Dr. Joseph Antognini- A Commitment to Learning

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Dr. Joseph Antognini
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Commitment
to Learning
UC
Davis Health Systems Anesthesiology
Doctor Joseph Antognini has always
had a fondness for numbers. He was
an economics major at UC Berkeley before getting his
M.D. at USC School of Medicine. In 2008, he enrolled
in the Sacramento State College of Business
Administration MBA for Executives (EMBA)
program’s SMUD #2 Cohort to explore
the administrative side of
delivering medicine. “I learned
how to address ‘people
problems’ in a formal way,”
Antognini said. “That was very
valuable.”
Although Antognini taught
classes in addition to his case
load and research on pain
processing, being a student
after more than two decades
meant making time for as
much of 30 hours a week in
class and studying on top of
his day job.
The commitment paid off, however. After graduating from the
program in 2010, he was promoted
in November to Director of Perioperative Services, a position that puts
his new education to work every
day. “My goal is to remove obstacles
so doctors, nurses and staff can be
more productive and efficient while
maintaining patient safety and satisfaction,” Antognini said.
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“My goal is to
remove obstacles
so doctors, nurses
and staff can be
more productive
and efficient
while maintaining
patient safety and
satisfaction.”
­—Doctor Joseph
Antognini