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Navigating the Business of Health Care
The Boston University School of Medicine’s revised medical school curriculum, implemented this year, integrates a more interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning to accommodate a new reality of the explosion of medical knowledge and [...]technical advances. As part of this effort the Business of Healthcare lectures were established to offer BUSM students an awareness of the challenges of the profession and motivate them to influence its future. This year’s speaker was Jordan Scott, MD (BUSM ’00), president of Northeast Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (which has with three locations in Massachusetts), clinical advisor to two medical device startup companies and an instructor at Boston Children’s and UMass Memorial hospitals. Dr. Scott, who has seen many sides of the medical industry, discussed “Navigating the Business of Health Care.â€
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Health Care for Hell’s Refugees
Reaching Out: Clinic offers non-Western therapies to torture survivors.
Read the story on BU Today:
http://www.bu.edu/today/node/12166
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Dr. Paul Farmer
Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH), speaks at the inaugural Hubie Jones Lecture.
Partners in Health provides health care and advocacy services for people living in poverty around the world.
The Hubie Jones Lecture in Urban [...]Health is an annual symposium addressing vexing health issues distinct to the urban context. Prominent national and international leaders toiling at the intersection of health and social justice present on health-centric topics of importance. The lecture honors the vision of Hubie Jones, dean emeritus of Boston University’s School of Social Work, who inspired and shaped the School’s urban mission during his 16-year tenure and who continues to influence and define the social and civic landscape of Boston as a leader, bridge-builder and advocate.
Hosted by the School of Social Work on April 14, 2012.
Boston University's Global Day of Service
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Medicine’s Brave New World
Recent advances in biomedical engineering have had transformative impacts, particularly in designing drugs and therapies for personalizing health care on an individualized basis. But the path to achieving the full potential of these technologies [...]depends on public policy and economic constraints of the health care system. Jim Collins, a professor of biomedical engineering in the College of Engineering, recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius†Award, and BU's first Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, along with George Savage (ENG’81), cofounder and chief medical officer of Proteus Biomedical, discuss these implications at ENG’s third annual Future of Engineering Symposium.
Hosted by the College of Engineering on October 29, 2010.
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Tom Whalen: Health care reform ruling and Chief Justice John Roberts
Thomas Whalen, associate professor of social sciences at Boston University, discusses the SCOTUS ruling on health care reform and what it meant for Chief Justice John Roberts.
Health care reform ruling and Chief Justice John Roberts:
[...]http://www.bu.edu/professorvoices/2012/06/28/health-care-reform-ruling-and-chief-justice-john-roberts/
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http://www.bu.edu/news/faculty-experts/thomas-whalen/
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Professor Stephen Davidson's New Book, Still Broken (Part 1)
In Part 1 of this 3-part series, Professor Stephen Davidson briefly outlines the problems that plague the current healthcare system, taken from his new book Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System.
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Health Care Disparities for Persons with Disabilities
In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Sargent College invited Lisa I. Iezzoni to speak at its annual Dudley Allen Sargent lecture. Her lecture, “Health Care Disparities for Persons with [...]Disabilities,†discusses evidence of disparities, historical and legal views regarding disabilities and disability rights, barriers to care, and solutions to those disparities.
Now a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate director of the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Iezzoni became the first woman to be promoted to professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1998. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the 1980s, she has used a wheelchair for more than 20 years.
Her most recent book, When Walking Fails: Mobility Problems of Adults with Chronic Conditions, draws from extensive interviews of 119 mobility-challenged people that were taken when Iezzoni was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow.
Hosted by Sargent College on November 1, 2010.
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What Universal Health Insurance Would Do For Young Learners
Boston University School of Education Dean Hardin Coleman discusses how health care at an earlier age can positively impact early education.
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Challenges of Health Care — Perspectives on the Future
As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, doctors’ understanding of life sciences and human health continues to advance at an astonishing rate. Yet affordable, quality health care remains an elusive goal for many in the United States. [...]To that end, this year’s President’s Panel, hosted by President Robert A. Brown, addresses “Challenges of Health Care — Perspectives on Our Future.†Moderated by Karen Antman, School of Medicine dean and Medical Campus provost, the panel features four national experts: George Annas, a BU William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and chair of the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights; BU trustee Cleve Killingsworth, Jr., retired president of Massachusetts Blue Cross Blue Shield; Thomas Lee, CEO of Partners Community HealthCare; and Kate Walsh, president and CEO of Boston Medical Center.
Hosted by the Office of the President on October 30, 2010.
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