Full-Time MBA Student Profile Priyanka Karandikar, ’16

Priyanka Karandikar: 00:03
I had never thought I would go to business school. I’m a physical therapist by initial training. I have been in health care all along. I worked with a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Bombay. I’m really interested in enhancing patient experience in hospitals and particularly focusing on resource management within health-care systems.

Priyanka Karandikar: 00:21
That’s really what encouraged me to go get an MBA. I was very pleasantly surprised to learn that Booth actually has a lot of resources if you want to work in health care. Along with my MBA, I’m also part of the GPHAP program. It’s the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy. There’s multiple schools at the university that participate.

Priyanka Karandikar: 00:40
Students from the Law School, from the med school, from the School of Social Service Administration, and from the School of Public Policy. We are working with insurance coders. They give you an actual live dataset. You generate an output and you make a recommendation. We are working with doctors.

Priyanka Karandikar: 00:56
This morning I was in the operating room at the University of Chicago Medical Center wearing scrubs with my classmates, looking in on a bypass surgery. Having that kind of access, not just to professional resources but in terms of learning, I think is very important. Things at Booth are very student driven. It’s a harmonious bunch of people. Once I knew that, Booth immediately became one of my top choices. Booth can give you whatever you want.