Hosted by the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech and Emory University and sponsored by the Georgia Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.

Please join the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech and Emory University for the 2009 Health Systems Student Symposium. You will have the opportunity to learn from the content of the presentations, enjoy the camaraderie of fruitful interactions and networking, and be confident in the impact of this next generation of leadership we are preparing at Georgia Tech.

This one-day symposium will consist of health systems presentations on current issues and the applications of engineering to healthcare. Graduate students in Health Systems, Industrial Engineering and Computing will present their work and the top papers will have poster presentations.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
The Future of Healthcare Management Education
Andrew T. Sumner, FACHE, Sc.D.
Associate Professor, Director, Chair
Health Administration, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University

Pioneering Healthcare Change
Julia Jones, BSHS, MHA
Vice President of Operations
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding
Student Presentations

Each graduate student has been working with an industry expert and mentor in producing and presenting his or her work. Topics include:

-Transparency in Healthcare
- Implementation Strategies for IT
- Practice Variation
- Others