NEJM Interviews

Dr. Paul Ginsburg is the president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, Washington D.C. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.Z. Ayanian and P.J. Van der Wees. Tackling Rising Health Care Costs in Massachusetts. N Engl J Med 2012;367:790-3.

Dr. Chris Beyrer is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights and the Johns Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. D. Havlir and C. Beyrer. The Beginning of the End of AIDS? N Engl J Med 2012;367:685-7.

Prof. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Oberlander. Unfinished Journey - A Century of Health Care Reform in the United States. N Engl J Med 2012;367:585-90.

Dr. Rita Redberg is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. S. Basu and J.C. Hassenplug. Patient Access to Medical Devices - A Comparison of U.S. and European Review Processes. N Engl J Med 2012;367:485-8.

Colleen Barry is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. C.L. Barry, S.E. Gollust, and J. Niederdeppe. Are Americans Ready to Solve the Weight of the Nation? N Engl J Med 2012;367:389-91.

Renee Landers is a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School, and John McDonough is a professor of the practice of public health and director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. Landers RM. The Denouement of the Supreme Court's ACA Drama. N Engl J Med 2012;367:198-9 and...

Dr. Lisa Lehmann is the director of the Center for Bioethics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.J.Z. Prokopetz and L.S. Lehmann. Redefining Physicians' Role in Assisted Dying. N Engl J Med 2012;367:97-9.

David Radley is a senior health policy analyst at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. D.C. Radley and C. Schoen. Geographic Variation in Access to Care - The Relationship with Quality. N Engl J Med 2012;367:3-6.

Katherine Baicker is a professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. K. Baicker and A. Chandra. The Health Care Jobs Fallacy. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2433-5.

Dr. Aaron Kesselheim is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.S. Kesselheim and J. Karlawish. Biomarkers Unbound - The Supreme Court's Ruling on Diagnostic-Test Patents. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2338-40.

Dr. Julie Cantor is an attorney and adjunct professor of law at the UCLA School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.D. Cantor. Court-Ordered Care - A Complication of Pregnancy to Avoid. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2237-40.

Dr. Arthur Kellermann is vice president of the RAND Corporation and director of RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.L. Kellermann and R.M. Weinick. Emergency Departments, Medicaid Costs, and Access to Primary Care - Understanding the Link. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2141-3.

Dr. Francesca Gany is the chief of the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and director of the Center for Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities, New York, NY. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.O. Breen. Lost in Translation - Como se dice, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"? N Engl J Med 201...

Dr. Howard Brody is a professor of family medicine and the director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. H. Brody. From an Ethics of Rationing to an Ethics of Waste Avoidance. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1949-51.

Dr. Susan Okie is a medical journalist and clinical assistant professor of family medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. S. Okie. The Evolving Primary Care Physician. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1849-53.

Dr. Allison Goldfine is the head of the Section of Clinical Research at Joslin Diabetes Center and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.B. Goldfine. Statins: Is It Really Time to Reassess Benefits and Risks? N Engl J Med 2012;366:1752-5.

Dr. Timothy Quill is a professor of medicine, psychiatry, and medical humanities and the director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. T.E. Quill and R.G. Holloway. Evidence, Preferences, Recommendations - Finding the Right Balance in Patie...

Dr. Jan Blustein is a professor of health policy and medicine at the Wagner Graduate School and the School of Medicine at New York University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A. Ryan and J. Blustein. Making the Best of Hospital Pay for Performance. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1557-9.

Mark Hall is a professor of health care law and policy and medical and bioethics at Wake Forest University Schools of Law and Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.A. Hall. Supreme Court Arguments on the ACA - A Clash of Two World Views. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1462-3.

Dr. Raynard Kington, a physician and the former director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, is the president of Grinnell College in Iowa. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. R.M. Kaplan, J.M. Satterfield, and R.S. Kington. Building a Better Physician - The Case for the New MCAT. N Engl J Med 2012;366:...

Dr. Steven Schroeder is a professor of health and health care and the director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.C. Fiore, E. Goplerud, and S.A. Schroeder. The Joint Commission's New Tobacco-Cessation Measures - Will Hospitals Do the Right Thing? N Engl J Med 2012;3...

Gail Wilensky is an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. G.R. Wilensky. Directions for Bipartisan Medicare Reform. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1071-3.

Sharon-Lise Normand is a professor of health care policy and biostatistics at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. F.S. Resnic and S.-L.T. Normand. Postmarketing Surveillance of Medical Devices - Filling in the Gaps. N Engl J Med 2012;366:875-7.

Dr. Michael Barry is president of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making and medical director of the John D. Stoeckle Center for Primary Care Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.J. Barry and S. Edgman-Levitan. Shared Decision Making - The Pinnacle of Patient-Centered Care. N Engl J Med 2012;366:780-...

Alan Weil is the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy in Washington, DC. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A. Weil. The Value of Federalism in Defining Essential Health Benefits. N Engl J Med 2012;366:679-81.