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Date: November 4, 2013
Subject: HLS Newsletter - November 4, 2013



 

   
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Monday, November 4, 2013

HLS Events

Weekly Educational/General Body Meetings

Mark your calendars for our weekly educational and general body meeting. This weekly meeting will be held on Sundays from 2-3pm in R2230.  You can find the series of Sunday meetings in the CampusGroups calendar here: https://ross.campusgroups.com/student_community?club_id=1675&view=events, you do not need to RSVP for the meetings, but you can use the RSVP tool to add the events to your own calendar. 

Sign up for the Health Care Concentration!

Students with career interests related to health care are now eligible to receive a Concentration in Health Care Management! The concentration requires students to fulfill a certain number of health care credits, which can be completed by taking classes at Ross and other University of Michigan graduate schools. Students in this concentration will need to have at least 63 credit hours completed by graduation, which is 6 more than the minimum MBA total of 57.

 Please send an e-mail to rossgradacadadvising@umich.edu to express interest in the concentration. Soon after you send the e-mail, you will receive a sample course plan and more information on classes that qualify.

 Please join us for the Healthcare Concentration Overview!

Interested in registering for the Health Care Concentration? Please join Professor Tom Buchmueller and Anna Stryker on November 17th in R2230 to learn more. Professor Buchmueller and Anna will review the importance of the concentration, registration logistics, and class sign-up. 

Date: Sunday, November 17, 3:00-3:30 EST

Room: R2230

Please contact Stefani Telvi with any questions at stelvi@umich.edu

Hope to see you there!

 

 


Around Campus

From 'Idea' to Savings Lives - ES 720, Biomedical Commercialization

ES 720 is an interdisciplinary graduate course (ES 720) taught at the Ross School of Business. It will be starting in January, on Mondays 6:30-9:30pm for 7 weeks and is taught by Prof. Erik Gordon, Ross School and Michigan Law School, formerly of Johns Hopkins University where the course was taught to medical, engineering, pharmaceutical and life sciences students and faculty. Registration now open to non-business graduate students with permission of the instructor. Email rmegordo@umich.edu

IHIOS Open Lecture Series present Dr. John Gosbee

Dr. John Gosbee will give a talk titled, “Redesign is crucial to lasting patient safety: human factors engineering to the rescue.” Dr. Gosbee is a Human Factors Engineering (HFE) and Healthcare Specialist providing expertise to design of healthcare devices, software, and architecture.  He works with large medical device companies, academia, government and non profit organizations to develop patient safety innovations.   He has been visiting professor or given grand rounds at eleven universities in the past three years, including University of Maryland and Yale University.  Dr Gosbee has been an advisory panel member or consultant to several patient safety programs, including those at Harvard Risk Management, Johns Hopkins, American Heart Association, and American Academy of Family Physicians.

Date: November 18th, 4:00-5:15 pm. Location TBD. 

Please contact Elizabeth Goheen with questions at egoheen@umich.edu

Additional information about Dr. Gosbee can be found at http://www.redforestconsulting.com/John_Gosbee.html

 

The New Jersey Trek!

The schedule for the New Jersey Trek has been finalized! Please contact Minglian Wan with any questions at wanm@umich.edu

November 14: 9:00 am - 11:30 am - Visit BD; 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm - Visit Janssen

November 15: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm - Day at Pfizer!

Please sign-up for the BD and Janssen visits using the link:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5ZJN9TN (Deadline extended to next Sunday)

HLS will NOT be coordinating logistics for this trek. However, if you want to coordinate with other participants, please fill in the spreadsheet below:

https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArfhcksAdJrQdEJfcGU2QzBmTjJqTm9TWVdYVHJkV2c#gid=0

 

The Minneapolis Trek - December 5th and 6th

Please mark your calendars for this very exciting trek. Details are still being worked out, but this promises to be a great event. The companies who are being considered for this trek are Medtronic, EcoLab, United Health Group, and St. Jude. Final details will be released as soon as they are available. Please contact Minglian Wan with any questions at wanm@umich.edu


Competitions

TBD


Off Campus Employment Listings

 

Full-Time

See below.

Internships

See below.

 


Employers on Campus

 

Note: Be aware that these dates and times are subject to change.  Check iMpact for the latest information, and please click the link to see who you need to contact with questions.

11/4/2013 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
R0420
3M Corporate Presentation MBA1 Recruiting - RCS
11/5/2013 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Ross Lobby Table #1 
(Winter Garden)
Bristol-Myers Squibb networking hours MBA1 Recruiting - RCS
11/5/2013 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
R0240
Bristol-Myers Squibb corp. presentation MBA1 Recruiting - RCS
11/6/2013 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Granite Staircase West
DaVita - business over bagels MBA1 Recruiting - RCS
11/6/2013 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
R1240
DaVita corporate presentation MBA1

Recruiting - RCS

         
11/7/2013 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
R0420
AbbVie corporate presentation MBA1 Recruiting - RCS

 Healthcare Consulting Firms

(Please speak with individual firms and representatives to learn how healthcare-focused your position would be, and recruit accordingly).

 
11/4/2013 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Blau
Deloitte Consulting MBA1 Recruiting - RCS
11/5/2013 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Blau
The Boston Consulting Group MBA1 Recruiting - RCS