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As vaccines become available to prevent COVID-19 infection, what challenges do U.S. healthcare systems face? Should strategy be focused on returning to the past, or has the pandemic forever changed healthcare and created new challenges and opportunities for providers? Join Alumni Relations on Thursday, January 28, 2021 from 6pm-7pm CT as Healthcare Professors Edward Kroger and Ian Wedgwood discuss healthcare in a post-COVID world.
Edward Kroger, Adjunct Professor in Management - HealthcareEdward Kroger graduated from Baylor University in 1981 and began medical school at the age of 19. Upon graduation from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, he completed an Internship in Internal Medicine before taking a three year leave of absence to attend the University of Texas School of Law. He returned to Houston and finished his Residency in 1991 with subsequent Board Certification in Internal Medicine. After making partner at an international health law and medical malpractice litigation firm in 1999, he left to found Kroger | Burrus, a law and business consulting firm representing Texas healthcare clients. Dr. Kroger returned to school and earned a Master of Business Administration from Rice University in 2017. To learn more about Dr. Kroger, click here.
Ian Wedgwood, Lecturer in Management - Operations ManagementDr. Wedgwood has over two decades of experience in guiding organizations through change. He has designed and led dozens of performance excellence deployments globally in industries as diverse as healthcare, electronics, engineered materials, banking, medical devices and chemicals, yielding $100s of millions in profitability improvements. He is well versed at facilitating and mentoring performance improvement decision management at the executive-level. Ian holds a Ph.D. and a First-Class Honors degree in Applied Mathematics from Scotland’s St Andrew’s University. He authored Lean Sigma – A Practitioner’s Guide, considered a seminal work in the field of Lean, Six Sigma and performance improvement and more recently Lean Sigma – Rebuilding Capability In Healthcare, a guide for healthcare leadership on managing change. To learn more about Dr. Wedgwood, click here.
This event is hosted by Rice Business Alumni Relations and is open to all Jones School students, Jones School alumni and Rice Business Partner members.
There will not be an in-person option for this event. Once you register, you will receive the call in information for the Zoom call, sent to the email address you used to register.
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