Speaking engagements
2025
The ‘Shkreli Awards’ — for dysfunction and profiteering in health care
An Arm and a Leg podcast– January 16, 2025
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2024 Shkreli Awards
The Lown Institute — January 7, 2025
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2024
Health Insurance Anger is Boiling Over
The Boston Globe, Say More podcast — December 18, 2024
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Unnecessary back surgery: Older Americans put at risk while billions in Medicare funds wasted
The Lown Institute — November 14, 2024
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Creating a more just, effective, and affordable healthcare system
LabMind podcast, ARUP Laboratories — August 13, 2024
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America’s Most Socially Responsible Hospitals, 2024
The Lown Institute — June 25, 2024
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The state of medical debt in the U.S.
The Lown Institute — May 14, 2024
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Are hospitals giving back as much as they take
The Lown Institute — March 26, 2024
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2023 Shkreli Awards
The Lown Institute — January 9, 2024
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2023
Unnecessary Stents: How professional inertia endangers patients and wastes billions of dollars
The Lown Institute — October 31, 2023
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Creating Accountability Through Data: From Racism and Neglect to Transparency and Repair
National Health Equity, Grand Rounds — October 10, 2023
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America’s Most Racially Inclusive Hospitals, 2023
The Lown Institute — September 19, 2023
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America’s most socially responsible hospitals, 2023
The Lown Institute — July 18, 2023
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The Social Responsibility of Clinicians
Acceptance speech for the Donabedian Award — May 2023
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Are nonprofit hospitals earning their tax breaks?
The Lown Institute — April 11, 2023
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2022 Shkreli Awards
The Lown Institute — January 10, 2023
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2022
2022 Medicaid Institute
The Center for Community Solutions — October 11, 2022
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Hospital Prices: The Policy and the Practical
32BJ Health Fund 2022 Fall Conference — September 22, 2022
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2022 Most Socially Responsible Hospitals
The Lown Institute — June 28, 2022
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Hospital Overuse During COVID
The Lown Institute — May 17, 2022
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Are nonprofit hospitals earning their tax breaks?
The Lown Institute — April 12, 2022
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Racial inclusivity during COVID
The Lown Institute — March 17, 2022
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Hospital CEO compensation: Why are they paid so much?
The Lown Institute — February 15, 2022
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2021
The Lown Hospital Social Responsibility Index: Measuring what matters to drive meaningful change
Mount Sinai Institute for Critical Care Medicine — December 9, 2021
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Measuring the Social Responsibility of American Hospitals
UPenn Department of Bioethics Seminar — December 7, 2021
Hospital cost efficiency: Dollars and lives at stake
The Lown Institute — November 9, 2021
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The Lown Hospital Index
Cleveland Black Health Coalition — November 8, 2021
The Chalfen Lecture
Cambridge Health Alliance — November 4, 2021
Measuring and Curbing Medical Overuse: Moving from Volume to Value
US News and World Report: Live — November 3, 2021
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2021 Most Socially Responsible Hospitals in America
The Lown Institute — September 21, 2021
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2021 Top Hospitals for Community Benefit
The Lown Institute — July 12, 2021
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Assessment of Overuse of Medical tests and Treatments at US Hospitals
Mass General Brigham Quality and Safety Journal Club — June 16, 2021
2021 Top Hospitals for Racial Inclusivity
The Lown Institute — May 25, 2021
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2021 Top Hospitals for Avoiding Overuse
The Lown Institute — May 4, 2021
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Evaluating Hospitals on Health Value and Equity
Race to Value Podcast — March 22, 2021
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The 2020 Shkreli Awards for the Worst Examples of Profiteering and Dysfunction in Health Care
Relentless Health Value Podcast — February 18, 2021
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The promise of a cooperative hospital sector
The Lown Institute — January 27, 2021
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Measuring Hospital Civic Leadership for Meaningful Change in Health Equity
Temple University School of Medicine– January 13, 2021
Grand Rounds: Evaluating Hospitals as Civic Leaders
Temple University Hospital — January 7, 2021
2020 Shkreli Awards Countdown
The Lown Institute — January 5, 2021
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2020
Racism and hospitals
The Lown Institute — October 21, 2020
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The Right Care Alliance and the Lown Institute Hospitals Index
Frontier Nursing University — October 20, 2020
Measuring What Matters to Drive Meaningful Change
Massachusetts Health Data Consortium — September 30, 2020
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Best Hospitals for America
Open Markets Institute — July 14, 2020
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Physician Advocacy for the Sick, the Poor and Social Justice: Making a Difference
Tufts University Department of Medicine — June 12, 2020
2019
Medical Grand Rounds – Drug Pricing in America: A Case Study of Market Failure
Case Western Reserve University Hospital (Cleveland, OH) – May 14, 2019
2018
Insulin in America: A Case Study in Market Failure
Joslin Diabetes Center (Boston, MA) – October 24, 2018
The ORBITA Study: Evidence Base Prior to the Study, Study Design, Findings, Lingering Questions
Yale University (New Haven, CT) – May 31, 2018
Keynote: Challenges Faced for Right/Ethical Healthcare in a Global Context
Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (New Delhi, India ) – April 2018
Breaking the Cycle of High Cost & Low Value: America’s Next Health System. Welcome, Introductions, and Closing Remarks
Lown Institute (Washington, DC) – April 9-10, 2018
Cardiology Grand Rounds
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (Burlington, MA) – February 15, 2018
2017
The Challenge of Delivering the Right Care
Hospital Compliance Forum. (Sao Paul, Brazil) – November 30, 2017
The Concept of Appropriateness of Care and Its Determinants (panel)
Colloque HAS (La Haute Autorité de Santé) (Paris, France) – November 14, 2017
Restoring Relationships to Transform Healthcare
McGill School of Medicine (Montreal, Canada) – October 12, 2017
Medical Grand Rounds
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) – October 10, 2017
Providing the Right Care: A Systematic Framework
High Value Practice Academic Research Alliance (Baltimore, MD) – October 9, 2017
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (Columbia, Missouri) – October 7, 2017
The Challenge of Defining the Right Care
The Missouri Chapter of the American College of Physicians (Osage Beach, MO) – September 16, 2017
Defining the Right Care Requires a New Science.
Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 (Quebec, Canada) – August 19, 2017
The Fourth International Seminar on Patient Safety and Clinical Excellence.
(Madrid, Spain) – May 11, 2017
The Fourth International Seminar on Patient Safety and Clinical Excellence.
(Madrid, Spain) – May 11, 2017
Beyond the Bottom Line: Defending the Human Connection in Health Care. Welcome, Introductions, and Closing Remarks
Lown Institute Conference (Quincy, MA) – May 5-7, 2017
Focus on Efficiency
Technical Working Group (Washington, DC) – April 20, 2017
A Hundred Year Flood: Rethinking Modern Medicine (Medical Grand Rounds)
Stanford School of Medicine (Stanford, CA) – April 12, 2017
