Third Annual Cathy Shine Lecture, Feb. 28: ‘Patient Capital: Rethinking the Value of Care’.
Bob Massie, president of the New Economics Institute, is the featured speaker of the Third Annual Cathy Shine Lecture and will present “Patient Capital: Rethinking the Value of Care.”
What counts as value in value-based payment for health care? Massie’s lecture will use this key question as a launchpad to discuss how patient experience ratings are a measure of value for both payment and accreditation purposes. Massie will discuss his expertise in socially responsible corporate organizations and his extensive experiences as a patient to explore how hospitals could be operated to yield real value.
Bob MassieAbout the speaker:
Bob Massie is President of the New Economics Institute, a national think tank focused on innovative models for the 21st century American economy. A graduate of Princeton University and Yale Divinity School, he received his doctorate in business policy from Harvard Business School. He has created or led three ground-breaking sustainability organizations, serving as the president of Ceres, the co-founder and first chair of the Global Reporting Initiative, and the creator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk.
His 1998 book, Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, won the Lionel Gelber prize for the world’s best English-language book on international relations. He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1994 and a candidate for the United States Senate in 2011.
His most recent book, A Song in the Night: A Memoir of Resilience, recounts his experiences with classical hemophilia and the blood transfusions that left him with both HIV and Hepatitis C. He was one of the first discovered elite controllers of HIV, the name given to HIV-infected men and women who manage to control the virus’s invasion without the help of any retroviral drugs. After nearly seven years of waiting for the right donor, he underwent a successful domino liver transplant in 2009 that cured his cirrhosis and hemophilia. He is also currently HCV and HIV negative.
About the Cathy Shine Lectureship:
The family of the late Cathy Shine, who died in 1992 from a severe asthma attack, endowed a lectureship in her memory to be organized each year by the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at BUSPH. The gift also recognizes the scholarly work of Department Chair Professor George Annas, who wrote about the Shine case in 1999 as an example of the importance of respecting patient rights. In making the gift, the Shine family noted that Cathy Shine admired Annas’s work, especially his book The Rights of Patients.
Two years before Shine’s death, she suffered a traumatic experience in which medical treatment against her will damaged her trust in physicians. In a wrongful death suit filed by her family on Shine’s behalf, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court later affirmed “the right of a competent individual to refuse medical treatment,” even life-saving treatment.
According to her family, Cathy Shine was a strong advocate for human rights and patient rights. Before her death, she co-authored a book about race-based discrimination in criminal justice administration, Does the Punishment Fit the Crime?, published after her death by the Sentencing Project.
The lecture series is sponsored by the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health
Third Annual Cathy Shine Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 28
Noon-1 p.m.
Hiebert Lounge, BU Medical Instructional Building
A reception will immediately follow the lecture.