Surgeon, writer, and public health leader Dr. Atul Gawande sat down for a conversation with HDS Dean David N. Hempton on Sept. 6, 2018, as part of the 99th Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality during HDS's 203rd Convocation ceremony in September.
Gawande, MD, MPH, is CEO of the non-profit-seeking health care venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to deliver better outcomes, satisfaction, and cost efficiency in care. He is author of the bestselling book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Samuel O. Thier Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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