Exchange Program Introduces Students to Health Systems AbroadThanks to an
exchange program between the Department of Health Management and Informatics at the University of Missouri and the University of Bayreuth in Germany, students like Philippe Diserens, PhD, receive firsthand exposure to another country’s health system.
In the fall of 2014, the then doctoral student spent two months at MU, conducting research and interning with the Department of Health Management and Informatics. Under the guidance of Patricia Alafaireet, PhD, MHA, director of applied informatics, Diserens studied hospital strategic management and organizational culture while surveying American health care CEOs on hospital mergers and acquisitions.
Now, four-years later, the health care management consultant and economist has returned to Mizzou as a post-doctoral visiting scholar. Diserens plans to continue his research at MU again in 2019.
