Over a two-day, three-session series, John Abramson, MD will guide attendees through compelling discussions on innovating and improving our health care system ethically and effectively.
About Dr. Abramson
Dr. Abramson is a lecturer at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Health Care Policy. After 20 years as a family physician, he left his practice when he became aware of uncorrected misrepresentations about the benefits and dangers of commercialized medications in leading medical journals.
He has since devoted his research to the quality of medical information physicians rely on and serves as an expert in litigation involving prescription drugs and medical devices. His work has brought attention to how the commercial takeover of medical knowledge, primarily by drug companies, is compromising the quality of medical information available to even the most dedicated doctors, harming human health, and wasting enormous amounts of Americans’ wealth.
Dr. Abramson is the author of Overdo$ed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine and Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, appeared in national media, and written op-eds, including two in The New York Times.
Seminar Series
- Rebalancing Our Market-Driven System of Generating and Disseminating Medical Knowledge to Best Serve the Health Needs of All Americans
- Feb. 9, 2026, 5:30-7:30pm
- Mezzanine and Seminar Room B, 2nd floor of EPNEC
- Dinner will be served from 5-5:30pm in the Mezzanine and the talk will begin at 5:30pm in Seminar Room B.
- How to Make American Health Care
GreatGood Again- Feb. 10, 2026, 12-1pm
- EPNEC Auditorium, EPNEC; Zoom option available
- Lunch will be served from 11:30am-12pm, and the keynote lecture will begin at 12pm.
- Identifying Fraud and Deception in the Scientific Evidence Available to Health Care Professionals: Applying Lessons Learned in Litigation to Evaluation of Current Medical Literature
- Feb. 10, 2026, 2-4pm
- Seminar Room B, 2nd floor of EPNEC
- Snacks will be provided.
This series is sponsored by Jay Piccirillo, MD, FACS, and the WashU Medicine TL1 and R25 programs. Dinner and lunch will be provided. Registration is required; please register for each session you will be attending on the individual event pages.
These seminars count toward Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) credit. For those interested in receiving a RCR Documentation, email burnettc@wustl.edu. You must attend the seminar in person in its entirety to receive credit.