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William R. Brody, President of the Johns Hopkins University, August 1996-Present

        

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Fall 2008 Speeches

Health Care '08: Search for Solutions Television Series

Great Ideas Podcasts

National Press Club Health Care '08: What's Promised/What's Possible? September 2007

Crossroads: Essays on Health Care in Modern America

"Healing America's Health Care Crisis" Town Hall Journal (Los Angeles) Fall 2007 (PDF)

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William R. Brody
The Johns Hopkins University
Office of the President
242 Garland Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21218.

Phone: (410) 516-8068
Fax: (410) 516-6097
Email:
wrbrody@jhu.edu

   

President > Dr. William R. Brody on Health Care

Dr. William R. Brody on Health Care

Portrait of William Brody

"The world's richest and most powerful nation has somehow created a health care system that costs twice as much as any other country's, and in many instances delivers results only half as good. How did we get so far off course?"

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.