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A Path for Progress for U.S. Healthcare

  • March 01, 2021
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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A Path for Progress for U.S. Healthcare

Dr. Michael Apkon

U.S. healthcare costs approximately twice what comparable care costs in many peer countries. In short, our healthcare system is failing many of us and imposes a financial burden that many cannot bear. Many of the undesirable aspects of healthcare are just as apparent in the systems of other parts of the world. However, many of the most undesirable aspects of healthcare – the high cost, the lack of access, the inequities – are more uniquely features of U.S. healthcare and are consequences of policy choices we have made as a society.

In this talk, Dr. Apkon will discuss the ways in which the U.S. healthcare system drives progress and the ways in which, without changes, we will face an inexorable amplification of the most undesirable features. He will consider how the choices of other countries have led to different outcomes. We will also consider how the current COVID-19 pandemic sheds light on important differences between our healthcare system and that of our peers.

About the Presenter

Dr. Michael Apkon, MD, PhD, MBA.

Dr. Apkon is a physician executive and physician scientist serving in C-level leadership roles at several top academic hospitals in the United States and Canada as well serving as director of several new health care ventures. His clinical training is in pediatrics and intensive care medicine. He has served as the CEO at Tufts Medical Center as well as the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada’s top children’s hospital.

Dr. Apkon currently serves as a director for 7D Surgical, a Toronto-based surgical navigation equipment manufacturer and as a director for MindBeacon, a Canadian digital mental health company as well as a board member the Network for Excellence in Healthcare Innovation based in Boston. He has also served as a Director for MaRS Innovation, an innovation incubator serving the greater Toronto academic and healthcare communities.

Dr. Apkon has a BSc degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University as well as MD and PhD degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and an MBA from the Yale School of Management where he taught healthcare management.





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