How to Hack Health Care: Man Running Dell Medical School
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“That liberal arts approach was important to who I am and it still impacts how I think about solving problems [with an interdisciplinary approach]. It comes from those roots,” he said.
Johnston’s mashup style of thinking has certainly been put to the test the past two years since taking on his biggest challenge yet — as dean of the Dell Medical School, which waded through 4,528 applicants to pick its first class of 50 students who started in July.
Though the brick-and-mortar buildings on the Dell Med campus have a $400-million-plus pricetag — built partly with millions of taxpayer dollars — Johnston is looking to construct something more: a legacy.
Indeed, the overall Dell Medical School District is the harbinger of what Johnston describes as a whole new way to deliver health care.
To achieve it, he’s hired some of the brightest minds across multiple disciplines to teach his students, work with private sector health tech startups and convince generations of physicians in Texas and around the country to buy into his vision.
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