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Lourdes Long
Human energy is renewable energy. My energy doesn't come from pipelines or wires. My energy comes from tackling intellectual and personal challenges. I once told my father I had to stop studying medicine because, "I wanted to do something important with my...
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- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
surgical procedures. In-process analyses that allow rapid feedback to the surgeon based on surrogate markers may provide a powerful method for quality improvement. Methods: The authors reviewed performance data from all bilateral...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
instruments and implants have revolutionized the way surgeons treat the traumas that can afflict the human skeleton. While successfully navigating the complexities of this highly competitive industry, Wyss, a lifelong hiker, has...
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- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
says. "It was only because I was trained as an ophthalmologist that I saw the potential there." Eye surgeons had been correcting vision by reshaping the cornea for some time when Summit came along, but the accuracy of the computer-aided...
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- 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015
at the Narayana Health City Cardiac Hospital (NH) in India. The case discusses the factors driving the adoption of task shifting at NH and identifies the implications of task shifting for surgeon training, surgical capacity, and procedure...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
The key finding is that improving hospital management practices is a highly effective way to increase quality and efficiency of care. Management improvements can come as relatively small innovations, like the “checklist system” popularized by Atul Gawande, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
hospital with a staff of forty) grows and demands a more sophisticated understanding of finance and managerial issues. “All of the things I turned away from to become skilled as a surgeon are becoming more important,” he observes. “As the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
students, and in the outside world as well. Said Gergen, “Let’s encourage an intergenerational dialogue about the world.” For its part, he noted, the older generation is ready and eager “to move from success to significance.” Fellow Dr. Donald Arthur, former View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
have serious ailments unnoticed during primary care exams. White learned the lesson early on. As a young medical student in Memphis, he watched a black woman being operated on for uterine cancer, a procedure botched by the white surgeon...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
afterwards,” she says, “that sacrificing personal ambition and achievement for the good of the group is something leaders must be prepared to do.” Ehrenberg met her husband, John Wong, a surgeon of Chinese-Australian heritage, in Hong...
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Zihan Lin
at ways we can lower the price point to increase market share. I'll be interfacing with surgeons to find out which features are unnecessary — what can we de-engineer to lower costs?" Ultimately, Zi is determined to launch his own...
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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Canada’s public healthcare system. Kessel cofounded the Center for Partnership Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, while Dr. Sivjee, a respirologist, is a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of...
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- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
Teaming: An Approach to the Growing Complexities in Health Care: AOA Critical Issues By: Nwaz, H., A. Edmondson, T.H. Tzeng, J.K. Saleh, K.J. Bozic, and K.J. Saleh Abstract—Confronted with rising costs and patients who often have multiple comorbidities, the orthopaedic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
the United States. In the absence of having to be on alert for treating infectious diseases, American hospitals have let their guard down and their skills lapse. Partisan politics has exacerbated the problem by leaving the nation in the lurch without a View Details
- 19 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Making a Broader Impact with Multiple Disciplines
fair project in which I used LEGOs to build an intelligently actuated tool for precision brain biopsy. My inspiration came from cutting-edge research conducted at Johns Hopkins University, where surgeons used tele-operated robotic...
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- 21 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion
evaluating hearing healthcare investments. For example, I recently advised a company developing gene therapies for hearing loss. For the engagement, we delivered strategic recommendations for clinical trial design based on a synthesized analysis of the market needs,...
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- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
hernia surgeons in my area by going online and reading patient reviews, rather than just relying on a referral from my primary care physician, no matter how much I trust him or her. Hopefully, the operation goes well and I recover...
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- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
particular ailment. A patient would visit a primary care physician in one location, an outpatient specialist in another, an imaging center in another, a blood lab in another, a surgeon in another, and so on. "The patient was a ping pong...
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- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
deeply and think imaginatively. Most managers don't want to devote this much time to thinking. But they would never go to a surgeon who approaches his job the way they approach theirs, nor would they send their children to a school that...
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