Dr. Meyer earns MBA while providing humanitarian service

Greenville, PA — Carl Meyer, DO, pediatrician and chairman of UPMC Horizon’s Physician Health Committee, recently earned a master’s degree in business administration from Alvernia College, Reading, Pa.

Dr. Meyer was part of a cohort of health care professionals who received MBAs from Alvernia. The two-year program is dedicated to teaching the business of medicine with classes covering topics such as strategic management, accounting, information literacy, and marketing.

As a graduation requirement, students were expected to complete a humanitarian service project as an opportunity to apply skills acquired during their studies and use them to benefit a community. Dr. Meyer and the other physicians in the program took their services to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, last year to assess the needs of the Bernadine Franciscan Mission in the barrios of Los Tres Brazo. When they saw a dilapidated public school in the mission neighborhood, they pledged to raise money for a much-needed expansion of the local convent school.

Dr. Meyer also completed a capstone project that encompassed all course work. His topic was, “Medical Record and Documentation Quality: A Peer Review Assessment Tool.”

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