Key Takeaways
- Administrative fellowship programs serve as vital talent pipelines by immersing recent graduates in high-impact projects like new clinic launches under executive mentorship.
Hannah Hawthorne, an administrative fellow at UVA Health University Medical Center (UVA Health Administrative Fellowship), has spent over a decade in healthcare, transitioning from pharmacy technician to a rising leader in healthcare management. Her journey through hospital administration fellowships is marked by resilience, curiosity, and a deep passion for innovation in healthcare operations and clinical research.
In a recent interview on The Fellowship Review, Hannah shared her career path, challenges, and insights gained during her healthcare administrative fellowship at one of the nation's leading academic medical centers.
Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Hannah relocated to Virginia to join UVA Health's Administrative Fellowship Program. Reflecting on her transition to the East Coast, she noted the opportunities for cultural and professional development:
"I love how centralized everything is here. The diversity in Virginia has been incredible—meeting people from different backgrounds has enriched my perspective both personally and professionally."
Hannah's career began as a pharmacy technician in her senior year of high school. After working through undergrad and even teaching pharmacy classes as an adjunct professor, she discovered her true calling during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I worked on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, a project led by an administrative fellow, and saw how impactful non-clinical roles could be in public health. It shifted my focus to healthcare administration and sparked my interest in hospital administration fellowships," she explained.
The pandemic brought about a pivotal moment in Hannah's career. While helping coordinate the vaccine rollout at the University of Utah, she realized the power of administrative roles in shaping healthcare delivery and quality improvement.
"The fellowship project showed me how much impact a non-clinical worker can have on public health and community wellness," she said.
This realization led her to pursue a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) at the University of Utah, where she received extensive support for her fellowship applications. Many aspiring healthcare leaders often ask, "What is an administrative fellowship?" Hannah explains:
"An administrative fellowship is a unique opportunity for recent MHA graduates to gain hands-on experience in healthcare management and operations. These healthcare admin fellowships provide exposure to various aspects of hospital administration, including human resources, organizational development, and clinical operations. The program provided interview coaching, a fellowship prep course, and mentorship that helped me identify the opportunities that best aligned with my goals."
Before pivoting to healthcare, Hannah pursued her undergraduate studies in English Literature and Japanese Studies, driven by her family's legacy in education. Her time in Japan, including a mission trip and a study-abroad semester, gave her a global perspective on healthcare accessibility and policy.
"Navigating Japan's healthcare system while learning the language was eye-opening. It helped me understand the challenges non-native speakers face in accessing care. That experience shaped my approach to fostering inclusivity in healthcare and medical education," she explained.
Hannah's passion for cultural competence has informed her approach at UVA Health, which serves a diverse patient population and emphasizes community partnerships.
Hannah chose UVA Health for its focus on mentorship, challenging projects, and its status as a prestigious academic medical center. The two-year rotational program allowed her to work on high-impact projects right from the start, gaining exposure to various aspects of healthcare operations and healthcare technology.
In her first year, she played a key role in opening Virginia's first comprehensive Parkinson's Disease Clinic.
"It was an incredible opportunity to collaborate with clinical leaders like Dr. Shaw, who was so patient and supportive. From soft launch to grand opening, the project gave me a chance to grow my skills in project management and business development while directly improving patient experience," she shared.
Hannah also highlighted the healthcare mentorship at UVA Health, particularly from senior leaders like Wendy Horton, FACHE.
"The healthcare administrative fellowship is tailored to the individual. They curate projects that align with your growth areas while offering the guidance you need to succeed in healthcare management," she said.
As she enters her second year, Hannah has shifted her focus to sustainability initiatives, demonstrating the diverse opportunities available in healthcare administration careers.
"Healthcare's environmental impact is significant. I'm exploring ways we can reduce carbon emissions to ensure we're not inadvertently harming the populations we aim to serve," she explained.
Hannah is passionate about addressing healthcare's environmental footprint, an area that intersects with healthcare policy and population health. She cited statistics showing that if the U.S. healthcare system were a country, it would rank seventh globally in carbon emissions.
"While I haven't seen hospitals directly harming their communities through pollution, the overall carbon footprint of healthcare is undeniable. Addressing this issue is critical to public health and requires innovative approaches in healthcare innovation," she emphasized.
Her work aligns with broader industry trends, such as The Joint Commission's new Sustainable Healthcare Certification.
"Sustainability is becoming a priority in healthcare, and it's exciting to be on the leading edge of this movement," she said.
A unique aspect of Hannah's fellowship was attending the Disney Institute Leadership Training, an immersive experience that taught her how to lead with intention and adaptability in healthcare management.
"Disney's concept of FAIL—First Attempt in Learning—resonated deeply. It encouraged me to embrace risks and see mistakes as opportunities for growth in organizational development," she shared.
The training also emphasized anchoring leadership in core values. For Hannah, trust and empathy guide her approach to challenges in healthcare operations.
"I trust my team and remain empathetic when setbacks occur. These values help me navigate complex situations while maintaining focus on our goals," she explained.
Throughout her career, mentorship has been a cornerstone of Hannah's success. From her early days as a pharmacy technician to her current MHA fellowship, she has sought guidance from experienced professionals in healthcare management.
"The mentorship at UVA Health has been phenomenal. It's a unique blend of structure and flexibility that allows fellows to tailor their experiences to their interests in healthcare finance, healthcare analytics, and other crucial areas," she said.
Looking ahead, Hannah envisions a career where she can drive meaningful change in healthcare, possibly as a Chief Sustainability Officer or in executive leadership.
"This fellowship has given me the tools and confidence to take on leadership roles that align with my passions for public health and sustainability," she said.
Hannah's journey underscores the transformative potential of hospital administration fellowships. By combining mentorship, challenging projects, and opportunities for personal growth, these programs prepare emerging leaders to make a lasting impact in healthcare management.
"Healthcare administration fellowships provide a safe space to learn and grow while working on high-level initiatives. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to contribute to UVA Health's mission of delivering exceptional care," she said.
Hannah's story is a testament to the power of curiosity, resilience, and a commitment to improving healthcare operations. As she continues to grow in her career, she remains focused on creating a healthier, more sustainable future for all, embodying the true spirit of leadership development in healthcare administration.
<p>hello everyone this is Cole with the American Journal of healthc care strategy joined by a great guest from Virginia Hannah Hawthorne Hannah please introduce yourself and your current role hi Cole thank you for having me I'm really excited to be here today um I'm Hannah hathorne I'm originally from Salt Lake City but relocated to Virginia to be an administrative fellow at UVA Health University Medical Center um and I'm uh about 14 months in so our fellowship is two years long and so I'm that part um that part in but I have been in healthcare for a little over 10 years I started actually my senior year of high school working as a pharmacy technician um I worked that all through undergrad and uh left healthcare for a little bit but during 2020 um during the pandemic Healthcare brought me back in and learned about a little bit more about healthcare administration during that time when I helped with the covid vaccine roll out process process at the hospital I was working for um and then just really fell in love with uh bettering best practices in healthcare and and driving broader initiatives and so looked into healthcare administration looked into administrative fellowship and haven't looked [Music] back thank you so much for for for coming on and giving us the great introduction there I think that's that's excellent you've had some great experiences um and of course Utah that's a long way away right coming from coming from Utah to the east coast H how are you adjusting to the east coast oh well uh the storm right now has been new because we don't get tropical storms in the desert of Salt Lake City um but it's better than a blizzard so I will take it um but I really love how centralized everything is on the East Coast like six hours away from New York like a 12- hour drive from from Florida and so I I really enjoyed like how close all the states are here um and really enjoyed getting to know uh different groups of people I think you know Utah is a little more Inland so um less people from from all over the world but Virginia has a lot of diversity and I've really enjoyed getting to know people who are from places that I just fairely learned about so it's been great of course and we're of course we're happy to have you on the East Coast here with with us um so you know you have this great kind of resume here there some really interesting things I wanted to talk about I think the first was just looking at it here um was this bachelor's degree and and what I'm looking at is in English language literature and then Japanese studies I mean this is an interesting you know series of you know Majors what what caused you to get these these majors and and what was your kind of end goal in mind when you started off with undergrad yes so I come from a family of Educators so when I first went to undergrad I was working in healthcare because I I needed a job to work through undergrad but I thought I would become an English teacher um and so that's what I set out to do and I was 18 and starting in college and uh did that for two years and uh took a two-year break from school and I did a volunteer mission in Japan and just fell in love with Japanese culture with the people and with the language and so knew that was something I wanted to continue to study um and thought that I would find a place in international relations um following graduating from undergrad but um I think Co put a lot of things in perspective for me on what I wanted to do and what impact I wanted to make in the world and I think Educators you know my mom's one my grandma's one um make such an impact on young minds and on on shaping the future Generations but I really wanted to have a more active part in shaping the health of our of our nation and health of the people around me and so I decided to get back into Healthcare and um it's it's been a great journey and so uh that that mission is so cool being able to go uh out of the country to do that that is awesome did you gain a lot of insight into how other people you know live through that experience yeah so I think the biggest thing for me um grew up in in a more rural state in Salt Lake in Utah and Salt Lake city um and while we had like public transportation um it's not what it is in in Japan and so just learning to like live on a bike instead of a car um how to ride trains like those were some uh different culture cultural cultural things for me um eating with chopsticks um I when I first moved to Japan I was always so offended when someone would bring me a spoon because I would like be eating with my Chopsticks and they would like observe me and then at a restaurant and they would bring me a spoon um but slowly I got really good at Chopsticks and so no one brings me a spoon anymore and so um one of one of my humble brags is that I learn learn Chopsticks um such a unique language uh very difficult but so beautiful I really wish I knew more than I do but I actually went back when I was in undergrad and studied abroad there for a semester um and studied the writing and reading there and so really just fell in love with it from from my mission trip and then uh so much that I I went back and um learned even more so it was it was a tremendous experience and I would just say everyone says this about Japan that the people there are so polite and it's really clean there um but it just taught me a lot about stewardship and um how to be a good Steward of your resources in your community and the kind of citizen I want to show up being like do I want to be the citizen that picks up trash that I see on the street um do I want to be the person that takes time out of their data to help a stranger and walk them to the next place I know I when I was especially when I first was learning how to read Japanese I would be so lost in train stations and people would come up to me and be like can I walk you there like where are you looking to go and so that really just shaped how I approach people who are in you know here trying to navigate the space whether they're in America in a new place or just moving here um that really changed how I approached there but I actually want to studed abroad had a unique experience of going to the doctor's office when I was uh a student I got like just like a very severe virus and ended up going in um and it was really difficult to navigate the Health Care system in a language that I was learning um and it put a lot of things in perspective for me on how I and how our healthc care system can be better for people who are also English language learning that is such a cool experience though I mean not you know getting sick in a foreign country but in a way what a beneficial experience right because you know we're dealing with um especially in the east coast like you mentioned huge amounts of immigration from all over the world you know from different sections they're coming in in different ways and so how can we assist them how can we help people who are not as familiar with the country as we are having lived here with the language having lived here you know even for us the health system is confusing so just imagining how it is for people who are um you know just immigrating to the country and so uh that that's really an incredible experience very important thank you for sharing that that's very that's very awesome um and so coming from that of course you know after your undergrad you decided to get your mha but it looks like for a while looking at the resume um you were you know doing Pharmacy you know pharmacy technician for a very looks like a very long time um and then you also taught some Pharmacy classes as well as an adject professor which is a unique experience how did you get involved with kind of being a pharmacy tech were you looking at potentially going to pharmacy school eventually um just tell me a bit about that yeah so I started as a pharmacy technician um I took the certification course during my senior year of high school and um I it's kind of silly how I how I got started but I had just a friend of mine she was a senior when I was a junior um and she had done that and she was like Pharmacy they work really good hours so it's great for you and they make really good money so you can make great pay while you're um still an undergrad and you can pick your hours and so she was a great mentor to me and just actually a great example on how it's important to find mentors and grasp on to them um in all stages of your life but so she she recommended it and so registered for it um one thing about me is I am very squeamish like around body fluids so um that's a farm pharmacy tech was as clinical as it could get for me um and I did initi so I really love being a pharmacy technician and I like think people joke like oh you just count pills but there's there's so much more of that you're um the liais on to between the pharmacist and the physician a lot of times um you're the person that the patient talks to first um when they're navigating either a new medication or a scary Insurance situation where they don't know I mean we all know drug prices are very infl in this country so um helping someone navigate their insurance or you know speaking I think we alluded to it but the language of Healthcare in this country is um very very complicated and difficult to navigate and not everyone goes to the doctor a lot not everyone will be at the hospital but most people will go to the pharmacy at least you know three or four times a year so um really being that front-facing representative of the Healthcare Community was something I I really loved um but I did not want to be a pharmacist um and I knew that pretty early on um I think days are very similar um and I I love a lot of variety in the day so I knew that um while I love being a pharmacy technician I wanted to explore other career Fields um and so that's how I got started in Pharmacy but I it definitely is what sparked my passion and my love for healthc care um and then how I became a professor was actually just a little funny I was on LinkedIn um pharmacy technician and uh getting my M and I think like all those things were on my LinkedIn and someone just had reached out to me was like Hey I'm hiring for this job it looks like you'd be a good fit it looks like you are wanting to get more leadership and lecturing experience um based on your resume would you consider applying and so I applied I interviewed I was 24 so I was pretty young at the time and pretty nervous to do it um but it was such a good experience to uh work with new like to really grow that passion for people in healthcare um for a field that I loved working in and for people who you know a lot of times are are like fresh out of high school um wanting to just kind of figure out figure themselves out so it was a great doal rule of of getting to share my passion for healthcare and for pharmacy but also uh help shape young minds and their love for healthcare and that goes back of to your family like being Educators right like you guys you know have that kind of Trad that family tradition of teaching people too so that's super neat I I did not accidentally end up in academic medicine like it was very intentional that this is why I'm here I mean good to know too because it seems like that has been definitely something on on your path right I mean you've you know working for University of Utah health you know going to the University of Utah that's a big school and then of course UVA is is an awesome academic um medical and and that's something we should talk about as well is you went through your mha program and then you decided to to do a fellowship what was that decision right how did you come across fellowships why did you decide to do a fellowship yeah so um I worked on the covid-19 vaccine rollout at the University of Utah and uh that was actually a fellow project so um one of the fellows at the University of Utah he was leading that initiative and um met him there and was introduced to what administrative fellows were and kind of at that same time thinking that I wanted to stay in healthcare um it was kind of a Crossroads for me because um I couldn't do student teaching because of the pandemic um and so I was thinking like do I want to stay in healthcare do I want to um get my Masters in Education and do student teaching after I get my M's um but just seeing like the impact of a non-clinical worker um and how they can help enhance Community Health public health and um the lives of clinical workers it made me think like okay that job's really cool I would I would really like to be able to um stay in healthcare but maybe not do those clinical things that I'm personally squeamish about um and so that's kind of how I I got into healthcare administration was um just staying uh in sorry I'm missp speaking um so that's how I got introduced to healthcare ad Administration and and doing an mha and then um a fellowship particular was because I knew fellows worked on High level projects and directly with senior leaders I wanted that exposure and so um when I started my mha I knew pretty immediately that I wanted to do a fellowship and so my program the University of Utah I I very much bleed red if you can't tell from my resume um went to undergrad there worked there for um a few years and then also did grad school there so um love the University of Utah but um at the University of Utah one of the amazing pieces their mha program is they offer a lot of Fellowship counseling so they have a fellowship Prep course which goes during the summer and that's it's not free because you pay a lot of tuition but it's not extra tuition to to participate in um uh they offer interview coaching for pretty much like any role but very much tailored to fellowships um and so new early on that that was something I wanted to do and got a lot of Direction and coaching uh Hands-On Direction and coaching pretty early on in the interview and in the application process um but I knew I wanted the exposure to senior leaders I knew I wanted to work on High level projects and I knew that while I had worked in healthcare for a long time there was a lot of things that I uh could benefit learning more about and uh Fellowship is that very safe space to to learn and to get real life experience but also have the security of you know people understand that you're a learner this is your first time and the risk is of course High anytime you're in healthcare because it impacts people and patients lives but at the same time it's not as high as Stakes as if I directly went into like a management role or or a different role so um grateful I did the fellowship route and I also really wanted to bolster uh the amount of mentors that I had and even though I love the University of Utah so much um I knew I wanted to get exposure to other organizations and how they provide Healthcare and how they're bettering the health of our our nation because I I learned from an amazing organization um the University of Utah is doing amazing things but just to come to the University of Virginia and see equally amazing things being done here um and in a different Dynamic right came from a more urban um that academic Medical Center that has a lot of rural encompassing areas um in the Inner Mountain West and then to come to Central Virginia where we predominantly serve the population but are still delivering high quality Care in an amazing way so um love the transition and I'm very grateful and um blessed to be here that is great that is really awesome I'm so glad that you you've had such a great time there um I'm a big fan of UVA as well I have some some good uh people I've spoken with over there um and you I think my uh my intern actually one of my interns or well he's now an operations manager he just interviewed for the fellowship there I think he had uh he had met you yes yes yeah great it's a great institution you know he he uh was really excited and so it clearly draws in a lot of you know incredible Talent um and so I want to ask how many fellowships did you apply to I applied to oh two years ago um I applied to six fellowships if I yes I applied to six and I predominantly looked at academic medical centers um I also have a you know wanted to be an educator um uh Special Love for children's health and so wanted um I pre applied to a few Children's Hospitals as well or hospitals that have a strong uh children's hospital so that's kind of where my passions were were either working with children um and trying to shape Health the health of the population early um especially one thing I love about Children's Health is of course you're you're caring for the child but you're caring for the full family so there's a lot of population Health aspects there um and then academic Medicine of course like love clinical research um education oriented health care so um and of course you know um a a former educator and hopefully future educator I I really gravitated towards academic medicine um and UVA really was The Best of Both Worlds we have the number one Children's Hospital in Virginia so very proud to be here and uh proud of the team that really has made that happen I think it's it's no secret that a lot of work goes into that and and we have um it's just such a pleasure to provide such quality care to our patients especially our youngest um and most vulnerable patients um and then of course within our children's hospital we have an academic it's a hospital within the hospital of an academic Medical Center so UVA was really the best of both worlds for me and I'm I'm very lucky to be here what are some of the coolest kind of projects or things that you've worked on while you know being at UVA oh yeah so I've gotten to do so many amazing projects and I think one thing that I love about this Fellowship in particular is your first year you are entrusted with these very big projects um in Wendy and Abdi SoMo he's the chief administrative officer and um also is a big Mentor within the fellowship program they curate these projects to to help grow the skills that you lack um and so one of those projects is I got to help open the first uh Parkinson's Disease Clinic at um in Virginia actually so in all of Virginia the first um uh Clinic comprehensive clinic for patients with Parkinson's disease and so that was amazing uh to get to work alongside the clinical team um Dr Shaw I can't say enough good things about him he's so passionate and driven for the work and he um was so patient with me as an early careerist um working in Healthcare Management and in project management and and still you know we met last December and we were able to soft lch the clinic in March and we had our grand opening in July and um which actually the American Hospital Association just did an article about them about our Clinic too so um it's just been a whirlwind and I'm just so grateful that even though I I was just a fellow um senior leadership saw what an amazing opportunity that was for me and and skills grew so much um I got to impact real patients in a real way and um definitely one of my favorite projects I got to work on um and so that's kind of what what happens in first year and then second year we actually get to um choose kind of uh choose a focus area and work more on some of our own projects so I'm working on a project right now surrounding sustainability um some of some things are still um yet to come to fruition so I won't say too much because I want to um divulge too much but it's been great just to learn the impact of um or how we can decrease the impact that healthc care has on our environment um I one thing I want to be so considerate of as we deliver health care that we're not making the population sicker by our environmental impact um I think you know there's many there's a lot of literature out there that would State like climate change is one of the biggest impacts to to Public Health to population health and so as we really are oriented in keeping people healthy and trying to increase the health of our population we want to make sure we do that in a sustainable and Safe Way absolutely that's a very important area and also very cool project working with with Parkinson's disease I've you know worked in the movement Clinic um my family has a long history of Parkinson's disease and so uh I think we talked about that earlier as well before the show last time we' met and and yeah very cool project and then also on the sustainability end of things you know one of the things a lot of people ask about um is you know the the ROI on these things but also the community impact you know um have you seen situations in studies or examples where it's possible for a hospital to actually harm their Community like you had said um by through pollution or things is it have you seen that occur before you know personally I have not seen that but I think um and I'll I'll have to fact check this statistic but you know if we look at the impact of overall health care in the United States I I think the the statistic is if the United States was its or if the United States Healthcare System was its own country it would rank seventh in the world for highest carbon footprint um and so definitely not a small impact and so I would say um individually I don't know of any hospitals that are are doing direct patient harm and I would hope that's not occurring um but due to sustainability or you know um due to carbon emissions but I would say overall we know the impact of carbon emissions and and what they have on our on our climate health and on um population health so um I don't but I don't know of anything specifically but collectively is where you're saying that's where the concern is exactly yes and then I think you know anytime there's a movement right even if it's a collective movement it starts really with the individual so um there's a lot of iaes that are are uh National collaboratives um surrounding uh sustainability and healthc care so the Joint Commission just put out their sustainability and Health Care certificate um or their sustainable Health Care certificate um and that really uh pinpoints six different areas that an organization can focus on to decrease their their carbon footprint and uh decrease their green decrease their greenhouse gas emissions um and so I think there's a lot of um collaborative ways that organizations can can focus on decreasing their um carbon footprint and you know as you know more and more organizations are engaged with with sustainability efforts the hope is that we will uh reach net neutrality on carbon emissions and so you must be kind of working on the the bleeding edge of this right because Healthcare is slow when it comes to adopting new technologies or sustainable initiatives so you guys must be really right at the edge of what's what's happening yeah it's really exciting I think more when I was um interviewing for fellowships two years ago I asked a lot about sustainabil sustainable Health Care as a part of the interview process and um a lot of people told me that's what made we stand out as a candidate they're like no one asked about sustainability and no we weren't really doing anything and just seeing we're we're currently as you alluded to in in our uh rounds of Fellowship interviews at the moment and um when a I would say you know we interviewed a decent amount of candidates like close to 23 um or 23 exactly um and I would say six people I can just think of at the top of my head asked about sustainability like what are you guys doing about sustainability a lot of Health uh Maj programs are now offering sustainability certificates so um there's a lot of a lot of movement there and even just two years it's it's been exciting to see culturally what's changing in in the health space but also um very exciting for me I think I I'm at a great position where you know um getting involved in these initiatives early has been has been great for me so um i' I've really enjoyed it and I think it's been a great opportunity to really level set myself to be ahead of a lot of organizations and maybe ahead of a lot of individuals and the sustainability no that is great yeah that is so funny how you were like one of the only people at the beginning and then now a couple years later right it's become becoming more and more common and and that's awesome and then so last question for you is you're just coming back from uh kind of one of these conference uh you know um or or learning educational sessions with Disney right yes you have to tell us about that it's it seems to be very unique and I and you were actually like one of the first times I've heard about this so please you don't mind just sharing it yeah I'll just put a plugin to how amazing uh the fellowship is that we have two conferences sponsored um during our time as a fellow so one during our first year and one during our second year and fellows have complete complete autonomy on where they can go um for the most part within reason uh the Disney Leadership Institute or Disney Institute um leadership training is um the price of two conferences and so I uh asked Wendy you know um asked my mentor like hey this is something I'm very interested in would it be possible to donate some flexibility to me and if I just went to one conference but um had this you know intense it's it's a weeklong conference as well so that's a little unique too most conferences are just a couple days but um weeklong conference uh four four days I guess four um intensive days in training and uh it goes over how Disney has maintained Walt Disney's Legacy um you know it's a 100y old Vision or sorry 100y old organization that has really clung to to its Legacy and its values and how we as Leaders can can apply those same principles to be better leaders within our organizations um and so it was it was overall um just such a fabulous experience but some of the things that I really loved was um they have an acronym there and it's fail and fail is short for first attempt in learning and um one of our mentors here um our chief operating officers uh is our Mentor one of the mentors Within our program minley i' love to give her a shout out um she always encourages us to fail forward and so uh it really validated for me that a lot of the experiences I'm getting as a fellow um translate across industry and so as we fail forward or as we have that Grace to say hey I'm gonna take on I'm gonna do something really scary or there's gonna be a big risk care um but hey it's just my first attempt in learning so I really loved that um I loved how there was conversation around how as Leaders even though it's difficult and it's a skill um we're there to invite the uncomfortable spaces so a lot of times you know we talked about growth and how you know sometimes Healthcare is is a slow adopter of things um but as leaders in healthcare wanting to drive change wanting to to enhance adoption of um Improvement initiatives um we need to invite those uncomfortable spaces so really really enjoyed learning that and loved that um just so much so much to learn um and talk about but I think overall the biggest thing that I took away from that conference is anchoring to your values um and so I think people who are familiar with their to lead or familiar with this concept of having of values that that's how you show up every day is and how that's how you make decisions of is this being true to my values and I um really found that Disney leadership training was very similar to to having um having values that you are committed to and how you use those values to you know make goals or have a vision for yourself or vision for your team um and so that's one thing I think about when things happen now you know it's just been a little over a week and a half but things happen you know and I I reflect and I'm like okay like how should I approach this what are my values um and so you know and uh I'll just answer that my values are trust and uh empathy and so um which in some ways can be you know contradictory of one another but I'm going to trust that my team is doing a great job um I'm going to be empathetic when someone doesn't um level up to expectations or be empathetic of different circumstances situations so um it's been it's just been so reflective and so beneficial to think about what my values are and um really have that that moment to anchor to my values and then react to situations that is so awesome thank you for for sharing that with us because it's such a unique experience I'm sure a lot of people have seen that before uh out on the LinkedIn and whatnot and they've wondered about it so thanks for sharing with that and that is so awesome that your fellowship program is so flexible I can't say enough um amazing things about just the mentorship of the program the quality of projects that they UST us with and overall um just yeah like the flexibility and how you know I really truly feel like this Fellowship is made for the individual and even though it's you know one of 500 fellowships in the country um and maybe I exaggerated that number but you know it's one of you know hundreds of fellowships it it really is at the same time so specific while also offering those same opportunity opportunities that you can find out many fellowships well thank you so much for coming on Hannah I hope that we can have you back on as you ascend to your you know your Chief sustainability officer role in the in the coming years so thank you so much for coming on and I really do appreciate your time thank you from your lips to God's ears thank oh that's a good one nice okay</p>
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