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The Tolan Center for Healthcare Opportunities

The Tolan Center for Healthcare has a number of opportunities for you to engage with us, from events to job openings, scholarships and more.

Upcoming Tolan Center Events

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Healthcare Speaker Series: Andrew Hack

Join the Tolan Center for Healthcare for a conversation with Andrew Hack, AB'95, PhD'00, MD'02, Partner at Bain Capital Life Sciences, in discussion with Brian Coe, Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, as part of our Healthcare Speaker Series.

As a Partner at Bain Capital Life Sciences, Andrew focuses on private equity investments in companies developing transformative medicines, medical devices, diagnostics, and life sciences tools. Previously, he was CFO of Editas Medicine, the first publicly-listed CRISPR gene editing company. He also served as a portfolio manager at Millennium Management and began his career as a securities analyst at several healthcare-focused hedge funds and investment banks.

This session will offer insights relevant to life sciences, investing, and leading organizations in the healthcare industry.

Tuesday, April 21 | 5:00 - 6:00 PM CT | Gleacher Center

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Healthcare Speaker Series: Andrew Hack
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Public Health and Civil Society at a Crossroads: The State of Science & Opportunities to Defend Its Integrity

Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou, PhD, MPH is a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of Mosaic Research Fund. As a prolific health communication scholar with over 125 peer-reviewed publications, her research on misinformation, social media, and end-of-life discourse have been referenced in major media outlets. Her recent interests include understanding and addressing the spread of health misinformation, relationship-centered health communication, and the use of mixed methods in supporting patient-centered health research.  Chou has been outspoken in the media in defense of science and its role in democracy. She visits campus this spring as part of the Healthcare Scholar in Residence program at the Tolan Center.

 
This talk will appeal broadly to future leaders of (and investors in) provider, payer, life science and medtech firms, as well as digital health entrepreneurs, where patient trust is foundational.

Thursday, April 23 | 12:00 - 1:00 PM | Harper Center Room C02

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Public Health and Civil Society at a Crossroads: The State of Science & Opportunities to Defend Its Integrity
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Healthcare Scholar in Residence (Spring 2026)

April 2026

Researcher Sylvia Chou is former Director in the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) of the Behavioral Research Program (BRP) at the National Cancer Institute. Her work centers on health messaging and misinformation. She visits campus this Spring as a guest in the Scholar-in-Residence program of the Tolan Center for Healthcare.

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Cancer and the Cost of Capital

April 30, 2026

Andrew Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include finance models to incentivize innovation in healthcare. He visits campus this Spring as a guest in the Scholar-in-Residence program of the Tolan Center for Healthcare, in partnership with the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Booth/BSD Faculty Symposium: AI in Healthcare

May 19, 2026

Faculty from Booth and the Biological Sciences Division are invited to attend an afternoon symposium on AI in healthcare. RSVP here to receive program updates.

Job Openings

Healthcare Analytics Lab affiliates

The Healthcare Analytics Laboratory recruits PhD students, MD students, residents, and MBA students with significant content expertise in healthcare to join the Lab as mentors, research assistants, and content experts.

If interested, please reach out to healthcarelab@chicagobooth.edu for more information.

Healthcare Fellowship

The Booth Healthcare Fellowship is awarded each year to select incoming Full-Time MBA students with backgrounds in a care provider role (e.g. MD, RN, Social work in a healthcare setting).

The aim of the program is to provide tuition support, foster community among the Fellows, and provide additional access or support. Such areas of support include one-on-one conversations with distinguished speakers at events sponsored or co-sponsored by the Tolan Center, covered fees for the annual Booth student-led Healthcare Conference and more programming.

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