Not long ago, Dr. Kathryn Tinckam (GEMBA-HLS ’20) completed the Advanced Health Leadership executive program at Rotman, realizing that she had “been thinking about leadership in the wrong way for the last 20 years.”
“It struck me that if I really wanted to lead my team or organization through a change, I couldn’t approach every problem using the same paradigms and mindset,” she explained.
Tinckam — who, in addition to her work as a nephrologist, director of the HLA laboratory and director of quality improvement and innovation at the University Health Network’s transplant program, is also an associate professor at the University of Toronto — was intent on taking her leadership skills to the next level.
“What I and so many others are starting to realize is that leadership isn’t only something you are just inherently born knowing. It has to be learned.”
Last month, she headed back to Rotman to pursue the Global Executive MBA in Healthcare and Life Sciences (GEMBA-HLS). Over the course of this 18-month program, Tinckam and her classmates will be trained on management and business fundamentals. What’s more, they’ll be traveling across the globe — to Singapore, the San Francisco Bay Area and Toronto — to see healthcare and life science innovations in action.
“We won’t just be reading about innovation in the classroom.”
-Dr. Kathryn Tinckam, GEMBA-HLS ’20
Learn more about other student stories such as Young Lee (GEMBA-HLS '20) and Dr. Gopinath Nageshwaran (GEMBA-HLS '20)
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