GLC Leadership Fellow: Maulik Joshi

The Griffith Leadership Center was very excited to host our next GLC Leadership Fellow, Maulik Joshi, DrPH '00 MHSA '92, from March 26th-30th, 2012! Please click here to read Maulik's full bio.

Currently, Maulik serves at the President of the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) and the Senior Vice President for Research at the American Hospital Association.

In collaboration with Maulik, the GLC developed a variety of opportunities for students, alumni, and community members to interact with Maulik during his time at the GLC. Maulik is an inspirational leader and transformational thinker who is at the cusp of many critical health care issues, including leveraging strategies to prepare health care organizations for the future, spreading quality improvement, and promoting transparency and accountability.

Opportunities to engage with Maulik at the GLC during the week included:

"Hospitals of the Future: Improving Quality and Efficiency".

HMP Core Class Lecture: Tuesday, March 27th 11:30am-1:00pm
In navigating to the future, hospitals need to effectively implement a number of critical strategies to improve quality and efficiency. This lecture will present an overview of "must do" strategies for all hospitals to implement today and core competencies hospitals need to master for the future. Using that as the context, the webinar will also provide an in depth discussion of an important element in improving quality and efficiency - reducing preventable readmissions. Reducing readmissions is a pressing, emerging area for which a number of quality and efficiency strategies need to be implemented to achieve improved patient outcomes. The lecture will be given to students in Christy Lemak's HMP 603 core curriculum course. Please click here to view the presentation.

"Measuring Performance and Clinical Outcomes"

Masters Student Workshop: Tuesday, March 27th 5:00-6:30pm
At the foundation of effective performance improvement lies understanding an organization's current level of performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, tracking progress, and holding the organization accountable to advancing clinical performance. Maulik Joshi will lead 20 HMP students in an engaging workshop that teaches students how to measure quality and patient safety in hospitals. The workshop will develop critical skillsets for future healthcare administrators and will be particularly useful for students who aim to enter careers that will advance organizational performance in U.S. hospitals. This workshop is full and is only open to current HMP full-time Masters students.

"Healthcare Quality Improvement for the Future: Strategies from a Decade of Lessons"

Masters Student Workshop: Wednesday, March 28th 8:30-10:00am
This workshop will enable 20 HMP students to take advantage of Maulik's unique experience helping hospitals across the country implement successful quality improvement strategies. Maulik will speak with participants about what has worked in quality improvement based on a decade of successful and unsuccessful efforts. He will describe numerous strategies that have catalyzed gains in quality across U.S. hospitals and will analyze specific cases. Maulik will also dive deep on strategies and tactics for effectively spreading improvement. The workshop will build skills and knowledge that will be necessary for future healthcare leaders interested in quality improvement in both policy and practice settings. Participants will also discuss how to best use these strategies during an era of rapid change in the healthcare industry. Maulik greatly looks forward to participants input, feedback, and questions to bolster the workshop. This workshop is full and is only open to current HMP full-time Masters students.

"Healthcare Transformation: What Will it Take?"

Public Talk: Thursday, March 29th 4:00-5:00pm, reception with light refreshments to follow
Location: SPH II Auditorium (M1020)
Healthcare is at a crossroads. Uncontrollable costs and suboptimal quality of care promulgates a stark need for transformation in healthcare organizations across the country. To make healthcare sustainable, we must transition to a system that prioritizes achieving better value and promoting health improvement through high-quality care. Maulik will walk through numerous strategic issues, including new payment models and advancing care coordination, that are central to reform. He will discuss actionable implementation strategies and key core competencies that will navigate healthcare leaders into the future. The Speaker Series will close with a short Q & A session. All students, staff, faculty, and community members are welcome.

"GLC Senior Leadership Networking Breakfast"

Public Talk: Friday, March 30th 7:30-8:45am, closed to current HMP students
Location: SPH I 3755
The GLC provides an opportunity for current students to network with national leaders that serve on the GLC Advisory Board before each biannual GLC Advisory Board meeting. The event is a "do not miss" opportunity to interact and network with some of the most successful HMP alumni. Our Advisory Board members are very eager to interact with HMP students and help advance their careers. Students are paired with Advisory Board members based on their professional interests. A full breakfast from Zingerman's will be served. Each Networking Breakfast is only available to current HMP full-time Masters students.

Maulik will also met with students and faculty in individual and small group settings to discuss career topics and critical issues in health care.

The GLC is very hopeful that current SPH students, alumni, and members of the University of Michigan community were able to take advantage of Maulik's knowledge and expertise in both intimate and large-scale settings during Maulik's GLC Leadership Fellowship!