Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture with Ashish Jha, MD, MPH

“Has the ACA Improved the Quality of Healthcare in America?”

12:00p.m. – 1:20p.m. September 30, 2016

Inn at Penn, Woodlands Ballroom C/D, 3600 Sansom Street

Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH is Director for the Harvard Global Health Institute, K.T. Li Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing Internal Medicine physician at the VA Boston Healthcare System. 

Dr. Jha received his MD from Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco where he also served as Chief Medical Resident.  He completed his General Medicine fellowship from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received his MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 

Dr. Jha’s major research interests lie in improving the quality and costs of healthcare with a specific focus on the impact of policy efforts.  His work has focused on a broad set of issues including transparency and public reporting of provider performance, financial incentives, health information technology, and leadership, and the roles they play in fixing healthcare delivery systems.  

This event is free and open to the public, but please register.