the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly
   July 2013
Issue No. 3  

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Editor's Letter

The President's Desk

Open Wide

The Philosopher's Corner

Alumni News


Featured Articles

Wharton Healthcare Management Alumni Association Chooses First-Year MBA for Its Kissick/Alumni $15,000 Scholarship

Drugs for Rare Diseases: Ravicti for Urea Cycle Disorders as a Study Case.

I’m Not Sick; Does That Mean I’m Healthy?

mHealth Technology: Design and Development of Mobile Integrated Therapies

Part 1: From Patient to Partner - Engaging Patients in the Paradigm Shift to Population Health Management

An Eye-Catching Vision: Patients and the Cost of Advanced Technology

Hindsight Is 20/20: Need Stronger Specs and You’re Only 50? Could Be Cataracts.

Six Steps for Surviving the Perfect Storm in Healthcare.

Part 1 - White-Bagging: White Knight or Villain?

Wharton Around the Globe: Healthy Living - Introducing Prevention into Health Policy

In Upcoming Issues

Making It Happen: An Interview with UCSF’s Stephanie Marrus, Director of the Entrepreneurship Center

From Patient to Partner – Part 2

White-Bagging: White Knight or Villain? – Part 2

Reinvent Healthcare. Help Change the World.

Toward Creating a Model Public Health Community: Lessons Learned

At Risk: Doctor-Patient Dis-connection Through Modern EMRs

The CEO Playbook

Wharton Around the Globe

Gary Phillips Series:

  Data Interoperability and
  Collaboration in
  Personalized Medicine

Healthcare Disparities Series

  Healthcare Disparities vs.
  Health Equity: Implications
  for Health Policy and
  Practice

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Editor's Letter

I’ll be brief because this quarter’s edition is chock full of content which spans the spectrum of problems and opportunities in the healthcare arena, both in the U.S. and around the globe. Without planning a theme-based issue, it seems a pattern has developed nonetheless. Our contributors advance our knowledge and provide solutions in a recurring refrain around:

            • patient engagement
            • innovation through collaboration
            • prevention and taking a proactive approach
            • a plea for both a whole-person, whole-system, and more global view
            • the promise and challenges of new technology

We also gain insights from outgoing WHCMAA president, Jay Mohr WG’91, in the Philosopher’s Corner and learn about the Board’s goals from incoming WHCMAA president, Jeff Voigt WG’85.

Lastly, we remember and honor Bill Kissick, the George Seckel Pepper Professor of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine who taught many of us who were students in the program in the 1970s – 1990s, who died in June.

Much appreciation goes to our sponsors, Duane Morris, Locust Walk Partners, and Bristol Myers Squibb. And, as always, thanks to Jeff Voigt (the “executive sponsor” from the Board) and Gabriela Sanchez who provides administrative support, and finally to you, our readers, without whom the WHQ has no life.

So spread the word outside the Wharton community, keep on reading, continue to contribute articles, and be vigilant about letting us know what you think and want from the WHQ.

Z. Colette Edwards, WG'84, MD'85
Managing Editor

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The President's Desk


Fellow Alumni, Friends and Colleagues:

I very much look forward to serving as President, in working with the alumni, faculty, and students of the Wharton School, the university as a whole, and the alumni Board over the
next two years. The board’s goals... Read more.

Contributor:
Jeff Voigt WG’85  



Open Wide

Column editor Harris Contos, DMD, WG’80 asks, “Has dentistry failed the American people?”
in this article entitled, We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You...

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The Philosopher's Corner

This eclectic standing column features insightful musings, words of wisdom, life lessons, and stepping stones to business success.

This month’s philosopher is Jay Mohr WG’91

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Column Editor: Z. Colette Edwards, WG’84, MD’85
 


Wharton Healthcare Management Alumni Association Chooses First-Year MBA for Its Kissick/Alumni $15,000 Scholarship

Dr. William Lee Kissick, age 81, died peacefully in Denver on June 30. He was one of two physicians who drafted the Medicare Act and the George Seckel Pepper Professor of Medicine
for the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He was the author of Medicine's Dilemmas: Infinite Needs versus Finite Resources, an editor of Lessons from the First Twenty Years of Medicare: Research Implications for Public and Private Sector Policy, and the editor of
Dimensions and Determinants of Health Policy. The WHCMAA selected Ross Stern as the
recipient of the 2013 Kissick/Alumni Scholarship. Read more.

Contributor: Jeff Voigt WG’85,


Drugs For Rare Diseases: Ravicti for Urea Cycle Disorders as a Case Study

Hyperion Therapeutics, Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to advancing science and developing treatments for orphan and liver diseases. RAVICTI (TM) is the
first approved product for the treatment of urea cycle disorders (UCDs) since 1996 and is being developed for a second orphan indication, hepatic encephalopathy. What unfolds is the intriguing and unique behind-the-scenes story of bringing this life-changing drug to market told from the perspective of the key protagonists. Read more.

Contributors: Klara Dickinson, Brendan Lee, Cynthia LeMons, Masoud Mokhtarani,
Christine Nash, Bijan Salehizadeh MD, Bruce F. Scharschmidt MD
 


I’m Not Sick; Does That Mean I’m Healthy?

Tracy Thompson and New York Times best-selling author Dallas Hartwig (It Starts with Food) outline a proactive model of care in which physicians and “health mentors” forge an alliance to
drive the change necessary to address the myriad challenges of today’s broken healthcare
system. Read more.

Contributors: Dallas Hartwig and Tracy Thompson


mHealth Technology: Design and Development of Mobile Integrated Therapies

In this overview discussion of mHealth technology, learn about the promise mobile integrated therapies hold for patient self-management and support to physicians beyond the four walls of healthcare. Read more.

Contributor: Paul A. Upham
 


Part 1: From Patient to Partner - Engaging Patients in the Paradigm Shift to Population Health Management

This is the first in a series of three articles about engaging patients in population health management, exploring the ways in which providers can foster collaboration with patients in
care management, and the questions this work raises for the identity of providers in the future.
Read more.

Contributors: Jennifer Tomasik and Carey Huntington Gallagher

 


An Eye-Catching Vision: Patients and the Cost of Advanced Technology

The Executive Medical Director of LasikPlus Laser Vision Centers and Visium Eye Institute discusses challenges and potential access issues relative to new technology in cataract surgery in the face of falling Medicare reimbursement. Read more.

Contributor: Sanjay “Sonny” D. Goel, MD


Hindsight Is 20/20: Need Stronger Specs and You’re Only 50? Could Be Cataracts.

A teaching moment for patients about the necessity of self-advocacy and for physicians regarding the need for a whole-person perspective is shared in this story of a lesson learned the hard way
as the author negotiated the system in search of clearer vision. Read more.

Contributor: Faye Rivkin


Six Steps for Surviving the Perfect Storm in Healthcare

Learn about 6 elements grounded in positive psychology which studies show are key for transforming conflict into collaboration and for building high-functioning hospitals.
Read more.

Contributor: Tom Muha, Ph.D


Part 1 - White-Bagging: White Knight or Villain?

Discover how things aren’t always what they initially seem to be in this discussion of some of the potential unintended consequences of “white-bagging” in the world of specialty pharmacy.
Read more.

Contributor: Abigail Jenkins


Wharton Around the Globe: Healthy Living - Introducing Prevention into Health Policy

In Part 2 of this series from Gary Phillips, C'87, WG'91, M'92, RES'97, (who was recently
promoted to the position of Senior Director, Head of Global Health & Healthcare Industries at the World Economic Forum), discusses improving the state of global health through a project in healthy living, aimed at introducing prevention of NCDs into health policy. Read more.


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