Events

Will the U.S. healthcare system achieve a technological breakthrough, or will another promising tool die on the vine due to medicine’s illogical financial model? That was the question I set out [...]

A year ago, I published my latest book, ChatGPT, MD: How AI-Empowered Patients & Doctors Can Take Back Control of American Medicine. Since then, I’ve witnessed a growing acceptance of [...]

Imagine a healthcare system where patients receive world-class medical expertise without stepping into a doctor’s office or even talking with a clinician. Where chronic diseases are monitored [...]

At the 2024 NCQA Health Innovation Summit in Nashville this week, I had the pleasure of joining the organization’s founder and president, Peggy O’Kane, for a fireside chat titled, “Not If But [...]

American healthcare has become a “conglomerate of monopolies,” where a few players control the board and newcomers struggle to find space. This week, at HLTH 2024 in Las Vegas, more than 12,000 [...]

This week, I had the honor of delivering the opening plenary at the NAACOS 2024 fall conference in Washington, D.C., where over 1,000 leaders from across the country gathered to discuss the [...]

Yesterday, I had the privilege of addressing AHIP’s 2024 Consumer Experience & Digital Health Forum in Nashville, where more than 500 healthcare leaders, policymakers and innovators gathered [...]

Today, I had the privilege of speaking at the Charmalot Conference in Washington, D.C., where I addressed an audience of forward-thinking entrepreneurs and clinicians. My keynote, “How AI Can [...]

Clinician burnout is a growing crisis. In the United States, the most commonly proposed solutions—such as eliminating prior authorization requirements or reducing patient volumes—have not [...]

At the ATA Nexus 2024 conference this week in Phoenix, I had the privilege of moderating a panel called “Catalyzing Change: Breaking Down Barriers to Spark Innovation in Healthcare.” The panel [...]

I recently had the privilege of participating in a panel discussion at Stanford University, organized by the Center for Social Innovation. With an audience of faculty and students from the [...]

I had the privilege to present the keynote address at the Syrian American Medical Society’s 7th National Symposium in Orlando on February 17. Founded in 2007, SAMS is a global medical relief [...]

The InnovatorMD Global Summit 2024, January 11-13, is the largest physician innovation event in the country with a prestigious line-up of speakers, including colleagues like Amanda Goltz from AWS [...]

Whether we recognize it or not, all doctors adhere to a set of unwritten, unspoken rules that dictate the “right way” to act and heavily influence our behavior. These rules aren’t taught in [...]

The theme of this year’s virtual Lifestyle Medicine Summit is “Evidence-Based Chronic Disease Solutions That Work.” The 10-day annual event, hosted by the passionate and dedicated Johannes R. [...]

At the Children’s National Hospital Grand Rounds in Washington, D.C., I had the opportunity to deliver the Annual Holbrook Lecture. There, I embarked on a journey through time, tracing the [...]

Founded a century ago in 1922, PEN America (the abbreviation short for “Poets, Essayists and Novelists”) champions the freedom to write, and the power of writing to change minds—and even the [...]

Thirteen years have passed since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, our nation’s last significant piece of healthcare legislation. Though the landmark law helped reduce the number of [...]

U.S. healthcare costs are rising rapidly while American life expectancy has remained stagnant for two decades. Businesses are facing greater economic pressures and looking for ways to flatten the [...]

This past weekend, I had the privilege of keynoting the annual meeting of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) in Dallas. Established in 1991, the AAHKS is the leading [...]