Surgeon Atul Gawande selected as CEO of new health care company from Amazon, partners
Dr. Atul Gawande — the prominent physician, prolific writer, and all-around health care celebrity — will become the chief executive of the new health care company launched by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, the three companies announced Wednesday.
Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who teaches at Harvard's medical and public health schools, will take charge of the new organization July 9. In a note sent to friends and colleagues, Gawande said that he is not giving up his positions at Harvard or the Brigham and that he will keep writing, including for the New Yorker. But he said he will transition from being executive director to chairman of Ariadne Labs, which works on solving problems in health systems around the world.
The new company will be based in Boston.
[...] Not much has been revealed about the new health care enterprise from the three corporate giants; in the release Wednesday, it doesn't even have a name. The new organization is meant to come up with ways to address the health care costs for the companies' employees, though its founders have indicated they hope that it comes up with solutions that could be spread across the entire U.S. health system.
Also at CNBC and TechCrunch.
Previously: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to Offer Their Own Health Care to U.S. Employees
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Friday June 22 2018, @12:37AM (1 child)
So this guy:
- Is an active surgeon
- Teaches at Harvard
- Is an author
- And is now taking on a CEO role for a new (presumably large) health care company
I can't see how there are enough hours in the day to be able to do all of these things well. If I were any of his employers, I would be very concerned about the potential impact to his performance from this sort of load. It makes me wonder whether this new "CEO" role will really just be a figurehead.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 22 2018, @01:17AM
He is dropping at least one of his roles:
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