At last year’s TEDxStanford conference, SHERRY WREN, professor of surgery, gave a talk explaining the importance of surgery in global health care. In a video of that talk, recently posted on the Medical School’s news website, Wren stresses the need to reject the current dogma that surgery is not cost effective or part of basic health.
TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share ideas that spark deep discussion and connection.
TEDxStanford 2013 is scheduled for Saturday, May 11, and tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. Monday, April 8. In the meantime, watch Wren’s 2012 talk, in which she offers some staggering statistics about surgery and global health.
