QUALITY: Another Stroke of Health Care "Genius"

Yesterday we wrote about three physician-innovators awarded MacArthur "genius" grants, whose work we knew quite well. Today we want to draw your attention to a fourth physician, Wafaa el-Sadr, whose work was less familiar to us. She is both an infectious disease physician and a public health expert, who works both in Africa and Harlem. Reading about her work on HIV/AIDS, TB and other infectious diseases we were particularly intrigued by her ability to blend state-of-the-art pharmacological expertise with insight into how broader social and economic factors impact the course of an epidemic and the fate of an individual.