Systems science and innovation in health care delivery

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 | 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET

Atul Gawande, M.D., M.P.H.

Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

General and Endocrine Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Director, Ariadne Labs

Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Website

Summary

Dr. Gawande is a surgeon, writer, and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is also Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. Dr. Gawande has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and has written four New York Times bestsellers: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and most recently, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, Academy Health’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science.