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- Elisha Friesema, Stephen Palmquist and Prachi Bawaskar Medical Industry Leadership Institute, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
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- Monica Parakh, Derek Schujahn and Chloe Hoeppner UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
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- Andrea Lo, Jay Toor and Melitta Chan Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Teams from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, UNC Kenan-Flagler School of Business and Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, won the top three prizes March 24 at the annual BAHM Case Competition focused on business-based policy solutions to the national opioid crisis.
Held at University of Miami School of Business March 24, teams of three from nine BAHM-member schools selected a community, identified the extent of its opioid abuse, and create an integrated and comprehensive strategy to tackle the problem. The first prize winners, Carlson MBA students Elisha Friesema, Prachi Bawskar, and Stephen Palmquist, will submit their work to the U.S. Surgeon General and the White House and for publication in the BAHM journal, Health Management Policy and Innovation (HMPI.org).
The winning team modeled its solution after Cure Violence, a program designed to combat violence in Chicago.
“Critical to the Cure Violence model was addressing violence as an epidemic disease, meaning that the problem transmits and spreads based on exposure,” Palmquist said. “Our model applies a similar logic to the opioid crisis based on the prevailing public health understanding that exposure to opioids increases a person’s risk of using and abusing opioids.”
Read more about their proposal here.
The competition judges were brought together by Steven G. Ullmann, director of UM’s Center for Health Sector Management. They are: Brian Castrucci, Acting CEO & Chief Program and Strategy Officer, deBeaumont Foundation; Judge Jeri Cohen, Miami-Dade County Circuit Court; Carolyn Drazinic, MD, PhD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer of State Mental Health Facilities, Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health at Florida Department of Children and Families; Kana Enomoto, Acting Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Miami-Dade County Court Associate Administrative Judge, Steven Leifman, Associate Administrative Judge; Special Advisor on Criminal Justice and Mental Health for the Supreme Court of Florida; Bertha K Madras, PhD, Member of President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis; Scott McClelland, Pharm.D., Vice President of Commercial Pharmacy, Florida Blue; Albert Ray, MD, President of the Foundation for Pain Medicine; and Lillian Rivera, RN, MSN, PhD, Administrator/Health Officer, Florida Department of Health, Miami-Dade County.