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Seminar on health care disparities to be held 

A special statewide seminar entitled Healthcare Inequity: the Nation and the State will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, Monday, Dec. 4 in the auditorium of the Institute of Psychiatry.

All members of the university community are invited to attend. 

John M. Eisenberg, M.D., director of the lead federal agency charged with promoting research to improve the quality of and access to health care services, and South Carolina Senator Ernest F. Hollings will be the key speakers.

Eisenberg’s agency, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), recently announced that nine institutions nationally would receive  $45 million in federal grants earmarked for research on strategies for eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities.  The largest of these grants ($10.1 million) went to Barbara Tilley, Ph.D., chairman of MUSC’s Department of Biometry and Epidemiology.

At the seminar, Eisenberg will discuss his agency’s activities on a national level. Senator Hollings,  Tilley, and other statewide experts will address current approaches and future initiatives in South Carolina.