Oliver Wyman January 14, 2021
KEY TAKEAWAY
“Non-clinicians can be extremely effective healthcare organization leaders. Let’s bring more perspectives to the C-suite table.” — @uwhealth #OWHealth
Steering an academic medical center through a global health crisis demands remarkable humility, a relentless commitment to partnership, and true collaboration. However, what it perhaps doesn’t demand is a one-size-fits-all, traditional healthcare background.
On that note, when Alan Kaplan, MD, first began his role as Chief Executive Officer at UW Health in Wisconsin five years ago, this was his first foray into academic healthcare – his prior academic experience limited to his experience as a student attending school. Alan, who’d been a senior healthcare executive for 25 years, learned he was actually the only candidate for the job without an...