Dr. Robert Pearl

Dr. Robert Pearl is the author of "Uncaring: How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients" and the former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group, the nation's largest medical group, and former president of The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. In these roles, he led 10,000 physicians, 38,000 staff and was responsible for the medical care of 5 million Kaiser Permanent members. He is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.