In a partnership that is the first of its kind, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) will team with the Stanford School of Medicine (SOM) for a program designed to promote innovation among healthcare executives.
The Innovative Healthcare Leader: From Design Thinking to Personal Leadership will take place in May 2016 over one week. It is open to physicians, non-physician executives, and policymakers.
In a press release, program co-director Abraham Varghese said, “One of the great challenges in medicine in the modern era is balancing cutting-edge research without losing sight of a fundamental sense of caring for the patient. The health care leader of the future has to worry about the patient, but also about the welfare of the people taking care of them.” Dr. Varghese is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine.
The curriculum is being designed by senior faculty from both the Graduate School of Business and the School of Medicine, and will address such issues as the ethical use of big data in healthcare; the wellness of physicians; the development of academic medical centers, and the management of growth while maintaining a high quality of care. Another goal of the program is to address the concerns of both patients and physicians who encounter an often impersonal, data-driven interaction during treatment.
Faculty co-director Sarah Soule, Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at GSB, said in the release, “The worldwide challenges of aging populations, chronic diseases, and imbalanced access to care have been exacerbated by soaring costs so that today’s health care leaders are faced with the conundrum of deploying dwindling resources to explosive needs.”
The program has an application deadline of April 18, 2016 and will run from May 22-27, 2016.