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2011 ASTS Leadership Development Program

Program Curriculum

Program Schedule

Sunday, September 11, 2011

8:00am-10:00am – Program Welcome and Negotiating Productive Agreements: Improving Your Proficiency

Faculty: David Axelrod, MD, MBA, Section Chief, Transplantation Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Chairman of the ASTS Business Practice Committee

Faculty: Keith Murnighan, PhD, Kellogg School of Management

10:15am-11:45am – Negotiating Productive Agreements: Improving Your Proficiency (continued) Faculty: Keith Murnighan, PhD, Kellogg School of Management

11:45am-1:00pm – Lunch
1:00-2:30pm – Financial Statements/Accounting: Essential Knowledge	*Faculty:* Beverly Walther, MBA, PhD, Kellogg School of Management
2:45-4:15pm – *Getting Good Information from Financial Statements*	*Faculty:* Beverly Walther, MBA, PhD, Kellogg School of Management
4:30-6:00pm – Transplant Finance: Knowledge into Practice	*Faculty:* Michael Abecassis, MD, MBA, Chief of the Division of Transplantation and Founding Director of the Northwestern University Comprehensive Transplant Center and President, American Society of Transplant Surgeons
6:30-8:30pm – *Dinner Keynote, Topic: CMS Perspective*	Speaker: Thomas Hamilton, Director, Survey and Certification Group, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Monday, September 12, 2011

8:30-10:00am - Essentials of Transplant Economics & Practice

Faculty: David Axelrod, MD, MBA, Section Chief, Transplantation Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Chairman of the ASTS Business Practice Committee

10:15-11:45am – Strategic Contracting and Pricing in Transplant (continued)

Faculty: William Chapman, MD, Professor and Section Chief, Abdominal Transplantation, Washington University School of Medicine and Co-Chairman of the ASTS Business Practice Committee

11:45am-1:00pm – Lunch

1:00-2:30pm – Strategic Contracting and Pricing in Transplant (continued)
Faculty: William Chapman, MD, Professor and Section Chief, Abdominal Transplantation, Washington University School of Medicine and Co-Chairman of the ASTS Business Practice Committee

2:45-4:15pm – Developing Effective Marketing: Strategy and Lessons

Faculty: Greg Carpenter, PhD, Kellogg School of Management

4:30-6:00pm – Developing Effective Marketing: Strategy and Lessons (continued)
Faculty: Greg Carpenter, PhD, Kellogg School of Management

6:30-9:00pm – Dinner Keynote, Topic: QAPI
Speaker: David Reich, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Multiorgan Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Drexel College of Medicine, Hahnemann University Hospital and Chairman, ASTS Standards Committee

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

8:30-10:00 am – Leading a High Functioning Multi-Disciplinary
Team

Faculty: Leigh Thompson, PhD, Kellogg School of Management

10:15-11:45am – Leading a High Functioning Multi-Disciplinary
Team (continued)

Faculty: Leigh Thompson, PhD, Kellogg School of Management

11:45am -1:00pm – Lunch- Transplant Centers, Institutes and Institutional Relationships
Faculty: Marwan Abouljoud, MD, Division Chief, Transplantation Surgery, Henry Ford Medical Center and Past Chairman of the ASTS Business Practice Committee

1:00-2:30pm – SRTR and CUSUM
Faculty: David Axelrod, MD, MBA, and Raja Kandaswamy, MD, Chief of the Division of Transplantation, University of Florida

2:45-3:45pm – Regulatory Aspects
of Transplant Management: UNOS, CMS and Payers

Faculty: Timothy Pruett, MD, Chief, Division of Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Former President of UNOS

3:45-4:15pm – Wrap Up and Evaluation
David Axelrod, MD, MBA and Al Isenman, PhD

Program topics, schedule and speakers are subject to change without notice

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Registration opens May, 2011

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