Administrative Fellowship
About the Fellowship
The 12-month Texas Children’s Hospital Administrative Fellowship is designed to develop future healthcare leaders. This comprehensive program provides early careerists with exposure to executive leadership in the nation’s largest children’s hospital.
During the fellowship, individuals will learn about the range of services and programs offered at Texas Children’s. Individuals will cultivate leadership skills by pursuing areas of interest based on personal and professional goals, as well as contribute to organizational priorities. The Texas Children’s Administrative Fellowship Program offers an unparalleled opportunity to learn and grow as health care professionals.
Program Details
The Administrative Fellowship program offers a unique opportunity to learn about the values, mission, and structure of Texas Children’s Hospital. Fellows will spend the first two weeks in an immersive and hands-on orientation. This provides fellows with an opportunity to become familiar with the institution, meet key leaders, and identify areas of interest for further project work or rotations.
Fellows will then spend time shadowing and working with key leaders to gain perspective on day-to-day operations and decisions faced by executive leadership. Fellows will also work closely with the executive leadership team on strategic projects that further the organization’s mission and needs.
Fellows will attend executive-level and Board of Trustees meetings throughout the program to gain valuable insight into the organization’s direction and top challenges facing healthcare and leadership. We believe that development occurs through a variety of experiences including working closely with senior leaders, involvement in projects, attending leadership meetings, as well as participating in world-class development opportunities.
Fellowship Program Leadership
Throughout the year, Administrative Fellows will have the opportunity to work closely with the entire Texas Children’s Hospital Leadership Team, and specifically, the executive leaders below:
- Mark A. Wallace, President and CEO, Texas Children’s Hospital
- Michelle Riley-Brown, Executive Vice President and President of Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus and President of Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands
- Weldon Gage, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
- Dan DiPrisco, Executive Vice President
- Mark Mullarkey, Executive Vice President and President of Texas Children’s Health Plan
- Aisha Jamal, Vice President, Corporate Governance
Application Information
Qualifications:
- Interested applicants must possess a CAHME accredited MHA, CEPH accredited MPH, or AACSB accredited MBA by the fellowship start date. This program can serve as the remaining requirement for the graduate degree if all didactic coursework has been completed prior to the fellowship start date.
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Required skills for this position are:
- A passion for providing quality healthcare to children and women
- Knowledge of the healthcare market and of business theory and its application
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate well and demonstrate strong emotional intelligence
- The ability to demonstrate organizational awareness, think analytically and show initiative
Materials:
- Completed Application Form on texaschildrenspeople.org
- Upload all required documents to the link below your resume labeled “upload additional documents”
- Incomplete applications will not be considered
- Current Resume
- Official Graduate School Transcript
- 3 Letters of Recommendation
- Must include at least 1 professional and 1 academic
- 1-Page single-spaced Personal Statement that addresses your goals in pursuing a fellowship and a career at Texas Children’s Hospital
Application Timeline:
- Application Deadline: September 30, 2021
- Phone Interviews: Early October 2021
- Onsite Interviews: Early November 2021
- Offer Date: November 12, 2021
- Start Date: July 11, 2022
Contact Us:
In order to help answer any further questions and give you a chance to meet our current fellows, we will be hosting two webinars: August 12th 6pm CT and September 15th 12pm CT. They can register for a webinar here! A confirmation email with the details will be sent out a week before each webinar.
Michelle Riley-Brown, is an Executive Vice President at Texas Children's Hospital and also serves as President of The Woodlands Campus and President of the West Campus. Michelle joined Texas Children's in 1999 as an administrative fellow, and has been a leader in the Texas Children's system for more than 19 years. She has held various leadership roles throughout the organization and played an integral role in the successful preparation and execution of the West Campus, and The Woodlands Campus, both designed exclusively for children.
Throughout her tenure at Texas Children's Hospital, Michelle has focused on expanding Texas Children's quality pediatric care into the outlying areas of Houston and beyond. Michelle is currently overseeing the Austin initiative and leading our outpatient strategy along with key operational efforts in that market. She is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves on various boards throughout the community. She completed her undergraduate degree at Tulane University and earned a master's degree in healthcare administration from Washington University School of Medicine.
Weldon Gage is the Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for Texas Children's Hospital. Weldon re-joined Texas Children's in June of 2016. He previously served in financial leadership roles at Texas Children's for six years between 2005 and 2011. Prior to coming back to Texas Children's, Weldon served in the CFO role at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and CFO at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Weldon's healthcare financial management career began in 1997 at the Hendrick Health System in Abilene, Texas.
In addition to leading the organization's financial strategy and overseeing the system's financial management functions, his responsibilities currently include oversight of the system's revenue cycle, legal, risk management, audit, compliance and government relations functions.
Weldon is a graduate of Texas A&M University with a Masters of Business Administration degree. He is also a graduate of Hardin-Simmons University with a BBA in Finance.
Dan DiPrisco is an Executive Vice President at Texas Children's Hospital. Dan has been with Texas Children's for 16 years, starting out as an administrative fellow at BCM in 2002, and progressing quickly through the ranks. Dan's role during his tenure has progressed from business and physician support service leadership to hospital operations as Senior Vice President of The Woodlands and the Baylor Operating Unit. Dan was critical in implementing and leading the Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine Operating Unit and opening The Woodlands Campus.
Currently, his primary areas of operational responsibility include the pediatric inpatient and ambulatory services on the TMC Campus, Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, nursing, pharmacy, respiratory and therapy services, as well as continued oversight of the institutional affiliation between Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.
Dan holds a Bachelor's degree in Health Sciences from Purdue University and a Master's degree in Healthcare Administration from Indiana University. Dan is a Certified Healthcare Financial Professional with the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), and also holds memberships with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), and the Children's Hospital Association (CHA).
Mark Mullarkey is an Executive Vice President at Texas Children's Hospital and also serves as the President of the Texas Children’s Health Plan. His current operational responsibilities include Surgery, Radiology, Pathology, Supply Chain, Anesthesiology, Quality, Medical Staff Services, Facilities, Planning and Development, Facilities Operation, and the Health Plan.
During his 15 year tenure, Mark has led Texas Children's through some of its largest and most complex initiatives. He led "Delivering on the Vision", a project focused on revenue enhancement and cost repositioning across our care delivery system. Most recently, Mark led the CareFirst initiative which was focused on expanding our emergency center, operating rooms and critical care areas at the TMC Campus. A critical component of the CareFirst initiative was the $575 million, 19-story expansion of Legacy Tower, which included new state of the art operating rooms, larger and family-friendly critical care areas as well as our number one ranked Heart Center. Mark has also led the creation of TCPG, and the system-wide implementation of our electronic medical record, Epic.
Mark holds a master's degree in business administration from the Jacob's School of Management, University at Buffalo with certificates in Health Care Administration, Management Skills, and Human Resources.