Author Archives: Jess Levitt

Q&A with Jennifer Perkins, MBA ’15, UCSF Health

Jennifer Perkins, MD, MBA ’15 HSM ’16 Medical Director of Access Services Associate Professor of Medicine and Third-Year Mentor – MBA Endocrinologist Duke University Health System What does the future of health care services look like to physicians and providers, …

HSM as a Career-Switcher

With less than 40 days left until graduation, it’s hard to believe that my time at Fuqua is coming to an end.  As cliché as it sounds, it feels like just yesterday I was engulfed in the whirlwind of business …

From Test Tubes to T-Tables

Have you ever looked at a profession and thought, “Wow that is such a cool job, I wish I could do that!” For me, that was being a scientist; the thought that I could be researching something that no one …

Health Care in Rwanda and a Summer Internship with Health Builders

Emily Mason is a second-year HSM student who spent her summer working with Health Builders, an NGO in Rwanda.  Health Builders works with local governments to build strong primary health care systems and increase health center management capacity.  The work …

Reflections on HSM as an HSM Fellow

As my journey at Fuqua reaches its end this spring, I take pride in my decision to pursue the Health Sector Management (HSM) program certificate as part of my experience. Around this time two years ago, I opted in to …

QISP: Helping to Improve Health Care Delivery and Patient Safety

One of the best parts of being a student in Fuqua’s Health Sector Management (HSM) program is having access to top-of-the-line medical facilities, physicians, and researchers within the Duke and Durham communities. Consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals …

Q&A with Shaden Marzouk, MBA ’11 of Cardinal Health

Shaden Marzouk, MD, MBA ’11 HSM ’11 Senior Vice President Clinical Operations Cardinal Health Describe an experience from your time at Fuqua that stands out to you as unique or helpful. I think the Mentored Study program at Fuqua was fantastic. …

Q&A with Ali Hashemi of Avicenna Partners

Ali Hashemi Co-Founder, Managing Partner Avicenna Partners What is your fondest memory from your time at Duke? One fall semester, we had an unseasonably warm December… i tied up a hammock between two trees in the Sarah P Duke gardens, …