AAS Aspiring Leaders Development Program – application closes April 1st!

Rajesh Aggarwal is a Professor in the Division of Minimally Invasive, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and the Senior Vice President for Strategic Business Development at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health. His clinical and research interests involve the use of patient-based, procedural and team-based simulation platforms, together with inter-professional learning, underpinned by evidence-based care pathways, to develop strategies for the adoption and implementation of simulation to enhance patient safety, at a systems level. Further work intends to drive the research into policy and practice, through national and international collaborations, with the aim to deliver best patient care.

Dr. Hari Nathan is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery at the University of Michigan. He is a surgical oncologist with a clinical focus on tumors of the pancreas, liver, bile ducts, and stomach. Dr. Nathan’s health services research portfolio focuses on variation in the cost and quality of surgical care. Specifically, he studies the impact of innovative payment models in the Medicare program on surgical care. He is also interested in the quality of cancer surgery and prediction of prognosis after cancer resection.