Making Biomedical Science Nimble: It's the Patients, Stupid!
Channel: New America
Date: 24/05/2012

Making Biomedical Science Nimble: It's the Patients, Stupid!

Science and technology in America have been guided by the same set of ideas for more than half a century. The conventional wisdom is that if we feed more money and more scientists into our existing "knowledge enterprise" complex, society will derive proportionately more benefits. In the face of the global economic downturn, political disarray at the national level, and protracted challenges to the nation's public health, environmental quality, industrial base, and energy system, this simplistic assumption is long overdue for a reckoning. Today's challenges demand new ways of thinking about science and technology, and the government's role in advancing them. The problem, any honest inquiry will suggest, isn't always money, or the number of scientists, but the very way we do science.

Ron Deprez - @unetweets                                                                     
Director, Center for Community and Public Health, University of New England

Ben Heywood - @patientslikeme                                                               
President and Director, Patients Like Me

Moderator  
Sheri Fink - @sherifink
Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
Winner of 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting on Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans

http://www.newamerica.net/events/2012/america_s_knowledge_enterprise