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From June 22-25, 2025, Aspen Ideas: Health will explore the big ideas shaping the future of health, medicine, and science with visionary leaders, innovators, and advocates. Register now to join the conversation!

Explore bold approaches to better health for all with the visionary thinkers who are leading the way. Registration in now open for the June 20-23 event!

In this talk with Ruth Katz, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine, and Society Program, Baron explains some reasons why people have lost faith in medicine.

Having held many positions across the health care ecosystem, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Aspen Health Innovators Fellow, saw a pervasive problem impacting health outcomes and health care costs: health literacy.

Aspen Ideas: Health returns to the mountains of Colorado from June 22-25, 2022 to explore bold approaches to better health for all! With open-air venues that celebrate the natural landscape and creative programming that encourages interactivity between attendees and speakers, this is not your ordinary health conference.

Tony Clapsis is the General Manager of CVS Clinical Trial Services – a role that put him at the center of what became one of the largest COVID-19 testing providers in the United States.

Faith Polkey reflects on how she rose up to meet – and own – this moment a leader, realized her own resilience, and found effective innovations in patient care that will carry into the future. 

Michael Lindsey shares how helping vulnerable communities feel more, “whole” through some of the toughest moments of the pandemic helped him to feel whole himself.

Emergency room physician Megan Ranney shares how she turned one of the most challenging times in her life and career into a year defined by impact.