WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) tomorrow will headline a panel with former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2015: Spotlight Health. Upton and DeGette will discuss H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, and provide insight into their multiyear effort to help patients and bring the health care innovation infrastructure into the 21st century. H.R. 6 includes policies to incorporate the patient perspective, modernize clinical trials, remove barriers to research collaboration, embrace personalized medicine, and help the entire biomedical ecosystem coordinate more efficiently.
Upton and DeGette will then road trip together from Aspen to Denver, Colorado, for a visit with health care leaders in DeGette’s home district. Follow their trip on social media using #RoadTrip4Cures.
DeGette last year hosted a roundtable discussion about 21st Century Cures in Denver and earlier this year she joined Upton in his home district in Southwest Michigan for #CuresInTheMitten.
Learn more about 21st Century Cures online HERE.
