14: A non-clinical career in population health
Today I am pleased to be interviewing Ines Vigil, MD, MPH, MBA, and a fellow of the American College of Preventative Medicine. Ines has expertise in population health, analytics, informatics, and clinical practice transformation. Ines has a very interesting career after completing her medical degree and general preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins University. Her interest in population health has a very interesting origin. Ines shares her perspective on the value of the Master’s in Public Health degree versus Master’s in Business Administration. She and I discuss her interests and passions that led her to pursuing both degrees.
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“When contemplating whether or not to get an additional degree, determine what you want to get out of it and think through the problems that you really want to solve based off of your experience, your interactions, and your breadth and depth of knowledge. What are the problems you want to solve for healthcare? Then decide which degree will give you the skill set that you really need in order to be able to tackle that problem.”
Show Highlights:
- Ines describes her role at Clarify Health as bringing population health value-based care solutions to the market.
- Her passion for data and how two mentors inspired her to attend medical school.
- How Ines’ experience working with Indian Health Service helped her to understand how social determinants impact patients.
- Why she pursued a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) as well as a Master’s in Public Health (MPH).
- Why a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) can be helpful to clinicians that are contemplating working in alternative finance models and alternative care models.
- The value of the MPH degree versus the MBA.
- The impact of transitioning from the fee for service model to value-based care.
- Ines describes her first job out of residency as Medical Director for Johns Hopkins HealthCare.
- Her role as a preventive medicine physician and the transition to an administrative career.
- The book, Population Health Analytics, she co-authored with Martha L. Sylvia, PhD, MBA, RN.
- Ines offers advice for physicians who are thinking about writing a book.
- She shares the benefit of having mentors throughout her career and the influence they had on her career path.
About me:
I’m an experienced physician executive with over 30 years of clinical and administrative experience in various healthcare settings. I’m passionate about coaching and mentoring physicians interested in transitioning to full time or part time non-clinical roles either within the healthcare industry or external to healthcare. I have served as a COO for an emergency medicine management company, CMO for several hospitals, Vice-president of ambulatory quality for a large multispecialty medical group, Vice-president of system quality and safety for a multi-hospital system, along with numerous medical staff positions and other administrative roles.
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Additional Resources:
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Jones & Bartlett — Population Health Analytics
Ines Vigil MD, MPH, MBA FACPM LinkedIn
American College of Preventive Medicine
MPH Program Johns Hopkins University
MBA Program Johns Hopkins University
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