need different ideas to emerge and be tested quickly, an idea called information brokerage. One way we’re doing this is through the space we’re calling the Brain Trust. The phrase Brain Trust is closely associated with one of the world’s most innovative companies, Pixar, but we’re borrowing it. Ed Catmull, President of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes the Brain Trust as the practice of putting “smart, passionate people in a room together, charge them with identifying and solving problems, and encourage them to be candid.”
This space is our version of the Brain Trust. We invite you to share and borrow ideas, in bite-size formats.
Accelerate Editorial Team
Every Accelerate interview starts with “why” — what inspires and motivates us as individuals? Chief Medical Officer Tom Miller reflects on the touchstone that has guided him through his career in medicine: the ability to change someone’s life and make a difference.
We’ve all done it: attended an amazing lecture or conference and gleaned some great ideas, only to return to work and forget about it entirely a couple weeks later. This common conundrum prompted Lawrence Marsco to ask the U of U Health LDI curriculum committee, “How do we know if anyone’s using this content?”
How can physicians move toward an alternative mode of scholarship — one that’s still scientifically rigorous and peer reviewed but communicated in a more accessible manner? Cardiothoracic surgeon Tom Varghese is building this kind of non-traditional path.
