Dr. John Peabody Delivers 2021 Rocky Vista University (RVU) Commencement Speech
Rocky Vista University (RVU) celebrated the graduation of 154 medical students from its College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) and 37 graduate students from its Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences (MSBS) program on the Colorado campus.
RVU hosted the small-scale commencement ceremony for students and their guests in the University’s auditoriums with masks and distanced seating arrangements. Faculty and staff attended the ceremony via telepresence and then joined the graduates outside for personal congratulations and pictures. For those who could not join in-person or via Zoom, a pre-recorded video was distributed for them to share with friends and loved ones.
The keynote address was delivered by John Peabody, MD, PhD, RVU Board of Trustees Member and Founder and President of QURE Healthcare. He is an international healthcare leader in health policy, health economics, and quality of clinical care, and he developed the globally adopted standard for measuring clinical practice variation, known as CPV® vignettes. Currently, he serves as senior advisor to Autism Speaks, regularly advises the World Bank, the Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization, and has faculty appointments in the departments of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, and health services at the University of California, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
In his address, Dr. Peabody spoke about the importance of optimism and how science and the graduates’ future patients will be key to their personal success. As Class of 2021 enters the healthcare workforce, they will face many challenges, Dr. Peabody explained, including the shortage of physicians in the United States. Currently, for every one doctor there are 330 patients in need of healthcare services. But there is room for optimism, Dr. Peabody noted. “You are now both the engine and the spirit that will fuel improvements that are underway.” He also advised the graduates to “practice evidence-based medicine and have compassion for your patients…From this privileged position and in times of great necessity and urgency, remember history and remember your patients.”
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