By: Terrence J. Bahn, EdD
Administrative Director, Area Health Education Centers
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Columbus, Ohio to be the 12th U.S. Site for
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program
President E. Gordon Gee challenged the University and the Medical Center to “Commit to Our Communities.” The College of Medicine bolstered by several educational and community partners are embarking on a program that will indeed demonstrate that commitment. The new Schweitzer Fellowship program site in Columbus answers Dr. Mark Notestine’s call to “strengthen the local community through outreach.”
Beginning in 2011, the Columbus Schweitzer Fellows Program, hosted by the College of Medicine, will administer and support year-long community service Fellowships that will be conducted in Columbus and Athens. As an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) site, we join a group of 11 prominent institutions hosting the program including Baylor, Dartmouth, University of California Berkeley, and the University of Maryland.
By: Pete Geier
CEO of OSU Health System
COO of OSU Medical Center
In my last letter to all Medical Center faculty & staff, I wrote about our Medical Center value of Leadership. The supporting statement for the Leadership value is: We live in alignment with our values and are thoughtful about how we influence others as we develop personalized health care. Leadership is the ability to influence others. Never before has the idea that we each have influence over another been more important to OSU Medical Center. This is called personal leadership. While top leaders set goals and expectations, we rely on the leader within each of you to do the right thing as you fulfill your role in your department.
How are you exercising leadership by influencing others so that we can develop personalized health care?
A couple examples of personal leadership include each of you who helped the Medical Center set a new record Continue reading →
By: Steven G. Gabbe, MD Senior Vice President for Health Sciences
CEO, OSU Medical Center
On Tuesday, May 4, all Ohio registered voters will head to the polls. The first issue on the ballot, Issue 1, will provide continued funding of the Third Frontier program, which has helped Ohio create more than 48,000 jobs, extends Ohio’s research capabilities to promote product innovation and development, and provides opportunities for our graduates to stay in Ohio. I want to share a video with you on how this will impact the Medical Center:
By: Jerry Friedman Associate Vice President in the Office of Health Sciences
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries … and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. – Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Mindful that the Senate has yet to vote on the reconciliation package, one cannot deny that we are near the end of the beginning. The work of animating the words on the legislative page and applying them to this country’s fragmented, proprietary, volume driven, risk aversive system must begin.
Can doctors lead? In many ways the medical profession gave up the reins when they allowed HMOs to assure them stable volumes and regular payments. Since then, the business of insurance and the business of medicine have been locked in a battle for the patient’s health care dollar. Insurance likes you when you are healthy, medicine likes you when you are sick. After all, “health insurance” is really sickness & accident insurance. Continue reading →
By: E. Gordon Gee
President, The Ohio State University
E. Gordon Gee
With increasing frequency, I am asked to speak on the topic of leadership. I attribute the growing number of requests to age and longevity, as much as anything else.
I always preface the talks by saying that we learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes. Truth be told, I have amassed a treasure-trove of mistakes – rich material for these discussions – during the past three decades of leading universities. And whether we are college presidents, physicians, business-owners, elected officials, or students, the same rules of the road apply.
Here, I offer a couple of my many leadership lessons-learned principles. Continue reading →
Steven G. Gabbe, MD is Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and Chief Executive Officer, OSU Medical Center
Chip Souba is Vice President and Executive Dean, Health Sciences and Dean, The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Pete Geier is CEO of the OSU Health System and
COO of OSU Medical Center
Michael Caligiuri, MD is Director, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
and CEO, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
E. Gordon Gee is the President of The Ohio State University.
Catherine Lucey is Vice Dean of Education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Daniel Sedmak is Executive Vice Dean at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Clay Marsh is the Vice Dean of Research at the Ohio State University Collge of Medicine, and Executive Director of the Center for Personalized Health Care
Jerry Friedman is an Associate Vice President in the Office of Health Sciences and Advisor for Health Policy at The Ohio State University Medical Center.
Kathy Matney is Executive Director of Service Excellence
Quinn Capers is Associate Dean for Admissions in The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
President E. Gordon Gee challenged the University and the Medical Center to “Commit to Our Communities.” The College of Medicine bolstered by several educational and community partners are embarking on a program that will indeed demonstrate that commitment. The new Schweitzer Fellowship program site in Columbus answers Dr. Mark Notestine’s call to “strengthen the local community through outreach.”
