Events
2010 Washburn Award
Please note: Limited tickets remain. Please contact the special events office at 617-589-0185 with any questions.
Join the Museum community in honoring the 2010 Washburn Award recipient, Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, with an introduction by the 1998 recipient, Dr. Timothy Johnson.
Tables of 10 are available at the following levels:
Founder: $5,000*: Preferred seating; recognition on event signage and in the evening program; and private reception with award recipient.
Mountaineer: $2,500*: Seating on award recipient's level and recognition on event signage and in the evening program.
Cartographer: $1,500*: Seating on the upper level and recognition in the evening program.
Individual Tickets: $150 each*
*Value of benefits is $100 per attendee. Please consult your tax advisor regarding tax deductibility.
Complimentary parking. Business attire. More information: 617-589-0185, rsvp@mos.org.
The 2010 Recipient
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Carber Cancer Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
His research concentrates on strategies to improve medical performance and public health. In 2007 Dr. Gawande became director of the World Health Organization's global campaign to reduce surgical deaths.
A staff writer for the New Yorker since 1998, Dr. Gawande received a MacArthur Award for his research and writing in 2006 and a 2010 National Magazine Award for his article "The Cost Conundrum."
His book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award, has been published in more than 20 languages. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the ten best books of 2007 by Amazon.com and the Sunday Times of London.
His most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, became a New York Times bestseller and one of Amazon.com's best books of the month for December 2009.
Photo courtesy of Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Join the Museum community in honoring the 2010 Washburn Award recipient, Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, with an introduction by the 1998 recipient, Dr. Timothy Johnson.
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| Location | Museum of Science — Museum of Science, Boston |
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| Duration | 3 hours |
| Related Links | Gawande.com |
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Schedules
Remaining seats appear in parenthesis after event time.
September 29, 2010: 6:00 p.m.
