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<v ->The Health Sector Management Program,</v>

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you are integrated into a community from day one.

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There is a launch party where you get to meet

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your fellow first years and all of the second years.

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The community itself is wonderful.

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Both in terms of the first years, the second years,

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and then the alumni network

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who was in the Health Sector Management Program.

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<v ->I spent my first six years of working in Latin America</v>

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supporting pharmaceutical companies,

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doing crisis management for lounge

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and patient advocacy efforts,

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and I realized that I wanted to be part of the industry,

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not support the industry from the outside.

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When I saw the positioning

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that the Healthcare Management MBA had within the industry

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and also the great location that Questrom has within Boston

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in relation with the industry, in healthcare,

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it was the perfect match for me.

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That and the flexibility of being able

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to gather the skills from an MBA,

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but then focus some of those skills within healthcare.

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<v ->I was really focused on doing research</v>

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and I had been working at a major hospital

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in the Boston area,

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and the research was really prepping me

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to go off to medical school.

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I thought that was what I was really interested in,

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where I wanted to go.

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Ultimately, I realized I was a lot more interested

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in answering the questions of how the hospital works

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and looking more into the hospital side.

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I realized I really needed to get a degree in business

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and in management in particular,

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and so that's what led me

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to the Health Sector Management degree at Questrom.

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<v ->I went from the bench sciences doing a lot of experiments</v>

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to now being a decision maker.

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I work at a life science company in gene therapy,

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a very innovative therapy that we're looking

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to treat patients with rare diseases,

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to business development and corporate strategy.

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So I'm now in that decision making role

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where I can really shape the direction

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of the therapies that we create,

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decisions that we make as a company,

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as well as how to advance these therapies for patients.

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And Questrom really taught me

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that all those skills necessary

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to become that type of leader.

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<v ->One of the things that I think is very powerful</v>

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about the students that are part

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of the Health Sector Management Program

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at Questrom School of Business

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is that they're not all in one specialty.

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It is actually advantageous to be in a classroom

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with folks that are in biopharma

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as well as who are physicians,

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as well as folks who are in biotech, as well as devices,

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as well as people in the insurance and payer space.

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Having that diversity,

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having that heterogeneity in the classroom is a strength.

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Because in my experience, most people like

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to blame what's wrong in healthcare

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with the person who's not in the room.

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But if everyone's in the room,

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then you have to have much more difficult conversations.

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I give the students tremendous credit

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for what they build together.

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It's a caring community.

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It is one that really wants to support each other's success.

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I really think of it as a vibrant community,

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a supportive community, a caring community.

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