Welcome to Collective Conversations, a series of discussions aimed at highlighting people and groups working to improve health through better health care systems. I’m your host, Joy Lee, a program manager for the Value and Systems Science Lab led by Dr. Joshua Liao who is a physician and Associate Chair for Health Systems in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.

In today’s conversation, you'll hear from Dr. Kevin Duan. 

Dr. Duan, is Acting Instructor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington He is a health services researcher, studying how health systems and policies can be optimized to improve respiratory health and value for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. 

I'm certain his work will interest you, and together we'll look forward to hearing updates from Kevin in the future.