Omid Farokhzad, HMS associate professor of anaesthesia at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Jonathan Tilly, HMS professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Tom Delbanco, the Richard A. and Florence Koplow-James L. Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Jan Walker, principal associate in medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, are recognized in The Globe 100’s Innovators of 2013, a list of trailblazers working in fields from medicine to robotics to social services.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital kicked off its 100th birthday celebration this month by opening a time capsule that included letters from the hospital’s 1963 leaders to their modern counterparts. Items from the capsule are on display in the hospital’s lobby.
In a new editorial, Pieter Cohen, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, and a colleague collected some of the lesser known facts about an industry that produces millions of pills—and likely generates tens of millions, if not billions of dollars in profits—but is almost entirely free of government oversight.
In the old days, sales representatives from drug companies would chat up local pharmacists to learn what drugs doctors were prescribing. Now such shoulder-rubbing is becoming a quaint memory — thanks to vast databases of patient and doctor information being used by pharmaceutical companies to market drugs. Jerry Avorn, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Will people make smarter, more cost-effective choices when more of their own money is on the line? It’s a particularly urgent question for boomers, because it lies at the heart of some proposals to curb Medicare spending. J. Michael McWilliams, HMS assistant professor of health care policy, is quoted.
The author wrote an opinion piece about the debate between telecommuting and working in the office. A study by Isaac Kohane, the Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and director of the Countway Library of Medicine at HMS, is cited.
