EP 107: Designing the Hospital at Home | Helen Ouyang

Can hospital care be delivered at home? Will the hospital of the
future only consist of ERs, ORs and ICUs? Dr. Helen Ouyang is an
emergency physician, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at
Columbia University, and contributing writer for The New York Times
Magazine. She has written for The Atlantic, Harper’s, Los Angeles
Times, New York, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington
Post, and others. Her writing has been a finalist for the National
Magazine Award, anthologized in The Best American Science and
Nature Writing, and funded by The Pulitzer Center. Helen has worked
in 20 countries across five continents in public health and
humanitarian assistance. Her publications have also appeared in
many academic medical journals, including The Lancet and JAMA, and
she currently serves as a reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine
and Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. She is also a
mentor-editor for The OpEd Project. Until 2015, Helen was the
Associate Director of Columbia’s International Emergency Medicine
Fellowship. After graduating with a bachelor of arts from Brown
University, Helen went to medical school at Johns Hopkins and
studied for a master’s in public health at Harvard, where she was
also a Zuckerman Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government’s Center for Public Leadership. Upon completing her
training at Harvard, at the Massachusetts General Hospital and
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, she moved out to the Pacific
Northwest before finding her way back to the East Coast. Episode
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