Ep 052 - Being a Physician MBA with Dr. Alex Macario

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Dr. Alex Macario


Dr. Macario is the Program Director of Anesthesiology at Stanford
University School of Medicine, as well as a physician with an
MBA.


Dr. Macario completed his undergraduate, medical school and
business school degree at the University of Rochester all by
1990. He then completed an anesthesiology residency, as well as a
postgraduate fellowship in health services research at Stanford
by 1995.


In addition to many other professional involvements such as being
the Program Director of the Combined Internal
Medicine-Anesthesiology and Combined Pediatrics-Anesthesiology
residency programs at Stanford, Dr. Macario has mentored many
physicians on the merits of pursing business training along side
their medical training and is the author of a paper titled
“Should I Get a Masters of Business Administration?” published in
Current Opinion in Anesthesiology.


Of note, Dr. Macario is the founder and director of the
Management Fellowship at Stanford, a postgraduate program which
trains physicians in areas such as leadership, informatics,
entrepreneurship, quality, and management science with special
attention to the delivery of surgical and anesthesia care.


Dr. Macario is @alexmacario on twitter so be
sure to say hello!


Please enjoy with Dr. Alex Macario!