Lessons to Improve Our Reporting on Evidence

Once again this year, the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship program at MIT asked me to speak at their Medical Evidence Boot Camp.

I was particularly humbled and honored to be on the same agenda as these stellar speakers:

• Drs. Steve Woloshin and Lisa Schwartz, Professors of Medicine, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth Medical School.

• Dr. Jennifer Croswell of the US Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

• George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H., Chair of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights Boston University School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Law

• Sidney Wolfe, Director, Health Research Group, Public Citizen

• Barnett (Barry) Kramer, Director, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute

• John C. Bailar III, M.D., Ph.D., University of Chicago

• Michael Wilkes, M.D., Ph.D. Director of Global Health, Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Davis

• Frank Federico, R.Ph., Linda Kenney, Stephen Pratt, M.D. – Panel Discussion: Medical Error and its Aftermath.

I've posted the slides of my talk on SlideShare: