Thomas Goetz

Thomas Goetz is the author of the new book, The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, & the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis. He is also co-founder of Iodine, a health technology company based in San Francisco. His previous book, The Decision Tree, was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as a Best Health book of 2010, and widely hailed as offering a new vision for healthcare in the United States.

Thomas also serves as the Enterpreneur in Residence for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s leading force for better health and healthcare.

He was previously the executive editor at WIRED, where he led the magazine to a dozen National Magazine Awards from 2001 through 2012. In 2010, under Goetz’s leadership, WIRED was chosen as AdWeek’s “Mag

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