The Inaugural lecture of The Lundberg Institute Lectureship will be given by Elliott S Fisher, MD, MPH at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco at 600 PM on Tuesday, October 25, 2011. The topic will be: Achieving A Sustainable Health Care System: What Might We Do? Dr Fisher received his BA and MD from Harvard […]
Announcing The Second Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture: “A Bright Future for Health Care: Is It Possible?” on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 6:00 PM PST. Speaker: Donald Berwick, MD, Former President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Speaker Details: The second annual Lundberg Institute Lecture welcomes Dr. […]
Announcing the 2013 Lundberg Institute Lecture: “Covered California” on Thursday, November 14 at 6:00 PM PST. Speaker: Peter V Lee JD, the Executive Director of “Covered California” Speaker Details: Covered California – Affordable, High Quality Health Care Is On Its Way! Covered California is bringing affordable, high quality health insurance to 5.3 million Californians. Executive […]
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 […]