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NEJM Interviews
Insightful conversations with leading experts in the field of health care, medical research, policy, and more from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Each episode examines the many complexities found at the junction of medicine and society.
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NEJM Interview: Drs. Ezekiel Emanuel and David Asch on the ethics and implications of employer policies of refusing to hire smokers.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. John McDonough on the effects of the sequester and Congress's 2014 budget proposals on the U.S. health care sector.
Dr. John McDonough is a Professor of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael VanRooyen on threats to international public health work and the importance of medical neutrality.
Dr. Michael VanRooyen is the Director of the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham and…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Eric Stecker on Oregon's experiment with accountable care organizations for Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries.
Dr. Eric Stecker is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Ronald Bayer on the new recommendation for routine HIV screening of U.S. adults and adolescents.
Dr. Ronald Bayer is a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Martin Frank and Prof. Michael Carroll on traditional and open-access scientific publishing.
Dr. Martin Frank is the Executive Director of the American Physiological Society. Prof. Michael Carroll is a Professor of Law and Director of the Program on…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Lewis Markoff on yellow fever in Sudan as well as treatment and prevention.
Dr. Lewis Markoff is the chief of the Laboratory of Vector-borne Virus Diseases at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Ronald Waldman on cholera and the need to improve global access to safe water and sanitation.
Dr. Ronald Waldman is a professor of global health at the School of Public Health and Health Services at George Washington University. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Stephen Bartels on approaches to care for older adults with mental or substance use disorders.
Dr. Stephen Bartels is a professor of psychiatry and community and family medicine at Dartmouth University's Geisel School of Medicine and the director of the…
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NEJM Interview: Drs. Judith and Sean Palfrey on gun violence and mental health in the United States.
Dr. Judith Palfrey is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Children's International Pediatric Center at Children's Hospital…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Moellering on the evolution of antibiotic resistance and strategies for combating it.
Dr. Robert Moellering is a professor of medical research at Harvard Medical School and a research investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in…
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NEJM Interview: Susan Edgman-Levitan on patient-experience measures and their relationship to health outcomes.
Susan Edgman-Levitan is the executive director of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Harlan Krumholz on a condition of generalized risk after patients are discharged from the hospital.
Dr. Harlan Krumholz is a professor of medicine and public health at Yale School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Arnold Milstein on learning health systems and reducing health care spending.
Dr. Arnold Milstein is a professor of medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine and director of the Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Bruce Chabner on shortages of generic drugs and possible solutions.
Dr. Bruce Chabner is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of clinical research at the MGH Cancer Center at Massachusetts General…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. David Hunter on genomewide association studies and their potential clinical utility in common diseases.
Dr. David Hunter is a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Irwin Redlener on the effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York health care and the lessons learned.
Dr. Irwin Redlener is the director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on the political future of health care in the United States.
Dr. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Ronald Bayer on the legal and policy issues related to the proposed graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging.
Dr. Ronald Bayer is a professor of sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. R. Bayer, L. Gostin, and D…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Kevin Outterson on the recent fungal meningitis outbreak and the regulation of compounding pharmacies in the United States.
Kevin Outterson is an associate professor of health law, bioethics, and human rights at the Boston University School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Robert Mechanic on the challenges and potential benefits of Medicare's new bundled-payment program.
Robert Mechanic is a senior fellow at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. David Stevenson on hospice and other end-of-life care in the United States.
Dr. David Stevenson is an associate professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jerry Avorn on the FDA's recent approval of two weight loss drugs.
Dr. Jerry Avorn is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and…
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NEJM Interview: Drs. Gail Wilensky and John McDonough on the health care platforms of the two presidential candidates.
Dr. John McDonough is a professor of the practice of public health and the director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. R. Alta Charo on the status and future of reproductive health care for women in the United States.
Prof. R. Alta Charo is a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Kevin Outterson on record-breaking settlements of pharmaceutical fraud cases and the need for further regulation.
Prof. Kevin Outterson is an associate professor of health law, bioethics, and human rights at the Boston University School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Pamela Hartzband and Dr. Jerome Groopman on shared decision making and patient-centered care.
Dr. Pamela Hartzband, an endocrinologist, and Dr. Jerome Groopman, an oncologist, both practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and are professors of…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Paul Ginsburg on recent Massachusetts legislation aimed at containing increases in statewide health care spending.
Dr. Paul Ginsburg is the president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington D.C. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Chris Beyrer on scientific advances and remaining obstacles to controlling the AIDS epidemic.
Dr. Chris Beyrer is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights and the Johns Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Jonathan Oberlander on health care policy in the United States over the past 100 years.
Prof. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Rita Redberg on the approval process for medical devices in the United States and in Europe.
Dr. Rita Redberg is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Colleen Barry on approaches to addressing the obesity epidemic in the United States.
Colleen Barry is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Professors Renee Landers and John McDonough on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act.
Renee Landers is a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School, and John McDonough is a professor of the practice of public health and director of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Lisa Lehmann on the physician's role in assisted dying for terminally ill patients.
Dr. Lisa Lehmann is the director of the Center for Bioethics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School…
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NEJM Interview: David Radley on a recent study on geographic variations in access to and quality of U.S. health care.
David Radley is a senior health policy analyst at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Katherine Baicker on the misguided focus on the creation of health care jobs.
Katherine Baicker is a professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Aaron Kesselheim on a recent Supreme Court ruling on patents for diagnostic tests.
Dr. Aaron Kesselheim is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Julie Cantor on court-ordered care for pregnant women in the United States.
Dr. Julie Cantor is an attorney and adjunct professor of law at the UCLA School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Arthur Kellermann on the increasing use of emergency departments and access to primary care.
Dr. Arthur Kellermann is vice president of the RAND Corporation and director of RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Francesca Gany on undocumented immigrants and the U.S. health care system.
Dr. Francesca Gany is the chief of the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and director of the Center for…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Howard Brody on the ethics of rationing and waste avoidance in health care.
Dr. Howard Brody is a professor of family medicine and the director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Susan Okie on the ongoing evolution of the primary care physician.
Dr. Susan Okie is a medical journalist and clinical assistant professor of family medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Allison Goldfine on statins, the associated risk of diabetes, and the FDA's response.
Dr. Allison Goldfine is the head of the Section of Clinical Research at Joslin Diabetes Center and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Timothy Quill on balancing evidence-based medicine and patient-centered care.
Dr. Timothy Quill is a professor of medicine, psychiatry, and medical humanities and the director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care at…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jan Blustein on the effects of pay-for-performance approaches for hospitals.
Dr. Jan Blustein is a professor of health policy and medicine at the Wagner Graduate School and the School of Medicine at New York University. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Mark Hall on the recent Supreme Court oral arguments in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
Mark Hall is a professor of health care law and policy and medical and bioethics at Wake Forest University Schools of Law and Medicine in Winston-Salem, North…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Raynard Kington on the importance to medicine of the behavioral and social sciences.
Dr. Raynard Kington, a physician and the former director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Steven Schroeder on smoking-cessation efforts in the United States.
Dr. Steven Schroeder is a professor of health and health care and the director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San…
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NEJM Interview: Gail Wilensky on possible directions for bipartisan Medicare reform.
Gail Wilensky is an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. G.R. Wilensky…
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NEJM Interview: Sharon-Lise Normand on medical device approval and postmarketing surveillance.
Sharon-Lise Normand is a professor of health care policy and biostatistics at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Barry on patient-centered care and shared decision making.
Dr. Michael Barry is president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making and medical director of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care…
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NEJM Interview: Alan Weil on the states' role in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
Alan Weil is the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy in Washington, DC. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Truog on issues in medical ethics and the physician-patient relationship.
Dr. Robert Truog is a professor of medical ethics, anesthesiology, and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a senior associate in critical care medicine at…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Pieter Cohen on the regulation of dietary supplements.
Dr. Pieter Cohen is a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, Massachusetts, and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard…
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NEJM Interview: Michael Chernew on the Medicare's physician-payment system and the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.
Michael Chernew is a professor of health care policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is…
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NEJM Interview: Cynthia Jackevicius on generic drugs and health care costs.
Cynthia Jackevicius is an associate professor of pharmacy practice at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, and an assistant professor…
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NEJM Interview: I. Glenn Cohen on the constitutional challenge of the Affordable Care Act that will heard by the United States Supreme Court in March.
I. Glenn Cohen is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, both at Harvard Law School…
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NEJM Interview: Allan Brandt on the history of the Journal as a window into the history of medicine, science, and society.
Allan Brandt is a Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical Schooland Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Schwartz on the history of cancer research.
Dr. Robert Schwartz is a professor emeritus of medicine at Tufts Medical School, and a former deputy editor at the Journal, both in Boston. Stephen Morrissey…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Elliot Israel on the risks and benefits of long-acting beta agonists in the treatment of asthma and COPD.
Dr. Elliot Israel is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Clinical Research in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at…