David Roberts, MD, Dean for External Education and Stanley Shaw, MD, PhD, Associate Dean for Executive Education

Overview of Recording

The health care industry is massive, complex and in a state of transformation. This presents a unique opportunity for businesses to innovate and create new value.

Whether you work in health IT, biopharma, insurance, a provider organization or in a supporting investing or other professional service field, health care offers significant growth opportunities. At the same time, health care is a unique field, and success in it requires a particular set of skills and perspectives.

To truly create new value in health care, you need a practical and current understanding of the broader ecosystem: What are the newest discoveries in biomedical research? Clinical workflows? Trends in patient-centered care? State-of-the-art treatment for specific diseases? How do doctors make decisions? And how do patient perspectives come into play?

You also need to apply insights on these topics to your day-to-day work, and to strategic priorities, to achieve broader adoption for the products and services your organization creates.

This recording is a dialogue between David H. Roberts, MD, Dean for External Education and Stanley Y. Shaw, MD, PhD, Associate Dean for Executive Education. They discuss several of the converging forces impacting health care, and the implications and opportunities for business leaders operating in this industry.

The webinar also provides a preview of the upcoming Harvard Medical School executive program, Inside the Health Care Ecosystem: Strategic Insights for Business Leaders, taking place May 21-24. Previously only offered on a customized basis (participating companies include Google, athenahealth, GE, Amgen and Takeda), this dynamic learning experience is now available to individuals and small teams.

About the Presenters

In March 2014, David H. Roberts, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine was appointed by Dean Jeffrey Flier as the inaugural Harvard Medical School Dean for External Education. An HMS alumnus, Dr. Roberts completed his internal medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital and a pulmonary and critical care fellowship in the Harvard Combined Program. Building his career as a pulmonologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, much of Dr. Roberts' work has focused on the intersection of medicine and medical education, earning him a national reputation as a highly collaborative and innovative medical educator. At Beth Israel Deaconess he served as the associate director of the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, director of its Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, and director of its Academy of Medical Educators. He has directed both HMS preclinical courses and the Beth Israel Deaconess Principal Clinical Experience. David also is a member of the The Academy at HMS, and, until recently, served as the Academy's associate director. Over the years he has received numerous teaching awards, including the coveted HMS Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Stanley Y. Shaw, MD PhD, is the inaugural Associate Dean for Executive Education at Harvard Medical School. In this role, he designs and directs a growing portfolio of programs for companies and executive leaders from diverse sectors of health care, from small biotechs to Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Shaw is also the Chief Scientific Officer for One Brave Idea (at Brigham and Women’s Hospital), an initiative funded by the American Heart Association, Verily and Astra Zeneca to understand and treat the earliest changes in coronary heart disease. His research seeks to understand how digital health, bioinformatics, the gut microbiome and patient-reported data can be leveraged to better assess health and disease. Previously, he co-founded the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health (CATCH) at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his team led the development of one of the first ResearchKit iPhone apps in partnership with Apple. Dr. Shaw received his AB in Chemistry & Physics from Harvard College, and his MD and PhD (in Biophysics) from Harvard. He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.