Medical Center Hour
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 12:00 to 1:00
In Person at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building
3rd Floor Auditorium
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89105967067
First Do No Harm, Then Do Good: The Case for Sustainable Healthcare
Jonathan B. Perlin
MD, PhD, MSHA, MACP, FACMI, FAMIA
Pres. & CEO, The Joint Commission, Washington, DC
Dr. Perlin became the seventh President and CEO of The Joint Commission Enterprise on March 1, 2022. The Joint Commission Enterprise includes The Joint Commission, Joint Commission Resources (JCR), Joint Commission International (JCI) and the National Quality Forum (NQF). Through these organizations, he launched the “HELP Agenda” domestically and internationally, providing strategic focus on Health equity, Environmental sustainability, learning healthcare and responsible AI, and Performance integration, to better integrate improvement into normal healthcare operations.
Dr. Perlin’s board service includes chairing Columbia University’s Health Policy and Management program, the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, and he served as a Trustee of Meharry Medical College for 15 years. Broadly published in the academic literature and widely sought as a speaker, Dr. Perlin is perennially recognized as one of the most influential leaders in healthcare (Modern Healthcare #15, #9, #16 in “Top 100” in 2022, ’23, ‘24). He also maintains faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University as a Clinical Professor of Health Policy and at Virginia Commonwealth University as an Adjunct Professor of Health Administration.
Provided by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Nursing
Free and open to the public
Find information on our spring 2025 programs here
Handouts from our past programs can be found below.
About
Medical Center Hour is the School of Medicine’s weekly public forum on medicine and society. Produced by the Center for Health Humanities and Ethics, the series includes History of the Health Sciences Lectures co-presented with Historical Collections in the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. The series is also home to several other annual lectures of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Medical Center Hour is presented on Wednesdays from mid-September through March at midday (12:00-1:00 pm) in the medical school’s Pinn Hall Conference Center Auditorium, and on Zoom, unless otherwise announced. All programs are free and open to the entire university and the public.
Most programs are videorecorded for educational purposes and, with speakers’ permission, made available through UVA Library and also on Medical Center Hour’s dedicated YouTube channel, UVAMCH. Because recordings must be closed-captioned before being posted, there will be delays in online program availability.
PLEASE NOTE: The post activity evaluation for each program will only be available for a 30 day period. Credit will not be issued after the evaluation period has closed. Information on how to submit an evaluation is at the bottom of every handout.