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Healthcare Initiative Opportunities

The Healthcare Initiative has a number of opportunities for you to engage with us, from events to job openings, scholarships and more.

Upcoming Healthcare Initiative Events

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Fireside Chat with Catina Latham

Dr. Catina Latham, acting director of the Healthcare team at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), currently leads the Health Care Team, which plays a critical role in congressional oversight of Medicaid and other health care programs.

This fireside chat will offer valuable insights for those curious about the future of government healthcare programs in an election year. Students interested in the impact of Medicaid and government policies on healthcare providers, suppliers, and entrepreneurs won't want to miss it.

October 7, 2024 | 5pm | Booth 455

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Fireside Chat with Catina Latham
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Brown Bag with Jiguang Li

Jiguang is a 3rd-year PhD student in Econometrics and Statistics at Booth, with a broad research interest in Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and their social science applications. Previously, he worked as a full-time research professional at the Center for Applied AI under the supervision of Sendhil Mullainathan. Jiguang holds a master's degree in statistics from Yale and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Middlebury College.

He will be presenting "Bayesian Assessment of Hospital Equity from Medicare Records".

November 21 | 12pm | Harper C03

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Brown Bag with Jiguang Li

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Healthcare Analytics Lab Winter 2024 Project Showcase

October 30, 2024 | 12-1pm | Zoom

Hear about projects being offered in the Winter 2025 session of Prof. Dan Adelman’s course 40721 Healthcare Analytics Lab. The lab offers a unique opportunity for MBA students to get hands-on experience with health system data and help sponsoring organizations address pressing strategic and operational challenge.

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Healthcare Scholar in Residence

Dr. Soroush Saghafian, Associate Professor at Harvard, will be visiting Booth in November. He focuses on developing and applying operations research, management science, and operations management methods to generate meaningful public benefits. He is the founder and director of the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab) at Harvard, dedicated to advancing analytics to address societal challenges with broad public impact. While at Booth he will be presenting, “Making AI Impactful in Healthcare”.

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Job Openings

Healthcare Analytics Lab affiliates

The Healthcare Analytics Laboratory recruits PhD students, MD students, residents, and MBA students with significant content expertise in healthcare to join the Lab as mentors, research assistants, and content experts.

If interested, please reach out to healthcarelab@chicagobooth.edu for more information.

Healthcare Fellowship

The Booth Healthcare Fellowship is awarded each year to select incoming Full-Time MBA students with backgrounds in a care provider role (e.g. MD, RN, Social work in a healthcare setting).

The aim of the program is to provide tuition support, foster community among the Fellows, and provide additional access or support. Such areas of support include one-on-one conversations with distinguished speakers at events sponsored or co-sponsored by the Healthcare Initiative, covered fees for the annual Booth student-led Healthcare Conference and more programming.

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