The Atlanta chapter of AHCJ met on Sept. 25 to hear Otis Brawley, M.D., speak on various health care topics.
WebMD’s Dan DeNoon introduced Brawley, an American Cancer Society executive and physician who earlier in the year addressed AHCJ’s annual conference in Atlanta.
Brawley spoke about cancer treatment, waste in medical spending – including in prescription drugs – and the Health Policy law in an hourlong talk to 15 to 20 chapter members.
He then fielded several questions from attendees, and stuck around for an informal chat with members afterward.
As always, Brawley was a dynamic speaker, stirring chapter members with compelling facts and insights about the health care system.
AHCJ’s Atlanta chapter will next meet on Dec. 3, when journalists will hear from the CDC’s John Jernigan, M.D., M.S. As the clinical team leader on the Multistate Meningitis Outbreak and director of the CDC’s Office of Health Associated Infections Prevention Research and Evaluation, he will talk about the agency’s response to the recent fungal meningitis outbreak.
