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A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

A Disruptive Solution for Health Care ISIS Research Centre: Ideas for Impact Speaker Series Type: Community More details Date and time January 31 2013, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Add to my calendar Location Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour Street near Robson Vancouver Contact Jason Hwang, M.D., M.B.A. is an internal medicine physician who, together with Professor Clayton M. Christensen of Harvard Business School and the late Jerome H. Grossman of Harvard Kennedy School of Government, co-authored The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill, January 2009), the American College of Healthcare Executives 2010 Book of the Year and recipient of the 2011 Health Service Journal Circle Prize for Inspiring Innovation. Dr. Hwang previously co-founded and was the Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute, a non-profit social innovation think tank. He also taught as chief resident and clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine, where he received recognition on multiple occasions for his clinical work. He has also served as a clinician with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Dr. Hwang received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.. Event Details. Location: 823 Seymour Street