
Author of The Prisoners of Welfare
KIMBERLY WHITMORE, RN
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Department of Nursing
Concordia University Wisconsin
EARNESTINE WILLIS, MD, MPH
Kellner Professor of Pediatrics
Director
Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children
Director
Health Equity and Urban Clinical Care Partnerships
Medical College of Wisconsin
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