CANCELED: Samuel P. Martin, III Memorial Lecture with Ashish Jha, MD, PhD

EVENT CANCELED

12:00p.m. – 1:20p.m. April 15, 2016

Biomedical Research Building, 14th Floor Lounge, 421 Curie Boulevard

*EVENT CANCELED

“Has the ACA Actually Improved the Quality of Care in the US?”

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, is Director for the Harvard Global Health Institute, K.T. Li Professor of International Health & Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing Internal Medicine physician at the VA Boston Healthcare System. 

Dr. Jha received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco where he also served as Chief Medical Resident.  He completed his General Medicine fellowship from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received his M.P.H. from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 

Dr. Jha’s major research interests lie in improving the quality and costs of healthcare with a specific focus on the impact of policy efforts.  His work has focused on a broad set of issues including transparency and public reporting of provider performance, financial incentives, health information technology, and leadership, and the roles they play in fixing healthcare delivery systems.   

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Co-Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and the Division of General Internal Medicine.