Stated Meeting, Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
What
is Missing in Medical Thinking?
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Jerome E. Groopman (audio 30 min.)
holds the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School
and is Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
He has served on the Advisory Council to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
for AIDS-related matters, as Consultant for the Center for Biological Evaluation
and Research at the FDA, and as a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Senior
Biomedical Service Credentials Committee. He also was Chairman of the Advisory Committee
to the FDA for Biological Response Modifiers, and was an original member of the
Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Committee on AIDS. He serves
on many scientific editorial boards and has published more than 150 scientific articles.
Groopman has authored several editorials on policy issues in The New Republic,
The Washington Post, and The New York Times. His first popular book,
The Measure of Our Days, explores the spiritual lives of patients with serious
illness, and the opportunities for fulfillment they sometimes find. It was serialized
in The New Yorker and in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. In 1998,
he became a staff writer in medicine and biology at The New Yorker. His other
books include Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing
World of Medicine and Anatomy of Hope. His most recent book, How Doctors
Think, explores how physicians arrive at the correct diagnosis and treatment,
and why they may not. In 2000, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine and in
2007; he was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected a Fellow
of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2008.
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