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TED Talks: Health Care

TED Talks: Health Care

August TED Talks: Health Care          

The TED Talks theme for August is "Health Care". Enjoy fascinating talks on how health care systems could be improved on Tuesday, August 22 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Adams Room of the Medford Branch Library, 205 South Central Avenue. 

The program will include video lectures by Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport, John Wilbanks: Let's pool our medical data, Rebecca Onie: What if our health care system kept us healthy?, and Carolyn Jones: A tribute to nurses.

Dishman is an Intel Fellow and general manager of Intel's Health Strategy & Solutions Group. Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow with the Kauffman Foundation and a Research Fellow at Lybba. Onie is the founder of Health Leads, a program that connects patients to basic care and resources. Jones directed and executive-produced the documentary film The American Nurse: Healing America.

  TED (an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit organization whose slogan is "Ideas Worth Spreading”. For more information on this monthly program, please contact the Medford Branch Library at 541-774-8689 or visit jcls.org.

Date:
08/22/2017
Time:
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Time Zone:
Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Library:
Medford Library
Categories:
  Presentation/Discussion