Osher at Dartmouth's Summer Lecture Series: The New Medical Frontier

The new frontier for the global healthcare industry is upon us. It is both exciting and daunting. It is exciting because new forms of healthcare delivery are emerging, from walk-in retail clinics to wearable monitoring devices and implants. New, less invasive surgical procedures are being developed, many available to patients in an outpatient setting and with far less side effects. Breathtaking new technologies - bioengineering, digital, 3D, and genetics - are converging to accelerate these advancements. It is daunting because there are still large underserved populations who desperately need free medical care - in the U.S. and throughout the world. And government reimbursement models are unpredictable. This lecture will focus on these macro developments.

Rodney F. Hochman, M.D. • President & CEO, Providence Health & Services, Seattle
Dr. Hochman serves as president and CEO of Providence Health & Services, the nation’s fourth largest not-for-profit health system with 34 hospitals, 64,000 employees, and 3,000 physicians across five states. Providence was founded 160 years ago by the Sisters of Providence and continues to serve communities across the Western United States. Rod is leading Providence in transforming health care for the future through digital innovation, population health, specialty institutes, clinical quality and outreach to the poor and vulnerable. He was named the 2015 Innovator of the Year by Press Ganey. He was also selected by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2014 and 2015, and has been named multiple times as one of Modern Healthcare’s 50 Most Influential Physician Executives. He served as a clinical fellow in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School. In addition, Rod is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

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