Episodes
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James Robinson, PhD, is the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Economics and the Director of the Berkeley Center for Health Technology, which supports research projects for innovative technologies including biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics.
Dr. Robinson spends 30 minutes talking with Dr. Penny Dash, who is Chair of North West London Integrated Care System (ICS) – responsible for improving the health of ~2.4 million people, reducing inequalities in health and ensuring high quality and efficient services within a ~£6bn budget. The ICS brings together all health and care providers in the area (GPs, social care, mental health and community providers,hospitals) as well as local authorities, the voluntary sector, research partners, the wider life sciences industry and communities to achieve its aspirations. It also has a remit to work with partners to drive wider economic and social impact.
Penny is co-Chair of the Cambridge Health Network, which brings together leaders from across the healthcare industry fordiscussion and debate. She sits on the Advisory Boards for Brunel University Medical School and the Dementia ResearchInstitute at Imperial. She is a member of the NHS Assembly (a group of around 40 people who advise the government andNHS on health policy) and the London Life Sciences Advisory Board.
Penny has focused her career on improving the quality and efficiency of health and care services in order to improve lifeexpectancy and quality of life in multiple countries across the world.
Penny has worked as a practicing doctor, a senior manager and as an advisor/consultant to a wide range of organisations across the healthcare industry, from health systems, payors and providers topharmaceutical and med tech companies to investors.
She spent the last 20 years at McKinsey where, as a Senior Partner, she led McKinsey’s healthcare practice across Europe and delivered improvements in health and care in Africa, Australia, Asia and North America.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Penny was Head of Strategy at the UK Department of Health. Penny was Vice Chairman of the King’sFund from 2006-2015 and a Non-Executive Director on the board of Monitor, the Regulator of Foundation Trusts, from 2004-2006.
Penny originally trained as a Doctor in Cambridge and London and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London. She has an MSc in Public Health Medicine and a MBA from StanfordBusiness School where she was a Fulbright Scholar. In 2011, Penny was voted “Advisor of the Year” from Health Investor Magazine.
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Professor David Oliver is a Consultant in Geriatrics and General Internal Medicine and a former clinical vice president of the RCP and past-president of the British Geriatrics Society having also been its honorary secretary.
David is a visiting fellow at the King's Fund, alongside his clinical job as an NHS consultant in geriatrics and general internal medicine at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, where he was also lead clinician and clinical director.
A hospital doctor since 1989, David was a consultant and clinical director at South London NHS Trust from 1998 to 2004 and was the Department of Health national clinical director for older people from 2009 to 2013. He has just finished 3 years as specialist clinical adviser for the NHS Emergency Care Improvement Partnership, visiting and working with over 30 acute hospitals and healthcare systems.
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Our first guest, Elizabeth Keller, is an international healthcare technology Expert from Toronto, Canada.
This episode discusses many topics, including:
The COVID-19 Pandemic and its effects on the healthcare system Electronic medical records Cyber security Doctor/patient relationships Access to careand much more!
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Since we're not celebrities it seems important to let everyone know just who we are and where we work!
Don Hall, MPH, is a Principal at DeltaSigma, LLC. Don got his Masters in Public Health in the 1970s studying epidemiology and human ecology, and has been in public health (maternal health, for-profit and non-profit hospitals, for-profit and non-profit health plans) since then. He brings great experience in many facets in healthcare over the last 40+ years.
Jeff Carlisle is a Vice President at The TPG Family of Companies, which is a group of five different LLCs that offer consulting services to companies in US healthcare. Jeff got a BA in English from the University of Connecticut in 2007 but has been working in healthcare consulting since 2008. Jeff has traveled to over a dozen countries to study their healthcare systems with TPG International Health Academy.
Healthcare is complicated, and so many different fields play a role in how healthcare is administered, paid for, provided, innovated, etc, and it's impossible for any one person to have a handle on all of it. Our podcast aims to have conversations with various experts in these fields so we can bring people information they may not have themselves.
Don provides the official knowledge and experience from inside the healthcare system as a professional, and Jeff adds the everyday layman's perspective of someone who must interface with the often over-complicated healthcare system in the US.
We hope this little introduction provides some background on who we are and why this podcast, and these conversations, are important.
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This is the first episode of the podcast where Don and Jeff outline the four major pillars of healthcare to be discussed on future episodes. We talk a little bit about WHY we chose these general topics and why we believe they are relevant to healthcare discussions today, and in the future.
