Fox School Professor Zinn Cites Widespread Racial Disparities in Healthcare
African Americans are four times more likely than white Americans to find themselves in poorly funded, understaffed nursing homes that offer substandard care, according to a comprehensive study of nursing homes conducted by Jacqueline Zinn, Fox School associate professor of Healthcare Management at Temple University and her co-investigator, Vincent Mor, Brown University Medical School professor of community health.
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The Business of Medicine
Alexander M. Hamling, MBA ’04, who will graduate with the School of Medicine’s Class of 2006, is doing all he can to prepare for the realities of medicine as a business by enrolling in The Fox School's five-year dual degree MD-MBA program. Temple’s “regular” medical school curriculum also incorporates more business-related material than it did in the old days.
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Management Grand Rounds — A Unique Blend of Practice and Theory
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Strategically positioned in a region alive with innovation and achievement in healthcare, medicine, science, finance and technology, The Fox School’s
graduate programs in Healthcare Management recognized a natural opportunity to enhance each student’s learning experience beyond the traditional classroom setting. It created Management Grand Rounds to expose students to the diversity of healthcare management practice opportunities.
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AstraZeneca’s Arthur Lazarus is MD-MBA Executive in Residence
Dr. Arthur Lazarus, senior director of clinical research for AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, is the 2004 Executive in Residence for The Fox School’s joint MD-MBA Program. He is a graduate of Temple University’s School of Medicine (MD ’00) and The Fox School of Business and Management (Executive MBA ’00).
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Charles P. Hall Scholarship Awarded to Carla Sampson
With 12 years of experience in the retail banking sector, Carla Sampson may seem an unlikely candidate for a healthcare scholarship. Yet with a mother as a nurse in an emergency department, she was always surrounded and interested in the business operations behind the medical profession. She decided to translate this interest into a new career in healthcare management.
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