Dr. Michael Nurok Uneven & Unnecessary Deaths During the Pandemic
How do we prepare for what comes next?
Michael Nurok, MBChB, PhD, FCCM is the Director of the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit, and Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Cardiac Surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He also serves as co-Chair of the Cedars-Sinai Bioethics Committee.
He obtained his medical degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, a doctorate in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris as a recipient of a French Ministry of Foreign Affairs scholarship, and completed residency and fellowship training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Nurok was integral to coordinating Cedar-Sinai’s ICU response at the beginning of the pandemic and he is currently working on load balancing for future health emergencies. His research interests are in healthcare delivery and ethics. He collaborates closely with faculty at Harvard Business School and his scholarship has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs and other peer-reviewed and lay publications.
Dr. Nurok encourages participants to read THIS article form HealthAffairs.org in advance of the call.
