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New HealthSciences Institute Advisory Board Appointment

HealthSciences is pleased to welcome Sean Kesterson, MD, FACP to the HealthSciences Institute Advisory Board. Dr. Kesterson is currently a medical director and attending physician at the University of Michigan. He has led quality, safety, and innovations in the University’s Health System in a number of areas: medical education, cardiac preoperative evaluation, aminoglycoside dose standardization, and heart failure treatment, outpatient treatment of deep vein thrombosis, diabetes care, and asthma care. He has also been a Medical Director of both the University’s Brighton Health Center and West Ann Arbor Health Center overseeing quality, service, budget and facilities since 1997. He has also served on the Board and as the Medical Director of Michigan Visiting Nurses. He has been recognized for medical student teaching, mastery of clinical medicine, and leadership by the University during this time. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is listed in Best Doctors in America. He has served as an instructor and group leader in the Global Institute for Leadership Development (Linkage Inc.) and has remained an avid student of effective leadership in business and organizations.

Dr. Kesterson has delivered many lectures on subjects including servant leadership, quality in healthcare, professional development, outcomes improvement, and behavior change. He has published articles and book chapters on the subjects of physician leadership, executive healthcare, chronic back pain, and heart failure. He has become increasingly interested in current trends in healthcare reform and care improvement in primary care. He has actively focused his recent sabbatical on behavior change and motivation psychology. He attended The Ohio State University for degrees in Biochemistry and Medicine from 1981-1989 where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society. He trained at the University of Michigan, completing his residency in Internal Medicine from 1989-1992. He spent the next two years in Cambridge England, serving as a Registrar at Addenbrooke’s hospital and a Clinical Instructor at Cambridge University.

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