![]() ![]() Saini will be co-leading the Right Care Alliance, an effort to address the cultural issues at the core of the overuse problem.īrownlee holds a master’s degree in marine science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and was named one of the 45 most influential graduates of the university in 2010, the 45th anniversary of the campus’s founding. In her new position at the Lown Institute, Brownlee and Dr. It was the first major medical meeting devoted entirely to addressing concerns around the overuse of treatments, tests and drugs. ![]() Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute. In 2011, while at New America, Brownlee co-convened the Avoiding Avoidable Care conference with Dr. She currently serves as the senior vice president of the Lown Institute, in Boston. She's the author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, which was published in 2007 and named the best economics book of the year by New York Times economics correspondent David Leonhardt. ![]() A noted essayist, writer and speaker, she has been published in such outlets as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Time, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, and is the winner of numerous writing awards. Shannon Brownlee is the former acting director of the Health Policy Program. ![]()
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