Senior Vice President of the Lown Institute, Brownlee is author of Overtreated:  Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, the internationally acclaimed book that launched the movement against unnecessary medical care. Brownlee will discuss the dramatic rise in medication overload among older Americans, the structural and cultural drivers of this growing epidemic, including the role of the pharmaceutical industry, and the effort to catalyze a national strategy to address medication overload.