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Chief Medical Officer Program
September 15, 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving and volatile healthcare landscape, there is a greater need than ever for sophisticated medical leadership in the C-suite that bridges clinical expertise and business acumen. Organizations and chief executives expect you to excel both as an operational leader and as a strategic business partner who can inspire as a care model innovator while setting the highest standards for quality improvement and patient safety.
The Chief Medical Officer Program from Emory Executive Education will equip you to lead and inspire colleagues across the organization with a shared vision that reflects the unique needs of patient care delivery and strategic business goals. The 9- to 12-month immersive learning journey is focused on providing the mindset, skills, and frameworks required for you to succeed as a CMO, from business leadership to overseeing clinical operations, influencing stakeholders, and spearheading quality improvement.
With this program, you will be prepared to create value and guide new business and care models to sustain the healthcare system. This program is an exceptional opportunity to advance your career and maximize your impact from the C-suite.
Topic: | Healthcare |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Format: | Asynchronous Online |
Chief Medical Officer Program
December 8, 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving and volatile healthcare landscape, there is a greater need than ever for sophisticated medical leadership in the C-suite that bridges clinical expertise and business acumen. Organizations and chief executives expect you to excel both as an operational leader and as a strategic business partner who can inspire as a care model innovator while setting the highest standards for quality improvement and patient safety.
The Chief Medical Officer Program from Emory Executive Education will equip you to lead and inspire colleagues across the organization with a shared vision that reflects the unique needs of patient care delivery and strategic business goals. The 9- to 12-month immersive learning journey is focused on providing the mindset, skills, and frameworks required for you to succeed as a CMO, from business leadership to overseeing clinical operations, influencing stakeholders, and spearheading quality improvement.
With this program, you will be prepared to create value and guide new business and care models to sustain the healthcare system. This program is an exceptional opportunity to advance your career and maximize your impact from the C-suite.
Topic: | Healthcare |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Format: | Asynchronous Online |
Chief Medical Officer Program
March 30, 2026
In today’s rapidly evolving and volatile healthcare landscape, there is a greater need than ever for sophisticated medical leadership in the C-suite that bridges clinical expertise and business acumen. Organizations and chief executives expect you to excel both as an operational leader and as a strategic business partner who can inspire as a care model innovator while setting the highest standards for quality improvement and patient safety.
The Chief Medical Officer Program from Emory Executive Education will equip you to lead and inspire colleagues across the organization with a shared vision that reflects the unique needs of patient care delivery and strategic business goals. The 9- to 12-month immersive learning journey is focused on providing the mindset, skills, and frameworks required for you to succeed as a CMO, from business leadership to overseeing clinical operations, influencing stakeholders, and spearheading quality improvement.
With this program, you will be prepared to create value and guide new business and care models to sustain the healthcare system. This program is an exceptional opportunity to advance your career and maximize your impact from the C-suite.
Topic: | Healthcare |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Format: | Asynchronous Online |
Chief Medical Officer Program
June 29, 2026
In today’s rapidly evolving and volatile healthcare landscape, there is a greater need than ever for sophisticated medical leadership in the C-suite that bridges clinical expertise and business acumen. Organizations and chief executives expect you to excel both as an operational leader and as a strategic business partner who can inspire as a care model innovator while setting the highest standards for quality improvement and patient safety.
The Chief Medical Officer Program from Emory Executive Education will equip you to lead and inspire colleagues across the organization with a shared vision that reflects the unique needs of patient care delivery and strategic business goals. The 9- to 12-month immersive learning journey is focused on providing the mindset, skills, and frameworks required for you to succeed as a CMO, from business leadership to overseeing clinical operations, influencing stakeholders, and spearheading quality improvement.
With this program, you will be prepared to create value and guide new business and care models to sustain the healthcare system. This program is an exceptional opportunity to advance your career and maximize your impact from the C-suite.
Topic: | Healthcare |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Format: | Asynchronous Online |
Advanced Management Program in Healthcare
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The Advanced Management Program in Healthcare from Emory Executive Education is a transformative learning experience that combines medical expertise with business management skills. The seven-month learning journey combines online and live online sessions to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the operational and management aspects of a healthcare organization and hone your strategic thinking and leadership skills. Designed by thought leaders from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, the Emory University School of Medicine, and Emory Healthcare, this program draws on their expertise in business management, healthcare management, patient care, and finance.
This unique and innovative learning journey includes a five-day on-campus immersion in the heart of the Emory ecosystem, which will give you further insights into leveraging healthcare technology through sessions with industry experts, management simulations, and networking events, as well as a capstone project that transforms your theoretical knowledge into practical skills.
Topic: | Healthcare |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Certificate: | Advanced Management Program in Healthcare |
Business of Healthcare: Moving from Volume to Value Based Healthcare Delivery
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Introduces the framework of a value‐based healthcare delivery system, organized around four key components: (1) what is a value base framework for a delivery system, (2) the need for integrated care delivery at the practice unit, (3) creating system for outcome measurement and monitoring, and (4) the role of payers in encouraging value‐based healthcare delivery.
Topic: | Healthcare, Strategy |
Duration: | 1 to 3 Days |
Certificate: | Business of Healthcare |
Communication Strategies for Healthcare Leaders
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The fast-paced, high-stress environment presents unique healthcare communication challenges for leaders. Communication breakdowns can occur at any stage of the care process, often due to frequent interruptions or misunderstandings between healthcare staff and patients and their families. The consequences of inadequate communication can be dire, even contributing to in-hospital deaths, fragmented care, operational inefficiencies and subpar staff performance. Effective communication across all stages can lead to better care planning and improved patient care. The Communication Strategies for Healthcare Leaders course offers a valuable opportunity to build core leadership capabilities beyond business acumen. The immersive learning journey emphasizes rational and emotional competencies as well as collaboration and conflict resolution, enabling you to gain a competitive edge in leadership roles. Through innovative frameworks, real-world case studies, insights from industry experts, and peer discussions, you will hone your communication to drive a positive impact and establish an influential executive presence for improved patient outcomes.
Topic: | Healthcare |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Cost Concepts: Cost and Performance Measurement in Healthcare
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This course equips students with essential cost performance analysis skills for planning and managing healthcare operations. Participants will learn to identify relevant costs and benefits, estimate service costs, set pricing strategies, and assess profitability and risk using cost-volume-profit relationships.
Through a case-based approach, the course applies key management accounting concepts to healthcare settings, covering resource planning, cost behavior analysis, and time-driven activity-based costing. Students will develop budgeting strategies, investigate discrepancies between budgets and actual results, and design performance evaluation systems to ensure organizational strategic alignment.
Topic: | Healthcare, Strategy |
Duration: | 1 to 3 Days |
Certificate: | Business of Healthcare |
Executive Decision Making for Healthcare Leaders
Coming Soon
Executive Decision Making for Healthcare Leaders is designed by Professor Steve Walton, a leading expert on operational decision making and the impact of leadership on operations outcomes. The program will prepare you to make better decisions by applying a set of processes, strategies, and frameworks that serve as a playbook that you can use in your work environment for immediate impact.
Topic: | Healthcare, Strategy |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Healthcare Operations: Continuous Operations Improvement in Healthcare Orgs
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Using the healthcare value chain as an organizing framework, the module is organized around four key modules: (1) designing healthcare delivery systems, (2) capacity planning and decision making under uncertainty, (3) process failure, learning and quality improvement, and (4) new business models and innovations in healthcare.
Topic: | Healthcare, Strategy |
Duration: | 1 to 3 Days |
Certificate: | Business of Healthcare |
Healthcare Strategy: Strategically Leading Healthcare Organizations
Coming Soon
Gain an understanding of tomorrow’s competitive landscape in healthcare characterized by regulatory uncertainty, confounded consumers, and the ever-shifting balance of power amongst payers, providers and pharma/devices. All these demand that our healthcare leaders be clear in their organization’s strategy and simultaneously excel at leading organizational change.
Topic: | Healthcare, Strategy |
Duration: | 1 to 3 Days |
Certificate: | Business of Healthcare |
Innovating Healthcare: A Strategic Approach
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Innovating Healthcare: A Strategic Approach is designed to guide you through the entire innovation process—from idea generation to implementation. The program equips healthcare professionals and entrepreneurs addressing this market with a set of processes, strategies, and frameworks that serve as a blueprint for enacting change that is supported by a business case and stakeholder buy-in.
Topic: | Healthcare, Strategy |
Duration: | Self-paced |
Strategic Leadership in Healthcare
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The Strategic Leadership in Healthcare course from Emory Executive Education is designed by Professor John Kim, a leading expert in strategic management and planning with a focus on healthcare. The course provides a strategic blueprint for creating the future of healthcare, identifies the drivers of massive systemic changes, and offers proven frameworks for creating a more sustainable healthcare system.
The course will help you: Gain a future-oriented perspective on the healthcare sector and how markets and various stakeholders influence the strategies of providers. Develop a top-down strategic view of the US healthcare system and the competitive forces at work. Use key frameworks to break-down problems, frame the scope, and persuade with data. Identify win-win outcomes for quality, cost, access, and provider well-being. Gain confidence to lead your organization through a difficult operating environment.
Topic: | Leadership, Healthcare, Strategy |
Duration: | Self-paced |