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Conference to focus on quality, collaboration slated for Sept. 13 The Health Administration and Policy Conference, “Bridging the Great Divide: developing and implementing strategies for collaboration and quality in a time of uncertainty,” will be held Sept. 13-15 at The Citadel’s Holliday Alumni Center.   This is a time of exponential growth in health care expenditures and costs, numbers of uninsured and underinsured persons, technology accompanied by a reduction in access to health care, patient errors and health care professionals becoming burned out and leaving their professions. Litigation and the fear of litigation have never been so high, and malpractice threats are cited by physicians as a major stressor in their lives. The tension among patients, providers and managers, and between practitioners and regulators, has never been greater.   The conference will focus on strategies to resolve conflicts among patients, providers and administrators. Erie Chapman, author of Radical Loving Care and Sacred Work, will serve as keynote speaker. His work as a hospital leader, and now foundation director, focuses on improving a caring relationship among all who work in health care, with each other and with patients and families.   Practitioners, students, alumni and health leaders are invited.   For information, visit http://www.musc.edu/chp/chp_alumni/attendeeregistration.pdf.     Friday, Sept. 7, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.