Montefiore Chief on Healthcare in the Bronx, Race and the Pandemic

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 3, 2020

Phillip Ozuah, M.D., PhD, president and CEO of Montefiore Medicine (which includes Montefiore and affiliated hospitals and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine), talks about the experience of facing the COVID-19 outbreak as the largest hospital system in the hard-hit Bronx, and his own experience as the only Black CEO of a hospital system in NYC.

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