Post by IU Kelley School of Business Physician MBA Program

What does 21 months of business training look like in practice? For Raghu Motaganahalli, MD, MBA'26 — division chief and program director for vascular surgery at IU Health — it looked like a system-wide surgical optimization strategy that could reshape how patients across three regional hospitals access timely care. His capstone project proposed a hub-and-spoke model with Methodist Hospital at the center, redistributing surgical cases to expand access, streamline care, and reduce delays. Real data. Real implementation timeline. Real impact. This is what the Kelley Physician MBA capstone is designed to do: take everything students learn and apply it directly to the health systems they already lead. "The MBA certainly helped me in an organized fashion to approach the problem and arrive at a solution," Dr. Motaganahalli said. "I think the Kelley Physician MBA provides you all the ingredients to be successful in the business of medicine." Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4gCdsrN