Keynote 4: Donald M. Berwick, IHI

Keynote: Expanding the role of health care to affect determinants of health

Donald M. Berwick is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

A paediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and on the staffs of Boston’s Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has also served as Vice Chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first “Independent Member” of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.