Medical School Dean Philip A. Pizzo called on his medical staff colleagues to help regain the public trust needed to “sustain excellence in academic medicine, and in medicine at large.”

Speaking at SHC’s Semiannual Medical Staff Meeting on May 24, Pizzo highlighted how five areas of excellence in our nation’s health system are being seriously threatened.

For more coverage of the May 24 Medical Staff Meeting, see President Garman’s column.

Specifically, the dean discussed a rise in fundamental religion as a challenge to science, funding cuts to the NIH, a general deterioration in the health care delivery system, challenges of academic-industry relations, and waning public respect for physicians. [see story]

Many separate conversations converged in close quarters at the Semiannual Medical Staff Meeting on May 24. From left, longtime faculty surgeon Harry A. Oberhelman, Staff President and anesthesiologist Kent Garman, SHC President and CEO Martha Marsh, immediate past staff president and neurologist Bruce Adornato, and longtime radiologist Stanford Rossiter.