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 […]

Patient Safety: Get the Diagnosis Right The fifth annual Lundberg Institute Lecture welcomes three panelists from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Modern medical science accepts the obvious fact that no one can know absolute medical truth. It is understood that diagnoses act as shortcuts intended to quickly convey […]

"Public Health and Physician Activism: Lessons from Baltimore" The sixth annual Lundberg Institute Lecture welcomes Leana Wen, MD, Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City, as the 6th annual Lundberg Lecturer. Speaker Educated at Cal State, LA (Summa Cum Laude at age 18) Wash U, Merton College, Oxford, and Harvard MS, Dr. Wen is an Emergency Physician, a […]

"Deconstructing America's High Priced Healthcare" The seventh annual Lundberg Institute Lecture welcomes Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, author of "An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back." Speaker Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, is the author of the 2017 New York Times bestseller, “An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You […]

The eighth annual Lundberg Institute Lecture welcomes best-selling author Gary Taubes, Author of best selling books Good Calories; Bad Calories (2007) and  Why We Get Fat(2010) brings the audience up to date from his best selling 2016 The Case Against Sugar. Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes studied applied physics at Harvard University (BS, 1977) and aerospace engineering at Stanford University (MS, 1978). After receiving a master's degree […]

Normalizing High-Quality Health Care: Looking Back; Moving Forward The annual Lundberg Institute Lecture welcomes Kenneth W Kizer, MD, MPH, Chief Healthcare Transformation Officer and Senior Executive Vice President at Atlas Research, Inc., based in Washington, DC as the 9th annual Lundberg Lecturer. Speaker Dr Kizer is a graduate of both Stanford and UCLA. He is […]

Time Zone: UTC-8 | US 6:00 PM PDT Registration ends 1 hour before program starts.   Join us for a virtual medical panel discussion about whether the COVID-19 crisis will end up trimming some of the waste out of America's health-care system or changing it more fundamentally. For this 10th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture, previous TLI […]

Speakers Dr. Leana Wen M.D., Emergency Physician; Visiting Prof. of Health Policy & Mgmt., Milken School of Public Health, George Washington U.; Fmr. Commissioner of Health, Baltimore City; TED MED Speaker; Author, Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health Dr. George Lundberg M.D., Editor in Chief, Cancer Commons; Editor at Large, Medscape; […]

Fake news? Alternative facts? Overly hyped "breakthroughs"? Irreproducible scientific research results? Preprints? Gaslighting the medical literature? What to do?

Finding and trusting the best published primary medical literature is the answer. Our speakers for the 12th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture at The Commonwealth Club, JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo and BMJ Editor in Chief Kamran Abbasi, are among the premier guardians of that literature. Hear their advice, and then ask them your own questions about whom and what to trust—especially now when deciding which medical information is trustworthy has become so crucial and so confusing.