In your role at Harvard, you get to range over all the disciplines, right? I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And its the best perchbecause most of my work crosses boundaries. The work Im doing on the way we deliver health care draws on ideas that are well-established in the management field but had really never entered the thinking of people in medical schools and hospitals. Whats going to turn around health care in the U.S.? The problem of health care today isnt the one weve been debating for the last 20 or 30 years. The problem weve been debating is insurancehow to get more people covered. Thats important, but ultimately the issue is how we can get more value: improve the outcomes for the money were spending and deliver those excellent outcomes more efficiently. And that will require a restructuring of revolutionary proportions in how we organize health-care organizations, how doctors and nurses work together. Describe this revolution. Health care historically has been a very siloed field thats organized around medical specialtiesurology, cardiac surgery, and so forthand around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service. If youre a diabetic, you need an endocrinologist. You need to worry about your eyes. You need to worry about your veins. Ultimately, health care fails the most basic test. Its not organized around the needs of the patient. Until we make that fundamental transformation, were hobbled in our ability to bend the cost curve. Health care isnt the 900-pound gorilla. Its the 9million-pound gorilla that will dominate our future budget problems. Weve just come through a huge debate on health care. Weve dealt with access. Was cost just too much to bite off at the same time? I could only assume thats why. It was fundamentally the reform of the insurance system. And many of the reforms were good; we need to give full credit there. One of the problems we have in health care is weve got a lot of preventable things that are really driving the cost up. And we havent cracked the code of how to do that. The best work on prevention now is actually in the corporate sector. Companies understand that if their employees are sick, its really expensive. So despite the rhetoric I hear, thank God employers are still in the health-care system. Tell me about this special report from the Harvard Business School on Americas economic future. We decided to take this issue on because we were deeply disturbed about the path that the U.S. economy was on. We were seeing things we havent experienced in this country for many decades. Things like the sputtering of the job creation machine. If you look from 1970 to 2000, we would create, on average, 2percent, 2.1percent job growth every year. Around 2000, 2001, that just stopped. And our wages werent growing. Is that because the world was changing and we werent? Thats probably the biggest part of the problem. The rest of the world had been steadily improving their competitiveness, their skills, their infrastructure, reducing corruption, lowering their taxes. How do you draw the line between spending and investing in the future? Every person will define what they want as investment. But the data show that the things we really know are investments, that shape our future competitiveness, are development programs, education. And our physical infrastructure, that allows us to move goods and people and energy efficiently, has been declining. The president is right to be focusing on some of these areas. That said, our means are shrinking. Weve got to reduce the amount of money were spending, and we have to increase revenues, too. But we would prefer that we do that by closing down loopholes and exemptions rather than driving up tax rates. Does Big Business want a lower corporate rate, or would it prefer to keep the tax breaks? This raises an important question about how business has contributed to the problem we have now, and part of it is special-interest lobbying. But we found, from thousands of executiveswe surveyed our alumni for the first time in the history of our business schooland theres overwhelming consensus that we should lower the corporate rate and close the loopholes. And the general publics favorite, out of all the things we recommended, was to reduce the corporate tax rate and eliminate loopholes.

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New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to Delhi Police on the bail plea of Kobad Ghandy who is facing trial under the anti-terror law.

Justice G.P. Mittal sought response from police by May 2 on Ghandy's bail plea filed on medical grounds.

Ghandy, 65, an alumni of the Doon School in Dehradun in Uttarakhand, was said to be part Maoist leadership.

Delhi Police Sep 20, 2009, arrested Ghandy for allegedly trying to set up a base in the city for the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist.

Ghandy moved the court asking it to consider his bail plea sympathetically due to his old age problems.

"The bail application may be considered sympathetically since besides being a senior citizen, I suffer from multiple ailments, including urinary prostate problem, irritable bowel syndrome, heart problem, high blood pressure, arthritis and spondylitis for which I require constant care and consistent medical attention, which I cannot receive in jail," he said.

Ghandy has been facing trial on the charges of being a member of a banned terror outfit and for his alleged involvement in activities in violation of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and also for alleged offences of impersonation, cheating and forgery.

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Hanover When C. Everett Koop wrapped up his tenure as the surgeon general, he had his pick of academic institutions to settle into. But he chose Dartmouth College, where he once fell in love with the region's mountains, skiing and his first wife, Betty.

Throughout his career as a pediatric surgeon, and later during his service as the U.S. governments top medical officer in the 1980s, Koop always came back to the Upper Valley, where he kept a vacation home in Etna and where two of his sons eventually raised their families.

Koop would later attribute his career path to decisions he first made as a Dartmouth student more than 70 years go.

I cant imagine that any incoming Dartmouth freshman prepared with greater enthusiasm than I did, he wrote in Koop, his 1991 autobiography. I knew every Dartmouth song as well as those of the other Ivy League schools.

Koop died in Hanover yesterday at the age of 96. He had been in declining health for several months and suffered kidney failure last week, said Lester Gibbs, Koops personal aide.

At Dartmouth he earned the nickname Chick, and played on the football team, where he received a head blow that injured his vision which required him to wear glasses the rest of his life.

After stepping down as surgeon general, Koops two sons, Allen and Norman, urged their father to leave Washington and return to the Upper Valley.

Joe ODonnell, a senior scholar at Dartmouths C. Everett Koop Institute, had been admiring Koops career for years, and was encouraging Dartmouth medical students to take his cue and become involved in public service.

When he came here, it was like I died and went to heaven, ODonnell said.

Despite Koops stern face, Captain Ahab beard, natty bow ties and intimidating accomplishments, he was an approachable man, ODonnell said, with a surprising sense of humor. ODonnell related how Koop was once sitting on a plane when another passenger turned to him and remarked, Has anyone ever told you that you look like Dr. Koop?

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The search process for a new dean of the Alpert Medical School is progressing as Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences, prepares to step down from the position June 30.

The deans job is complicated and important, said Provost Mark Schlissel P15, as many responsibilities fall into one position due to the unusual amount of integration between the University and the Med School. The dean is responsible for heading the Division of Biology and Medicine, which encompasses the entire Med School as well as six undergraduate departments, comprising 19 total departments, Schlissel said. The dean also coordinates more than 600 members of the clinical staff of the Med School across the various affiliated hospitals who employ them in order to ensure a consistent curriculum.

Schlissel, who will be chairing the search, selected the 14 other members of the search committee including Honora Burnett MD15, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Timothy Babineau, president and CEO of Lifespan and hired a search consultant to help generate a large pool of candidates. He said the 14 committee members represent the breadth of the constituency of the position.

In the past weeks, the committee has focused on reaching out and generating a pool of interested candidates, Schlissel said. The committee published notices in the Journal of the American Medical Association, in the Journal of Higher Education and through online venues, he said. The search committee also sent emails to all 3,000 alums of the Med School to spark interest in the position among alumni and their colleagues, Schlissel said.

The committee aims to confidentially interview about 12 of the candidates those who look best suited to the position on paper in early March, Schlissel said. The list of candidates will be narrowed to five or six after the interviews, and the committee will decide in April on the final three candidates to submit to President Christina Paxson and the Corporation, who will make the final decision. Schlissel said Wings successor will be ready before the start of the next academic year and will hopefully be named before he steps down June 30.

Schlissel said the committee is likely to have a range of 50 to 100 serious candidates. While not many of the candidates have personal connections to Brown, they have expressed a lot of respect for the University and the Medical School, Schlissel said. Schlissel added that the identities of the candidates must be kept confidential because all those who would be considered for the position already have prominent jobs, and applying for this position and not being extended an offer may damage their standings.

While Wing offered his own experiences and suggestions for what qualities would be important for his successor at a meeting several weeks ago, he has no role in the search process, which is pretty traditional, Schlissel said.

The formation of a faculty practice plan at Lifespan will be one of the most important tasks for a new dean, Wing said when he announced his plans to step down in November. The complexity of partnering with Lifespan lies in working with and coordinating the efforts of multiple local hospitals that employ clinical members working with the Med School program, Schlissel said. The aim will be to continue to develop good working relationships with a set of shared goals, he said.

The new School of Public Health will not alter the role of the incoming dean, Schlissel said, because the faculty in the public health department and the Medical school are natural collaborators with each other and the creation of a new school will not change that relationship.

Upcoming tasks for Wings successor will include finishing and launching the Med Schools new Primary Care and Public Health curricular track, as well as continuing development of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, which will involve further collaboration with other health facilities and hospitals.

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Penn State's Board of Trustees should add academic representatives to the school's governing body, a faculty group said Monday in the latest recommendations for governance reforms following the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.

The report from a Penn State faculty senate committee is thought to be the first recommendations from a group affiliated with the university.

Former FBI director Louis Freeh, who was hired by the school to investigate its handling of sexual abuse allegations against the former assistant football coach and then-Auditor General Jack Wagner are among the others who have weighed in with suggestions for the school.

"One of the best means of ensuring that the Board understands the mission, values, unique structures and operating systems of the complex academic institution that it governs is to select members who have academic expertise and professional experience in higher education," the report said.

The lack of academic representation on a school governing board has been a question raised at institutions across the country, according to the faculty members.

Freeh's report accused three high-ranking university officials, including former president Graham Spanier, of helping to cover up complaints about Sandusky. Those former administrators, who have maintained their innocence, also face criminal charges.

Wagner last year recommended the removal of the president as a voting trustee. But the faculty senate committee urged that the president remain on the 32-member board, in large part because the president is the only member on the current panel with direct higher education governance experience.

The suggestion of removing the president amounts to a "cosmetic change that would have little practical implication to the governance of the university," said John Nichols, an emeritus communications professor and chair of the committee that wrote the report.

The committee advocated academic representation on the board, including at least two faculty members. While not widespread, the inclusion of faculty on governing boards is becoming more common at public universities, the report said.

It also cited as examples Cornell University, with two faculty members on its 64-member board; and the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, with 17 public trustees and 14 medical professional trustees.

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A ceiling fan's blade came crashing down on a student writing his life's first board exam on Monday in a north Calcutta school that counts among its old boys, Rabindranath Tagore.

Shah Mohiuddin had just started reading the questions for Madhyamik's Urdu Paper I at Oriental Seminary, on Chitpore Road, 15 minutes before students are allowed to start writing, when he heard a cracking sound and got hit on the head by something.

His hand went to his head at once and there was blood on his hands.

The ceiling fan in Room No. 36 had fallen almost between two students, but grazed Mohiuddin's head on the way.

"Someone switched on the fan and it just came off. I was hit even before I realised what was happening and then there was acute pain," said the 15-year-old student of Mohammad Jan High School.

"There were two of us on the bench. The fan fell between us. Don't know what would have happened if the whole thing had landed on our heads. We were lucky," said the boy who wrote the remaining test with two stitches.

A local doctor dressed his gash and gave him painkillers. The school arranged for a glass of milk. "I was fine after that," said the braveheart, when he stepped out of the centre an hour after all his friends had left.

Tagore had studied at Oriental for a few months as a seven-year-old in 1868. Its fans are not that old but they are not very young or well-kept either. Decades of neglect was apparent in the ones still hanging from hooks with iron beams running along the high ceiling. The fan's bolts had apparently come loose.

Teacher-in-charge Dulal Mandal claimed that the fans and lights were thoroughly checked by a local electrician on Saturday. "I was called to repair the switchboard, not the fans," said electrician Swapan Das.

"After medical treatment, Mohiuddin was asked whether he wanted to go to a hospital or carry on with his Urdu Paper I. He wished to write and was allowed to do so for three hours from 1pm," said a teacher. Around 4.15pm, Mohiuddin was escorted out of the school by police personnel and guided into a taxi parked right outside the gate.

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Universities nationally are grappling with ways to establish a global presence: Some are building campuses abroad. Some are opening centers for alumni interaction and faculty research. Others are fostering study-abroad programs and international enrollment. And some are trying a combination.

Over the last 17 months, Ezekiel Emanuel, the University of Pennsylvania's first vice provost for global initiatives, has been studying the landscape and plotting a coordinated, cohesive course for the Ivy League campus.

At a board of trustees meeting this week, Penn will announce a series of substantial financial gifts to launch its new vision, developed by Emanuel, an oncologist and bioethicist used to working in the global arena who was one of the principal architects of President Obama's health-care reform act.

The university plans to build a "world house" on campus in which to concentrate global activities. It will include a "global solutions program," in which world leaders and faculty experts will take on a new problem every year - such as access to clean water - and develop solutions. That house, location to be determined, will open in 2015.

The plan also calls for a center in China to be used for training, faculty research, interviews of prospective students, and other collaborations.

And Penn will bring on two global educators, one a professor and another to head the world house. Though the university has many experts in particular geographical areas, it needs more faculty with global expertise, Emanuel said.

"It's a pretty serious commitment out of the block," said Emanuel, who has traveled to Africa, India, and Singapore to meet with alumni, government officials, and others.

But one thing Penn does not plan to do is build a branch campus abroad.

"That's a crazy idea," Emanuel said during an interview in his office last week. "We're in the education business. We're not in the real estate business."

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C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, died Monday in New Hampshire. He was 96.

An assistant at Koop's Dartmouth institute, Susan Wills, said he died in Hanover, where he had a home. She didn't disclose the cause of his death.

Koop wielded the previously low-profile post of surgeon general as a bully pulpit for seven years during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.

An evangelical Christian, he shocked his conservative supporters when he endorsed condoms and sex education to stop the spread of AIDS.

He carried out a crusade to end smoking in the United States his goal had been to do so by 2000. A former pipe smoker, he said cigarettes were as addictive as heroin and cocaine.

Koop's impact was great, although the surgeon general has no real authority to set government policy. He described himself as "the health conscience of the country."

"My only influence was through moral suasion," Koop said just before leaving office in 1989.

By then, his Amish-style silver beard and white braided uniform were instantly recognizable.

Out of office, he switched to business suits and bow ties but continued to promote public health causes, from preventing childhood accidents to better training for doctors.

"I will use the written word, the spoken word and whatever I can in the electronic media to deliver health messages to this country as long as people will listen," he promised.

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