6^th Annual MD/MBA Program Conference
[Conference Program]

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Date:	April 11-13, 2008
Site:	AMSA National Offices, Reston, VA (8 miles from the airport)
Airport:	Washington-Dulles (IAD)
Hotel:	Sheraton Reston
	DO/MBAs, DO/MBA students and DO/MBA program directors welcome to attend.

Venture Services Group: The Business of Consulting
Ryung Suh, MD, MBA – Director of the Health Economics Practice at Becker

Universal Health Care: A Business Case for Single Payer National Health Insurance
Robert Zarr, MD, MPH, FAAP – Co-chair of Physicians for a National Health Plan

A Hospital Turnaround
Joy Drass, MD, MBA – President, Georgetown University Hospital:

Tracking the Careers of Graduates of MD/MBA Programs: The First Year of Residency and Beyond
Jon Veloski, MS– Director of Medical Education Research at Jefferson Medical College and David Nash MD, MBA – Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College

MD-MBA Programs: the Dean’s Perspective
Keynote Speaker: S. Ray Mitchell, MD – Dean for Medical Education, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Medical Entrepreneurship
Howard Haft, MD, MMM – President of Maryland Healthcare

Products Leveraging MD- MBAs: The Sg2 Perspective
Arshad Rahim, MD, MBA – Sg2 Consulting Team Member Unique Consulting

International Health Care Consulting
Francisco Gutierrez, MD, MHA – Chief Consultant, Health Navigation, LLC

Where we are Today & Where we can Grow: An Analysis of MD/MBA Programs from the perspective of students, program directors and captains of industry
Joshua T. Goldman – MD/MBA Candidate USC 2010:

Closing Presentation
Maria Chandler, MD, MBA - Faculty Advisor, MD/MBA Program at University of California, Irvine

MD/MBA Students’ Meeting

MD/MBA Programs in the United States: Evidence of a Change in Health Care Leadership
David B. Larson, MD, MBA; Maria Chandler, MD, MBA; Howard P. Forman, MD, MBA Academic Medicine. 78(3):335-341, March 2003.

For a list of current MD/MBA Program Directors, contact Dr. Maria Chandler at mchandle@uci.edu.

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