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Health Management Program Student Wins 2005 American College of Healthcare Executives' Albert Dent Scholarship
Natalie Nguyen, an M.P.H. candidate in the Health Management Program, recently received the Albert Dent Scholarship from the American College of Healthcare Executives. |
Natalie Nguyen, an M.P.H. candidate in the Health Management Program,
was awarded the 2005 Albert W. Dent Graduate Student Scholarship by the
American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), a professional society
of 30,000 healthcare executives. The scholarship was established in honor
of ACHE's first black fellow, Albert W. Dent, and is offered annually to
minority students enrolled in their final year of a healthcare management
graduate program. "It is truly an honor for me to receive this award
from ACHE, whose commitment to diversity in healthcare leadership is evident
in providing this scholarship. ACHE provides great resources and a large
network instrumental to young professionals seeking to advance their careers," said
Nguyen.
Ms. Nguyen recently finished her first year at the Yale School of Public
Health. She
interned at Massachusetts General Hospital this summer designing and implementing
a pilot observational study of the mechanisms which clinicians used to identify
patients to measure the hospital's compliance with the Joint Commission
on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' 2005 National Patient Safety
goals. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career in health management
and hopes to contribute to reforming and building a better healthcare system
in Vietnam, where she was born and grew up.
Ms. Nguyen worked as an Assistant Scientist in the Virology & Cell
Biology Department of Anadys Pharmaceutical, a biotech company, in San
Diego, California prior to coming to Yale. There, she designed and implemented
an in vitro translation system for its Hepatitis C program. Ms.
Nguyen received her B.S. from the University of California, San Diego
in 2002.
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