Peter Salgo

Dr. Peter Salgo is an Emmy Award-winning medical journalist, practicing physician, and respected healthcare futurist who has spent his career bridging the worlds of medicine and media to help audiences understand the future of health. He speaks on healthcare trends, heart disease prevention, wellness strategy, and crisis leadership, drawing from his decades as a Columbia University professor and Surgical ICU specialist. He is also known for directing the emergency medical response at his New York City hospital in the hours following the September 11 attacks.

Physician, Professor & Broadcast Journalist
Salgo is a Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, specializing in intensive care medicine and the treatment of heart patients, transplant recipients, and artificial heart candidates. Parallel to his clinical practice, he built a celebrated broadcast career as host of Second Opinion on PBS, seen in more than 220 markets nationwide. His awards include an Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story, an Associated Press Award for Best Continuing News Coverage, and both the American Society of Emergency Physicians Broadcasting Award and the Howard W. Blakeslee Award from the American Heart Association.

Author & Healthcare Futurist
Salgo is the author of The Heart of the Matter, a groundbreaking book on heart attack prevention that empowers readers with self-testing tools and a practical prevention framework. He has published extensively on drug pricing, chronic fatigue, fetal surgery, AIDS, and healthcare delivery reform. He speaks on healthcare transformation, the wellness revolution, cardiac health, crisis preparedness, and the future of medicine.

America’s Vital Signs

In his presentation, healthcare speaker Peter Salgo predicts that the progress in fighting heart disease will have a tremendous impact on our nation’s healthcare delivery system and the future of medicine itself. While explaining how current medical breakthroughs will allow today’s Americans to live longer than any other generation, he also explores the future of healthcare and how the industry must prepare to serve.

The Future of Healthcare

The future is bright for professionals. They will see the reorganization of health care delivery in this country into a form that will give them more control over both their incomes, and the care they deliver. In this presentation, Peter Salgo teaches that the key to achieving this bright future is to act now to implement a few substantive changes. The millennium will not drift in the right direction. Professionals must guide the future by their direct action and behavior to craft it into the model they desire.

Wherefore Your Hospital in Changing Times

Clearly healthcare is changing. Healthcare delivery models are changing. Wellness has become the new touchstone for healthcare. Disease prevention is replacing the disease model of healthcare delivery. Dr. Peter Salgo shows hospitals and healthcare providers how to ride the wave of the wellness revolution.