University at Buffalo School of Management

6 Buffalo Business Spring 2017 for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sci- ences, and Steven Schwaitzberg, MD, chair of the UB Department of Surgery and a surgeon with UBMD Surgery. Backed by the Offi ce of Graduate Medical Education at the medical school, the program was recently approved by the American Board of Surgery under its fl exi- ble training rotation for the general surgery residency. The program is strengthened by a growing strategic focus on health care in the School of Management, O'Brien notes, where 16 percent of MBA students partic- ipate in a health-related graduate program. It's hard to fi x a plane while it's in the air Plans to develop the Accelerated MBA for Residents and Fellows got a boost in 2015 from Schwaitzberg, who was recruited Collaborating to create health care leaders MBA for surgical residents will enhance patient care and resident training In an increasingly complex health care system, hospitals need high quality clini- cians who also have strong business and leadership skills. The University at Buffalo, in partnership with Kaleida Health, West- ern New York's largest health care provider, has developed an innovative, sponsored MBA program for residents and fellows. UB's Accelerated MBA for Residents and Fellows is tailored to medical school graduates doing their postgraduate train- ing at UB. It adds only one year to their residency or fellowship and allows them to pursue an MBA health care management track. The program is unique for surgical residents in that Kaleida Health provides all of the tuition. "We've created a three-way, collab- orative model between UB, the surgi- cal residency program and the corporate health care entity sponsoring it," says Erin O'Brien, assistant dean and director of graduate programs for the School of Management. "We have fully integrated the MBA into the residency so the student will act as a business consultant, working on projects that deliver immediate business benefi t to Kaleida." The collaboration was possible thanks to the enthusiastic participation of the partners, particularly Jody Lomeo, BS '91, chief executive offi cer of Kaleida Health and Great Lakes Health, the con- sortium that includes the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, Kaleida and Erie County Medical Center. "It's an all-boats-rise kind of program," says Lomeo. "Once we started having dis- cussions with UB, we knew it was just the right thing to do." Also critical was the strong support of Paul Tesluk, dean of the School of Manage- ment, Michael Cain, MD, vice president By e L L e n G O L D B aU M

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