Lecture: "How can truly compassionate care exist if we are harming all those patients? (And what we can do about it)"

Paul F. Levy – author, speaker, and corporate advisor served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston from January 2002 to January 2011. BIDMC is one of the world’s preeminent academic health centers, providing state-of-the-art clinical care, research, and teaching in affiliation with Harvard Medical School. Before that position, he was the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Medical School, where he was responsible for administrative, budgetary, and facility issues, as well as community and governmental relations.

He is the author of the widely read blog, “Not Running a Hospital,” created seven years ago when he was one of very few hospital CEOs to share thoughts publicly about hospitals, medicine, and health care.