LEADING CHANGE

The Melody of Innovation

“There’s always a better way.” Vivian S. Lee, University of Utah Health Sciences

What are the ways your organization is forcing innovation?

We need to face head on health care's most serious problems Peter Slavin, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital

Darrell Kirch: Academic Medicine is Poised to Rescue Health Care

“People acknowledge change is good [and] more are willing to go first.” Darrell Kirch, Association of American Medical Colleges

What Kind of a Change Agent Are You?

There are countless reasons to feel overwhelmed and disheartened with the current state of health care. But some are embracing change. We asked academic medicine's best and brightest about change at the annual 2015 AAMC meeting.

Tom Lee on Why Online Doctor Reviews Are Good Medicine

“Everyone in health care is for transparency for everyone else.” Tom Lee, Press Ganey

Bob Kaplan: Our Health System is Sick

“To even call it a system is to do injustice to the word system.” Bob Kaplan, Harvard Business School

Health care or the economy?

Bend the cost curve? "We have to break the cost curve." James Orlikoff, Orlikoff & Associates, Inc.

Collaborate or Die

“We have to be working together, if we’re going to survive.” Richard Krugman, University of Colorado

Michael Leavitt on Retail Health Care

Everyone is looking to become “the general contractor in medicine.” Mike Leavitt, Utah Governor, HHS Director

What can Health Care Learn from Car Factories?

“It’s not a magic bullet. It’s really pick-and-shovel work.” Lucy and Michael Glenn, Virginia Mason Medical Center

Healing Health Care

Arnold Relman: Physician, Heal Thyself

Health care has changed from a social service to a business. Arnold Relman, New England Journal of Medicine

Rethink Health Care, Stick to Values

“It’s a time of reflection, for asking why we do things the way we do it.” Mark Laret, UCSF Medical Center

Preemptive, Personalized Therapies are the Future of Medicine

The days of one-size-fits-all medicine are over. Treatments must be individualized, says Jay Cohn, M.D., University of Minnesota.

IBM’s Watson: The Physician’s New Best Friend

“Ninety percent of the [world’s] data is less than two years old.” Martin Kohn, IBM

Why are Doctors so Unhappy?

Clinicians can shoulder a lot if they feel they’re helping patients. Robert Pendleton, University of Utah

Patients at the Center

“It’s all for the patient.” Margaret Pearce, Chief Nursing Officer

Let's Demand Health Care for All

“It’s [not] acceptable that some people don’t get the care they need.” Marsha Rappley, Michigan State University

Toward Certainty Medical Decision Making

“Do you admit them, or send them home? You want to get it right.” Carrie Byington, Vice Dean University of Utah Health Care

Combatting Online Falsehoods about Health

“The Internet is not filled with experts.” Carol Rumack, University of Colorado

Not all Patients are Tech-savvy

“We have to ask patients what they want.” Elisabeth Kunkel, Jefferson Medical College

Health Care for Patients, not Providers

“I was told to take off my socks, and I refused.” Charles Lockwood, Ohio State University

No Health Reform without Academic Medicine

“We need to be the leaders. We have the brain power, the mission.” Claire Pomeroy, University of California

High Tech is the Path to Personalized Care

“We don’t have enough doctors to do it.” Aaron Byzak, University of California

Speeding Discovery

Flights of Imagination

“You’re almost working on the edge of science fiction.” Nobel-Prize Winning Geneticist, Mario Capecchi

Precision Medicine is ‘Happening Now.' It’s Saving Money and Human Suffering

“If it’s my wife with breast cancer or my daughter with breast cancer, I want her to have the best possible chance to be treated for her unique disease,” Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., Mayo Clinic

The Blistering Pace of Genetic Science

“Experiments that were totally science fiction even five years ago are now science reality.” Michael Boehnke, Ph.D., University of Michigan

Let Research Guide the Way to a Healthier America

“Absent science we have no idea what works best.” Ann Bonham, Association of American Medical Colleges

The Science of Risk

“You bet on young people… some of them are going to fail.” Dean Li, Vice Dean for Research

Is Big Pharma Stalling Medical Innovation?

Drug companies are on “welfare big time.” We need demands in return. Marcia Angell, New England Journal of Medicine

Who will Lead the Digital Revolution?

“A lot of people get upset about this term, ‘creative destruction.’” Eric Topol, Scripps Translational Science Institute

Perfection Kills Innovation

“We need to think big, open it up, make it free and see what happens.” Michelle Lin, UCSF

Drive Down Drug Development Costs

“[Supporting] cures for all the orphan diseases would consume the entire U.S. GDP.” Vicki Seyfert-Margolis, FDA

Is the FDA the drug discovery problem or solution?

Our current drug development model is ripe for change. Frank F. Weichold, director, FDA

How can Social Media Advance Research?

“Medicine is not just telling people what to do.” Robert Gugliemo, Wayne State University

Disrupting Education

Nancy Andrews on Reviving our Passion

“Faculty need to…reconnect with the reasons that they chose to do medicine, or science or education.” Duke University

Healing through Education

“We think things are intractable only to the extent that we’re not willing to put forth our money, our entrepreneurship and our hearts.” - Social entrepreneurs, Lynette and Robert Gay

HOWARD BAUCHNER ON THE SPEED OF KNOWLEDGE

“Whatever anyone learns today may be largely irrelevant in five years,” JAMA Editor-In-Chief Howard Bauchner, M.D.

Medical Training Ripe for Culture Change

“The learner environment suffers from traditions in medicine.” Lorris Betz, Association of American Medical Colleges

No Medical School is an Island

“[That] we could be wasting [our potential] breaks my heart.” Valerie Williams, University of Oklahoma

C's and Medical Degrees

“[Train] health care professionals that the nation needs.” Valerie Montgomery Rice, Morehouse School of Medicine

Changing Tenure to Reflect Faculty Contributions

“How do you capture excellence?” Harriet Hopf, University of Utah

Libraries as Innovation Hubs

“Librarians know more people on campus than anyone else.” T. Scott Plutchak, University of Alabama

It’s About Competency, not Seat Time

“Some people learn faster than others.” Paula Termuhlen, Medical College of Wisconsin

Collaboration in Motion

?Give back to the world that has provided for you.? David Grainger, Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry Chair

Diversifying our Medical Schools

“If we don’t have someone who should be at the table, how do we get them a seat?” Eric Sid, University of Washington