94-03-24 Staige Davis Blackford Memorial Lecture RELEASE ON RECEIPT CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA., March 25-- Dr. Arnold S. Relman, editor- in-chief emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine, will discuss "Health Care Reform and the Future of Medical Practice" Tuesday, April 5, at the University of Virginia. Relman's talk, the annual Staige Davis Blackford Memorial Lecture, is free and open to the public. It will be held at 4 p.m. in the Medical School Auditorium. Relman says that managed care will dominate the medical care delivery system of the future. He also believes that teaching hospitals, such as U.Va.'s, will become less costly and more closely integrated into regional health care networks, including ambulatory care services. Relman received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1946. He was on the faculty of Boston University from 1951 until 1968. From 1968 to 1977 he was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 1977 he was appointed editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School and senior physician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. In 1991 he became editor- in-chief emeritus of the Journal, and in 1993 was named professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School. Relman holds honorary degrees from more than eight universities and writes widely on the economic, ethical, legal and social aspects of health care. He served with the Health Professionals Review Group at The White House recently. The Blackford memorial lecture honors Dr. Blackford, who received his bachelor's and medical degrees from U.Va. and joined the medical faculty in 1927. Blackford reorganized the medical outpatient department, chaired the gastroenterology division in internal medicine and initiated postgraduate medical education at U.Va. He was the first chairman of the hospital's clinical staff and the first editor of the Medical Alumni Bulletin. He died in 1949. ### March 24, 1994 Charlotte A. Buttner, Program Support Technician, Health Sciences Center News Office, McKim Hall Room 3116, #429, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22908, 804-924-5679, cab2j@virginia.edu, CompuServe 72203,1033 [Submitted by: unknown (cab2j@dmt03.mcc.virginia.edu) 24 Mar 94 15:17:57 EST]