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AAHC Conversations

A podcast featuring conversations with leaders in the academic health community.

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18 - A Voyage of Discovery - Professor Stephen Smith (Listen Now!)

Professor Stephen Smith, DSc, FmedSci, Chief Executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Principal, Faculty of Medicine, CEO, Imperial College London, discuses academic health centers in the United Kingdom.

17 - New Models for Research (Listen Now!)

Dr. Steven Henriksen, Vice President for Research and Biotechnology, Western University of Health Sciences, talks about new models for integrated research.

16 - Moving to Trans-institutional Integration (Listen Now!)

Dr. Andrew Sorensen, President, University of South Carolina, a key leader promoting trans-institutional initiatives, discusses why integration is so important for universities.

15 - The Challenges of Funding Academic Health (Listen Now!)

Ronnie Jowers, Vice President for Health Affairs and Chief Financial Officer, Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University, discusses some of the major pressures, or challenges, now facing academic health centers when it comes to financing and funding facilities.

14- Academic Health and Global Organization (Listen Now!)

Peter Noble, Director of Health Development, Dean's Office, School of Medicine, University, of Leeds discusses a recent study, comparing various organizational models of organizations worldwide.

13 - Rural Health Workforce Solutions (Listen Now!)

Dr. Barbara Atkinson, Executive Dean, School of Medicine, Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas Medical Center, discusses solutions to the health workforce shortages in rural America.

12 - Leadership and Clinical Trials (Listen Now!)

Dr. Stephanie Spangler, Deputy Provost for Biomedical and Health Affairs, Yale University, speaks about the important benefits of having organization-wide support for clinical trial compliance.

11 - The Power of Integration (Listen Now!)

AAHC President and CEO Dr. Steven Wartman discusses academic health center organization, and the importance of integration across the entire enterprise.

10 - Changing Clinical Trials (Listen Now!)

AAHC Forum on Regulation Co-Chairs, Nick Gaich, Chief Operating Officer, Stanford/Packard Center for Translational Research in Medicine, and David Haray,Vice President, Patient Financial Services, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, discuss the ground breaking work of the Forum.

9 - Clinical Trials: A Map For The Future (Listen Now!)

Members of the AAHC Forum on Regulation discuss their impressions of the work that the Forum is doing to develop a toolkit for institutions to help streamline regulatory compliance in clinical trials.

8 - Intellectual Property and Academic Health Centers (Listen Now!)

AAHC President and CEO Dr Steven Wartman and Dr. Jeffrey Balser, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Vanderbilt University, discuss the importance of intellectual property to academic health centers, and the importance of bringing together intellectual assets.

7 - Technology Transfer & HIPAA Regulations (Listen Now!)

AAHC President and CEO Dr. Steven Wartman and Dr. Arthur S. Levine, Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, discuss two current challenges to research in academic health centers, and how the work of the AAHC Executive Leadership Group of Vice Presidents for Research is addressing them.

6 - Forum on Regulation (Listen Now!)

AAHC President and CEO Dr. Steven Wartman interviews Dr. Philip Pizzo, Dean of the School of Medicine, Stanford University, (member of the board of directors of the AAHC and as co-chair of the AAHC Forum on Regulation) discuss the important work that the AAHC Forum is doing to deal with one of the most challenging problems facing academic health centers.

5 - A Future of Caring (Listen Now!)

AAHC President and CEO Dr. Steven Wartman addresses health professions graduates about their future. Dr. Wartman encourages graduates to keep the values of humanism and care at the center of their careers, emphasizing that taking care of patients is always personal.

4 - The Rural Healthcare Workforce in Nebraska (Listen Now!)

AAHC Vice President for Policy and Program, Dr. Elaine R. Rubin, speaks with Dr. Harold M. Maurer about the rural healthcare workforce shortage in the state of Nebraska, and what the University of Nebraska Medical Center is doing to help alleviate the problem.

3 - Restructuring After Katrina (Listen Now!)

AAHC Vice President for Policy and Program, Dr. Elaine R. Rubin, speaks with Alan Miller MD, PhD, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences, Tulane University Health Science Center, about the difficulties facing New Orleans as they try to rethink and rebuild the health care system in the face of workforce shortages and a large number of uninsured patients.

2 - Changing the Psyche and the System (Listen Now!)

As health consumers pour over confusing stacks of bills and insurance forms, they hear about looming shortages of health professionals in the face of a growing and aging population. It seems that nearly everyone agrees that something has to be done...

1 - Clinical Trials (Listen Now!)

Learn about the breakthrough work of the Budgeting and Billing Workgroup of the AAHC’s Forum on Regulation in our first podcast.  The group is developing a functional process map for billing and budgeting that will improve and enhance compliance operations in our institutions.  Nick Gaich, Chief Operating Officer,Stanford/Packard Center for Translational Research in Medicine, and David Haray,Vice President, Patient Financial Services, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and workgroup co-chairs from Stanford University, discuss how the group is identifying and defining required skill sets and competencies in the functions associated with billing compliance as well as the critical business requirements that will be required for a comprehensive IT solution. The group is working at top speed with incredible dedication, and Nick and David focus on how essential clinical trial budgeting, billing, and IT are to improving academic health center operations.

 

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