George Lundberg, MD, Chief Medical Officer of CollabRx

CollabRx: Applied Oncogenomics for Doctors & Patients

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CollabRx: Applied Oncogenomics for Doctors & Patients

The field of precision medicine is booming. There’s hype, there’s hope, a little bit of both, but very vibrant science.”
—George D. Lundberg, MD

Atul Gawande

Fourth Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture

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Announcing the 2014 Lundberg Institute Lecture: “The Checklist Manifesto and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” on Wednesday, October 22 at 12:30 PM PST.

Speaker:
Atul Gawande MD, Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School and at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Location:
CMWC at 575 Market St in San Francisco. Tickets are available at www.commonwealthclub.org . Advance purchase is strongly recommended.

peter lee

Third Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture

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Announcing the 2013 Lundberg Institute Lecture: “Covered California” on Thursday, November 14 at 6:00 PM PST.

Speaker:
Peter V Lee JD, the Executive Director of “Covered California”
Speaker Details:
Covered California – Affordable, High Quality Health Care Is On Its Way! Covered California is bringing affordable, high quality health insurance to 5.3 million Californians. Executive Director Peter V. Lee shares an overview of how Covered California will provide statewide outreach and education, smooth enrollment via online and in-persons pathways, and health plans from known and trusted health insurance companies. Open enrollment starts October 1, 2013 with coverage taking effect January 1, 2014. The Affordable Care Act and will be a historic change to the American health care fabric, and Peter V. Lee is proud that Covered California will help lead the way.

Prepareforyourcare.org

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Prepareforyourcare.org

Prepareforyourcare.org helps patients with advance care planning; Content focuses on defining values, communication.

donald-berwick

Second Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture

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Announcing The Second Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture: “A Bright Future for Health Care: Is It Possible?” on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 6:00 PM PST.

Speaker:
Donald Berwick, MD, Former President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Speaker Details:
The second annual Lundberg Institute Lecture welcomes Dr. Berwick, who studies the management of health care systems with emphasis on using scientific methods and evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness research to improve the tradeoff among quality, safety and costs. In the ongoing difficult transition to the Obama health plan, Dr. Berwick’s analysis of these issues has been resisted by Republican lawmakers. So has his forthright conclusion that “Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.” Also hear Dr. Berwick’s ideas on whether government rationing of health care is to be feared or embraced. MLF(s)