Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education
Associate Professor of Management and Psychology – Organizational Behavior
Associate Professor of Management and Psychology – Organizational Behavior
A collaboration between Rice University and MD Anderson Cancer Center
Upcoming Dates
The Spring 2023 recruiting cycle has now closed. Interested candidates may still access and complete the application for future cohorts. Dates for the Spring 2024 cohort coming soon!
Location
Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
Tuition
$18,500
Overview
Few industries are more dynamic than healthcare and few organizations are more complex than healthcare institutions. This requires executives in healthcare to have the organizational insight, leadership capability and business acumen necessary to lead such demanding enterprises. This program is designed to ensure they do.
The Executive Leadership in Healthcare program brings together internationally renowned business school faculty, leaders in medicine and seasoned healthcare executives to provide evidence-based insights for leading tomorrow’s healthcare institutions.
Who Should Attend
The program is designed for healthcare executives currently in or aspiring to the following positions.
- MDs and DOs in management and policy positions in healthcare institutions, including senior medical staff
- PharmDs and pharmaceutical benefit managers
- Nurse executives (VPs, CNOs, Directors)
- Division and department leaders and senior administrators in healthcare institutions
- Healthcare service-line leaders
- Human resource leaders
- Corporate medical directors and senior staff
- Senior leaders in large multi-specialty group practices
- Managed care medical directors and senior staff
Program Schedule
Week One
| February 6 | February 7 | February 8 | February 9 | February 10 |
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Week Two
| April 24 | April 25 | April 26 | April 27 | April 28 |
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Interested in our healthcare program?
Program Topics
Leadership
February 6-7, 2023
Healthcare organizations are dynamic and complex compared to traditional for-profit businesses. Given this complexity, it is essential that healthcare organizations have well-rounded, capable leaders at the helm. This module is dedicated to ensuring participants have a firm foundation in the principles of leadership to navigate the challenges of leading a healthcare organization. The module will progress from a focus on participants’ leadership styles to an understanding of the best methods of managing the performance, motivation and engagement of others. The module ends with an overview of the best methods of managing a high-performing team.
Rice Business Faculty and MD Anderson Leadership:
Healthcare Strategy
February 8-9, 2023
Participants will examine the fundamental strategy principles that enable organizations to achieve and sustain competitive advantage and growth in their business. During the module, participants will explore core concepts, analytical techniques and frameworks in strategic management that are relevant to developing, evaluating, and implementing value-creating strategies for organizations operating in the healthcare space.
Rice Business Faculty and MD Anderson Leadership:
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Vice President & Chief Government Relations Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Senior Vice President – Strategy & Business Development, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Financial Decision-Making and Reporting
February 10, 2023 | April 24, 2023
Participants will gain skills that enable them to understand financial management of healthcare entities including financial statement interpretation and analysis, capital budgeting, and evaluating investment opportunities. During this module, participants will also explore tools used to evaluate individual operating unit performance and learn methods for collecting and using internal and external data for decision-making purposes.
Rice Business Faculty and MD Anderson Leadership:
Associate Professor of Accounting
Jesse H. Jones Professor of Finance
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Healthcare Operations and Improvement
April 25-26, 2023
Learning to understand, analyze and standardize critical healthcare processes, while improving efficiency and maintaining quality of care is important for any healthcare leader. During this module, executives will be introduced to operations management and strategy and gain insight into the role operations plays in effective healthcare delivery. Participants will explore the principles of process analysis, improvement and control and learn to apply these principles to increase overall healthcare operations performance, both in quality and reliability.
Rice Business Faculty and MD Anderson Leadership:
Professor of Operations Management
Lecturer in Management – Operations Management
Chief Operating Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Innovation in Healthcare Organizations
April 27, 2023
Innovation has become a mandate to ensure competitive advantage in today’s complex healthcare environment. As a result, healthcare leaders must acquire tools that help them introduce and lead innovation initiatives at the individual, team or organizational level. During this module, participants will develop strategies for creating and sustaining an innovation culture, explore how to create new or improve existing processes, services, and business models and resolve everyday business challenges by applying innovation practices.
Rice Business Faculty and MD Anderson Leadership:
Deputy Dean of Academic Affairs
Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology – Organizational Behavior
Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology – Organizational Behavior
Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Chief Technical & Digital Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
M.D., Chief Medical Executive, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Change Management
April 28, 2023
The healthcare landscape is ever-changing. Whether change is intended to increase patient satisfaction, reduce operating costs or enhance innovation, management must move beyond the identification of recommended changes to an understanding of the processes that ensure those recommendations achieve their anticipated goals. In this module, participants will learn to identify change opportunities, understand stakeholder needs, explore strategies for building a case for change and learn how to address resistance to change.
Rice Business Faculty and MD Anderson Leadership:
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education
Associate Professor of Management and Psychology – Organizational Behavior
Associate Professor of Management and Psychology – Organizational Behavior
Organization Development Consultant, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Accreditation
Accreditation / Credit Designation – Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Rice University. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 62.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation / Credit Designation – Nursing
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is accredited with distinction as a provider of Nursing Continuing Professional Development by The American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center designates this live activity will award 62.75 Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) contact hours.
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Accreditation / Credit Designation – Pharmacy
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This application-based activity has been approved for 62.50 contact hours (6.25 CEU) under universal activity number 0532-0000-22-011-L04-P.
