Junior intern with Execudent Holdings, LLC

Execudent Holdings, LLC, a startup with interests in health professions education, healthcare practice management, and oral health technology seeks two interns to support its work. The interns will work with several Execudent Holdings figures, primarily Matthew A Weed, Ph.D. SM’93, Grd’01, Ph.D. (Genetics)’04, Chief Academic Officer of Execudent Education one of the Execudent Holdings sub-organizations. Significant interaction with Dr. Joel Berg DDS, the founder of the entire company, and Mr. Harish Maridi, MBA, Execudent Holdings’ Chief Operations Officer is also likely. The interns will assist these individuals with a variety of tasks. Among other things, they will assist with research on numerous topics including the market for a wide variety of oral health technologies Execudent is helping develop and market, the distribution of health professionals (and particularly oral health professionals) in many states around the country, and on other topics that may arise over time. They will also be asked to help with the development of one of the largest databases of contacts in academic health professions. Individuals who can edit video and do some website maintenance will be particularly attractive to the Execudent team.

This unique opportunity will allow the position holders to learn about how health professions schools are built and put together, how advocacy campaigns are run at the major state level, how new health technologies are marketed and how thought leaders work together to alter and strengthen healthcare culture.

Execudent’s current interns report directly to Dr. Weed. Dr. Weed will have particular interest in working with interns on understanding the distribution of health professionals around the country and on developing and giving presentations to state legislators and other senior figures on the need for increased support for publicly funded health professions training programs in areas where there is a particular need for larger numbers of health providers. Learn more about Execudent and its family of companies at www.execudent.com.

Learn more of Dr. Weed at www.drmatthewweed.com/my-story/.

Among many other taskings, Dr. Weed leads a team working to encourage several US states to consider the construction of new publicly funded health professions schools as private ones often don’t graduate individuals who can afford to work in underserved environments due to the extreme debt incurred in most programs not funded by the taxpayer. One of Dr. Weed’s major projects is expected to be the development of a multi hundred page initial accreditation document for a newly forming publicly funded dental school. This project will require Dr. Weed and a large team of nationally renowned experts to collaborate with interests across a major US state in order to build community training programs, student services, clinical curricula, and much more. Dr. Weed will organize the accreditation document and may need assistance with research and grammatical matters on this document. He will need similar assistance with developing, editing and updating presentations he anticipates giving to legislators in at least three, possibly as many as five or six, states on the need for increased public support for more opportunities for training of dentists and other health professionals to work in rural and underserved parts of those states. As Dr. Weed is totally blind, doing the grammatical and data checks himself on the presentations in particular is difficult. Someone with strong grammar and presentation development skills will be valuable to him and his team.

These roles will require no more than ten hours a week of the interns’ time and hours should be relatively flexible but at times projects will arise that require relatively quick responses.

Likely taskings:

  • Assistance with the construction of a large database of health professions school contacts focused on accreditation, reaccreditation, interprofessional training, and program building.
  • This database offers opportunities for someone skilled in AI prompt construction to use their AI skills to compile information using available (but poorly organized) public resources.
  • Expansion of a similar database of contacts in healthcare, health technology, politics, and other areas of pursuit who may be helpful to various of Execudent’s projects and partners.
  • This database will likely be built mostly by hand from private and semi-private resources.
  • Searches for contact information for state legislators and state executive branch figures as needed.
  • Some research taskings to other units of Execudent which may cover things like the market for new health technologies and current best practices in healthcare and health practice management.
  • Research on state and local availability of health professionals focusing on underserved areas where millions of Americans do not have access to needed care.
  • Development of presentations Dr. Weed and Dr. Berg will give to state legislators and other senior policy makers to illustrate the need for health professionals in their states and what Execudent thinks it can do to help them improve their particular situations.
  • Some website maintenance.
  • Possibly some video editing and development.
  • Editing and format support for a likely accreditation document for a forthcoming dental school under the direction of Dr. Weed. (note, this is expected to become a major time commitment as the year advances). Depending on the process in the state in question, it is possible that at least one person will be hired as a full-time intern during the summer of 2025 to assist with the accreditation document process and a wide variety of health professions school building tasks.

Hours for each of the interns will be about ten a week with relatively flexible timing though at times projects may arise needing relatively rapid response.

Pay: $25-$30 per hour depending on individual’s education and previous experience.

Interested? Send resume and cover letter to Dr. Weed at matthewweedconsults@gmail.com.

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By Kristin McJunkins
Kristin McJunkins Director of Advanced Degree Applications & STEM Career Advising