standards for quality in medicine." He is Professor of Medicine and, previously, Faculty Dean for Continuing Education at Harvard Medical School. He has received a number of other awards, including the American Gastroenterological Association's Distinguished Educator Award. In 2012, he was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for "exemplifying outstanding qualities in both one's personal and professional lives while continuing to preserve the richness of one's particular heritage." Chopra's book, Dr. Chopra Says: Medical Facts and Myths Everyone Should Know, co-authored with Alan Lotvin, was published in January 2011. Chopra, while serving as the Faculty Dean for Continuing Education, led the most robust academic Continuing Medical Education enterprise in the world, reaching out to 80,000 clinicians in more than 160 countries each year. This included seven annual Current Clinical Issues in Primary Care (CCIPC) conferences held in collaboration with UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Miami, Northwestern University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In addition to directing these conferences, he delivered several lectures, moderated a number of sessions and has served as a keynote speaker on several occasions. Chopra is also editor-in-chief of the Hepatology section of UpToDate, an electronic textbook subscribed to by 1.5 million physicians in 195 countries. Public speaking Chopra has lectured on "Leadership for the 21st Century: The Tenets of Leadership" more than 150 times in the United States and more than 15 times in countries abroad. In this presentation, he discusses a wide range of examples of leaders who have changed the world. Chopra discusses historic figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Florence Nightingale and Winston Churchill, as well as contemporary leaders, and examine what makes them effective. He has also given a keynote entitled The Two Most Important Days: How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Happier and Healthier Life innumerable times throughout the United States and abroad to great acclaim. Awards In 1985, he was selected for the George W. Thorn Award presented by the Brigham and Women's Hospital Housestaff, Harvard Medical School In 1991, he received the highest accolade from the 1991 graduating class of Harvard Medical School, the Excellence in Teaching Award. In 1995, Chopra was the recipient of the Robert S. Stone Award, an award that is chosen by colleagues, housestaff and students from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. In 2003, he was the recipient of the