Key Takeaways
- Administrative fellowships serve as a strategic pipeline for recruiting diverse, non-traditional talent who bring essential problem-solving skills to complex hospital operations.
Healthcare is a vast and evolving field, filled with countless opportunities to shape patient outcomes, craft meaningful policy, and build a more equitable system. Few paths offer as comprehensive an immersion into hospital operations and leadership as healthcare administration fellowships. This is precisely the journey of Anjana Sreedhar, MPA (she/her/hers), whose dynamic background, passion for healthcare equity, and knack for storytelling have fueled her trajectory from aspiring diplomat to Administrative Fellow—and now Project Manager—at NYU Langone Health.
Below is an inside look at Anjana's story and the NYU Langone Administrative Fellowship Program experience, drawn from her conversation on The Fellowship Review with host Vrushangi Shah, MHA.
Anjana's path to healthcare administration was anything but linear. She completed her undergraduate studies in International Relations with a minor in Chinese at New York University (NYU). At the time, she had envisioned a career in diplomacy and global policy. Yet, even from the outset, she found herself drawn toward the complexities of healthcare as a sector that demands robust collaboration, critical thinking, and real-time problem-solving.
Before graduate school, she spent two years working in healthcare consulting in Washington, D.C. "Those conversations with healthcare executives opened my eyes," she notes. "One sentiment kept surfacing: if you are truly passionate about healthcare, you have to understand how a hospital functions from the inside." This pivotal observation led her to pursue an MPA in Health Policy and Management at NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service —returning her to a campus she already knew well.
While at NYU Wagner, Anjana secured two defining experiences:
These internships offered her a well-rounded perspective on the operational and theoretical facets of healthcare. They also solidified her conviction that immersing herself in hospital-based roles would be crucial for long-term success in healthcare administration.
With a background in consulting and research, Anjana questioned her next steps: Should she continue in consulting, or pivot to direct hospital operations?
"An Administrative Fellowship stood out because it combines exposure to senior-level administrators with high-impact projects," she explains. "It's a guided environment where you can truly witness how the 'wheels turn' in a hospital."
Having come to value mentorship, organizational culture, and structured training, Anjana saw a fellowship as the perfect opportunity to continue learning while also contributing to meaningful initiatives. The Administrative Fellowship Program offered a unique blend of on-the-job training and exposure to executive leadership.
NYU Langone Health is one of the leading medical centers in the country, known for its commitment to research, innovation, and data-driven decision making. The health system's fellowship program stands out for its adaptability and scope:
The NYU Langone benefits for fellows include not only the structured program but also access to a wide range of learning opportunities. Fellows can participate in hospital-wide initiatives, attend leadership meetings, and even explore other programs.
Each fellowship candidate typically navigates a rigorous interview process. For Anjana, NYU Langone's cycle was transparent, well-organized, and anchored by a multi-round approach that included individual leadership interviews and a case-based session. She recalls, "The entire time, I felt like it was a conversation. They were focused on who I was as a person, not just a candidate. That supportive environment spoke volumes about NYU Langone's culture."
Anjana urges prospective fellows to embrace their non-traditional experiences when applying: "If you come from a different background—whether it's international relations, journalism, or any other field—highlight the unique perspectives and skills that you bring. Data analysis, writing, storytelling, communication—all of these can be incredibly valuable in hospital operations."
For those interested in applying, it's worth noting that many healthcare administration fellowships, including NYU Langone's, participate in the National Administrative Fellowship Centralized Application Service (NAFCAS) from the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL). This centralized system streamlines the application process for candidates interested in multiple programs.
A hallmark of the NYU Langone fellowship is cross-site collaboration. One of Anjana's most memorable projects involved psychiatric patient transfers between the Manhattan ED and the Brooklyn facility. Tisch Hospital in Manhattan lacked the certification to admit involuntary psychiatric patients, so Anjana worked alongside the Brooklyn-based Administrative Fellow, the Transfer Center, and respective ED and psychiatry teams to streamline patient transfers.
"It was a logistical puzzle—everything from patient safety to bed capacity to workflow analysis was on the table," she explains. "That project underscored how we serve very diverse patient populations across multiple boroughs, but also how vital it is to ensure consistent quality of care at each site."
Additionally, fellows often assist with fellowship recruitment, reading applications, hosting webinars, and leading outreach efforts to prospective candidates. This involvement—right from the start—helps fellows develop strong leadership and communication skills while giving them a sense of ownership in shaping the program's future.
Throughout the fellowship, Anjana gained experience in various aspects of healthcare administration, including project management, business planning, budget review, and policy evaluation. She also had the opportunity to work on operational processes in ancillary services and participate in compliance assessment and regulatory assessment initiatives.
Upon completing her fellowship, Anjana transitioned seamlessly into a Project Manager role at NYU Langone's Cancer Center. In her new position, she leads a spectrum of operational and strategic initiatives:
Reflecting on her transition from fellow to full-time staff, Anjana credits the fellowship's comprehensive exposure and mentoring relationships. "I built credibility and trust with senior leaders," she says. "That helped me secure a role that merges my passion for health equity with the operational realities of running a complex clinical program."
In her current role, Anjana continues to apply the skills she developed during the fellowship, including project management, workflow analysis, and implementing High-Reliability processes to improve patient care and operational efficiency.
NYU Langone's central sites are mostly in Manhattan, with additional hospitals in Brooklyn and Long Island. Life in New York can be exciting and intense. For Anjana, having grown up and studied there, the city's "anything-is-possible" energy aligns perfectly with a career in hospital administration.
Yet, amidst the busy schedule of a fellow or new project manager, one inevitably clings to favorite local spots—be it the 24-hour bagel shop across the street from Tisch Hospital, or the seventh-floor pavilion that overlooks the East River, a peaceful nook for decompressing between shifts. "You really learn to appreciate the small havens of quiet," Anjana says with a laugh.
For anyone considering an Administrative Fellowship—at NYU Langone or elsewhere—Anjana underscores the importance of self-awareness and confidence in one's unique path.
She also advises reaching out to current and former fellows, setting up informational interviews, and thoroughly researching the organization's mission, culture, and patient populations.
Anjana notes that while many fellows come from traditional healthcare administration backgrounds with degrees like MBA, MHA, MPH, or MHSA, programs are increasingly valuing diverse educational and professional experiences. The key is to demonstrate how your unique background can contribute to solving complex healthcare challenges.
In addition to her full-time healthcare role, Anjana is also a published author. Her book, Healthcare of a Thousand Slights (2020), investigates the history of health disparities in the U.S. among marginalized populations. Motivated by her passion for health equity, Anjana set out to uncover the systemic causes behind poor health outcomes, working to show readers how policy, environment, and funding decisions converge to shape the care people receive.
The book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major online book retailers, with Anjana also striving to make it accessible through public libraries.
An Administrative Fellowship can be transformative, offering front-row exposure to hospital dynamics and leadership. For Anjana Sreedhar, this journey at NYU Langone Health helped crystallize her commitment to data-driven decision-making, operational excellence, and health equity. Now, as a Project Manager in the Cancer Center, she is leveraging those foundational experiences to navigate complex challenges and champion patient-centered innovation.
Her story is both a testament to the power of mentorship and intentional career pivots, and an inspiring reminder that one's background is not a limitation but a valuable lens. Whether you come from international relations, journalism, or any other seemingly unrelated field, your unique skill set can find its home in hospital administration—if you show how it contributes to a better, more inclusive healthcare system.
The Administrative Fellowship Program at NYU Langone Health, like many healthcare administration fellowships, offers a unique blend of project-based learning, exposure to senior-level administrators, and the opportunity to work on hospital-wide initiatives. It provides a solid foundation for those looking to make an impact in the complex and ever-evolving field of healthcare administration.
<p>if you're interested in healthcare it's really really critical to have that experience working in a hospital and I think once you gain that foundational knowledge you know it's really really helpful whether you want to progress your career in the hospital or move outside of the hospital in the [Music] future hi everyone it's rashan with the fellowship review through the American Journal of healthcare strategy today I am thrilled to be joined by an shrier an thanks for coming on the show thank you so much for having me looking forward to our conversation yeah it's so great to um connect with you again um of course we've connected offline a couple of times but for our listeners an and I met while I was going through the fellowship interview cycle um two years ago almost two and a half years ago so I love reconnecting with you know old peers and people that I get to follow on LinkedIn um and so with that Ana please tell our listeners about yourself just a brief background would be great yeah sure so a little bit about me um I got my undergrad degree in international relations with a minor in Chinese at NYU which you will soon see is is going to become a theme um I took a break for two years I worked in healthcare Consulting in DC and then I went back to uh back to school I got my MPA in health policy and management from nyu's Wagner School of public service and after that I went straight into the administrative Fellowship track um and I completed an administrative fellowship at NYU langon Tish Hospital which is uh also known as the main hospital in Manhattan and I graduated from that program in 2022 that's incredible um so let's take it a step back before we kind of deep um dive deeper into your fellowship and your current role which is also at NYU which I think is great um you know you had uh two incredible internship experiences one which was a grad intern and another that was a grad research assistant so can you tell our listeners just how you went about getting those specific internships and what those experiences were like for sure so I think for me what was really valuable was having experience both during the school year and for the summer um so I can speak briefly to my grad intern experience so this was me really wanting to get Hospital operations experience on on the ground having worked in um Healthcare Consulting and research previously I'd never worked within the four walls of any place that delivered care and so I was really excited to be a graduate intern at the montor health system which is located in the Bronx in New York City and I got to work on a really uh Amazing Project courtesy of the greater New York Hospital Association summer enrichment program so what they do is they pair interns with different hospitals and you get a preceptor um and you also get the opportunity to work on a particular project with your preceptor so I had the opportunity to look really closely at uh claims denials in our surgery periop department at monture and trying to understand what were some of the reasons for those denials are we inconsistently billing for certain procedures and certain implants and for me that was really interesting because I think in the context of graduate school we learned so much about you know the actual process of delivering care to a patient or supplies management and that sort of thing but never really what billing and insurance claims and that sort of process looks like so it was really eye openening for me to have that experience and obviously had the opportunity to sharpen my data skills to present some solutions to senior leadership and I think all of that set me up for success in terms of applying for an administrative Fellowship in terms of the research assistant position um I love reading writing research that sort of thing I know I knew that I didn't want to get a PhD but I still wanted to have a foot in the world of healthcare Theory and things like that and so I had the opportunity to work with a professor of mine um who taught the management and Leadership core class at nyu's uh School of Public Service known as Wagner and so I was able to work with her on putting together a lit review about the voice of healthcare workers and how you know oftentimes in a team setting as we know healthc care in the hospital setting in particular is very hierarchical so what are ways in which health systems are allowing people who are quote unquote at the bottom of the hierarchy such as medical assistants scrub techs medical secretaries Etc what are Health Systems doing to actually engage with them and get solutions from them and create an environment of safety where they feel like they can speak up so that was really interesting for me because I got to understand sort of the research aspect of trying to gather this kind of information and then also think critically about how many hospitals and Health Systems have found a best practice in actually helping these uh healthcare workers find their voice yeah absolutely what incredible experiences and for our listeners that are um you know listening uh into this episode a little surprise and a fun fact about an about why how I know that she likes writing so much but that's later on in the episode um so now like moving along your career Journey right so you do these internships you get this experience you're in grad school what really LED you to decide that instead of going back into consulting or getting a job out of grad school you were specifically going to do an administrative Fellowship what motivated you to make that decision no that's a great question um and something that I definitely grappled with when I was in grad school so I know for me when I was doing um Healthcare research and Consulting what I had found was in conversations with the healthare healthcare Executives that I was working with or speaking with a lot of them were you know sort of interested in why I chose to work in Consulting without having a background in hospital operations which made me realize that no matter who you are are if you're interested in healthcare it's really really critical to have that experience working in a hospital and I think once you gain that foundational knowledge you know it's really really helpful whether you want to progress your career in the hospital or move outside of the hospital in the future and so for me I was thinking to myself where is the best place where I can learn the most and also have exposure to senior leadership get to work on really impactful and meaningful projects and things of that nature and I felt that the goals of an administrative Fellowship really lined up with what I was seeking to do professionally and I can definitely say as someone who went through an administrative Fellowship that it did do those things for me and I do feel like I have a very good understanding of how a hospital Works how patients receive care and how basically the wheels turn every day in a hospital yeah absolutely and you know a lot of the reasons why you highlighted doing a fellowship um you know are common reasons not only with me but also other fellows so I appreciate you kind of highlighting that before we dig deeper into what your specific Fellowship experience was like maybe some of the projects that you did in your preceptor for those listeners that are interested in NYU could you please set up uh you know set up the stage on what that Fellowship looks like is it one year is it twoe um is it just you as a fellow are there multiple fellows um and and you know I think the most important question that I get asked is is it uh rotation based or Project based so could you please tell us the logistics of the NYU Fellowship sure thing so in terms of the logistics of the NYU Fellowship I think one of the key distinguishing factors is that um it's not necessarily a one or a two-year Fellowship you get to decide um so you can opt to do one year or you can opt to do two years and I think that level of flexibility is is really unique in a fellowship program it is mostly project-based um but I will say that the fellowship starts out with what we like to call rotations they aren't rotations in the formal sense but you get an opportunity to have like meet and greet sessions with various leaders not just in your specific hospital but across the health system and I should zoom out a little bit more and say that um NYU is comprised of five uh is is comprised of five fellows um and so you have two fellows at the the tishan Kimmel Hospital which I mentioned is is the largest hospital in the system one fellow at the Orthopedic Hospital which is also located in Manhattan and then you have one fellow in Brooklyn and one fellow in Long Island and NY langon has hospitals in both of those places as well so that rounds us out to a five person cohort um in in terms of the fellowship that's incredible um one thing you said really stuck out to me because it's such a unique part of fellowships I think specific to NYU you know you said there is either the option of doing one year versus the option of doing two-year so do fellows have to decide this at the beginning of their fellowship and can they change their mind if they wanted to let's say at the end of the one- year extend another year is that an option or are fellows kind of locked in once they make that choice that's a good question so I guess what I've learned in my experience is that you're usually you're usually having to make that one ver one year versus two-year decision pretty quickly within the first couple months of the fellowship and I've never heard of anybody wanting to extend or roll back and the reason perhaps is because people are really aware of how people wanting to extend or back can affect the the following Year's recruitment cycle and so I think all of us as fellows are very sensitive to that and so in my experience I've we we haven't really had people who have changed their minds but what does end up happening in that initial phase when you're making the decision people tend to talk to a lot of former fellows to kind of understand you know what did you do why did you make this decision etc etc and that's I think having a pipeline of former fellows to speak with not just about big decisions like this but also post fellow ship career advice and you know advice in general I think that's also one of the big strengths of the program but to answer your question directly um folks don't often or at least not to my knowledge um change their minds after they make that decision no that's absolutely incredible um so kind of you know you you kind of um set us up for success for my next question but why specifically did you pick NYU you know um what was kind of that Fellowship interview cycle like for you um prepping for interiew interviews and then what ultimately LED you to pick this Fellowship over you know the many options that I'm sure you had yeah absolutely so I think for me what I what stood out to me about NYU is obviously I know I I felt like I knew the system super well and that's not just because I went to NYU twice um I think it was I also had the opportunity to speak to a lot of fellows and I think for me that's obviously really helpful and I think that's helpful for anybody who's looking to do a fellowship to really spend time getting to know the people who are either currently fellows or were fellows in the past um and I think that kind of gives you a perspective into what kind of people the organization likes to hire from a culture perspective from a teamwork perspective so I think for me that was really important and I also wanted to work at an organization that was you know Cutting Edge and always looking to improve and NYU definitely has that reputation and the last thing I'll say is that NYU really uses data to make you know datadriven informed decisions and I the one thing that I heard every time I spoke with either a current fellow or a former fellow when I was you know fellow Fellowship hunting was that everything that we do here revolves around the data and there's a lot of sort of technical focus on that and I wanted to be at a place where any decisions that were being made were being made from a place of looking at the numbers and using logic to move forward and so to me that was really really important and I would say the final thing that really struck me is the commitment to Health Equity and what's really interesting about NYU is that it serves as you can imagine a very diverse patient population covering a lot of different geographies um a lot of different patients with a lot of different types of complex challenges whether they're social or clinical um and it seemed to me that NYU seemed really committed to standardizing or at least having one highquality standard of care for all patients regardless of where they go to seek care within the system so all of those factors to me really spoke out and you know made me think that I really wanted to First apply to NYU and then obviously to answer the other part of your question I had a really solid interview experience you know anytime I had a question folks got back to me right away I think just sort of the basic HR niceties were met which I think are really important because how people engage with you prior to and throughout the interview process gives you a keen insight into how the organization works and how they might welcome a new team member um and so for me I had that really positive experience I had one round in person all day you know the whole nine individual interviews with exec a case interview all of that kind of stuff um but I would say that it was a really positive experience and I felt like it felt like I was just having conversations with people it didn't feel like you know I'm being judged or at this really high stress high pressure sort of situation so I appreciate that they put us all at ease um and then finally when I got the call I was like I think this is where I meant to be and that's how I made the decision yeah absolutely absolutely a couple things that you said you know really stuck out I I think um of course nyu's reputation incredible and and you know even the news that I follow they talk about that Cutting Edge technology but the two other pieces that I love that you highlighted was the data piece and the Health Equity piece you know I think data informs so many decisions so I love that there is an emphasis on that within your health system and then of course I think also someone who cares about Health Equity um with such a diverse population you know in the United States in general but specifically I would say in New York and California I completely understand why there would be an emphasis on Health Equity um diversity and inclusion um and so then you know uh taking a step back and looking at your fellowship experience what was you know the mentorship like who was your identified Mentor or preceptor and any projects that you want to highlight that you did during your fellowship that were very impactful absolutely so I think what's really neat about a fellowship or at least my experience in the fellowship was that obviously I had an identified preceptor who was a VP of Hospital operations who made herself very available to me in terms of any questions I had if I needed her to look over something before submitting like I think she made herself really open and available to me and I think she was she also did a really great job championing me um if I you know was doubting myself in a particular project or if I indicated interest in something she was she was the person who spoke my name in those rooms and I think that's just an outstanding example of not just what it means to to lead but also to mentor and so I've learned a lot about what does it mean to Be an Effective Mentor from her but I also you know I would say I also had mentors in the form of other fellows other VPS other senior directors that I worked with that I established really close and close relationships with um so I think for me that was really important yeah absolutely and you know I always say this um for me mentorship is incredibly important and identifying identifying and finding a mentor who's gonna advocate for you who's going to teach you and most importantly you know say your name in rooms where you are not present is such a gift so I'm so happy to hear that you were able to identify that person not only in your direct preceptor but other people within the organization um and so you know one other question that I get a lot when people ask about um fellowships that have multiple fellows um do you get to work with your co-fellows do you get to do site visits at the other locations what's that Dynamic like yeah absolutely and I realized I didn't answered the last part of your question which was to give an example of a project that I worked on so I'm going to kill two birds with one stone by telling you about a project that allowed me to work with another fellow so I think what's really neat about a cohort-based model is not only are you actually going through the fellowship together and you can lean on each other during the tough times and celebrate the wins as a group um but you also get to work on projects together and so some of the projects that we worked on were you know network-wide if you will so it involved all five of us but one of the projects that I remember most fondly was working on figuring out if a patient was admitted to our emergency department um in Manhattan how that patient would then be transferred to uh to Brooklyn if they were a psychiatric patient and the reason this was important was because um at the Manhattan hospital we were not in a position where we could um admit in voluntary patients um just because we didn't have the appropriate certification for it but our Brooklyn Hospital did so we were trying to come up with you know what is the appropriate workflow to make sure that if a patient comes to the Manhattan emergency department they're identified as an involuntary admission how do we get them to Brooklyn safely and how do we get them to a bed safely and so I was able to work not just with you know every everyone that you can imagine right the emergency room clinical leadership the psychiatric clinical leadership in at at the hospital that I was at but also with my Brooklyn fellow and the emergency department and psychiatric leadership at that site and obviously we have a comprehensive Transfer Center that's responsible for patient placement and transferring patients uh between hospitals in our system um and so we were able to work with that team as well to try to come up with an appropriate workflow that doesn't just meet the operational needs of the hospital but also prioritizes the patients clinical needs as well so that's an example of a project where I got to work with specifically one one fellow but then obviously some of the larger projects such as you know large survey submissions or anything having to do with Joint Commission those were the sorts of things that we would work on as a group and then obviously um anything having to do with administrative Fellowship recruitment whether it was webinars or you know reading candidates applications and you know all of that kind of stuff uh we also worked on as a group yeah that's that's incredible and and of course recruitment is the first project that fellows are assigned the funny joke at least that Within our fellows is that you start the fellowship and immediately you're looking for your replacement um which is a funny nature of fellowships for sure but thank you for highlighting you know that this Fellowship allows you to work with your co-fellows and also what an incredible project to kind of spend some time in the Ed and and transfer center as well um and and so of course you ended your fellowship and you stayed at NYU which is something we love to see we love fellow retention um so tell our listeners what is it that you do now I know you're with the cancer center but what specifically does your job entail and maybe what's your favorite part about your job yeah absolutely So currently um my my formal title is that I'm a project manager at nyu's Cancer Center um and what that means for me is I get to work on a number of different operational and strategic initiatives so from an operations perspective um I'm in charge of three disease management groups or what we know what we call as dmgs in oncology and what that basically means is I'm I'm tracking operational efficiency metrics like how long does it take for a patient to schedule a new appointment how long is a patient waiting in the waiting room to go be to be seen by The Physician that sort of thing but I also partner with our clinical leaders to identify clinical quality metrics make sure that we're tracking those and obviously that requires a sufficient partnership with our analytics team can we pull this metric can we track it if we can't track it is this is there a smart phrase we can use that sort of thing um so that's sort of a from a more operational perspective those are some of the things that I I track and assist with but then from a strategic perspective I really help oversee a lot of our Cancer Care in Brooklyn and what I mean by oversee is I'm really responsible for things like patient mapping so if you're a patient who has just been newly diagnosed with cancer and you live in Brooklyn what is your first step and where you know how do you get to that first step whether it's Imaging or seeing an oncologist what kind of oncologist do you need to see where are they located that sort of thing um and so I think for me that's really helpful and really important because it makes that allows me to think both in a very detail oriented way but also in a very big picture kind of way um and I think you know obviously some jobs you do a bit more of one versus the other and I think as a fellow you're doing a lot of detail oriented work and so it's kind of nice to be able to zoom out a little bit and say like this is you know this is why this strategy is important this is why this plan is important um that sort of thing and so I really have a unique opportunity I think to work with clinical leaders to establish what our clinical quality metric look like figure out how to expand certain initiatives and programs that require referrals from oncologists that sort of thing so for me I'm learning a lot about strategy a lot about operations and program management all rolled into one which I think makes my role really exciting yeah yeah absolutely um I I love to hear it and so um kind of the last couple questions that I love to ask personally having been to New York I have my favorite spots that I love to go to but you know a lot of fellows may not have had the chance to visit New York and might be interested in applying um so you know what's your favorite part about living in New York um any highlights that you want our listeners to know about you know living in the areas where NYU uh's health system is located yeah for sure so I I would say take this with a grain of salt because I think again given nyu's presence and the fact that we have five fellows and we're you know all of us are a bit spread out um what I have to share comes specifically from where my Hospital was when I was a fellow which was on the east side of Manhattan um and I think for me what I I mean I think in general everyone can say the same thing New York is just such a vibrant and cool and exciting place and I think every day is an adventure and you know I've lived in New York for a very long time and so sometimes I forget and I'm just like please move out of my way um but I think it is a very it is a place where there's a lot of magic and it does feel like there is an air of anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you get to meet all kinds of really exciting and cool people who may or may not work in healthcare so you get to make really meaningful connections across Industries and so for me that's what really makes New York special but in terms of really special places I would say it's it's it's sad and ironic but when I started the fellowship it was at the height of the pandemic so a lot of the places that I that we like to go to have been closed or they've moved on um but I will say honestly the the there is a bagel place across the street from the main hospital that has saved me many a Time and that's because they open super super early and they close super super late and I think when you're a fellow you're usually the first person in the last person out um and so you start to find and identify the places that are open the longest and where you can just grab something really quick to eat and I think all of that is really important um another big uh cool thing about nyu's hospital for those of you who ever have the chance to to go whether you're interviewing there or visiting family there or whatever um there's really good outdoor space in the hospital there's a really nice Pavilion or a really nice outdoor space on the seventh floor of one of our buildings it overlooks the East River so it's just a very sort of Healing Place to be and whenever I was super stressed out about anything as a fellow I would just you know go outside and you know you're going outside without actually leaving the building and you're getting to kind of experience the closest thing you can experience to Nature in Manhattan um so I think for me that's a very special place um even though it may not be like a new York City famous place yeah absolutely sounds like it and and you know there is a certain level of magic in New York I think every time I visit or every time I've had the opportunity to spend a little bit of time in any part of New York um it it's just been so incredible so I highly recommend that whether you go there for the fellowship um take a take a moment to stroll and and take in all the beauty that New York uh city has to offer um you know of course I'm going to ask that surprise last question but before we get to before we get to that I last Fellowship question that I'd love to get you know your take on because you've mapped out such an incredible journey for yourself and successfully completed the fellowship and stayed on at the org if you had to redo that cycle you know um or if you had one piece of advice to give a potential candidate do um while they kind of manage going through a a pretty intense uh interview cycle what would that advice be yeah absolutely and I know this is something that you and I discussed before you hit record but something that I think is really really important um is is for candidates that may not have a ton of you know specifically Healthcare experience but may have other experience in other fields it's really important to not view that as a detriment to your application um and the reason I say that is I speak from personal experience as I mentioned at the top of this conversation I studied international relations I thought I wanted to be a diplomat um so I had a lot of you know Journal journalism experience and writing policy memos and briefs and you know very different sort of skill set compared to what one might expect from someone who wants to go into Hospital operations but for me I was able to really talk about those experiences in a meaningful way and say hey because I am able to you know I wrote a bunch of articles for this news site I know how to tell a story and I know how to use data to tell a story and that's going to be an important skill um for me if I become a fellow at your organization so I think really being intentional about recognizing what your experiences are and you allowing yourself to take those experiences and create a cohesive narrative to say I have all of these skills they may not be specifically in healthcare but I have all of these skills that are that are highly applicable and would make me a really good fit in your organization yeah absolutely great advice um and you know so usually this for the listeners that have been tuning in um you know usually this is where I end the episode but like I promised there is a surprise there is a bonus question specifically for Ana so I know this because I have stayed connected with you and followed your work over the over the last several years um but on top of having a successful healthc care career and kind of this NYU Legacy if you will anj is also an author so tell our listeners you're published about um you know the book that you wrote why you chose to wrote it uh write it and and what kind of that process was like for you yeah absolutely so very quickly U my book is titled Healthcare of a thousand slights it was published in December of 2020 and to kind of provide a quick synopsis it's basically about the history of Health disparities in the United States among marginalized populations and in its thesis it really seeks to answer the question why are our health outcomes among certain populations the way that they are why is our health system the way that it is and what are the things that we can do to fix it and so obviously lots of big questions that I'm trying to answer in the book and the way that I got started with this is I've always loved to write I you know I wrote for my high school newspaper College Newspaper all of that kind of stuff um but the way that I got started is I you know post a lot on LinkedIn as Rashi knows um and so I was approached by a a really nice Georgetown Professor Eric kuster who mentioned to me that you know he liked my content and he thought I would be a good fit for his book writing program which my first thought was like there's no way this is real um but then I looked into it and it was definitely real um and so what his program does is it really teaches you how to write for a broad audience and for me my goal was really how do I make Healthcare come to life Healthcare and history come to life for people who have no familiarity with it whatsoever um and so I was really interested in being able to you know be be robust with the research but also be approachable with how I was talking about Healthcare Concepts and so his class really helped me figure that out he had a partnership ship with an independent Publishing Company um and so once they read the manuscript they liked the work I was you know given editing support you know you know copywriting support all of that kind of stuff and so it was really cool and exciting to kind of go through that entire process um and really come out with a book at the end so I'm really grateful that I did it and I think I'm really proud of it I've heard good things about it from other people and hopefully it's it's a book that continues to to impact people and it's something people will continue to be interested in Reading yeah absolutely and how incredible that you get to have kind of this Healthcare title behind your name but you also get to say you know you are an author um and where can people buy the book what would be the best way to go about purchasing your book yeah absolutely honestly you can get this book um wherever you buy books I know Amazon is a popular spot for for a lot of folks to get books but if you're not an Amazon person you can buy um at Barnes & Noble I don't even know what other places people buy books um and I'm working on getting it um accessible at public libraries as well because I recognize that public libraries are really the foundation for how we're able to disseminate knowledge at a very afford in a very affordable way um but for right now I would say Amazon Barnes & Noble wherever any sort of major bookstore book chain it would be a good place to get the book that's incredible well Anda thank you so much for coming on I know you're you know a couple hours ahead of me so it's uh you know the end of the night for you but I appreciate you you joining and you know sharing this incredible journey that you've had um maybe in a non-traditional sense you know you said you wanted to be a diplomat and look at where your life has kind of taken you and you ended up doing a fellowship successfully working um still at NYU such a great health system and of course sharing your story of being an author I really enjoyed speaking to you um you know on tonight's episode and I know our listeners will also get a lot of great advice um from this episode as well thank you so much rangi I had such a great time chatting with you and I hope your listeners enjoy this episode yeah absolutely</p>
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