February 5...Enjoy a salon style dinner with Atul Gawande author of The Checklist Manifesto, featuring Rialto.  The evening begins with a reception followed by a seated dinner with paired wines.  Guests will mix and mingle with Atul and will have the opportunity for questions and answers.  Tickets are $125, includes reception, dinner and a signed copy of The Checklist Manifesto.  Reception begins at 7pm.

Call 617.661.5050 for reservations.

A surgeon and a writer, Atul Gawande is a staff member of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and the New Yorker magazine. He received his B.A.S. from Stanford University, M.A. (in politics, philosophy, and economics) from Oxford University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He served as a senior health policy advisor in the Clinton presidential campaign and White House from 1992 to 1993. Since 1998, he has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine.

He is also Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Research Director for the BWH Center for Surgery and Public Health. His newest book, The Checklist Manifesto, is one of Amazon’s best books of the month: December 2009.

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