Healthcare Panel Update

I hope everyone is getting excited for the Business & Society’s Healthcare panel! Dartmouth’s
President Kim has even cleared his calendar to come moderate this panel which is full of industry experts representing a wide range of backgrounds and opinions. Panelists will include Dr. Jaime Bayona who helps run Dartmouth’s Center for Health Care Delivery Science, Dr. Paul Chew the current Chief Medical Officer at Sanofi U.S., Dr. Vas Narasimhan who was recently promoted to
run Novartis’s global vaccine development, and Dr. Derek Yach the conference’s Keynote speaker and Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo.

What really strikes me as I look at the panelists are their in-depth experiences at different places in the health care system. Dr. Bayona fought to get medicine to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Peru while he headed up Partners in Health, Peru. At the same time, Dr. Narasimhan was busy getting Menveo, a vaccine for meningitis, approved by the FDA and into doctors’ offices. If we are going to learn anything about how to make health care equitable and how to effectively deliver care to those who need it most, this is the group to teach us!

Following the panel, there will also be an opportunity to meet more personally in small groups with many of the panelists as well as Dr. Srishti Gupta, one of McKinsey & Company’s Global Health experts. It will be a great chance to get to know some of the people who have dedicated their lives to improving health care and are making a difference every day.

Mark your calendar for 10:00AM on Friday February 10th, I am looking forward to seeing you there.