MHCDS faculty and alumni are world-renowned in the field of health care delivery and frequently offer their expertise in the media and as the focus of exclusive features. See all their stories below.
Amol Soin MHCDS’21 reflects on his career as the founder and director of the Ohio Pain Clinic, and the importance of offering alternative pain treatments without addictive drugs.
Chief Nursing Officer and MHCDS'14 alum, Stacey Conklin, is profiled in a piece about women in health care leadership. Conklin speaks on her background as a second-career nurse and the confidence she gained through her MHCDS education which was critical in her path to CNO.
Featuring MHCDS'24 alum and obstetrics and gynecology leader, Dr. Ilana Cass, this Vermont Edition podcast explores recent closures to rural hospitals' labor and delivery wards and what impact that will have for maternity care providers across the region.
MHCDS professors Alva Taylor and Rob Shumsky explore how working with generally reliable AI can quietly erode human expertise over time.
MHCDS alumnus and UnitedHealthcare CEO, Tim Noel'17, shares how his organization is combining AI insights with human judgement to address customer frustration by proactively identifying and resolving complex member issues.
Contrary to popular belief, the loudest people in the room aren’t the most effective at building team consensus. New neuroscience research by MHCDS and MHA faculty Co-Director, Adam Kleinbaum, reveals that true alignment is created by network-central connectors: the people who bridge subgroups, invite participation, and are as open to being influenced as they are to influencing others. Brain scans show that these individuals create genuine cognitive alignment, whereas people who dominate discussions generate only surface-level compliance.
CEO and EVP of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Shawn Martin, MHCDS'20, was named in Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list.
In this op-ed co-authored by MHCDS faculty Steven Woloshin, he argues that the FDA should require prescription drug ads to quantify the benefits and harms of a medication.
Dartmouth President Sian Beilock and MHCDS faculty Carrie Colla were among those elected into the National Academy of Medicine, a top honor in the field of health and medicine.
The minimally invasive procedures are performed using robots operated by José Rodriguez, MD, MHCDS'26, a cardiothoracic surgeon with expertise in cutting-edge surgical technology.
Statistics and trends are showing that significant workforce shortages are here to stay for the foreseeable future. MHA faculty, Susan Reeves, EdD, RN writes on how ethicists and ethical decision-making resources are helping leaders confront these realities.
In this RealClear Health op-ed, MHCDS Faculty Co-Director Glyn Elwyn and Tuck School of Business faculty Chris Trimble highlight how outdated billing systems discourage clinician-led innovation. They call for practical reforms that support, rather than penalize, efforts to improve patient care and healthcare delivery.
How MHCDS students saved a Colorado hospital from collapse and created a blueprint for saving independent hospitals nationwide.
TDI and MHCDS professors Elliott Fisher and Carrie Colla tackle one of the most pressing issues facing U.S. health care today: rising costs. In their new perspective published in The New England Journal of Medicine, they argue that states must be the ones to address ballooning health care costs.
Thanks to the compassionate leadership of CEO Joe McDonough, Innovive Health persevered through the COVID-19 pandemic. Jen Raney, MD, shares what we can all learn from McDonough’s leadership style.
CHRISTUS CEO Ismael Ortega, MHCDS’22, is helping to transform health care access in Colombia.
Health economist Carrie Colla, PhD, highly respected for her research examining health system performance and the effectiveness of payment and delivery system reforms, has been named the Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery.
Professor Rob Shumsky is certainly no Dr. Frankenstein. That said, Shumsky—faculty codirector of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program and professor of operations management—has indeed created his own teaching assistant.
In 2010, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and Geisel School of Medicine collaborated to create the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) degree, a mid-career program bringing together the best minds in medicine and business. After a decade-plus of success that has produced nearly 500 MHCDS graduates, Tuck and Geisel are uniting once again for a new program aimed at early-career professionals.
Life expectancy increasingly figures into calculations about whether screenings and treatments are appropriate. MHCDS faculty co-director, Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, shares insights on how to find out yours.
The United States’ effort to develop and provide COVID-19 vaccines to the world was one of the greatest government achievements in modern history. Tuck and MHCDS Professor Ron Adner’s ecosystem strategy framework contributed to its creation.
MHCDS faculty member, Carrie Colla, PhD, is currently on leave from Dartmouth to serve as Director of the Health Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in Washington, DC. We learn about the impact she's having in this article.
Jonathan Skinner, MHCDS faculty and research professor of economics and a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, has received the Victor Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics from the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE).
Inside Tuck’s health care revolution and the MHCDS alumni change leaders pushing reform, innovation, and mission-driven strategy in the industry.
As the Covid-19 pandemic strained hospitals and clinics, concepts taught in the Health Care Operations Management course in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program were at the forefront for serving patients.
Paul Argenti, MHCDS faculty and Professor of Corporate Communication at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, lays out a simple and powerful framework for leaders to communicate critical information during a crisis.
With no nation-wide guidance on how to safely operate a retail store during the COVID-19 pandemic, MHCDS professor and faculty co-director, Rob Shumsky, and his colleague, Laurens Debo, propose three general principles to help retailers implement social distancing. These guidelines are based on the fundamentals of operations management, their own research on traffic flow within stores, and the best information available about the transmission of the disease.
In this article, multiple MHCDS program alumni discuss the evolution of telemedicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System from a minor part of care delivery to a key component in responding to the COVID-19 crisis. They go on to describe how the ascendance of virtual care will impact the traditional business models of health care facilities.
MHCDS faculty Co-Director, Steve Woloshin, MD, provides a framework to think through the interrelated challenges of low test sensitivity, the integration of underlying risk of infection using Bayes' theorem, and the lack of a reference (gold) standard for test validation.
MHCDS professor Lindsey Leininger has teamed up with eight other female public health experts to disseminate evidence-based information and advice about the COVID pandemic.
MHCDS faculty members, Carrie Colla, PhD and Jonathan Skinner, PhD, explore what has really happened to health care coverage and spending since the implementation of the ACA.
MHCDS faculty, Steve Woloshin, PhD, describes the low level of understanding across consumers and physicians about the meaning of FDA approval for pharmaceuticals.
Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS describes how the evolution of medical knowledge has led to confusion over the term DNR. Dr. Barnato is the inaugural Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished Professor in Health Care Delivery.
Research by MHCDS faculty, Carrie Colla, PhD, an Associate Professor at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, and her colleagues reveals only modest growth in the number of ACO contracts bearing downside risk.
This article discusses the design rationale, key strengths, and six years of evaluation data for the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program at Dartmouth.
As director of the Healthcare Transformation Lab, Eric Isselbacher MHCDS’13 is making health care more efficient, one solution at a time.
MHCDS faculty, Vijay Govindarajan, PhD, describes why transformation of our health care system will be driven, not top-down through regulation, but bottom-up by innovation.
A team of students in the Tuck-Dartmouth led Master of Health Care Delivery Science program is using mobile technology to address a serious health-care need in Nepal.
Prof. Vijay Govindarajan and co-author, Ravi Ramamurti, show how resourceful private enterprises in India have discovered a way to deliver high-quality health care at ultra-low low prices and reveal how some US providers are already implementing these ideas.
MHCDS faculty, Vijay Govindarajan, PhD, describes an innovation that could radically change the health care marketplace in the U.S.
Learn how MHCDS students and alumni are transforming the health care industry.
An innovative executive (Benjamin Anderson, MHCDS'16) found a way to recruit doctors, help refugees and make money delivering babies.
An article by Inger Meland Buene, MD, MHCDS Class of 2016, who heads the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at Vestfold Hospital in Tønsberg, Norway, on her experience in the MHCDS program.
This article describes a unique cross border collaboration between two MHCDS alumni, Benjamin Anderson, CEO of Kearny County Hospital and Dr. Prince Jean Bosco Kanani, Director of Rwanda Catholic Health Services
Jeff Alderman, MHCDS '13, and 30 of his classmates used the skills and knowledge acquired in the MHCDS program to launch a consultancy to help other health care providers.
A feature story on how students in the first graduating class of the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program are having a profound impact on how care is delivered.
An article that highlights the innovative curriculum that MHCDS offers.
