Experts
Nicholas LaRusso
Director, Center for Innovation, Mayo Clinic
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Smarter Patients = Better Health: Tools for Rating Your Doctor
Dr. Nicholas LaRusso welcomes intelligent patients who demand hospitals make health outcomes transparent to the public. Read More
June 26, 2009 | In Health & Medicine
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How We Pay Our Doctors Might Be Killing Us
Mayo Professor and Director, Dr. Nicholas LaRusso, says we need universal access, coordinated care, value and payment reform. Read More
June 26, 2009 | In Health & Medicine
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Did Steve Jobs Game the Organ Transplant System?
Dr. Nicholas LaRusso questions what he calls unfounded claims that Steve Jobs received preferential treatment for his liver transplant. Read More
June 26, 2009 | In Health & Medicine
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Transplanting Swine Organs Into Humans: Should We Tamper With Nature?
While acknowledging risks of cross-species disease, Dr. Nicholas LaRusso envisions genetically modified pig livers wiping out human liver scarcity. Read More
June 26, 2009 | In Health & Medicine
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I’ve Got My Genetic Profile, Now What?
Dr. Nicholas LaRusso wants to help people modify their lifestyles based on their DNA. Read More
June 26, 2009 | In Health & Medicine
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A conversation with Professor of Medicine at Mayo Medical School, and Medical Director of the Center for Innovation at Mayo Clinic. Read More
June 26, 2009 | In Health & Medicine
Nicholas F. LaRusso, M.D., Charles H. Weinman Endowed Professor of Medicine, is Director of the Center for Innovation at Mayo and a Distinguished Investigator of the Mayo Foundation.
Prior to becoming Center Director in 2008, he was Vice Chair for Research of the Department of Medicine (DOM), Chair of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Chair of the DOM at Mayo Clinic. Before assuming a faculty position at Mayo in 1977, he was a guest investigator at the Rockefeller University in the laboratory of the Noble laureate, Christian de Duve. A member of the American Association of Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians, he is the former editor of GASTROENTEROLOGY and past president of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). Among other honors, he is a recipient of a MERIT Award and the Principle Investigator on two R01s from the NIH; he also received Distinguished Achievement Awards from both the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the AASLD, and the Distinguished Mentor Award of the AGA. He is currently President of the AGA.
He received his undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) from Boston College, his M.D. degree from New York Medical College, and his training in internal medicine and gastroenterology at Mayo, the latter as an NIH fellow in the laboratory of Alan Hofmann.
