Faculty spotlight: Larry Dean
Larry Dean, MD, is a cardiologist at the Heart Institute at UW Medical Center – Montlake and Northwest and a professor of Medicine and Surgery at the UW School of Medicine. He has been with UW Medicine for 22 years.
Dean is the founding director of the Regional Heart Center (now Heart Institute) and has been in academic medicine for over 35 years.
Dean is the first medical director of Clinical Products and Smart Innovation (CPSI) — chairing a multidisciplinary committee that oversees clinician and nurse-led groups that evaluate products, technologies and purchased services from vendors.
The CPSI program is dedicated to purchasing items that bring value to patient care and ensuring that quality is consistently maintained or improved when it comes to their decisions. They also help eliminate unnecessary items that don’t bring enough value to the table for what they cost. This has been a very successful program, in large part, due to the participation of the people who use the products.
In addition, Dean has a food blog called The Eating Places that captures his passion for dining out. He is also an avid road bicyclist and participates in long-distance cycling.
Excerpts from "Getting to know Larry Dean" -written by Heather Logue