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John Leifer
John Leifer has spent more than 30 years seeking to understand and influence the health care industry as a senior health care executive, consultant, academician and writer. An outspoken advocate for patients’ rights, John has published widely on the need for patients to receive appropriate, safe and effective care. He is a frequently cited expert on health policy issues by numerous national publications.
The author of The Myths of Modern Medicine: The Alarming Truth About American Health Care (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), John has worked with major hospital systems, physician groups, managed care organizations and governmental agencies across the nation. John understands not only how health care delivery should work, but also how it does work in practice.
John has held faculty positions with both the University of Kansas School of Medicine’s Health Policy and Management Program, where he served as the inaugural executive in residence, and the University’s William Allen White School of Journalism.
In the mid-1980s, he founded and published The Leifer Report, a cutting-edge health care journal. Contributors included President Bill Clinton and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, as well as Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists, industry visionaries and other key influencers within health care.
In 2006, he won the Kansas Health Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award. And in 2009, he completed a master’s degree in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. His thesis focused on addressing the psycho-social, and spiritual and functional needs of cancer patients.