We are pleased to continue our Distinguished Lecture Series, now in its 15th season. Peter Lazes and Marie Rudden, authors of From the Ground Up: How Frontline Staff Can Save America’s Healthcare, will be the featured speakers on Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.
This event will take place via Zoom; please click HERE to access the meeting.
All Americans deserve and should have access to high quality, affordable healthcare services delivered by professionals who have sufficient time and resources to care for them. From the Ground Up: How Frontline Staff Can Save America’s Healthcare offers proven and practical approaches for redesigning healthcare organizations to be less fragmented—and more patient-centered—by tapping into the experiences of staff on the front lines of patient care.
Lazes and Rudden show how structured engagements among administrators, medical staff, and patients are a core element of a successful organizational change effort. Through case studies they explore exactly what it takes to effectively engage staff and providers in improving patient care shortcomings within their institutions. At a time when the massive gaps in our healthcare systems have been laid bare by the fragmented responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this book offers hope and a plan for change.
Peter Lazes, PhD, is the founder and former director of Programs for Employment and Workplace Systems and of the Healthcare Transformation Project at Cornell University. For over 40 years, he has been dedicated to designing systems in which the knowledge and experience of frontline staff are used to improve patient care. Marie Rudden, MD, is a psychoanalyst and clinical assistant professor in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and an associate editor for the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Rudden is a training and supervising analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. They live in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Now in its 15th season, the Distinguished Lecture Series is organized and hosted by Dr. Jeremy Yudkin. Dr. Yudkin is a resident of the Berkshires and professor of music at Boston University and Oxford University. Every summer at the Lenox Library he presents the pre-concert lectures for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood season.
We are grateful to the Lenox Library Association for their sponsorship of Zoom, which makes these virtual programs possible.