ITHS Internship
Application Deadline: Friday, April 25, 2008
Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Internship
Are you interested in a consulting opportunity in health care management that will utilize your business, scientific, and entrepreneurial skills? The Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), headquartered within the University of Washington School of Medicine, is looking for a summer intern to develop a business plan for the clinical research operations at the Institute!
This internship offers a tremendous opportunity to study the complexities of a multi-institute enterprise while improving the health research environment at the UW and partner institutions. The final deliverable will be a customized business plan outlining an infrastructure for health research that results in significantly improved collaboration, communication, and education. Since ITHS is a complex organization with numerous stakeholders, the challenge will be to identify suitable best practices in communication, management, and education. This business plan will be written to the satisfaction of the National Institutes of Health (by whom the Institute is funded) and will ensure that the expertise of the various faculty, outside collaborators, and consulting services is used most effectively.
The business plan will outline a five-year and ten-year strategic plan/set of accomplishments for the Institute including detailed timelines. To accomplish this, the business plan will analyze the target market(s) and competitive strengths of the Institute. It will include an evaluation of the current service market and recommendations of how to offer new services successfully or whether to remain serving markets under the current translational model.
In evaluating the management structure and how it might be improved for efficiency and productivity, the business plan will recommend ways to establish communication channels across the Institute that allow ease of information flow among internal and external stakeholders.
This internship offers the opportunity to work with the faculty leaders of the ITHS, as well as the “to be hired” ITHS Director, in developing the business plan. The intern will interact with many levels of management within the UW and have access to many University collaborators and to the individual expertise within the Institute.
The ITHS consulting internship will be 30 hours a week, from June 16 through August 22 (dates negotiable) and will pay $8,000. Please email your resume and cover letter describing what you could bring—in terms of background experience and interest—to getting the ITHS enterprise off the ground. As this fellowship is highly competitive and requires a diverse skill set, all University of Washington MBAs and graduate students/post-docs with entrepreneurial interests are eligible to apply.
Email all application materials to lwitt@u.washington.edu, by Friday, April 25 at 5 p.m.
ITHS Background
Within the UW, ITHS is supported by the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Business and Law; the University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center; the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI) regional network; and externally by Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC), Seattle Veteran's Administration Medical Center (VAMC), Group Health Cooperative, Virginia Mason's Benaroya Research Center and other institutions in the northwest United States. Numerous partnerships result in complex funding for ITHS , which currently includes a five year, $62 million Clinical and Translational Sciences Award (CTSA) from NIH-NCRR, annual institutional funds exceeding $750,000, cost share commitments in excess of $1 million per year, and additional agreements among external institutions.
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