Department of Medicine Grand Rounds - The 23rd Annual Reza Gandjei Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Atul Gawande

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23rd Annual Reza K. Gandjei Memorial Lecture
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23rd Annual Reza K. Gandjei Memorial Lecture

Speaker: Atul Gawawde, MD, MPH

Atul GawandeThis lecture, the 23rd in the series, is in memory of Reza Gandjei, who was a UCSF medicine resident in the 1990s and died far too young. Reza, who was both a Marshall and Rhodes Scholar while a student at Harvard Medical School, had a particular interest in healthcare ethics and policy, and so speakers in this series have been international experts in these topics. 

This year’s Gandjei lecturer is Atul Gawande, MD, MPH. Atul is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, and professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is the founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation. He’s been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998 and has written four New York Times best-selling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science. From 2018-20, he served as founding CEO of Haven, a healthcare start-up jointly sponsored by Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway. From November 2020-January 2021, he was a member of President-elect Biden’s Covid-19 Task Force.
 
This lecture will also be part of the UCSF Department of Medicine Covid-19 Grand Rounds series and will be posted on YouTube on Thursday evening. 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/95738084536?pwd=aHpkVHpDcWJVVGZBTThNbVdtYzBjdz09 
Webinar ID: 957 3808 4536
Passcode: 410406

The session will be recorded for later play :
https://medicine.ucsf.edu/covid-19-news-coverage

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Reza GandjeiReza K. Gandjei was a remarkable student and physician with a special interest in problems of medical ethics.  A native of Iran, he had his secondary schooling in England and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed a student-run seminar course on bioethical issues in health and medicine.  He entered Harvard Medical School in 1987, and assumed leadership roles in projects ranging from the provision of weekly health education classes to Boston high school students to the organization of the first Soviet/American medical student exchange program with the Second Pirogov Medical College of Moscow.  As a third-year medical student, he was selected for both the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships.  As a Rhodes Scholar, he received an M.A. (with First Honors) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University in 1992, and was elected Secretary of his Rhodes class.  Immediately thereafter, Reza moved to Cambridge University, obtaining a second Master’s degree in Ethics.  In subsequent years, still as a medical student, he worked as Special Assistant to U.S. Surgeon-General Antonia Novello and as a Research Assistant with the World Health Organization in Brazzaville in the area of AIDS research and education.  The noted philosopher and Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Sir Anthony Kenny, wrote of Reza:  “Were he to continue as a philosopher, he would become a very distinguished member of the profession, but I am sure that he will make a greater contribution to society by resuming his medical career.”  Reza resumed his training in medicine with a goal of furthering our understanding of complex ethical issues in the contexts of clinical practice and education. 

After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gandjei began his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, in July, 1994.  His death was a great loss for his family, friends, colleagues, the community, and the medical profession.

Past Gandjei Lecturers

Annually, the Department of Medicine sponsors the Reza Gandjei Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics by a distinguished visiting professor. These lectures have inspired residents, student, faculty and staff about the important work to be done in resolving difficult dilemmas in clinical medicine, ethics, and public policy.

1999 — Ezekiel Emmanuel, MD
2000 — Timothy Quill, MD
2001 — Troyen A. Brennan, MD, MPH, JD
2002 — Nils Daulaire, MD
2003 — Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP
2004 — Greg Koski, MD, PhD
2005 — Robert Steinbrook, MD
2006 — James Tulsky, MD
2007 — Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
2008 — Laura Bodin Dunn, MD 
2009 — Douglas White, MD
2010 — Stephen Z. Pantilat, MD
2011 — Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, MBE
2012 — Bernard Lo, MD
2013 — John W. Rowe, MD
2014 — Wylie Burke, MD, PhD
2015 — Robert Wachter, MD
2016 — Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN
2017 — Rita Redberg, MD
2018 — Kaveh Shojania, MD
2019 — Andrew Bindman, MD
2020 — Michelle Mello, JD, PhD
Add to Calendar 2021-02-18 20:00:00 2021-02-18 21:00:00 Department of Medicine Grand Rounds - The 23rd Annual Reza Gandjei Memorial Lecture: A Conversation with Atul Gawande 23rd Annual Reza K. Gandjei Memorial Lecture Speaker: Atul Gawawde, MD, MPH This lecture, the 23rd in the series, is in memory of Reza Gandjei, who was a UCSF medicine resident in the 1990s and died far too young. Reza, who was both a Marshall and Rhodes Scholar while a student at Harvard Medical School, had a particular interest in healthcare ethics and policy, and so speakers in this series have been international experts in these topics.  This year’s Gandjei lecturer is Atul Gawande, MD, MPH. Atul is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, and professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is the founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation. He’s been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1998 and has written four New York Times best-selling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science. From 2018-20, he served as founding CEO of Haven, a healthcare start-up jointly sponsored by Amazon, JP Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway. From November 2020-January 2021, he was a member of President-elect Biden’s Covid-19 Task Force.   This lecture will also be part of the UCSF Department of Medicine Covid-19 Grand Rounds series and will be posted on YouTube on Thursday evening.  Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/95738084536?pwd=aHpkVHpDcWJVVGZBTThNbVdtYzBjdz09  Webinar ID: 957 3808 4536 Passcode: 410406 The session will be recorded for later play : https://medicine.ucsf.edu/covid-19-news-coverage --- Reza K. Gandjei was a remarkable student and physician with a special interest in problems of medical ethics.  A native of Iran, he had his secondary schooling in England and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, where he developed a student-run seminar course on bioethical issues in health and medicine.  He entered Harvard Medical School in 1987, and assumed leadership roles in projects ranging from the provision of weekly health education classes to Boston high school students to the organization of the first Soviet/American medical student exchange program with the Second Pirogov Medical College of Moscow.  As a third-year medical student, he was selected for both the Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships.  As a Rhodes Scholar, he received an M.A. (with First Honors) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University in 1992, and was elected Secretary of his Rhodes class.  Immediately thereafter, Reza moved to Cambridge University, obtaining a second Master’s degree in Ethics.  In subsequent years, still as a medical student, he worked as Special Assistant to U.S. Surgeon-General Antonia Novello and as a Research Assistant with the World Health Organization in Brazzaville in the area of AIDS research and education.  The noted philosopher and Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Sir Anthony Kenny, wrote of Reza:  “Were he to continue as a philosopher, he would become a very distinguished member of the profession, but I am sure that he will make a greater contribution to society by resuming his medical career.”  Reza resumed his training in medicine with a goal of furthering our understanding of complex ethical issues in the contexts of clinical practice and education.  After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gandjei began his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, in July, 1994.  His death was a great loss for his family, friends, colleagues, the community, and the medical profession. Past Gandjei Lecturers Annually, the Department of Medicine sponsors the Reza Gandjei Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics by a distinguished visiting professor. These lectures have inspired residents, student, faculty and staff about the important work to be done in resolving difficult dilemmas in clinical medicine, ethics, and public policy. 1999 — Ezekiel Emmanuel, MD 2000 — Timothy Quill, MD 2001 — Troyen A. Brennan, MD, MPH, JD 2002 — Nils Daulaire, MD 2003 — Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP 2004 — Greg Koski, MD, PhD 2005 — Robert Steinbrook, MD 2006 — James Tulsky, MD 2007 — Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA 2008 — Laura Bodin Dunn, MD  2009 — Douglas White, MD 2010 — Stephen Z. Pantilat, MD 2011 — Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, MBE 2012 — Bernard Lo, MD 2013 — John W. Rowe, MD 2014 — Wylie Burke, MD, PhD 2015 — Robert Wachter, MD 2016 — Mary Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN 2017 — Rita Redberg, MD 2018 — Kaveh Shojania, MD 2019 — Andrew Bindman, MD 2020 — Michelle Mello, JD, PhD [email protected] UCSF Department of Medicine at ZSFG America/Los_Angeles public