(P)LUCK: Improving Healthcare and the World - Book Talk & Author Event

Program Type:

Literature, Local Author

Age Group:

Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

Join Blair Sadler as he discusses the history and future of healthcare in America, from his new book (P)LUCK.

Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler, a doctor and a lawyer, who are also twin brothers, worked together on the early laws concerning organ donation and the first heart transplants, the emergence of the physician assistant profession, the birth of bioethics, and the transformation of emergency medicine.

Blair Sadler, J.D. is a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and a member of the faculty at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management, where he teaches about leading with transparency and empathy in times of crisis. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he served as a law clerk for two judges of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. From 1980 to 2006, he was the president and CEO of the Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. He serves on the boards of the Hastings Center, Health Care Without Harm, and the Access Youth Academy.

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