Dr. William Brody is one of our nation's leading voices on health care reform. President of The Johns Hopkins University for the past 11 years, Dr. Brody has been an outspoken advocate on behalf of a better, safer, more cost effective health care system. He is an expert on patient safety, biomedical research, managed care, prescription drugs, chronic care, and medical malpractice. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University where he received both a medical degree and a doctorate in electrical engineering, Dr. Brody has written extensively about the U.S. health care system as a physician and engineer. He completed post-graduate training in cardiovascular surgery and radiology at Stanford, the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Brody co-founded three medical device companies, and was president and chief executive officer of Resonex, the maker of the innovative magnetic resonance imaging machine, from 1984 to 1987. He has more than 100 publications and one U.S. patent in the field of medical imaging. The Johns Hopkins University leads all U.S. universities in spending on scientific research and development and is the leading recipient of National Institutes of Health funding. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Bloomberg School of Public Health have long played an important role in American health care. The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been named the best hospital in America for 17 consecutive years. |
