SFI Medical Short Course 2016 - Faculty 2016
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Short Course Faculty:
John Arden, Panel, John joined Kaiser Permanente in 1990 after working within the community mental health system for the prior 15 years. During that period, he worked with Native Americans and Latinos in the Southwest, and African-Americans and Asians in San Francisco. While in the Southwest, he wrote a bill for a state legislature in 1980 to provide deinstitutionalized treatment within the mental health system. Later I directed day treatment programs in Napa County and then served as a psychologist in Solano County.
David Brailer, Modern Healthcare, CEO of Health Evolution Partners
Timothy G. Buchman, Panel, Santa Fe Institute External Faculty, Ph.D., M.D.; Founding Director, Emory Center for Critical Care, and Professor of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, and Emory Center for Critical Care
Christine K. Cassel, Panel, MD, President and former CEO of the National Quality Forum, is a leading expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and quality of care. Cassel has just joined the leadership team designing the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in Southern California
Joshua Epstein, Modeling Health - Santa Fe Institute External Faculty; Professor of Emergency Medicine; Joint appointments: Departments of Economics, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health at Johns Hopkins University; Director, Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences (CAM) at Johns Hopkins.
Joe Flower, With over 30 years’ experience, Joe Flower has emerged as a premier observer and thought leader on the deep forces changing healthcare in the United States and around the world. As a healthcare speaker, writer, and consultant, he has explored the future of healthcare nationally and internationally, with clients ranging from the World Health Organization, the Global Business Network, and the U.K. National Health Service, to the majority of state hospital associations in the U.S. as well as many of the provincial associations and ministries in Canada, and an extraordinary variety of other players across healthcare – professional associations, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, health plans, physician groups, and numerous hospitals.
Ross Hammond, Obesity and a complex systems approach to solutions - Santa Fe Institute External Faculty; Senior fellow in Economic Studies and director of the Center on Social Dynamics and Policy, Brookings Institution
Greg LaGana, Medical Comedian, Greg LaGana completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Harlem Hospital and is board certified in internal medicine. He has worked as a field director for a pediatric nutrition program in Jamaica, a medical educator, an occupational physician for three pharmaceutical corporations, and director of emergency services for both inner-city and suburban community hospitals. He has designed, directed, and owned urgent-care centers. LaGana also co-founded Pegasus Consulting Associates, a strategic management consulting firm, and ARK Technologies, an entrepreneurial think tank exploring the impact of computer and telecommunication technologies on health care. LaGana’s passion for performing began as an amateur magician in grammar school. He has performed in numerous musical comedies in amateur theaters and played the lead roles in Henry IV, Part I, and A Man for All Seasons. He has also played piano and electric keyboards with the BassBoards, a rock and blues band that he co-founded.
Christopher A. Longhurst,Learning the Healthcare System, As chief information officer (CIO) for UC San Diego Health, Christopher Longhurst MD, MS, oversees all operations and strategic planning for information and communications technology. He is also responsible for planning and developing all administrative and clinical information systems related to operating UC San Diego Health hospital and clinical facilities. Dr. Longhurst leads the creation and execution of a comprehensive information strategy to meet future needs of UC San Diego Health along with creating standards, architectures and policies for information technologies across UC San Diego and the UC system. His area of responsibility includes electronic health records and the MyUCSDChart system. UC San Diego Health has reached Stage 7 of electronic medical record (EMR) adoption, a ranking devised by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). This distinction is achieved by less than five percent of U.S. hospitals. UC San Diego Health is consistently recognized nationally as being among the top 100 most wired hospitals by the American Hospital Association’s publication, Hospitals & Health Networks. In addition, UC San Diego Health is recognized as among the top 25 most wireless hospitals, leveraging wireless technology to improve the efficiency of the care process. Dr. Longhurst is also a key faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Informatics in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He most recently served as chief medical information officer for Stanford Children’s Health, where he led strategic efforts to improve children’s health and provider workflow using information technology. He also founded and led the clinical informatics fellowship at Stanford, where he was a clinical professor of pediatrics. Dr. Longhurst completed his residency at Stanford Medical School and earned his medical degree and MS in medical informatics from UC Davis. He holds a BS in molecular biology from UC San Diego. He is a board-certified pediatrician and clinical informaticist. The author and co-author of many publications on using technology and data to improve patient care and outcomes, Dr. Longhurst was elected a fellow in the prestigious American College of Medical Informatics.
Pilar Ossorio, Machine Learning in Medicine, Dr. Ossorio is Professor of Law and Bioethics where she is on the faculties of the Law School and the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the Medical School. In 2011 she became the inaugural Ethics Scholar-in-Residence at the Morgridge Institute for Research, the private, nonprofit research institute that is part of the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery. She also serves as the co-director of UW's Law and Neuroscience Program, as a faculty member in the UW Masters in Biotechnology Studies program, and as Program Faculty in the Graduate Program in Population Health. Prior to taking her position at UW, she was Director of the Genetics Section of the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association, and taught as adjunct faculty at the University of Chicago Law School.
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