Health Care Delivery Science

Faculty Director(s): Katherine J. Milligan, Associate Dean, Health Care Management Education; Adjunct Professor, Tuck School of Business; Robert A. Shumsky, Faculty Co-Director, MHCDS; Faculty Co-Director, MHA; Professor of Operations Management, Tuck School of Business; Craig Westling, Interim Faculty Co-Director, MHCDS; Faculty Co-Director, MHA; Associate Dean for Health Sciences Education, Geisel School of Medicine.

Faculty: Ron Adner, Nathaniel D'1906 and Martha E. Leverone Memorial Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business; Paul Argenti, Professor of Corporate Communication, Tuck School of Business; Pino Audia, Professor of Management and Organizations, Tuck School of Business; Carrie Colla, Professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished Chair in Health Care Delivery, Geisel School of Medicine; Glyn Elwyn, Professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine; Elliott Fisher, Professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine; Constance E. Helfat, J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy, Tuck School of Business; Adam Kleinbaum, Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business; Lindsey Leininger, Clinical Professor of Business Administration and Faculty Director for the Center of Health Care, Tuck School of Business; Katherine J. Milligan, Associate Dean, Health Care Management Education; Adjunct Professor, Tuck School of Business; Susan Reeves, Clinical Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine; Robert A. Shumsky, Faculty Co-Director, MHCDS; Faculty Co-Director, MHA; Professor of Operations Management, Tuck School of Business; Phillip Stocken, Jack Byrne Professor of Accounting, Tuck School of Business; Alva Taylor, Associate Professor of Business Administration and Faculty Director, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business; Eric B. Wadsworth, Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tuck School of Business; Ruth Wageman, Associate Faculty, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Steven Woloshin, Professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine.

MHCDS Program

Graduate students enrolled in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science (MHCDS) program take a prescribed sequence of courses as a cohort; there are no electives.

The MHCDS program is administered by the faculties of the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine.  The courses listed below are designed for graduate students and do not conform to the undergraduate course calendar.

Requirements for the Master’s Degree

To qualify for award of the master of health care delivery science degree, a student must fulfill the following requirements:

  1. Satisfactory completion of a twelve-month, graduate-level core curriculum in health care delivery science.

  2. Attendance at three residential periods at Dartmouth College in conjunction with the core curriculum.