Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement , a not-for-profit organization, based in Cambridge, MA, leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. Dr. Berwick, a pediatrician, is also Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School, a professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, an Associate in Pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital, and a Consultant in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Berwick holds a master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and an MD cum laude from the Harvard Medical School.

Elliott S. Fisher, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research in the newly established Dartmouth Institute for Health Care Policy and Clinical Practice. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington, where he also was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and received a Master's in Public Health. He has recently been named to replace John Wennberg as Director of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care.

Amory Lovins, a physicist and leading authority on energy, is Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute and Chairman Emeritus of Fiberforge, Inc.. Published in 29 books and hundreds of papers, he advises governments and major firms worldwide on advanced energy and resource efficiency, and has led the technical redesign of $30 billion worth of facilities in 29 sectors to achieve very large energy savings at typically lower capital cost.

Blog Entries by Donald Berwick, Elliott Fisher, and Amory Lovins

Negawatts and Negabeds

Posted December 29, 2008 | 04:54 PM (EST)


The last months have brought home to the American public the critical importance of markets and how they are structured. So as President-elect Obama looks beyond finance to two of the other major challenges we face -- health care and energy -- he would do well to consider the following...

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