This is the Healthcare Delivery Providers, part of the Healthcare Marketplace Specialization. This is Module 1.1.2, About me. So as we do each time, we will start with the learning outcomes. So in this brief module, I will tell you a little bit about my career path and then tell you about my current role and other interests. So I'm Rahul Koranne, faculty for this course, and as I said, I'll talk a little bit about my medical training first. So after medical school, for about five and a half years, I had opportunity to do a residency training in the field of internal medicine. So this is a field where physicians provide medical care, medications, treatments, small surgeries but do not do large surgeries and do not see pediatric patients, so really young patients. So these are a physicians who take care of patients 16 years of age and older all the way into the 100s. So three years of internal medicine in New York City, and after that, I was privileged to join a fellowship program of one year in the field of geriatrics. So this is the field of taking care of older adults, so 60 plus. And so learning the philosophy of aging, the pharmacological aspects of aging, the various aspects on how to take care of older adults and also their caregivers and families. So that's been my medical training, three years internal medicine, one year fellowship in geriatrics. And then I also decided to pursue a business degree. So I do have a master's in business administration from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Business, which is the school that is hosting this particular specialization for you. So hopefully all of that diverse perspective between the medicine learnings and the business learning will come in handy as we dissect the healthcare delivery providers. Next, let me give you a little flavor of where I have practiced because I think that is also going to help as we dissect the delivery system. So after my fellowship, I practiced in a very small critical access hospital in a very small town in Western Minnesota. So this is one of the 50 states where I live and work now. And it was a hospital of less than 25 beds. I provided care in the emergency department. In the hospital I had a primary care clinic. I had a geriatric practice, and then I also got into community services. So I started providing house calls, so started seeing patients and community members in their homes, and also started seeing patients in the skilled nursing facility or nursing homes. So through that, and also working through hospice and palliative care, through all of that experience, really came to understand and see the whole care continuum. And we talk about this a lot. So it's a continuum of care, from primary care, specialty care, hospital care, post acute care, nursing home care, home care. And I really got to experience and learn about it by doing it firsthand in my medical practice. So after five years of that, a very small town, very small hospital, I moved to a very large integrated deliver network system in a very large hospital. So I started practicing in the hospital primarily care clinic, but then I got my MBA and got into administration and leadership. And over the last few years was the system vice president for the one hospital and also the community based services including home care, hospice, post acute care. So some of the previous experience really came in handy. And about a year ago, I have now become the chief medical officer for the hospital association in the state. And in this role I get to work with all the 143 hospitals and health systems in the state of Minnesota. I get to see how they interact, how they collaborate, how they innovate, how they help shape the delivery system of today and tomorrow in service of our communities, our patients, our families, and our healthcare staff. So that's my current role at this time. So as I discussed with you my leadership journey really came about after I did my master's in business administration. So became the medical director of a hospital and then assistant vice president for integrated delivery system. And now I am the chief medical officer of a hospital association. Leadership is, as you know, not always positional. And a lot of the times it is based upon influence. So hopefully with my network and connectivity with other organizations across the state and across the nation, I get to learn. I get to share. I get to innovate and be part of teams that stretch the envelope and really lead to improved quality of care and an improved healthcare delivery system. And finally, I'll give you a little flavor of what I do outside of my main occupation and outside of my family. So I like to volunteer quite a bit locally here in the state. I am honored to be on the board of a very critical organization here in Minnesota called the Wilder Foundation, which provides a lot of services for our local metropolitan area, and also does a lot of research across the state and across the country. I also happen to be on the board of the School of Nursing's dean here at the University of Minnesota. I'm a big believer in teaming between various disciplines including nurses and physicians and social workers and pharmacists and many others. And I also serve on the board of a large organization and association for post acute care providers called Leading Age Minnesota. So I teach at the university, I volunteer my time at these three boards. I try to give as much as I can back to the community. And I just believe very strongly in developing a pipeline of leaders that can bring in new thinking, new ideas, because we need that if we are going to sustain a very powerful value-added healthcare delivery system for our state, our country, the world going forward. So that's part of why I'm here, and I'm just thrilled and honored to be with you on this journey. So in summary as I've discussed, I've had the privilege and the honor to have worked in almost all of the settings of care across the healthcare delivery system. So I can speak from personal experience on what some of the wins and the challenges are and how it is configured and how it is changing. And then secondly I do hope to bring the diversity of my opinions and perspectives to you in this course. So that you can learn about the delivery system in the US that is constantly striving to achieve better health outcomes for every single citizen, every single community dweller in this country. So let's get started.
