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September 01, 2021

Dan Lundergan, MHA, Chief Operating Officer at University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics, has been appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer. He has served as interim CEO since February and steps into the official role beginning immediately.

December 04, 2020

Samuel R.G. Finlayson, MD, MPH, MBA has been appointed Associate Vice President (AVP) for Clinical Affairs and Chief Clinical Officer for University of Utah Health (U of U Health). The appointment, effective December 1, 2020, was announced by Michael L. Good, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and CEO of U of U Health.

November 20, 2020

Marika V. Jones, MBA, has been named Chief Philanthropy Officer (CPO) at University of Utah Health. The appointment was announced by Michael L. Good, Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and CEO of U of U Health. Jones has been serving as Interim CPO since July 2019.

June 11, 2020

Marla De Jong, Ph.D., RN, FAAN Colonel (Ret.), a lifelong leader in the field of nursing, has been named dean of the University of Utah College of Nursing effective August 17. De Jong will oversee the undergraduate and graduate programs of the college, with a focus on interdisciplinary teaching, research, clinical practice, and service.

November 25, 2019

Robyn Reynolds, M.B.A., has been named chief marketing and communications officer for University of Utah Health, effective January 6, 2020. Reynolds will oversee strategic communications and marketing efforts across University of Utah Health’s missions of patient care, research, education, and community engagement.

November 12, 2016

History holds a lesson for Americans still reeling from the 2016 election. The characteristics of true leadership—hard work, resilience and virtue among them—seemed to disappear over the past year

November 10, 2014

Academicians are rational, educated and evidence-driven beings who'd like to think they're beyond bias ? or at least, that they can put it aside.

November 10, 2014

In an environment threatened by less funding, academic medical centers across the nation risk having to shift their research missions from "advancing science" to "preserving science." Speakers from 5 university systems shared their approaches to developing junior faculty and creating collaborations through a virtuous cycle

November 09, 2014

How we communicate evolves as we learn, grow and become more sophisticated. The same scientists whose scholarly beginnings started with "See Spot Run" or "Green Eggs and Ham" publish papers with titles like, "Inhibition of mTORC-1 mediated translational elongation in colorectal cancer prevention and therapy."

November 09, 2014

With the Sunshine Act, even in the months leading up to its passage, the number of financial disclosures required of researchers and physicians exploded. Here's just a small sample of entities requiring disclosures: HHS, FDA, AHRQ, VA, NSF, foundations, teaching hospitals, journals and CME providers.

November 09, 2014

Founded by Salman Khan in 2006, Khan Academy is a non-profit provider of online educational resources for many topics. About 18 months ago, and with insight from the 2012 AAMC annual meeting, Khan Academy began assembling content to help pre-med students prepare for MCAT2015.

November 09, 2014

Medicare is a complicated tangle of ever-evolving regulations, and a major source of funding for hospitals. Tracking the shifting policy landscape is a corps of government relations experts at the Association of Academic Medical Centers who explained Sunday what coming changes potentially mean for the country's teaching hospitals.

November 09, 2014

The stress can be monumental and overpowering. Medical school is a lesson in life, as much as it is in practicing medicine. University of Utah Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs Sean Mulvihill, M.D., talked to medical student Kiran Singh about how to cope and how the examples set by teachers and colleagues can help or hurt them.

November 08, 2014

What if our nation's health industry leaders put their personal agendas aside and came together to collectively fix health care?

November 07, 2014

University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics CEO David Entwistle discusses what transparency means when it comes to health care, and what people can expect when they attend Monday's 3:30pm session on the topic.

November 07, 2014

When you make data public, you make a commitment to hold your organization to a higher standard. That is the message of David Entwistle, CEO of University of Utah Health Care Hospitals and Clinics as he discusses the culture shift that occurred when the decision was made to start posting doctor reviews online, and how it has led to a renewed commitment to quality care.

July 22, 2014

What are the three things AHA members should have on their radar that are happening in Washington, D.C.?

July 21, 2014

Are physicians unknowingly compromising the quality of care by discouraging nurse input in the process? Barbara Lewis, founder of Joan's Bill of Rights, asked nurses that question and their answers might surprise you.

July 20, 2014

The global rise of tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google happened because they paid attention to the hassles consumers faced buying books, renting movies or using their cell phones.

July 20, 2014

Being impatient and disagreeable generally are not considered admirable qualities. But Malcolm Gladwell suggests they may be exactly the characteristics needed to drive innovation forward. He points to Apple founder Steve Jobs as Exhibit A.

November 05, 2013

Most medical schools are seen as ivory towers filled with intellects that have little in common with average people. In this era of change, it's not the image most Universities want or need. During a session titled 'Activating the Public's Perception of Academic Medicine,' guest speakers offered insight and solutions into helping academic medical centers break through the stereotypes and connect more with the public and key stakeholders. First step? Don't call ourselves academic medical centers.

November 03, 2013

Transforming academic medicine is a complex task, it requires that we rethink the entire structure - governance, money flows, teams vs. individuals, the list is long. Perhaps the biggest challenge, however, is how to take the leadership vision and engaging the entire institution in acting on the vision.

November 03, 2013

Just as a ship's captain needs to prepare her ship and crew for any possible weather, leaders in academic medicine needs to prepare our organizations for an uncertain future.

November 03, 2013

How can leaders in academic medicine engage in advocacy to help shape the policy that affects our institutions? Atul Grover, Chief Public Policy Officer for AAMC, and Liz Winter, Chief of Staff, University of Utah Health Sciences engage in discussion of the public policy threats and opportunities that have created "the change imperative".

November 03, 2013

The delivery system is influencing education, and educating is improving the delivery system. Education, scholarship and service all work together in the virtuous cycle.

November 02, 2013

Health care as an industry has found itself at a pivotal "moment of truth" and leaders in academic medicine must step up to the plate to help find solutions during a challenging era of transformation, the president of the Association of American Medical Colleges said on Saturday.

November 02, 2013

What is the "change imperative?" What are the most vexing problems facing academic medicine? Why MOOCs (massive open online courses) aren't threats, they're opportunities. Vivian Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A, senior vice president for health sciences at the University of Utah, interviews Darrell Kirch, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, about the most important issues in academic medicine today.

December 03, 2012

"You know the old adage, "Change is good. You go first," quipped AAMC President Darrell Kirch at the association's annual meeting in early November. While that may have described the attitude of academic medical centers (AMCs) in the past, Kirch says he's finding more people are willing to go first.