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Health Care Business 101 & Then Some
on Clinician's Roundtable
Healthcare reform may bring more medical care services to patients, which means more and complex business for the nation's physicians. But are doctors prepared to be the best business people now and in the future for their patients? Dr. Wright Pinson, deputy vice chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the Hospitals and Clinics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, tells host Bruce Japsen about master's programs in healthcare business, like Vanderbilt's Masters of Management in Health Care program.
 Bruce Japsen has been a healthcare business reporter for the Chicago Tribune since May of 1998. Mr. Japsen covers pharmaceutical and device makers, economic issues, managed-care companies, doctor practices and other physician issues. He has covered everything from the Vioxx-product liability trials and controversies involving the foray of Walgreens and Wal-Mart into retail medicine, to bird flu vaccine production and stem cell research. In addition to the regular healthcare business stories he writes, he has a regular Thursday column in the Tribune business section and is a regular on WGN radio and television, CBS-owned WBBM-News radio 780 and Tribune-owned CLTV. Reach his work at or follow him on Twitter. Prior to joining the Tribune, Mr. Japsen was a reporter with Crain Communications’ Chicago-based Modern Healthcare magazine, where he covered the Chicago healthcare marketplace. He also followed national healthcare companies like Columbia/HCA Healthcare, HealthSouth, not-for-profit healthcare systems and areas of healthcare finance. He worked for Modern Healthcare from October 1993 to May 1998.Before moving to Chicago in the fall of 1993, Mr. Japsen was a reporter for the Des Moines Register, the Dubuque Telegraph Herald and the Burlington Hawk Eye. His Iowa newspaper assignments included everything from Presidential campaigns to Big Ten football and basketball and professional minor league baseball. Mr. Japsen is a graduate of the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication and sits on the journalism school’s advisory board. He also teaches writing, editing and communications to medical professionals at the University of Chicago’s Graham School of General Studies and is an adjunct reporting and writing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. He lives with his wife and daughter on Chicago’s North Side.
Dr. C. Wright Pinson is the deputy vice chancellor for health affairs and CEO of the Hospitals and Clinics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a graduate of Miami University and the University of Colorado with a degree in physics. He attended medical school at Vanderbilt University. After completing his training, he started the first liver transplantation program in the Pacific Northwest, at Oregon Health Sciences University in 1988, and later was recruited to Vanderbilt University as professor of surgery to start the liver transplant program and liver surgery division in 1990. In 1993, he became the surgical director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. He has since held a variety of administrative posts. Dr. Pinson is an active clinical researcher and maintains a laboratory in the field of transplantation surgery, having received numerous grants and recently both the Sawyers research award and the Liddle research mentoring award. He has authored more than 250 contributions to the literature and given more than 500 scientific presentations and lectures. He served on the board of the United Network for Organ Sharing, and currently chairs the committee for allocation of liver and intestinal grafts. He is past-president of the Tennessee Transplant Society, and active in the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American Surgical Association and the Halsted Society.
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