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Physicians for the Future: What Defines a 'Good' Doctor?

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David Agus

David Agus is a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering and heads USC’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He is one of the world’s leading cancer doctors and the co-founder of two pioneering personalized medicine companies, Navigenics and Applied Proteomics. Agus is an international leader in new technologies and approaches for personalized health care and chairs the Global Agenda Council on Genetics for the World Economic Forum. He has received numerous awards, including the 2009 Geoffrey Beene Foundation’s Rockstar of Science Award. Agus’s first book, The End of Illness, was published in January and is a New York Times best-seller.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Ezekiel Emanuel is vice provost for global initiatives and chair of the Medical Ethics and Health Policy Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the Office of Management and Budget in the White House and is the former chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. He has written or edited nine books and over 200 scientific articles and is a columnist for The New York Times.

Gail Morrison

Gail Morrison is professor of medicine, senior vice dean for education, and director of the Office of Academic Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. For 20 years, Morrison has been actively involved in directing educational programs in the department of medicine, the School of Medicine and nationally, in the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine organization. From 1986 to 1995, she served as the associate chairman of the Department of Medicine for medical student education, and from 1991 to 1995 she held the post of associate dean for clinical curriculum from in the School of Medicine.

James O. Woolliscroft

James O. Woolliscroft is dean of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. In 2001, he received an endowed professorship, the Lyle C. Roll professor of medicine and medical education, for his work in enhancing the practice of medicine through education. Woolliscroft's research in medical education has resulted in numerous publications, presentations, and visiting professorships across the US and internationally. Woolliscroft is the recipient of many awards including the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Educational Affairsâ€™ Merrel Flair Award, in 2008; the Society for General Internal Medicine Career Achievement in Medical Education Award, in 2004; and in 1996, Woolliscroft was named the first Josiah Macy, Jr. Professor of Medical Education, an endowed professorship awarded through a national competition

Gail Morrison: Changing the Medical Education Model

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Dr. Gail Morrison, Senior Vice Dean for Education and Director of the Office of Academic Programs at Perelman of Pennsylvania, examines how the traditional medical school model has changed to adapt to cultural and technological advances in the field. "It was clear to us that the concept of sitting people in lecture halls from morning to night was just not the way people learned anymore," she says.
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