The Advisory Board is pleased to announce its inaugural West Coast Academy Fellowship Class. The Academy Fellowship is dedicated to assisting partner hospitals and health systems in the selection, education, and development of their highest potential leadership talent. Working with each partner, the Fellowship provides tailored, best-practice-based executive preparation education and practical project development opportunities for each selected Fellow. Across the two-year curriculum, Fellows attend six three-day sessions on a directed syllabus of intensive work devoted to health care leadership challenges. Course topics cover many disciplines ranging from operations and human capital management to hospital financial performance. For the past two years, the Advisory Board has hosted its Fellows in its Washington, D.C. offices, but in response to West Coast partner feedback, the Board is pleased to launch a regional Academy Fellowship on the West Coast. The first intensive program will take place in Southern California during the first week of Nov. 2004.

For more information on the Academy Fellowship, please contact Allison Yazdian at 202-266-5944 or yazdiana@advisory.com.