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Dr. Christine Cassel, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum

Dr. Christine Cassel, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Christine Cassel, President and CEO of the National Quality Forum a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving health and health care through developing better health quality measures and data-sharing.Dr. Cassel will be leaving her post to lead the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, which is based on Kaiser’s integrated, high-quality model of care.  

Kevin Robert Frost, CEO of amfAR

Kevin Robert Frost, CEO of amfAR

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kevin Robert Frost, CEO of amfAR, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting research on a cure for HIV/AIDS. Mr. Frost discusses the organization’s 30 year quest to confront the AIDS epidemic, as well as their support for promising research that has paved the way for the treatments and protocols currently in use today which are helping contain HIV/AIDS in the US and around the globe.

Dr. Robert Wachter, Author of the “The Digital Doctor”

Dr. Robert Wachter, Author of the “The Digital Doctor”

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Wachter, Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at U.C. San Francisco. He is considered the founder of the “hospitalist” movement and is author of The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age which examines the challenges being experienced in the rapid transition to digital medicine.

Stuart Altman, Ph.D, Heller School of Public Policy, Brandeis University

Stuart Altman, Ph.D, Heller School of Public Policy, Brandeis University

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Stuart Altman, PhD, Sol C. Chaikin Professor of National Health Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Dr. Altman is an expert on universal health coverage and discusses his recent work as Chair of the IOM Committee assessing progress on recommendations made in the 2010 Institute of Medicine Report on The Future of Nursing, which advocates for a stronger role for nurses in the…

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Dr. Neel Shah, Founder of Costs of Care

Dr. Neel Shah, Founder of Costs of Care

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Neel Shah, Asst. Professor of Obstetrics and Gynocology at Harvard Medical School and Founder of Costs of Care, a global NGO dedicated to helping delivery systems provide better care at lower costs. He’s also the co-author of “Understanding Value Based Care” which seeks to promote cost awareness in the medical profession.

Chris Trimble, Author of How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time

Chris Trimble, Author of How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Chris Trimble, organizational innovation expert from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of How Physicians Can Fix Health Care: One Innovation at a Time. Mr. Trimble addresses the need for innovation strategies that must be deployed in this era of rapid transformation within the health care industry.