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One of the nation\u2019s leading medical school deans spoke frankly of the need for America\u2019s future doctors to change course in practice and research, in order to sidestep a looming healthcare debacle.<\/strong> Highlighting a Fordham University event on Oct. 6, Philip A. Pizzo, FCRH \u201966, dean of Stanford Medical School and a practicing physician for nearly five decades, praised the funding of broad scientific research, which, he said, often leads to important medical discoveries with multiple applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, research innovation in the nation today is \u201cshockingly limited,\u201d he said. Many pharmaceutical companies have moved away from research and development altogether, while governmental agencies are tending to limit funding to application-based, or evidence-based, research alone.<\/strong> \u201cWe in the United States are looking at a period coming when funding is going to be dramatically constrained,\u201d said Pizzo, a Bronx native who earned degrees in philosophy and biology before entering medical school. \u201cFundamental discovery is important. If everything has to have an application, we are going to miss that critical insight that doesn\u2019t yet have a fit.\u201d<\/strong> Dr. Pizzo gave as an example medical research on retroviruses\u2014or RNA viruses\u2014in the decades before HIV\/AIDS began appearing in the population. Such completed research on retrovirus behavior, he said, made it all the more possible to develop critical AIDS treatments relatively quickly, staving off what could have been a major epidemic.<\/strong> \u201cNew diseases will astound us,\u201d Dr. Pizzo said. \u201cBut basic science and queries, unlinked to what we are facing today, could provide solutions to tomorrow\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the United States is a great nation\u2014one that enabled Pizzo to be the first in his family to graduate from high school and college\u2014its healthcare system based on a fee-for-service model is bankrupting the government. Currently, the U.S. spends a whopping 17 percent of Gross Domestic Product on health care, twice the amount of any other developed nation, and it is rising.<\/strong> \u201cWe are not first in anything other than administrative overhead,\u201d said Pizzo, noting that the nation\u2019s costly and disproportionate healthcare system falls behind in both longevity and disease outcomes.<\/strong> \u201cWe have embraced technology in ways that are overexhuberant, and they have increased the cost of care and created distance between physicians and those that they care for. It is all too easy to just order a test.\u201d<\/strong> Tomorrow\u2019s doctors, said Pizzo, will have to fight the perception that being a good doctor means ordering test after test on patients. More emphasis, he said, should be placed on familiarizing themselves with patient histories, and looking at and listening to their patients.<\/strong> \u201cStrong science must have strong humanism,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

The doctor credited his time at Fordham, where he studied science, philosophy and theology, with helping him frame the way he thinks about science today.<\/strong> \u201cI learned something more important (than science) at Fordham\u2014critical thinking,\u201d he said. \u201cI learned to be reflective, to listen, and to continue to explore.<\/strong> \u201cThose skills are still inspiring today\u2019s Fordham students.\u201d In addition to serving as dean, Dr. Pizzo is Stanford\u2019s Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology. He has held positions at the National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health, and chaired Harvard Medical School\u2019s Department of Pediatrics from 1996 to 2001. He is the author of more than 500 scientific articles and 15 books and has received numerous awards and honors for his work\u2014including an honorary degree from Fordham.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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