Partner D. Louis Glaser will speak on "Physician-Hospital Alignment: Maximizing Collaboration and Minimizing Subsidizations" on Thursday, May 6. The program will address the struggle to develop joint venture arrangements for ambulatory services and the structuring of collaborative physician employment agreements.

Topics that will be covered at the program include:

• Market and environmental developments that have made joint ventures timely and relevant today
• Joint venture (and alternatives to joint venture) models, techniques and potential effectiveness
• Identifying opportunities for collaboration with physician partners, and assessing the reasonableness of proposed or current physician transactions from a fair market value perspective