Perspectives on the Business of Healthcare with David Dirks
Vice President, Strategy Intermountain Health
October 9, 2024 from 5:15 to 6:15 pm CT
Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK) invites you to our first webinar of the 2025 academic year, Perspectives on the Business of Healthcare, with David Dirks, Vice President, Strategy, Intermountain Health and Craig Garthwaite, PhD, Professor of Strategy and Director of the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg. Mr. Dirks will discuss his career journey from graduate school to his various roles as Vice President within Intermountain Health - including Budgeting and Decision Support, Healthcare Transformation, Population Health Analytics and Internal Strategy Consulting - and insights learned from transitioning Intermountain Health into a value-based population health management system. This will be a fascinating conversation – we hope you can join us.
David Dirks is the Vice President of Strategy at Intermountain Health, leading the development and implementation of transformative strategies within the organization. He is an experienced healthcare leader with significant experience in developing, implementing, and executing strategies that produce proven, sustainable transformation across all facets of the healthcare enterprise. His leadership has been instrumental in shaping key initiatives such as the launch of Castell, Intermountain's population health management company, Civica, a non-profit generic drug manufacturing company, and many other partnerships that advance value-based care. Mr. Dirk's visionary approach has also facilitated Intermountain Health's successful expansion into new markets across the Intermountain West. Recognized as one of Modern Healthcare's top 25 innovators and a Utah Business Healthcare Hero, Mr. Dirks continues to drive positive change in the healthcare industry.
Professor Craig Garthwaite is the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, a Professor of Strategy, and the Director of the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK). He is an applied economist whose research examines the business of healthcare with a focus on the interaction between private firms and public policies. His recent work in the payer and provider sectors has focused on the private sector effects of the Affordable Care Act, the impact and operation of Medicaid Managed Care plans, the responses of non-profit hospitals to financial shocks, and the economic effects of expanded social insurance programs such as Medicaid and Medicare for All. Professor Garthwaite also studies questions of pricing and innovation in the biopharmaceutical sector. In this area he has examined the effect of changes in market size of investments in new product development, the evolving world of precision medicine, expanded patent protection on pricing in the Indian pharmaceutical market, the innovation response of United States pharmaceutical firms to increases in demand, and the relationship between health insurance expansions and high drug prices.
His research has appeared in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, he is a frequent media commentator appearing in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has also appeared as a guest on various television and radio shows such as Nightly Business Report and NPR Marketplace. Garthwaite received a B.A. and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to receiving his PhD, he served in a variety of public policy positions including the Director of Research for the Employment Policies Institute. He has testified before the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives and state legislatures on matters related to the healthcare markets, prescription drugs, the minimum wage, and health care reforms.
PERSPECTIVES ON THE BUSINESS OF HEALTHCARE speaker series brings senior management of healthcare companies to Kellogg to discuss insights on important industry topics. The series supports the strategy of supplementing general curriculum with industry specific programing and complements the faculty led Healthcare 101 primer series in the Fall quarter, the Business of Healthcare Conference in the Winter quarter and the MacEachern Symposium and the Healthcare Entrepreneurship Forum in the Spring quarter.