Daniel C. Tosteson Lecture Series
The Daniel C. Tosteson Lecture Series is a joint venture between the students and faculty of Harvard Medical School. It was created in 1997. This lecture series creates a formal, extracurricular structure for medical students to learn about the context in which they, as physicians, will practice.
The Tosteson Series is based on the premise that understanding the structure of the health care system will allow physicians to assume a more active role in its evolution. Through discussions with patients and participation in community service projects, students glimpse the health care system through the eyes of patients. Students gain the necessary knowledge and skills to help shape the health care system at every level, from local hospitals to national and international policy.
In addition to lectures, the Tosteson Series also provides opportunities to volunteer in local community service projects related to the improvement of health. Participants in this series can thereby work to preserve and improve both the quality of and access to care, and become better advocates for their patients. This lecture series also serves as a vehicle for interested students to find mentors and engage in research activities aimed at analyzing and reforming the health care system to better serve the needs of patients.
Each year between eight and 12 interactive, noncredit seminars are held; approximately 100 to 125 first- and second-year students attend. The topics continue to be broad and of interest to all medical students, including those without any background in health policy.
- 2007-2008 Speakers -
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 12:30-1:30 p.m. ** RESCHEDULED **
Speaker: Stephen A. Somers, PhD
President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. (CHCS); Visiting Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Topic: Medicaid: Its Once and Future Place in American Health Care
Location: Tosteson Medical Education Center, Room 227
Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Don Berwick, MD, MPP
Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Location: TMEC 250
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Doors open at 4:45 p.m.; talk begins promptly at 5:00
Speaker: David Cutler, PhD
Health Care Economist, Former Adviser to the Clinton Health Plan, Senior Health Policy Adviser to Senator Barack Obama
Topic: "Presidential Candidates and Health Care Reform: What You Need to Know"
Location: Carl W. Walter Amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston
RSVP required. Contact Vivek Murthy. Cosponsored by HCP and ImproveHealthCare.org.
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2007 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor
Topic: "Value-Based Health Care Policy"
Location: Armenise Amphitheater, Harvard Medical School, 210 Longwood Avenue, Boston
For more information, contact Lindsay Craw in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Speakers: Stuart Altman, PhD
Professor of Health Policy, Dean Heller Graduate School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
and
David Blumenthal, PhD
Director, Institute for Health Policy; Professor of Medicine, MGH; Professor of Health Care Policy, HMS
Location: Carl W. Walter Amphitheater
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Drew Altman, PhD, President and CEO, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Topic: TBA
Location: TMEC 227
For more information, contact Lindsay Craw in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2007 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Paul Levy, President and CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Topic: TBA
Location: TMEC 209
For more information, contact Lindsay Craw in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
Date: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Marcia Angell, MD, Senior Lecturer on Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Topic: TBA
Location: TMEC 109
For more information, contact Lindsay Craw in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
Date: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Jacqueline Sherris, PhD, Vice President, Global Programs PATH
Topic: TBA
Location: TMEC--Room TBA
For more information, contact Lindsay Craw in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
- 2006-2007 Speakers -
Date: April 26, 2007
Speaker: James J. Mongan, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Partners HealthCare
Date: April 5, 2007
Speaker: Ellen Zane
President and Chief Executive Officer, Tufts-New England Medical Center and Floating Hospital for Children
Date: April 3, 2007
Speaker: Atul Gawande, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
Date: March 15, 2007
Speaker: Karen Davis
President, Commonwealth Fund
Date: January 16, 2007, 12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Francois de Brantes, MBA
National Coordinator, Bridges to Excellence
"Pay for Performance and Beyond: Bridges to Excellence and Prometheus"
Location: Cannon Room, Building C, HMS Quad
Date: October 5, 2006
Speaker: Cleve Killingsworth, MBA
President and CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)
Date: September 28, 2006
Speaker: Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and of Community and Family Medicine, Codirector VA Outcomes Group, Dartmouth Medical School
- 2005-2006 -
"What to Do About the Uninsured?"
Jonathan Gruber, PhD
Professor of Economics, MIT
"Money and Medicine"
David Cutler, PhD
Dean of Social Sciences, Professor of Economics, Harvard
"The Threat of Avian Influenza and Other Emerging Infectious
Diseases: The Research Agenda"
Anthony Fauci, MD
Director, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease
"Value-Based Purchasing (Pay for Performance): An Emerging Trend in Health Care"
John W. Rowe, MD
CEO, Aetna
"Saving Lives and Saving Money NOW"
Newt Gingrich
Past Speaker, US House of Representatives
Founder, Center for Health Transformation
"Improving Healthcare: The Employer’s View"
Robert Galvin, MD
Director, Global Health, General Electric; The Leapfrog Group
"The Authors Present: The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take To Get Out"
Julius Richmond, MD,Professor of Health Policy Emeritus, Harvard University
Rashi Fein PhD, Professor of Medical Economics, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
For questions, contact: Vinod Nambudiri.
Faculty Sponsor: Barbara McNeil, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.
- 2004-2005 -
"Health Care in the 2004 Election"
Robert Blendon, ScD
"Asthma in Families’ Lives: A Primary Care Pediatric Perspective"
Megan Sandel, MD
"Health Care for All"
John McDonough, DrPH, MPA
"A Discussion on the Teri Schiavo Case"
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH
"By Means of Water"
Charlie Clements, MD, MPH
- 2003-2004 -
Coordinators: Stephanie Krejcarek, Ara Pani, Phil Skelding, and Ben Sommers
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“Challenges in Health Policy”
Michael Dukakis
Former Governor of Massachusetts
LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS
“Health Care in the 2004 Election”
Robert Blendon, ScD
Harvard School of Public Health
“Health Care Lessons From Abroad: International Doctors Compare Experiences”
Niteesh Choudhry, MD,Brigham & Women’s Hospital - Canada
Ciaran Kelly, MD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Ireland
Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital - Germany
“How Not To Get Sued: A Look Inside Medical Malpractice”
Thomas Gutheil, MD
HMS Professor of Psychiatry
“Current State Health Policy Issues: Q&A With a Legislator”
Mark Montigny
State Senator of Masschusetts
“Drugs, Docs, and Detailing: What shapes doctors’ prescribing practices, and what can be done about it?”
Jerry Avorn, MD
Chief of Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
“The Health Impacts of Globalization”
Jeff Sachs, PhD
Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
“Private Guns, Public Health”
David Hemenway, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health
“An Overview of the American Health Care System”
Katherine Swartz, PhD
Harvard School of Public Health
- 2002-2003 -
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
David Satcher, MD, PhD
Former US Surgeon General
FOUNDATION LECTURES
“National Health Insurance: Past, Present, Future”
Rashi Fein, PhD,
HMS Professor of Economics of Medicine
“Politics of Health Care Reform: The Clinton Plan and Beyond”
Colleen Barry, PhD
HMS Department of Health Care Policy
SPECIAL TOPICS LECTURES
“FDA Regulation of Biotechnology and Its Impact on the Practice of Medicine”
Peter Barton Hutt
Former FDA Chief Counsel, Lecturer, Harvard Law School
“Boutique Care—For and Against: A Two-Part Series”
Steven Flier, MD, Cofounder Personal Physicians Health Care
Martin Solomon, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Medical Error and Malpractice Litigation”
Troy Brennan, MD, JD, MPH
HMS Professor of Medicine
“The Physician Manager: Challenges of Leading an Academic Health Center”
Peter Slavin, MD, MBA
President, Massachusetts General Hospital
“The Evolution of Health Insurance in America”
Harris Berman, MD
CEO, Tufts Health Plan
