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American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics Features James N. Weinstein, D.O.
During 2010 Annual Meeting in San Francisco
The American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics is pleased to announce that Dr. James N. Weinstein will be their featured keynote speaker Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 1:10 p.m. at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Dr. Weinstein is the Director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI). In January 2010, he was selected as the President of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic. The dual positions allow him to build critical linkages between the groundbreaking health services research of TDI and the clinical care at D-H.
Dr. Weinstein is an internationally renowned spine surgeon and researcher. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Spine, and author of more than 270 papers, all published in peer-reviewed journals. He was Chair of the Departments of Orthopaedics at Dartmouth Medical School and DHMC from 2003 until his appointment as DHC president.
Dr. Weinstein is a leader in advancing “informed choice” to ensure that patients receive evidence-based, safe, effective, efficient and appropriate care, establishing the first-in-the-nation Center for Shared Decision-Making at DHMC.
He has received over $35 million in research funding from the NIH. He is principal investigator for the NIH-funded SPORT (Spine Patients Outcomes Research Trial) study, the first large-scale trial to look at the effectiveness of the three most common surgical procedures for back pain, as compared to non-operative treatment.
Dr. Weinstein’s lecture, entitled “Where's the Wisdom in Healthcare?”, will focus on the urgency around the transfer of healthcare delivery using the Spine Center at DHMC as a model.