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]

Scott W. Atlas
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Chicago
Scientific career
FieldsHealth care
InstitutionsHoover 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
  1. "Scott W. Atlas—Hoover Institution Biography". Hoover Institution.
  2. Do, Huy M.; Quencer, Robert (1 September 2003). "Scott W. Atlas Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution". American Journal of Neuroradiology. pp. 1729–1729.
  3. "Scott W. Atlas' Profile". Stanford.
  4. "Romney's new health care adviser once attacked 'Romneycare'". CNN.
  5. "Rudy Giuliani's health care proposal". PNHP.
  6. "Opinion: Medicaid fails the poor". Becker's Hospital Review.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. "Scott Atlas: As pessoas sofrem com doenças cada vez mais caras". ISTOÉ Independente (in Portuguese). 25 May 2018.
  11. Sujatha, R. (15 August 2016). "'Private sector is crucial for universal healthcare'". The Hindu.
  12. Morrison, Cassidy (August 10, 2020). "Critic of coronavirus lockdowns and school closures made adviser to President Trump". Washington Examiner. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  13. "Illini Comeback Award (Est. 1980)". University of Illinois Alumni.
  14. "Congratulations 2011 UI Alumni Award recipients!". UI Alumni Network.
  15. "Willkommen am UniversitätsSpital Zürich". University Hospital Zurich (in German).
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