His extraordinary experience gives Dr. David H. Newman unique insight and perspective on medicine and health care.

    He is an emergency room physician and director of clinical research at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

    He also is a major in the U.S. Army Reserves and served a tour of duty with the 344th combat support hospital in Baghdad, where he received an Army Commendation Medal. He can speak about his experiences in Iraq and about war medicine.

Dr. Newman has become a leading voice calling for reforms in health care—in the ways we deliver care and in the 'system' in which the care is delivered. He offers bold new ideas on how to restore access, quality and efficiency as the sovereign forces in health care.

    He questions 'holding down costs' as the primary objective in health care reform and he urges a much deeper respect for good science in a field that claims to be based in science.

Dr. Newman is the author of Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine—What Doctors Don't Know, Don't Tell You, and How Truth Can Repair the Patient-Doctor Breach.

    In his presentations as in his book, Dr. Newman cuts to the heart of what really works in medicine—and what doesn't—and he builds a bridge between doctors and their patients. He returns to the practice of Hippocrates, the father of medicine: be an avid listener with a constant bedside presence and a respect for both science and the power of human healing.

David H. Newman teaches at Columbia University and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

    David is an engaging, deeply researched and eloquent speaker on a topic that lies at the center of today's social concerns.

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