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David J. Fine Distinguished Visiting Professor in Healthcare Administration public lecture: Care and Its Artificial Future
David J. Fine Distinguished Visiting Professor in Healthcare Administration
*Free event. All are welcome!
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
5:00pm-7:00pm
1.0 ACHE Qualifying Education Credit
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Join the University of Minnesota School for Public Health for the David J. Fine Distinguished Visiting Professor in Healthcare Administration public lecture. This annual lecture series brings a nationally recognized academic leader and expert to campus to share insights, engage with students, faculty, alumni, and connect with the broader University community. This program is made possible through a generous gift from Master of Healthcare Administration alumnus David Fine and his wife, Susan Fine.
Keynote speaker: Victor M. Montori, MD, MS – Robert H. and Susan M. Rewoldt Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic
Lecture Title: Care and Its Artificial Future
We will be discussing a global movement that seeks to turn away from industrialized healthcare – a form of healthcare in which the care of patients is a means to an end, in which patients are processed, and in which cruelty towards patients and clinicians happens routinely and care by happy accident. Industrialized healthcare is moving to new phases that further its datafication and eventual mutation into fully artificial forms of patient processing that will be conflated with care. This movement for care rejects an artificial future and instead seeks to turn toward careful and kind care for all. Careful care is unhurried, evidence-based, safe, and sensible. It is responsive to the needs and situation of this patient rather than of patients like this. Careful care requires that clinicians see patients in high definition, notice their problems in their biology and biography, and respond with compassion and competence by co-creating plans of care that make intellectual, emotional and practical sense to each patient. Kind care recognizes each patient as a fellow human, one of us rather than one of them. It calls for minimizing the demands healthcare makes on patients’ scarce time, energy, and attention which patients rather use to fulfill their obligations, pursue their loves, and flourish. This movement affirms that to care is human and that only humans can care. Based on solidarity and love, health care must support the work of people who come together to give and receive care.
At the end of this talk, participants will be able to: 1) describe how the industrialization of healthcare, and its evolution toward artificial care, introduces pathologies of care and is hostile to patient-centered care; and 2) identify an alternative path forward, including specific actions that may turn away from industrialized (and artificial) health care and toward careful and kind care for all
Agenda
5:00 – 5:30 PM Check-In and Dinner
5:30 – 5:45 PM Welcome
5:45 – 6:30 PM Lecture
6:30 – 6:45 PM Q and A
7:00 PM Event Concludes
