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| Lecture Atul Gawande, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
May 3, 2006 at 5:00 pm Arthur M. Sackler Museum Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Atul Gwande, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health; Brigham and Women’s Hospital
A surgeon and writer, Atul Gawande is on the staff of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He received his B.A.S. from Stanford University, M.A. from Oxford University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health.
He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1993. In 2003, he completed his surgical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and joined the faculty as a general and endocrine surgeon. He is also Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has published influential research studies in areas ranging from surgical technique to US military care for the wounded to error and performance in medicine. He is perhaps best known, however, as a writer and speaker. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine since 1998. His bestselling book Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002 and is published in more than a hundred countries.