A five-day intensive professional development program for health executives is slated for May 4 through 9 at Cornell.

The Health Executives Development Program, now in its 39th year, will feature 24 experts speaking on macroeconomic realities, health-reform imperatives, strategic alliances and new technological developments, including how new information systems technologies are affecting health care quality and delivery.

Sponsored by the Sloan Program in Health Services Administration and the Department of Human Service Studies in the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell, the program attracts some 50 to 60 executives from around the world. It is the oldest continually running management development program in the health field and among the broadest in scope. The program is intended for health care executives, physician leaders, trustees of health care organizations, health care policy-makers and staff planners from not-for-profit and government health care organizations.

"The program provides leading-edge strategies, tactics and insights into new developments in health care," said Laura Dimmler, M.P.A., associate director of the Sloan Program at Cornell and an organizer of the development program.

Among the scheduled speakers are Carolyne Davis, a national health care adviser with Ernst & Young and the former head of the Health Care Financing Administration; John Glaser, Ph.D., vice president and chief information officer of Partners Healthcare System Inc.; George Lundberg, M.D., editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association; David Skinner, M.D., president and CEO of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center; and Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen's Health Research Group.

For more information on registering for the program, contact the Health Executives Development Program, N222 MVR Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853-4401, or call (607) 255-8013.

EDITORS: You are welcome to cover any of the speakers' presentations. Call Laura Dimmler at (607) 255-2509 for details.