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Systems science and innovation in health care delivery

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Air date:	Tuesday, June 13, 2017, 2:00:00 PM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local
Views:	Total views: 1,556 (1,111 Live, 445 On-demand)
Category:	WALS - Wednesday Afternoon Lectures
Runtime:	00:57:13
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Description:	NIH Director’s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series 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. For more information go to https://oir.nih.gov/wals

NLM Title:	Bringing precision delivery to precision medicine / Atul Gawande.
Author:	Gawande, Atul. Collins, Francis S. National Institutes of Health (U.S.),
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Abstract:	(CIT): NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series 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.
Subjects:	Precision Medicine
Publication Types:	Interview Webcast

NLM Classification:	WB 102
NLM ID:	101708394
CIT Live ID:	23690
Permanent link:	https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=23690

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