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LOS ANGELES CA, USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- JULY 16, 2025: Registration is now open for APG's Fall Conference 2025, which will take place on Wednesday, November 5 to Friday, November 7, 2025, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland (just 11 miles or a quick taxi ride from downtown Washington, DC).
The theme of this year's Fall Conference is Purpose, Perseverance and Possibility: Staying the Course on Accountable Care. That's because amid ongoing financial pressures, health sector transformation, and government-driven changes, delivering accountable care is both needed now more than ever and often elusive to achieve.
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*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*
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DISEASE KNOWS NO POLITICS
Dr. Elias Zerhouni |
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It may seem as if there is no time like the present when health and health care have become as politicized as they are now. Elias Zerhouni, MD, knows that there’s ample precedent for these times.
Dr. Zerhouni served as the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health (the first Arab American and immigrant to do so) from 2002-2008 under President George W. Bush. Later, he was one of the first presidential envoys for science and technology under President Barack Obama. The former chair of the radiology department at Johns Hopkins University medical school, Dr. Zerhouni conducted research that led to multiple advances in radiology. His inventions have saved countless patients with suspected lung or breast cancer from unnecessary surgeries and propelled forward the field of cardiovascular MRI.
In his new memoir, published today, Dr. Zerhouni recounts how he steered NIH through such “stormy political waters” as the debate over embryonic stem cell research. He also led efforts to reorganize the agency to better advance science and developed a firmer conviction than ever that “science and public health must be kept separate from partisan politics,” as he writes in his book. But “this fragile modus vivendi” between science and public health "has been broken too often by ill-advised politicians whose narratives, designed to gain or retain power, collide with contradictory scientific evidence.”
In a keynote address at the APG Fall Conference, he will describe his personal journey from his birthplace in Algeria to the highest reaches of U.S. medicine and science, and his recommendations for restoring the invaluable connection between science and health.
For more information about Disease Knows No Politics, please visit: Dr. Elias Zerhouni | Disease Knows No Politics.
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