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.
Join us for the 13th annual Lundberg Institute Lecture to discuss the advances Artificial Intelligence is making in health care with Bob Matthews of MediSync. AI’s advances into various healthcare fields have recently burst into public consciousness — generating excitement, concern, and confusion among lay and professional observers. AI has already been relied upon in […]
Join us for the 13th annual Lundberg Institute Lecture to discuss the advances Artificial Intelligence is making in health care with Bob Matthews of MediSync. AI’s advances into various healthcare fields have recently burst into public consciousness — generating excitement, concern, and confusion among lay and professional observers. AI has already been relied upon in […]
AI in Healthcare: Will the Reality Match the Hype? Tickets available now! The 14th annual Lundberg Institute Lecture features Robert Wachter of UCSF and his predictions about what advances artificial intelligence will make, and will not make, in health care. Why has health care not undergone the kind of digital transformation that has completely remade […]
The Lundberg Institute marks the 15th anniversary of the California nonprofit Cancer Commons by dedicating its 15th annual lecture at Commonwealth Club World Affairs to a discussion of the unique approach Cancer Commons takes to helping cancer patients. Since its founding, Cancer Commons has delivered personalized, evidence-based guidance at no charge to more than 10,000 […]
MON, MAR 9 / 5:30 PM PDT The Commonwealth Club of California Taube Family Auditorium 110 The Embarcadero San Francisco, CA 94105 Sometimes, because of the current political pushback, one can get the false impression that the academic attention that has recently been paid to increasing a university’s diversity, equity and inclusion profile is a […]