TEDx Talks | Big Business and Surgery: Who Belongs in Your Operating Room? | Adam Tanious | TEDxCharleston @TEDx | Uploaded 4 months ago | Updated 3 hours ago
Innovative medical technology can allow doctors to offer patients less invasive therapies than traditional surgery. But to do that, surgeons need to have an ongoing dialogue with the for-profit medical industry that develops those technologies. As a surgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina and an entrepreneur, Dr. Adam Tanious says the physician-industry connection is critical. But he says doctors must be careful not to let that relationship sway their decisions about whats best for patients. Tanious wants to start a community conversation about how to establish rules for that critically important physician-industry link to ensure that patients always come first. Dr. Adam Tanious became interested in cardiovascular medicine in college at Johns Hopkins University and as a medical student at Michigan State University. He started his dedicated vascular surgery training at the University of South Florida and then completed his training at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital, concurrently earning a Masters of Medical Science in Clinical Research. Dr. Tanious interests in business and entrepreneurship lead him to earn his MBA during his current tenure as faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina where he also holds the title of Associate Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Residency This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Innovative medical technology can allow doctors to offer patients less invasive therapies than traditional surgery. But to do that, surgeons need to have an ongoing dialogue with the for-profit medical industry that develops those technologies. As a surgeon at the Medical University of South Carolina and an entrepreneur, Dr. Adam Tanious says the physician-industry connection is critical. But he says doctors must be careful not to let that relationship sway their decisions about whats best for patients. Tanious wants to start a community conversation about how to establish rules for that critically important physician-industry link to ensure that patients always come first. Dr. Adam Tanious became interested in cardiovascular medicine in college at Johns Hopkins University and as a medical student at Michigan State University. He started his dedicated vascular surgery training at the University of South Florida and then completed his training at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital, concurrently earning a Masters of Medical Science in Clinical Research. Dr. Tanious interests in business and entrepreneurship lead him to earn his MBA during his current tenure as faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina where he also holds the title of Associate Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Residency This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
