Douglas Kamerow, immediate past CFAH Board Chair, is a chief scientist at the non-partisan research institute RTI International and Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at Georgetown University. His new book is Dissecting American Health Care.

What's Engagement Now? Expert Douglas Kamerow Discusses Emerging Challenges

Douglas Kamerow | February 15, 2012
Three of the things that optimal patient engagement depends on are TIME, TOOLS and TEMPERAMENT. Clinicians and patients experience each of these differently, but they are central to us working together to get the best possible outcomes.

Guest Blog: Old Public Health Guy's Plea: Don't Wear Your Headphones All the Time

Douglas Kamerow | January 27, 2012
I propose that people stop wearing headphones when they are out in public...More serious than harming your hearing...it appears that earphone use in public can actually endanger your life.

What a Year for the Center for Advancing Health!

Douglas Kamerow | December 16, 2010
As many of you know, this fall, Jessie Gruman, CFAH Founder and President, was diagnosed with stomach cancer, her fourth cancer-related diagnosis.' We have all been touched and gratified by good wishes for her and CFAH from around the world.

• CER Interviews
• Engagement Interviews
• Health Expert Interviews
• All Jessie Gruman Blogs
• Jessie Gruman Biography

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