Leading and Managing Change in Healthcare

Dr Rodolfo Catena is a Lecturer of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Global Business School for Health at University College London. He is a specialist in Value-Based Health Care. Rodolfo has a background in engineering, he has a master’s from UC Berkeley and two degrees from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Bologna. He also has a doctorate in Management Studies from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford where he has specialised in Operations Management.

Rodolfo has contributed to the successful launch of two new master’s degree programmes in healthcare and leads the Executive Education course in Value-Based Health Care. Prior to returning to academia, Rodolfo has supported public and private organisations across the world in a list of countries including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium.

Professor Nora Colton is the Director of the UCL Global Business School of Health. She is a health and development economist with extensive experience in change management and strategy. Previous to this role she was the UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Postgraduate Education) and Joint Director of Education at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital. She has been a Professor of International Economics at Drew University, USA; Dean of Business and Deputy Vice Chancellor at University of East London (UEL), UK; and a visiting professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Electronic Science and Technology (UESTC), Chengdu, China as well as the American University in Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.

She holds a doctorate from University of Oxford, UK. She also has studied and taught at a number of leading universities including Harvard University; W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University; American University in Cairo; American University in Beirut and Barcelona Business School at University Pompeu Fabra, Spain. She also holds a certificate in Change Management from Cornell University in the USA.

She has been the recipient of a serial Fulbright and a Carnegie Foundation grant to conduct fieldwork in the Middle East.

She is the author of numerous journal articles concerned with Middle Eastern economics and politics. She is also co-author of a book with Elsevier Press entitled Middle East Finance: Missed-opportunities or Future Prospects and has a book forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan on the political economy of Yemen. She has also been a series editor of a book series on Middle East Economics through Palgrave-Macmillan. More recently, she conducts research and publishes on healthcare management and strategic leadership.

She has a particular interest in change management as it relates to the healthcare sector and has designed programmes and taught on healthcare management postgraduate degree programmes as well as health related executive education and training programmes.

Julie Davies is Deputy Director (EDI) and Director of the MBA and EMBA Health programmes in the UCL Global Business School for Health (GBSH). She is an Associate Editor of Human Resource Development Review and co-chairs the research development committee for the University Forum for Human Resource Development. She is a member of EFMD’s annual MBA conference steering committee. Julie is a Trustee of Kirkwood Hospice where she serves on the investment and finance and resources committees.

Previously, Julie was a Reader in Leadership Development in the Faculty of Business and Law at Manchester Metropolitan University and Subject Group Leader for Research & Enterprise in Huddersfield Business School. She was Deputy Chief Executive of the Chartered Association of Business Schools where she launched and directed the International Deans’ Programme with EFMD which included study visits with deans to business schools globally. Julie co-facilitates deans’ programmes for the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools. She was also Director of Administration in City University’s School of Social Sciences. Julie managed Queen’s Anniversary Prize winning postgraduate programmes in finance and economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She was Resources Manager in UCL’s Chemistry Department. In the National Health Service, Julie was seconded to the change management team for the opening of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and she worked in human resources in family and community services, oncology, paediatrics, maternity services, and facilities in central London.

Julie completed her undergraduate degree in Russian and English at Birmingham University and an LLB from the Open University where she also gained an MA in Education. She has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Sheffield University and Postgraduate Certificate in Personnel from the University of Westminster. Julie received an MBA in Kingston Business School and a PhD in strategic management from Warwick University. Her PhD thesis examined Hybrid upper middle manager strategizing practices. Julie is a Practitioner Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Association of University Administrators. Julie is a qualified executive coach and psychometrics assessor. She has been a visiting scholar in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education in the University of Melbourne.

Suzanne Wait co-founded The Health Policy Partnership in 2015. In a health policy career spanning more than 15 years, Mrs Wait has helped to run multi-stakeholder initiatives in numerous disease areas. The subject of her studies is focused on Public Health issues. Specifically, she has a Master in Public Health from Columbia University and a PhD in Public Health from the University of Strasbourg.