Speaker Profile

David Rothman, Ph. D.

        

President, Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP)
Associate Director, The Prescription Project
Professor of Social Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Trained in American social history at Harvard University, David Rothman first explored the
history of mental hospitals, prisons, and almshouses. His 1971 book, The Discovery of the
Asylum (new editions 1990 and 2003), was the co-winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Prize
of the American Historical Association. 
David Rothman joined the Columbia medical school faculty in 1983 and his subsequent
work has examined the history of  health care practices and health policy. He has published
Strangers at the Bedside: A History of how Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical
Decision Making (1991); Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American
Health Care (1997), and The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical
Enhancement (2003, co-authored with Sheila Rothman). David Rothman's other scholarly
and policy interests include organ transplantation and the place of human rights in medicine.
Together with Sheila Rothman, he received a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy
Investigator Award to study the social and policy implications of the rise in living kidney
donation. 
David Rothman is now addressing the place of professionalism in medicine. He co-chaired
the task force established in collaboration with the ABIM Foundation, whose findings
appeared in the 2006 JAMA article: "Health Industry Practices that Create Conflicts of
Interest: A Policy Proposal for Academic Medical Centers."  
In 2007, IMAP together with Boston-based Community Catalyst received a grant from
PEW Community Trust to conduct the Prescription Project. IMAP has also received a grant
from the Oregon Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Program: Rational
Prescribing in a World of Marketing, Educating Providers and Organizations to Best
Practices.

 

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