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>> My name's Ken Rosenfield.
I'm a Dartmouth '77, and I'm currently an interventional
cardiologist at Mass General Hospital
where I direct the vascular medicine
in the conventional section, and I'm also a leader both
within the institution and also nationally within my specialty.
Last summer when I was reading my Dartmouth Alumni e-mails,
I came across an e-mail from Jim Kim
which described this new program called the Master
of Healthcare Delivery Science.
And I immediately got excited about the program.
It seemed incredibly visionary.
It's a chance for us to change the world of healthcare,
which really needs to be fixed.
I thought Dr. Kim's vision about this was phenomenal,
and I decided immediately to apply to the program.
I was fortunate enough to be accepted
into the inaugural class,
and the class has been everything I imagined
and then some.
Every time I'm on campus, every time I'm online
with my fellow students I'm more excited than the previous time.
The program has an opportunity to really make an impact.
It fills a niche, a need where there is a gap
in our current healthcare knowledge base; that is,
how should we deliver care?
We know a lot about data and we know a lot
about healthcare policy.
We know a lot about the business of healthcare,
but we don't know a lot about how to bring them all together
to create the best healthcare delivery system.
And that was Jim Kim's vision,
and I think it is the solution to, or holds the key
to solving our healthcare problems in this country
and internationally for that matter.
So I'm very excited to be a part of this program.
I feel like we are treading on new ground,
creating new solutions to current problems.
As we create more solutions we find more problems,
but that's okay.
And we're going to solve those as well.
So I would encourage anybody to look at this program carefully.
It is going to change the world.
As a Dartmouth graduate, it's particularly gratifying for me
to come back to campus and participate in a program that is
so innovative and exciting,
one that I think really will have a major impact nationally
and internationally.
I know for my part that as a leader
in the cardiology community it's already had an impact.
I'm involved in organizing national programs,
national educational programs for my specialty
and we've already decided to integrate some
of the value-based healthcare discussions,
the appropriateness discussions in the conferences
that I am actually running at the national level.
So I can tell you that already this program has had an impact,
not just on me but will have an impact on my specialty, I hope.
So it's just the beginning of a long journey that we have
to solve the healthcare problems that are facing our country.
There's no doubt in my mind that as a result of my
and other peoples' involvement in this program,
as a result of the program having been started
with the vision of Jim Kim and others, Al Mulley, et cetera,
that we will make a huge impact,
Dartmouth will make a huge impact on the world.