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    The Innovative Health Care Leader

    Innovative Health Care Leader Co- Faculty Director and Physician Abraham Verghese presents how modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. He describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam.

Where does the art of patient care intersect with the business of medicine? How can design thinking help you navigate and innovate through uncertainty? To survive and thrive in the complex and chaotic world of health care, you need new models and mindsets. The Innovative Health Care Leader: From Design Thinking to Personal Leadership delivers. It’s a groundbreaking academic partnership between the Graduate School of Business (GSB) and the School of Medicine.

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OVERVIEW

Innovation. Leadership. Resilience. Today’s successful health care leaders require all three. In this extraordinary one-week program, you’ll learn how design thinking and personal leadership skills can help you develop innovative solutions to the specific challenges facing health care leaders—from improving patient care and prioritizing physician wellness to developing negotiation skills and anticipating health care reform.

For the first time ever, world-class faculty from both the GSB and Stanford Medicine will share their cutting-edge research and strategic insights to create a rigorous, relevant, and experiential curriculum. Find creative solutions to health care challenges with hands-on design thinking sessions. Develop personal leadership skills that inspire innovation in your team and across your organization. Learn about the key challenges facing health care organizations—from the ethical use of big data and the patient-physician relationship to measuring clinical outcomes. With guest speakers, case studies, and a professional network of thought leaders, The Innovative Health Care Leader will give you the tools, skills, and mindset to tackle uncertainty and drive change.

Faculty Directors
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Sarah A. Soule
Sarah A. Soule

Sarah A. Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences. She has taught courses with the Stanford d.school and is also Faculty Director for the Executive Program on Social Entrepreneurship.

Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a best-selling author and a physician with an international reputation for his focus on attentiveness to the patient in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. Dr. Verghese leads The Program in Bedside Medicine and the Stanford Medicine 25 online efforts, which train faculty around the world in becoming teachers and champions of basic bedside diagnostic skills so as to practice cost-effective medicine, and satisfy a time-honored ritual that is fulfilling to patients as well as physicians. In addition, Dr. Verghese is the founder of a soon-to-be-launched center at Stanford that will focus on scholarship and research to better understand the art and science of the human connection in medicine.

Video Introduction
The Innovative Health Care Leader
"How do you still deliver the sense of 'care' in caring while delivering cutting-edge science?"
– Abraham Verghese

Join Faculty Directors Abraham Verghese and Sarah Soule as they discuss this groundbreaking new program from Stanford GSB and Stanford School of Medicine.
KEY BENEFITS

The Innovative Health Care Leader program will help you:

  • Discover how your personal leadership style impacts those around you
  • Use the design thinking process to drive innovation
  • Develop deeper insights into the needs of patients, physicians, and other key stakeholders
  • Build a strong network of peers with whom you can share ideas and experiences
  • Develop a just-try-it mentality through rapid prototyping and iteration
  • Learn how to embrace diversity of opinion using a common process for design
  • Develop strategies for using personal power to build strong mutual-influence relationships within your organization
 
 
 
 
 
 

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

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Who Should Attend?

The Innovative Health Care Leader: From Design Thinking to Personal Leadership is ideal for executives who want to drive innovation in their health care organizations. It's specifically designed for:

  • Senior-level executives and policy makers with at least 10 years of experience—MDs and non-MDs—from medical schools, HMOs, PPOs, hospitals, and foundations
  • Titles may include hospital CEO, COO, and CFO; Academic Deans, Senior VPs, Department Chairs, and Center Directors
The Innovative Health Care Leader is tremendously exciting because this is one of the few schools where the departments of medicine, engineering, law, and business are on the same campus. In bringing people together to make this program, we’re really capturing a synergy that is everything that Stanford’s about.
Abraham Verghese
Faculty Codirector
A program like this is important because of the ever-changing nature of health care, both in the United States and abroad. Because of these changes, we need managers—health care leaders—who can manage this change effectively and do so with the skills that we will impart in this program: personal leadership, design thinking, coaching, feedback, and negotiation.
Sarah Soule
Faculty Codirector
This intersection of the best minds in medicine and the best minds in business will offer health care leaders tools for leadership and innovation to enable them to manage change effectively in this ever-changing health care environment.
Sarah Soule
Faculty Codirector
 
 

Facilities

 
 
 
 
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Stanford University
The Stanford campus is world renowned for its natural beauty, Spanish mission-style architecture, and temperate climate. With more than 8,180 acres (3,310 hectares), Stanford's campus ranks as one of the largest in the United States. Participants in Stanford's Executive Programs become part of a quintessential university setting, residing together, walking or biking to classes, and enjoying access to Stanford University facilities.
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The Knight Management Center
Opened in spring 2011, the Knight Management Center has transformed the Stanford Graduate School of Business into a vibrant and unified indoor-outdoor, living and learning community. Participants will take classes at this new state-of-the-art campus, which features tiered classrooms with extensive floor-to-ceiling glass, the latest in audiovisual technology, numerous breakout and study rooms, outdoor seating areas to encourage informal discussion, and an open collaboration lab that employs hands-on and design thinking techniques.
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Schwab Residential Center
Designed by renowned Mexican architect, Ricardo Legorreta, the Schwab Residential Center gives residents ample privacy while promoting collegial interaction through shared lounges, outdoor meeting areas, a library, and an exercise room.

CONTACT

Donna Obeid
Associate Director, Programs and Marketing
Phone: +1.650.497.5662
Email: donnao@stanford.edu


The Stanford Difference

The Place: Immerse yourself in innovation.
The Experience: Transform your thinking, your career, your company.
The Approach: Challenge yourself with research-based learning and real-world experience.