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EVENT:
Paul H. O’Neill, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, will give the 14th annual Dr. Raymond C. Grandon Lecture at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.  His topic will be “Aspiring to Be Perfect” and will focus on safety processes that have produced and maintained world-leading performance, the five year experience of a regional health-care initiative to create perfect patient care and national and state initiatives necessary for perfect patient outcomes and health condition.

DATE:	Thursday May 5, 2005
TIME:	Noon - 2 p.m.
LOCATION:	DePalma Auditorium Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Thompson Building, Basement level Pavilion Entrance, 11th Street between Walnut and Sansom Sts. Philadelphia

BACKGROUND:
Mr. O’Neill was the 72nd Secretary of the Treasury, serving from 2001-2002.  From 1987 to 1999, he was chairman and CEO of Alcoa and retired as chairman at the end of 2000.  Before joining Alcoa, Mr. O’Neill was president of International Paper Company from 1985 to 1987 and served as its vice president from 1977 to 1985.

Mr. O’Neill was a computer systems analyst with the U.S. Veterans Administration from 1961 to 1966 and served on the staff of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget from 1967 to 1977.  From 1974 to 1977, O’Neill served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Raymond C. Grandon, M.D., for whom the lecture series is named, earned the doctor of medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1945.  Dr. Grandon entered private practice as a solo practitioner.  An internist with a special interest in cardiovascular disease, Dr. Grandon was responsible for the first televised heart operation in the United States.  He was also a clinical investigator of cardio-active drugs and helped to coordinate the nation’s first commercially successful cardiac rehabilitation program.

The Grandon lecture is sponsored by the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.  The department, under the direction of David Nash, M.D., the Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor and Chair of Health Policy, develops long-term strategies to prepare health-care providers for the challenges of a dynamic health-care environment.  The office serves as a key contributor to the education and research programs of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Medical College.

Department of Health Policy