Join our Federation’s Health Professionals Network on Thursday, February 6th, for a conversation with Dr. Mark Schuster, Founding Dean and CEO of the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. Moderated by Michelle Levander, Founding Director of USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism, the discussion will focus on the challenges of medical school education and how Kaiser is paving the way for a new approach that will impact the future of medicine.
Dinner and drinks will be served; dietary laws observed
Limited street parking available — we strongly encourage ride sharing.
Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD became the founding dean and CEO of the innovative Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in October 2017. Prior to that, he had served as the William Berenberg Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and chief of general pediatrics and vice chair for health policy in the Department of Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital since 2007.
Dr. Schuster is recognized as an international leader in research on child, adolescent, and family health, having received funding from NIH, CDC, and AHRQ on topics such as quality of care, health disparities, family leave, HIV prevention, obesity prevention, and adolescent sexual health. He has also studied bullying and sexual and gender minority health. He previously served as professor of pediatrics and health services at UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health and director of health promotion and disease prevention at RAND, the Santa Monica think tank.
Dr. Schuster has co-authored over 250 journal articles and two books. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has served as president of the Academic Pediatric Association. He is a recipient of the Richardson Award for lifetime achievement from the Society for Pediatric Research, the Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School, and the Joseph St. Geme, Jr. Award for leadership in pediatrics from the Federation of Pediatric Organizations. He received his BA summa cum laude from Yale, his MD from Harvard Medical School, his MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and his PhD from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He completed his pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and his fellowship at the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
Michelle Levander, an award-winning journalist, founded the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism in 2004. Under her leadership, The Center has partnered with hundreds of reporters and newsrooms nationwide to nurture ambitious investigative and explanatory reporting on community health and family well-being. Before that, Michelle worked as a reporter and editor, in California, at the San Jose Mercury News, and in Asia, for the Asian Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine Asia. She spent a year in Mexico, studying and then reporting about immigrants and the tug North as an Inter American Press Association Fellow at El Colegio de México and El Colegio de Michoacán. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and UC Berkeley.
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