Scott Atlas
Scott W. Atlas is an American physician and health care policy advisor. He is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.[1]
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of Chicago |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Health care |
Institutions | Hoover Institution |
Biography
Atlas received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and his MD from the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago. He currently serves as the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank.[2] From 1998 to 2012, he was Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center.[3]
Atlas served as a senior advisor for health care to Republican presidential campaigns in 2008, 2012, and 2016.[4][5]
In policy, his most recent book is the second edition of Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six‐Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost (in press, 2020)[6]. He is also the author of In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America’s Health Care System (2011); review,[7] Reforming America’s Health Care System (2010), and Power to the Patient: Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions (2005).
In medicine, Atlas is the editor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine,[8] currently in its fifth edition and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.[9]
His work and interviews have appeared in Istoé[10] and The Hindu.[11]
On August 10, 2020, the White House and President Donald Trump announced that Atlas would join the administration as an advisor on COVID-19. Atlas has advocated for school reopenings during the pandemic.[12]
Honors
In 2008, he received the Comeback Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an alumnus.[13] He also received the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[14] He has been awarded several honorary memberships in medical societies in the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, and served as honorary Visiting Professor in Neuroradiology from 2013-2016 at the University Hospital of Zürich. He is on the Advisory Board of the Clinical Neuroscience Center of the University Hospital of Zurich.[15]
Selected works
Selected journal publications
- Atlas SW, Shkolnik A, Naidich TP: Sonographic recognition of agenesis of the corpus callosum. AJNR 1985; 6:369-375.
- Atlas SW, Grossman RI, Hackney DB, Goldberg HI, Zimmerman RA, Bilaniuk LT:MR diagnosis of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1986; 10:798-801.
- Grossman RI, Gonzalez-Scarano F, Atlas SW, Galetta S, Silberberg DH: Multiple sclerosis: Gadolinium enhancement in MR imaging. Radiology 1986; 161:721-725.
- Atlas SW, Zimmerman RA, Rorke L, Bilaniuk LT, Hackney DB, Goldberg HI, Grossman RI: Corpus callosum and limbic system: Neuroanatomic MR evaluation of developmental anomalies. Radiology 1986; 160:355-362
- Atlas SW, Grossman RI, Gomori JM, Hackney DB, Goldberg HI, Bilaniuk LT, Zimmerman RA: Spin echo MR imaging of hemorrhagic intracranial malignant neoplasms. Radiology 1987; 164:71-77
- Atlas SW, Mark AS, Grossman RI, Gomori JM: Intracranial hemorrhage: Gradient-echo MR imaging at 1.5T: Comparison with spin-echo imaging and clinical applications. Radiology 1988; 168:803-807.
- Atlas SW, Grossman RI, Savino PJ, Schatz NJ, Sergott RC, Bosley TM, Hackney DB, Goldberg HI, Zimmerman RA, Bilaniuk LT: Internuclear ophthalmoplegia: neuroanatomic - MR correlation. AJNR 1987; 8:243-247
- Gonzalez-Scarano F, Grossman RI, Galetta S, Atlas SW, Silberberg DH: Multiple sclerosis disease activity correlates with gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Neurol 1987; 21:300-306.
- Hobbs, S. K., Shi, G. Y., Homer, R., Harsh, G., Atlas, S. W., Bednarski, M. D. Magnetic resonance image-guided proteomics of human glioblastoma multiforme, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2003; 18 (5): 530-536
- Baker, L. C., Atlas, S. W. Relationship between HMO market share and the diffusion and use of advanced MRI technologies. Journal of the American College of Radiology 2004; 1 (7): 478-487
- Atlas, S. W. Embracing subspecialization: the key to the survival of radiology. Journal of the American College of Radiology 2007; 4 (11): 752-753
- Baker, L. C., Atlas, S. W., Afendulis, C. C. Expanded Use Of Imaging Technology And The Challenge of Measuring Value, Health Affairs 2008; 27 (6): 1467-1478
- Yi, H., Zhang, L., Singer, K., Rozelle, S., Atlas, S. Health Insurance and Catastrophic Illness:: A Report on the New Cooperative Medical System in Rural China, Health Economics 2009; 18: S119-S127
- Baker, L. C., Afendulis, C. C., Atlas, S. W. Assessing Cost-Effectiveness And Value As Imaging Grows: The Case Of Carotid Artery CT, Health Affairs 2010; 29 (12): 2260-2267
Selected books
- Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six‐Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost (2016 1st ed.; 2020)
- In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America’s Health Care System (2011)
- Reforming America’s Health Care System (2010)
- Power to the Patient: Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions (2005)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine (1990 1st ed.; 1996; 2002; 2008; 2016)
References
- "Scott W. Atlas—Hoover Institution Biography". Hoover Institution.
- Do, Huy M.; Quencer, Robert (1 September 2003). "Scott W. Atlas Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution". American Journal of Neuroradiology. pp. 1729–1729.
- "Scott W. Atlas' Profile". Stanford.
- "Romney's new health care adviser once attacked 'Romneycare'". CNN.
- "Rudy Giuliani's health care proposal". PNHP.
- "Opinion: Medicaid fails the poor". Becker's Hospital Review.
- Miller, Thomas (1 August 2012). "A Diagnosis At Odds With A Treatment Plan". Health Affairs. 31 (8): 1905–1907. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0722. ISSN 0278-2715.
- Mancuso, Anthony A. (1 November 1991). "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine, First Edition". Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. pp. 175–175. doi:10.1002/mrm.1910220119.
- Liu, Charles Y. (1 November 2002). "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine, Third Edition". Neurosurgery. pp. 1316–1317. doi:10.1097/00006123-200211000-00037.
- "Scott Atlas: As pessoas sofrem com doenças cada vez mais caras". ISTOÉ Independente (in Portuguese). 25 May 2018.
- Sujatha, R. (15 August 2016). "'Private sector is crucial for universal healthcare'". The Hindu.
- Morrison, Cassidy (August 10, 2020). "Critic of coronavirus lockdowns and school closures made adviser to President Trump". Washington Examiner. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
- "Illini Comeback Award (Est. 1980)". University of Illinois Alumni.
- "Congratulations 2011 UI Alumni Award recipients!". UI Alumni Network.
- "Willkommen am UniversitätsSpital Zürich". University Hospital Zurich (in German).