Winter 2020 WashU Alumni Newsletter (pdf)

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Impacting Health Policy to Improve Outcomes – Cardiologists at Washington University
School of Medicine are at the forefront of advocating and advancing evidence-based
health care policy. “We’re a bit of an anomaly here and also nationally,” says cardiologist Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH. “Most clinicians who focus on health policy and public health are generalists and not specialists, but several cardiologists here are involved in health policy and public health research and initiatives.”