Aspen Ideas: Health is the conference where healthcare’s biggest challenges meet its biggest thinkers.
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Event Overview
Aspen Ideas: Health is three provocative, entertaining, and mind-bending days that highlight deep thinkers, innovative doers, brilliant scientists, determined entrepreneurs, and artists.
Schedule
Get a taste of what a day at Aspen Ideas: Health is like! Look through our schedule from 2019.
Continuing Medical Education for Physicians and Nurses
Aspen Ideas: Health has partnered with the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower to offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) for members of the medical community.
We tackle topics from planet-wide crises to personalized medicine, and from groundbreaking discoveries to stories of people on the front lines of care.
2019 Health
2019 Program Tracks
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How do we nurture trust between doctors and patients? What is the role of profit in research?
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What’s in the lab, what’s moving to the bedside, and where do we go next?
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Consumers have more opportunities than ever to take control over their own health.
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People are having less sex, yet sexually-transmitted diseases are on the rise.
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The opportunity to grow old is a privilege not afforded to everyone.
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Finance and health are among the fastest-growing sectors of the economy.
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Can we nurture the microbiome ecosystem, sustain gut health, and keep inflammatory diseases at bay?
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Will new attitudes and better alternatives allow more people to get the treatment they need?
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Innovators undaunted by past failures, corporations finding ways to grow a healthy workforce, and policymakers who untangle “wicked” problems offer a future-facing vision.
Featured speakers
Victor Dzau is president of the National Academy of Medicine, since 2014. He was previously chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health Syste...
Isabelle Kamariza is president and founder of SolidAfrica, which provides fresh food to patients in the two largest public hospitals in Rwanda. She was a law school dropout in...
Ruth Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist and media personality. She sprang to national attention in the early 1980s with her live radio program, “Sexually Speaking,” which...
Walter Isaacson is a professor of history at Tulane University and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm. He is the immediate past president and C...
