On January 13th 2010 Atul Gawande, BAS, MD, MPH gave a speech at UCSF Medical Grand Rounds.  His 1 hour speech covered topics from his New York Times Best Seller “The Checklist Manifesto: How to get things done right”.  Dr. Gawande highlights the important role that a simple checklist can play in ensuring consistent, reliable, and high quality patient care.

This speech was captured on video and can be viewed at the links below.

• Watch 5 minute excerpts from Dr. Gawande’s speech.
• Watch the full 1 hour speech at the San Francisco Otolaryngology web site.

About Dr. Gawande:

A surgeon and a writer, Atul Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He received his B.A.S. from Stanford University, M.A. (in politics, philosophy, and economics) from Oxford University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. Since 1998, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine. In 2003, he completed his surgical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and joined the faculty as a general and endocrine surgeon.

• Learn more at Dr. Gawande’s web site www.gawande.com