TOTAL OF 2 SCHOLARSHIPS – ONE FUNDED BY SAGES EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND ONE FUNDED BY SAGES
DESCRIPTION:
- This award is open to any active SAGES member currently serving on any SAGES committee.
- The purpose of this scholarship is to promote individuals as leaders in medicine. The Brandeis course trains clinical leaders in healthcare policy and management and provides healthcare professionals with the skills essential to creating innovative and sustainable solutions to improve the quality, cost-effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare service delivery.
- Past winners include: Michael Edye, MD & Vic Velanovich, MD (2010); Ketan Sheth, MD & Robert Fanelli, MD (2011); Jeff Hazey, MD & Rajesh Aggarwal, MD (2012); Don Selzer, MD & J. Scott Roth, MD (2013); Ross Goldberg, MD & Jon Gould, MD (2014); Brian Dunkin, MD; Anne Lidor, MD (2015); Ann Rogers, MD & Pascal Fuchshuber, MD (2016); Dean Mikami, MD & Eric Weiss, MD (2017); Shanu Kothari, MD & Kyle Perry, MD (2018); Gina Adrales, MD & Konstantinos Spaniolas, MD (2019); Racquel Bueno, MD; David Renton, MD & Christopher DuCoin, MD (2020); Christopher Schlachta, MD (2021); Jacob Greenberg, MD & Kinga Powers, MD (2022); Caitlin Halbert, DO & Farah Husain, MD (2023), James Korndorffer Jr, MD (2024)
AWARD REQUIREMENTS AND BENEFITS:
- Must be a SAGES Active or candidate Member.
- Interested parties may submit their own nomination for this award.
- Recipient(s) must be available to attend that year’s course (usually in June) and will submit a brief written report of their experience to be published in SCOPE.
- Recipients will be recommended for automatic assignment to the Advocacy & Health Policy Committee with an expectation of active participation.
- The winner will receive complimentary registration for SAGES 2025
- The award consists of an $8000 grant which covers the Brandeis course tuition ($5,600), travel to Brandeis, hotel, and meals.
APPLICATION:
Please complete the following form for your self-nomination
TESTIMONIAL FROM PRIOR AWARD WINNER:
Brandeis Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management
June 2024
James R Korndorffer Jr MD MHPE
Attending the 2024 Brandeis Leadership Program in Health Policy and Management through the generosity of SAGES and the SAGES Foundations help me enhance skills that will be not only beneficial personally but also to those organizations I serve, locally and nationally. The one-week course is a full immersion into general health policy, advocacy as well as leadership development.
Personal growth was attained through sessions focusing on negotiation, healthcare finance literacy, conflict resolution, and fundamentals of strategy development. These sessions were taught by leaders in the respective fields with years of practical experience. Even those individuals well versed in the topics will find new frameworks to utilize.
While those personal growth topics will benefit the organizations I serve, other topics are even more relevant. As a background, several sessions focus on the history of healthcare financing at the federal level, and at various state levels. These were taught by those at the table during the development of the ACA as well as earlier attempts. With this background on why we have the current healthcare system, the focus on how we need to interact with policy makers and influence them was made very clear. Additionally, much of the discussion was on how to accomplish such influence at the state and national level.
While not as critical as the content, the facilities were exceptional, with onsite dining. Spending the non-class hours at meals allowed for the development of a tight knit cohort of surgeons from a variety of specialties and locations. This cohort will be a structure for peer-consults about the leadership and advocacy challenges we will face going forward.
I am very appreciative of the support by the SAGES Foundations and cannot recommend the program more highly for those wanting to enhance their leadership and advocacy skills.