At the recent ACE conference, I had the pleasure of learning from the world’s leading experts on expertise and top performance.  Equally stimulating were conversations in the hallways between presentations with clinicians, policy makers, and researchers attending the event.  One of those was Bill Andrews, the director of the HGI Practice Research Network in the UK who work over the last 3+ years has focused on clinicians whose outcomes consistently fall in the top quartile of effectiveness.

In this brief interview, Bill talks about the “new direction” his research on top performing clinicians is taking.  He is truly “pushing the research envelope, challenging the field to move beyond the simplistic randomized clinical trials comparing different treatment packages.  Take a look: