Special guests include Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering and Colette Patt ’85, Ph.D. ’95, Assistant Dean for DEIBJ, UC Berkeley College of Computing.
Dr. John Saroyan has been appointed as the executive director of the Vermont Blueprint for Health’s Patient Centered Medical Homes, a health care reform initiative promoting the integration of high-quality primary care with human services that impact health and well-being.
Class Secretary: Elizabeth (Zamora) Villegas, francophile@alum.calberkeley.org
From the beginning, it was an ambitious idea. Computer automation would remove the taint of human emotion or prejudice from everyday life. Algorithms—the series of instructions that tell computers what to do—would make important decisions about everything from hiring to health care. The reality, as Ziad Obermeyer discovered, is not quite that simple. The associate […]
A new Congress wants health care reform. But for lower-cost, higher-quality care, Americans first must shed the myth of the one-shot solution. Four years ago, a 55-year-old catholic priest named Father John Corapi set off an FBI investigation that brought down Redding Medical Center’s chief cardiologist and cost Tenet Healthcare, the hospital’s corporate parent, hundreds of […]
Sometimes the public health field is a victim of its own success. In the Spring of 2001, several leading public health associations launched an ambitious effort to raise the profile of their field. Creating the Public Health Brand Identity Coalition–which I think we can all agree is not the sexiest name for an initiative to promote […]
