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Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems Lecture: Process Improvement in the Rarified Environment of Academic Medicine by Paul F. Levy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Click here to view lecture poster (.pdf). Click here to view MIT World video of this lecture. About the Speaker: Paul F. Levy was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in January 2002. A major patient care, research and teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of CareGroup Healthcare System, Beth Israel Deaconess is the third largest recipient of National Institutes of Health research funding among independent U.S. teaching hospitals. Levy served as Executive Dean of Harvard Medical School before joining BIDMC. He established a national reputation as an administrator with his service as the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, the agency charged with the clean up of Boston Harbor, one of the largest pollution control projects in the world. He has also served as chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy. Before joining Harvard Medical School, Levy was adjunct professor of environmental policy at MIT, where he taught infrastructure planning and development and environmental policy for seven years. He has also maintained an independent consulting practice, providing strategic, negotiation and regulatory advice to firms in the energy, water and telecommunications arenas. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Urban Studies and Planning, and a Master’s in City Planning from MIT. He is the co-author of Negotiating Environmental Agreements (Island Press, 1999). He coaches girls’ soccer, referees youth soccer, and plays on a coed adult team. About the Series: THE BRUNEL LECTURE SERIES ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS was made possible by funds assembled and underwritten by Frank P. Davidson, convener of the Channel Tunnel Study Group (1957). It was this group's design, accomplished by agreement with Bechtel Corporation, Brown & Root, Inc. and Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. in 1959, that formed the basis of the subsea railway link now in service between England and France. Mr. Davidson is a retired Senior Research Associate at MIT. From 1970-1996, he was Chairman of the System Dynamics Steering Committee, Sloan School of Management, and Coordinator of the Macro-Engineering Research Group at MIT's School of Engineering. He co-edited, with C. Lawrence Meador, Macro-Engineering: Global Infrastructure Solutions, subtitled Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brunel Lectures 1983-1992. With Ernst G. Frankel and C. Lawrence Maedor, he co-edited Macro-Engineering, subtitled MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure. These volumes, published by Ellis Horwood and Horwood Publishing Limited in 1992 and 1997, respectively, appeared in Chichester, England, as did Macro-Problems and World Projects, subtitled Essays in Honor of Frank Davidson, which appeared in 1998, on the occasion of Mr. Davidsons retirement and 80th birthday. The latter volume was edited by MIT Professor Emeritus Ernst G. Frankel and by Uwe Kitzinger, CBE, former president of Templeton College, Oxford, and now a Visiting Scholar at Harvard. Brunel Lectures 2001 – Present: From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation (2008) by Shai Agassi Founder and CEO, Better Place Process Improvement in the Rarified Environment of Academic Medicine (2007) by Paul F. Levy President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Educating Engineers for 2020 and Beyond (2006) by Dr. Charles M. Vest President Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering The 21st Century is about Engineering, Systems, and Society (2005) by Dr. A. Richard Newton Dean of the College of Engineering at University of California at Berkeley; Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Engineering Engineering Systems (2004) by Thomas L. Magnanti Institute Professor Dean, MIT School of Engineering The Columbia Tragedy: System-Level Issues for Engineering (2003) by Sheila Widnall Member, Columbia Accident Investigation Board Member, National Women's Hall of Fame Institute Professor, Professor of Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Engineering Systems, Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Living with Catastrophic Terrorism: Can Science and Technology Make the U.S. Safer? (2002) by Lewis M. Branscomb Co-chair, Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, National Research Council and Professor Emeritus, Public Policy and Corporate Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Simple Systems and Other Myths (2001) by Norman R. Augustine Former President, CEO, and Chairman and Current Chairman, Executive Committee, Lockheed Martin Corporation