Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine "Conversation Series 2021": Sanford Greenberg

Description

Sanford Greenberg, chair of the Board of Governors of the Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute, will present a lecture entitled " A Conversation with Sanford Greenberg" as part of the Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine "Conversation Series 2021." A Q&A session will follow the lecture.

Please attend the event by using the Zoom link (Passcode: 753344)

Speaker Bio

Sanford D. Greenberg is chair of the Board of Governors of The Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute, the largest clinical and research enterprise in ophthalmology in the U.S.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and trustee emeritus of The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, which incorporates the School of Medicine and the Hospital.

Greenberg lost his eyesight to disease during his junior year in college yet graduated with his class the following year, elected as class president. Furthering his lifelong aspiration to spare others the misery of being blind, in 2012, he instituted a campaign and prize for research toward eradicating blindness among humankind: "End Blindness 2020." This effort gained international recognition in 2014 when it was granted a featured session on the agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where Greenberg has been a regular participant.

President Bill Clinton appointed him to the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation and advises both the president and Congress on policy matters related to science and engineering. He served as chair of the Rural Health Care Corporation, created by Congress to bring the benefits of telemedicine to America's rural areas. Greenberg was a founding director of the American Agenda, an organization established by Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford to identify for President George H. W. Bush the six most urgent problems confronting the nation and to recommend bipartisan solutions. He also served as a director of the National Committee on U.S.–China relations.

As a White House fellow in the Johnson administration, Greenberg worked on national technology needs with the U.S. Departments of Defense, State, and Commerce, and White House task forces on NASA, information systems, and biomedical research. He was co-editor of the book The Presidential Advisory System, which discussed the methods used by American presidents to obtain policy advice for the management of the federal government.

His career as inventor, entrepreneur, and investor began when he invented and patented a compressed speech machine that speeds up the reproduction of words from recordings without distorting any sound. He founded several enterprises, including a company that produced specialized computer simulators and one that created the world's largest electronic laboratory surveillance network and antimicrobial profiling database.

Greenberg received his B.A. as Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1962. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and attended Harvard Law School. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Sue; they have three children and four grandchildren.

About the Series

The goal of Leading Change: Perspectives from Outside of Medicine "Conversation Series 2021" is to help attendees think about ways to improve "the patient experience" at Johns Hopkins by learning from experts in other fields and disciplines. The lectures are open to all members of the Johns Hopkins community and we look forward to seeing you there. In order to allow for an open exchange between the speaker and the audience we will not record or broadcast the lecture.