Academic health center leadership face challenges on multiple levels in their endeavors to   attain efficient and optimized operations.  The AAHC works with its members to examine, establish, and assess models that will effectively assist leadership, on both a national and global level, in integrating and aligning operations with the overarching academic health center mission and value proposition of advancing and applying knowledge to improve health.   

National

The Integrated Model

Management and leadership challenges are fundamentally changing the ways in which academic health centers operate.  An integrated organizational model, whereby the mission areas are aligned across organizational structures, is a major step to becoming an efficient and optimized operation. (Read More...)

The Academic Health Center: Evolving Organizational Models
Academic health centers will undergo a process of accelerated change as the result of strategic planning processes that drive leaders to make the hard decisions about resource allocation.
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Global

The Multinational Academic Health Center  
A confluence of economic and technological advances, coupled with pressing worldwide health needs, presents a convincing case for a new paradigm of the academic health center.  The vision for this paradigm is a new type of entity: the multinational academic health center.

At this critical juncture of need and opportunity, academic health centers must position themselves as agents of change that embody and personify the ideals of equality and justice, as they work for both economic and societal progress. 

Academic health centers must think collectively and act internationally, as they work together to develop a shared idea of how to foster a world environment driven by the ideals of improving the public good. [Read more…]

- Steven A. Wartman, MD, PhD, AAHC President and CEO