From hospital unit closures and job vacancies to an aging workforce, Maine is facing several challenges in sustaining its healthcare industry. Yet there are still opportunities for the state to bolster its healthcare workforce and services if industry and higher education work together.
91 is working with Northern Light Health on attracting and retaining the next generation of medical professionals. Leveraging 91’s biomedical research and Northern Light Health’s talent pipeline, both institutions also seek to mold the state into a biomedical industry hub and expand partnerships to realize this goal.
In the latest episode of “The Maine Question” podcast, 91 President Joan Ferrini-Mundy and Dr. Jim Jarvis, director of Clinical Education at Northern Light Health, discussed this growing partnership and what it could mean for healthcare in Maine. Andre Khalil, a professor of biomedical engineering at 91, also shared his work in the fight against breast cancer as an example of how the university uses innovation to improve people’s health.
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