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About Scott Atlas
Scott W. Atlas, MD is a health policy scholar, physician, medical scientist, and author. He is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He is also Co‐Director and Co‐Founder of the Global Liberty Institute in Washington, DC and Switzerland, as well as Senior Scholar and Founding Fellow of Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science & Freedom in Washington, DC, and Senior Adviser to the Independent Institute. Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of government and the private sector on access, quality, and pricing in health care, global trends in health care innovation, and key economic and civil liberties issues related to technology and other health policies. He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and governments in the United States and other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several candidates for President and members of the US Congress. From July 30 to November 30, 2020, he served the nation as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Before his health policy position at Hoover Institution, he was a leader in academic medicine with more than 25 years of experience at some of our nation’s top academic medical centers as a medical scientist, a clinical physician, and an educator of other doctors, including as Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center for 14 years. After earning his MD degree at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, he received his post-graduate medical training at Northwestern University, where he was Chief Resident, and then at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a Visiting Professor at most of the top university medical centers in the United States and many throughout the world. He has given more than 600 invited lectures and authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, almost 200 health policy publications, and 13 books. He was editor or associate editor of more than a half-dozen scientific journals, and principal investigator or co-investigator on more than 30 funded research grants from the NIH and other sources. He trained more than 100 neuroradiology fellows, many of whom are leading physicians throughout the world.
Dr. Atlas is the author of numerous books, including “A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America” (Post Hill Press), "In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight On America’s Health Care" (Hoover Press), and "Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six‐Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost" (Hoover Press). He is also the editor of "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine", the leading textbook in the field, translated into several languages and in its 5th edition.
Dr. Atlas has received many awards and accolades from leading institutions and societies in recognition of his leadership in policy and medicine. He was awarded the 2022 Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals, explained as follows: “Standing up to injustice and facing down the madding crowd of conformity requires enormous patience, equilibrium, insight, and courage—the most important virtue, Aristotle observed, because without it none of the other virtues can flourish. The Encounter Prize for Advancing American Ideals pays tribute to individuals who effectively embody this rare combination of virtues in their lives and work.” He also received the 2021 Freedom Leadership Award, Hillsdale College’s highest honor, “in recognition of his dedication to individual freedom and the free society,” the 2021 Conservative Partnership Institute Freedom Fighter of the Year Award, CPI’s highest honor, "bestowed upon an individual for their courage and dedication to truth and liberty" and the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award, the highest career achievement honor for a distinguished alumnus from the University of Illinois in Urbana‐Champaign. In the private sector, Atlas is a frequent advisor to start‐up entrepreneurs and companies in life sciences and medical technology.
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