Lown Institute

06/18/2026

At LOWN26, we asked attendees "how has attending this conference affected your thinking about what's possible?"

Lily Cervantes, MD - Director of Immigrant Health and Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and 2024 BLASR winner - shares her thoughts.

06/17/2026

What does it take to be a truly great hospital? And is your local hospital one of them? Join us on Tuesday, June 23 at 1:00pm ET for a special Zoom event as we unveil the top-performing hospitals on the 2026 Lown Hospitals Index for Social Responsibility.

Register @ https://ow.ly/8tJr50ZcQOu

06/17/2026

At LOWN26, we asked attendees two questions:

1) How is the affordability crisis playing out in your community?
2) How has attending this conference affected your thinking about what's possible?

Michael L. Barnett, MD - Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice at Brown University School of Public Health - shares his thoughts.

06/16/2026

At LOWN26, we asked attendees two questions:

1) How is the affordability crisis playing out in your community?
2) How has attending this conference affected your thinking about what's possible?

Reshma Ramachandran, MD - Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine; Co-director, Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency; and 2025 BLASR winner - shares her thoughts.

06/15/2026

At LOWN26, we asked attendees two questions:

1) How is the affordability crisis playing out in your community?
2) How has attending this conference affected your thinking about what's possible?

Selwyn Rogers, Jr., MD - Section Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine - shares his thoughts.

06/10/2026

“This initiative reflects the serious crisis we face and that affordability is a real thing,” said Vikas Saini, president of the Lown Institute. “I think it also reflects grassroots anger and a desire to do something.”

The looming impact of federal Medicaid cuts has reignited a costly battle between California’s medical industry and one of its largest health worker unions.

06/08/2026

We remember Dr. Sidney Alexander, cardiologist and cofounder of the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, who has passed away at 94.

A research fellow under Lown Institute founder Dr. Bernard Lown and chairman of what is now the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Lahey Clinic, Dr. Alexander helped launch local, regional, and national organizations and programs that promote preventive cardiology care. In April, when colleagues held a celebration for his retirement, he was still seeing patients every week — at 94. Some patients saw him for 40 or more years.

A cofounder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Dr. Alexander was a Lahey Clinic cardiologist for more than 60 years.

06/02/2026

“We bear witness, we organize, and we refuse to look away” - Dr. Chanelle Diaz, MD, MPH accepts the 2026 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility.

Read her full remarks @

Watch Dr. Chanelle Diaz's acceptance of the Bernard Lown Award and read excerpts from her speech.

06/01/2026

The Lown Institute team at the AcademyHealth ARM conference in Seattle! We're presenting our work hospital community benefit, financial assistance, medical debt, low-value care, and AI.

05/20/2026

"That’s my message for all clinicians, but especially for young clinicians: ground yourselves in your values and I don’t think that you can go wrong."

Check out our full conversation with Chanelle Diaz, winner of the 2026 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility @ https://lowninstitute.org/when-we-find-our-voice-when-we-reclaim-our-power-we-really-get-back-to-the-heart-of-medicine/