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On Monday, Dr. Wen spoke at the Sixth Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture, “Public Health and Physician Activism: Lessons from Baltimore,” in San Francisco, California. The Lundberg Institute is a non-profit dedicated to creating a better patient-physician relationship by providing resources to promote evidence-informed health care that focus on patient centeredness. The Lundberg Institute intends for physicians to improve their skills in listening, oral and written communications, information technology, shared decision-making, and transparency in order to patients to receive the best care.
The lecture was moderated by George Lundberg, MD, founder of The Lundberg Institute, a Consulting Professor at Stanford University, and Editor-at-Large of Medscape. Dr. Lundberg is an army veteran who has 27 years combined experience as Editor in Chief of JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association), 10 AMA specialty journals, AMA News, Medscape, The Medscape Journal and e-Medicine from Web MD. A 1995 “pioneer” of the medical internet, Dr. Lundberg was later called “Online Health Care’s Medicine man” by the Industry Standard in 2000.
Previous speakers from the Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture series include:
At the lecture, Dr. Wen spoke about her experience as an emergency room physician and the importance public health. She shared successes in Baltimore, such as:
Listen to Dr. Wen’s full lecture online.