With the changing face of the health-care industry, FDU’s executive MBA in health systems management program is preparing executive managers and clinicians for leadership in a highly competitive and dynamic marketplace. Donald Zimmerman, director of the program, points out that “the core theme of the program is that change will happen and, in fact, already has.”

Each fall, 20 students are admitted as a cohort who traverse the program together. These physicians, CFOs, vice presidents of operations and information systems, regional managers, facility administrators, senior nurse managers and clinical research managers bring in perspectives from all areas of health care, broadening the way they as students look at and solve health-care management issues.

Program alumnus Dr. Nicholas Bonvicino, MBA’00 (T-H), senior regional medical director at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, says he “made valuable personal contacts in the program.” Michael Azzara, president of Valley Health System and senior executive fellow for the program, says, “It is very useful for students to talk with people with real-life experience.”

The region’s only program in health systems management accredited by AACSB International — The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, FDU’s MBA for health systems executives takes 21 months to complete and is offered on Saturdays.

His MBA enabled Bonvicino, formerly a practicing physician with a large, multi-office, prepaid medical practice, to improve his “credibility in business matters at Horizon and to be viewed as a driver of business decisions.”

Shavonda Sumter, MBA’01 (T-H), a member of the 2001 cohort with a background as a contract lobbyist for health-care providers, says, “The program helped me to better understand balance sheets, to assess the health-care industry environment and to look at things from a state perspective, to analyze them on a national and international level and forecast trends in legislation and the industry.”

Zimmerman sums it up, “We teach our students to think strategically, to conduct analysis, to be creative and innovative in their thinking and to align their organizations for a competitive edge.”

For more information on the executive MBA in health systems management, contact Donald Zimmerman, 201-692-7224 or zimmerman@fdu.edu.

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