Excellence and Innovation in Health Administration
Cornell University Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy Sloan Program in Health Administration
Inside, find out what’s new with the Sloan Program and its people and initiatives . . .
News from the Sloan Program in Health Administratio Sloan student aids women with Pink Pakistan Trust From her perch at the end of the second row, Dr. Zubaida Qazi is learning the fine points of financing in the U.S. health care system. This day’s lecture by Sean Nicholson, professor of economics, concerns the fee schedule for Medicare reimbursements. Qazi is joined in the classroom by about 45 students from around the world. Many, like Qazi, are already physicians or health care executives. Like the other Sloan Program Executive Master of Health Administration (EMHA) students,
Day One at Sloan
Qazi seeks to enhance her skills so that she can advance her career and help more people. She is already having a positive impact on the quality of life for women in her native Pakistan. A practicing radiologist, Qazi is the founder and director of Pink Pakistan Trust, a nongovernmental organization that works for the welfare and well-being of women in Pakistan with a focus on breast cancer prevention and care. Qazi is in Ithaca to learn more. “I need to refine my administrative and managerial abilities to add efficiency and productivity to the much-needed work for women’s empowerment and well-being that needs to be done in my country,” she said.
Sloan student orientation features inclusive leadership professional development.
Welcoming ASAM and new executives-in-residence To give students and faculty new opportunities for research and learning, the Sloan Program is collaborating with the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). ASAM is a professional medical society representing over 7,000 physicians, clinicians, and associated professionals in the field of addiction medicine. Under the terms of the collaboration, the Sloan Program is sharing research capabilities with ASAM and ASAM
will provide a dedicated executive-inresidence to mentor students.
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With the new ASAM collaboration, the Sloan Program Doug Brown Executives-in-Residence roster grows to feature five prominent health care leaders with diverse and distinguished backgrounds:
Kyllan Cody MHA ’04, CEO of Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital in Dallas.
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Christina Sanon Woods ’08, MHA ’09, Director of Health Industries Advisory at PwC.
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Katherine Rogers MHA ’15, Northern California Complex Needs Practice Leader at Kaiser Permanente.
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Maureen Boyle, PhD, Chief Quality and Science Officer at ASAM.
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Lisa Goldstein MPS ’79, Senior Advisor (former EVP and COO, retired) at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
Newly published Sean Nicholson and co-authors “Price Indices and the Value of Innovation with Heterogeneous Patients” in the Journal of Health Economics.
Colleen Carey and co-authors “Provider Compliance With Kentucky’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program’s Mandate To Query Patient Opioid History” in Health Affairs.
Donald Kenkel, Alan Mathios and co-authors - “Are Menthol Smokers Different? An Economic Perspective,” an NBER working paper.
on at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy Modern Healthcare honors alums
New endowed scholarship honors academic excellence
Nancy Schlichting ’79 was inducted into the Modern Healthcare Hall of Fame. The acclaimed health system executive and author is an alumnus and longtime supporter of the Sloan Program. “The Cornell Sloan Program, one of the first graduate programs in healthcare administration in the United States, played a key role in my preparation for a wonderful career,” Schlichting said. The award is one of the healthcare industry’s most prestigious honors.
Students demonstrating academic excellence in the Sloan Program will benefit from a new $1 million endowed scholarship, the largest gift in the program’s long history.
Modern Healthcare named Carter Dredge MHA ‘11 as one of the “Top 25 Innovators” in the U.S. Dredge is the Lead Futurist at SSM Health where he advances the firm’s research and development, innovation and new venture activities.
The estate gift commitment comes from Reginald M. Ballantyne III, MBA ’67, a graduate of the Sloan
Program. An Arizona-based health care executive and consultant, Ballantyne has served in senior leadership/principal roles with Tenet Healthcare, Vanguard Health Systems, PMH Health Resources, and as chairman of the American Hospital Association. “In retrospect, I cannot imagine what my pathway would have been had it not been for Cornell and the Sloan Program,” Ballantyne said.
Sloan hosts national case competition Students in the Sloan Program hosted a national case competition in partnership with Centura Health in Denver. 32 teams representing graduate programs from across the country vied for $10,000 in prize money.
The case competition was organized by the Healthcare Student Association. In 2021, a Sloan team won a virtual case competition sponsored by Cornell and Henry Ford Health in Detroit.
Ugwueke delivers Percy Allen lecture Michael Ugwueke, President and COO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, has been chosen to deliver the biennial Percy Allen II Sloan Lecture in Urban Healthcare Leadership. The lecture series honors the late Percy Allen II, MHA ‘75, a member of the Modern Healthcare Hall of Fame. The series was established by his classmates to honor his contributions
to urban hospitals and health organizations and to provide students with the opportunity to consider issues of access, excellence, community, and quality of care in urban settings. Ugwueke has served in several leadership positions with the Memphis hospital system. He has twice been named one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare.
Percy Allen I 2014
Sloan by the Numbers:
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36 MHA Students
88
Executive MHA Students
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Recent graduates accepted jobs in 10 different healthcare sectors •
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Hospitals
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Hospital Fellowships
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Association Management
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Medical Groups
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Outpatient Surgery
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Long Term Care
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IT/Tech
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Continued Higher Education
Questions? Contact Associate Director Julie Carmalt: jhc48@cornell.edu
Find out more: publicpolicy.cornell.edu/studying-at-brooks/masters-programs/sloan/