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Faculty
Executive program faculty are drawn from the 14
network member university graduate programs
and other institutions. All faculty are selected on the basis of their
superior academic records and their achievements in health administration
education.
Errol
L. Biggs, Director, Programs in Health Administration, University
of Colorado at Denver; PhD, Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Biggs's
current research and consulting work addresses governing board issues
relating to hospitals and community health needs assessment studies. Dr.
Biggs is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and has
been a hospital CEO for 12 years.
Heidi
Boerstler, Professor, University of Colorado at Denver; DrPH, Yale
University; JD, University of Denver. Dr. Boerstler has been involved in a
number of large studies, including reimbursement for nursing home services,
quality of care in hospitals, and ethical behavior in corporations. She is
currently working with the state of Colorado to develop managed care
programs for special populations, including developmentally disabled and
chronically mentally ill persons.
Peter
G. Bryant, Professor, University of Colorado at Denver; PhD,
Stanford University. Dr. Bryant's areas of expertise include statistics and
information systems. He has over 17 years of industrial experience and has
written articles on a variety of statistical topics and has co-authored a
book of cases in business statistics.
Andrew
E. Cameron, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University; Ph.D.,
University of Michigan. Dr. Cameron teaches Management Accounting in the
Executive Program. He co-authored the leading textbook on health care finance.
His research and publications generally focus on optimizing investment and
financing decisions by health care organizations. His two major current
interests are extending the theory of real options as applied to health
care capital investment decisions and analyzing investments in
telemedicine. He has authored widely-recognized articles on these topics.
C.
Marlena Fiol, Associate Professor of Management, University of
Colorado at Denver; Ph.D., University of Illinois. Dr. Fiol teaches the
Competitive Strategy course in the Executive Program. She has over 20 years
of experience in conducting management seminars and providing management
training services. She has worked with large corporations and small,
growing organizations to identify their core competencies, clarify market
demands, develop strategic directions, and implement the tactics required
to compete successfully in changing markets. Dr. Fiol has extensive
experience in areas of cross-cultural relations and globalization, with
particular emphasis on Latin American business practices.
Richard
W. Foster, Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Denver;
PhD, University of Chicago. Dr. Foster teaches the Health Economics course
for the executive program. His major current interest is extending the
theory of corporate finance to the nonprofit setting. Dr. Foster has
published several monographs and articles on hospital expenses, hospital
financial structure, and competition and regulation.
Cindy Haddock, Professor and Chair, University of Kansas Medical
Center, Dept. of Health Policy and Management; PhD, Cornell University. Dr.
Haddock teaches Human Resources Management in the executive program. She
has published articles in health services journals and has held leadership
positions in national professional organizations. She is currently Past
Chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.
In 1994-1995 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working on
health care issues in the Office of the Senate Democratic Leader Thomas A.
Daschle.
Leland R. Kaiser, Associate Professor Emeritus, University of
Colorado at Denver; PhD, University of Denver. As president of Kaiser and
Associates, Dr. Kaiser is a highly acclaimed speaker and consultant as well
as a prolific author. He lectures in the Transformational Leadership elective
course.
Roger Kropf,
Professor of Health Administration, New York University; PhD Syracuse
University. Dr. Kropf teaches the Management Information Systems course for
the executive program. He also teaches courses on strategic planning, and
marketing at NYU. One of his principal interests is in helping health care
professionals to use strategic planning and management information systems
to achieve their organizations' goals and objectives, which is the subject
of his book Service Excellence in Health Care through the Use of
Computers (American College of Health-Care Executives, 1990). His
articles have been published in a wide range of journals, including Hospital
and Health Services Administration, Medical Care, Health
Services Research, Social Science and Medicine, Health Care
Management Review, Administrative Radiology, and Radiology
Management.
Edward
J. O'Connor, Professor, University of Colorado at Denver; MBA,
Harvard Business School; PhD, University of Akron. Dr. O'Connor has
provided services to hospitals, group practices, health plans, and
integrated systems in areas that include change management, visionary
leadership, conflict resolution, team effectiveness, governance, and
entrepreneurship. In addition to holding management positions with General
Electric and providing consulting services for diverse organizations, he
has personally engaged in several entrepreneurial business ventures. He has
also served on Business and Psychology faculties at the Universities of
Georgia, Tennessee and Texas as well as the Georgia Institute of
Technology. His current research interests include change management,
power, entrepreneurship and the dis-integration of mergers/alliances.
Martha G. Pilcher, Lecturer, University of Washington; PhD,
Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Pilcher teaches the Quantitative
Methods course in the executive program. Her areas of interest include
statistics and methodology for comparing heuristics, test problem
generation, and vehicle routing.
Eugene S. Schneller, Counselor to the President for Health
Professions Education; Professor of Health Administration and Policy,
Arizona State University; Professor of Clinical Family and Community
Medicine, the University of Arizona; PhD, Sociology, New York University.
Professor Schneller has held faculty positions in the Department of
Community Health Sciences at the Duke University Medical Center, the
Department of Sociology and the Institute of Administration and Management
at Union College (Schenectady, NY), and the Department of Community and
Preventative Medicine at the Albany Medical College. His current research
interests include health care system reform in the United States,
management reform in the British National Health Service, public relations
in hospitals, health manpower development, careers, and the physician
executive. He was Chair of the Association of University Programs in Health
Administration and the Western Network for Education in Health
Administration. He teaches Medical Care Organization for the Executive
Program in Health Administration and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Management course.
Lee F. Seidel, Professor, University of New Hampshire, PhD
Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Seidel has authored books in the areas
of strategic management and management methods and articles in the area of
health services management education. He is a former Chair of the
Association of University Programs in Health Administration. Dr. Seidel
teaches the executive program's course on the Management of Health Care
Institutions, the capstone course used to integrate other courses in the
curriculum.
Dean G. Smith, Professor, University of Michigan, PhD Texas A& M University.Professor
Smith teaches courses in finance, managed care, and outcomes research. He
is a Co-Director of the UM-Pfizer Fellowship in Pharmacoeconomics and
Outcomes Research and Co-Director of the UM-Ortho Biotech Fellowship in
Outcomes Research. He is also the Director for Outcomes Research in the
University of Michigan’s Center for Clinical Investigation and Therapeutics
(CCIT) Biostatistics and Outcomes Research Core.
His research interest and projects include costs of pharmaceutical use
in clinical trials, financial management practices and techniques, health plan
operations, and risk management. Dr. Smith teaches Pharmacoeconomics and
The Healthcare Industry and Role of the Pharmaceutical Industry courses in
the Executive Program.
Leah J. Vriesman, Ph.D., MBA Dr. Vriesman is President of Excel Research, LLC, a healthcare management and policy-consulting firm in Boulder, CO. Specializing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, Excel Research primarily conducts outcomes research, economic studies, and market trend analyses. Dr. Vriesman is currently serving as an industry advisor to the regional chapter of a large not-for-profit healthcare organization, and to a federal congressional candidate. She also works with a firm that develops public health plans using tobacco settlement monies for multiple states.
Frederick J. Wenzel, Faculty, University of Minnesota School of
Public Health, University of Colorado Graduate School of Business,
University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Business, Texas Tech University
Graduate School of Business and School of Medicine; Advisor to the
President, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin; MBA, University of
Chicago. Mr. Wenzel's academic field of specialization is health care
organization governance, management, and strategic planning. He is the
instructor of the Ambulatory Care electives.
Jack Wheeler,
Professor and Chair, Department of Health Services Management and Policy,
University of Michigan; PhD, University of Michigan. Dr. Wheeler teaches
management accounting and corporate finance for health care managers at the
University of Michigan. His research interest is in the relationship
between financing sources and the behavior of the health care firm. He
teaches Financial Management in Health Care Organizations in the executive
program.
R. Keith Wilson,M.D., M.S.(Pharm.), MSHA
Dr. Wilson teaches the course on Managing Healthcare Outcomes. He is
currently in medical management with interest in applying quality
improvement techniques in a multispecialty clinic setting. He has several
publications in areas of both clinical and administrative medicine.
Daryl
Winn, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business
Administration, University of Colorado at Boulder; PhD, University of
Michigan. Dr. Winn teaches managerial economics, antitrust, government
regulation, and macroeconomic policy. He teaches economics in several
executive education programs in natural gas, banking, health care, and for
the Chamber of Commerce. He has published a book and numerous articles on
profit measurement, public policies toward business, corporate governance,
and executive compensation. Dr. Winn teaches the introductory
Microeconomics course for the program.
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