Who: Dr. A. Eugene Washington, 64
New role: President and CEO at Duke University Health System and chancellor for health affairs at Duke University, Durham, N.C., effective April 1. Currently CEO of the UCLA Health System, dean of UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences. He'll replace Dr. Victor Dzau, who left Duke last year to lead the Institute of Medicine.
“Healthcare 3.0”: “We're taking care of patients through population-health management, but also collaborating with new partners, some of whom may be our competitors. We're finding ways to elevate the health status of a larger community, beyond what we see as our particular constituency.”
Patient-centered outcomes research: “We've got to start to educate patients and other leaders in the community. We've got to work with providers: doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers who are already researchers, but won't be as adept at working with other community-based groups.”
On shortening medical school: “Without being an expert in this area, I still believe there is a group of medical students that, given their trajectory and where they want to be longer term, could complete medical school in three years, without any loss in terms of their ability to excel.”
