1 Fall 2022 Department Faculty Biography Book St. Mary’s Hall #230 3700 Reservoir Road NW Washington, DC 20057
2 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MANAGEMENT & POLICY CORE FACULTY Robert Friedland, PhD 3 Gultekin Gollu, PhD ............................................................................................... 4 Carole Roan Gresenz, PhD ..................................................................................... 5 Derek M. Griffith, PhD .......................................................................................... 6 Sean Huang, PhD ................................................................................................... 7 Vanessa Hurley, PhD .............................................................................................. 8 Bette Jacobs, PhD .................................................................................................... 9 Christopher King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE 11 John Kraemer, JD, MPH ...................................................................................... 13 Ryung Suh, MD ................................................................................................... 14 Adjunct Department Faculty ................................................................................. 15
Education
The George Washington University MPhil, Economics
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Last Updated: August 2022
Dr.rbf4@georgetown.eduRobertFriedlandhas had a wide range of research and public policy experience, including Chief Economist for Maryland's Medicaid program; Senior Research Associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute; Director of the American Association of Retired Person's Public Policy Institute; Research Director, National Academy of Social Insurance; and Economist on the staff of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Comprehensive Health Care, better known as the Pepper Commission. Friedland founded the National Academy on an Aging Society and Directed the Center on an Aging Society at Georgetown University. His book Facing the Costs of Long Term Care, was awarded the 1992 Elizur Wright Award by the American Risk and Insurance Association. Friedland is the former Chair of the board of the National Academy for State Health Policy, a former Commissioner on The American Bar Association, Commission on Law and Aging, and was on the Board of the Health Assistance Partnership, and the Editorial Board of Aging Today. Dr. Friedland is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a fellow in AcademyHealth and the Gerontological Society of America. He teaches Healthcare Economics, Reimbursement Policy, Policy Analysis and the Politics of Health Care.
The George Washington University PhD, Economics
The George Washington University BA, Economics Care Policy, Financing Health Care and Long Term Care, and the Economics of Social Determinants on sabbatical, but appointments can be made via email and Zoom.
FRIEDLAND,
Expertise/Interests Health
of Health Hours of Availability: Currently
ROBERT PHDAssociate Professor
Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: July 2022
Sabanci
Assistant Professor
assistant professor within the Department of Health Management & Policy in the School of Health. His research interests are in health policies' impact on the labor market, crime, and health outcomes with an emphasis on existing disparities in U.S. society. He also collaborates with healthcare organizations on data analytics projects to improve efficiency in hospital operations and patient outcomes. His teaching interests include health data analytics and visualization, health economics, health policy analysis, and management of healthcare organizations. In the past, Dr. Gollu has served as the MBA program director at his previous institution. He has also served in various organizations to promote diversity, intercultural dialog, and sustainability. University of Wisconsin Madison PhD, Economics University MA, Economics University BA, Economics Economics, Health Data Analytics, Healthcare Policy Analysis
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Dr.gg746@georgetown.eduGultekinGolluisan
4 GULTEKIN GOLLU , PHD
Expertise/Interests Health
Education
jointly appointed in the McCourt School of Public Policy and the School of Health and serves as a Senior Advisor for Strategic Health Initiatives in the Office of the President. In the School of Health, she holds the Bette Jacobs Endowed Professorship in the Department of Health Management and Policy. She served as the Interim Dean of the School of Nursing and Health Studies from 2019 2021 and as Senior Associate Dean from 2018 2019. She previously worked at the RAND Corporation where her positions included Director, RAND Economics, Sociology, and Statistics Department; Director, RAND Health Economics, Finance and Organization program; and Associate Director, RAND Institute for Civil Justice. Her recent research examines how Alzheimer's disease and related dementias affect the financial well being of individuals and families during their early stage prior to diagnosis; assesses the effects of aggressive versus conservative treatment of low risk prostate cancer on mortality, adverse side effects and episode treatment costs; and explores the usefulness of social media data for firearms research. She serves on the editorial boards of Health Services Research, Medical Care Research and Review, and Transforming Care. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Brown University and a B.A. in economics from Loyola University Maryland.
Expertise/Interests Health Economics, Labor
5 CAROLE ROAN GRESENZ
Education Brown University PhD, Economics Loyola College in Maryland BA, Economics Economics
Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: July 2022
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ProfessorPHD Carolecrg70@georgetown.eduRoanGresenzis
Expertise/Interests
Hours of
Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: January 2022
Founder and Co Director of the Racial Justice Institute, Founder and Director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, and Professor of Health Management & Policy and Oncology. Trained in psychology and public health, Dr. Griffith’s program of research focuses on developing strategies to achieve racial, ethnic and gender equity in health. Dr. Griffith is a contributor to and editor of two recent books Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook (Routledge, 2019), and Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional (APHA Press, 2019). He has been interviewed for and quoted in national news outlets such as Ebony, NPR and The Washington Post. Dr. Griffith has co authored or provided expert review of reports from the American Psychological Association, Promundo US, and the World Health Organization. He has been the principal investigator of research grants from the American Cancer Society, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and several institutes within the National Institutes of Health. Author of over 140 peer reviewed manuscripts, Dr. Griffith serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Men’s Health, Ethnicity & Disease, Health Education & Behavior, the International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health, Psychology of Men and Masculinities, Public Health Reports, and SSM Qualitative Research in Health, and he has been a guest editor of a number of journal special issues or supplements. He has received three noteworthy honors: (a) Tom Bruce Award from the Community Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association in recognition of his research on “eliminating health disparities that vary by race, ethnicity and gender”, (b) he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior for his significant contributions to the field of health behavior research, and (c) he was named one of 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America by the Cell Mentor’s Community of Scholars.
Education DePaul University PhD, Clinical Community Psychology University of Maryland at College Park BA, Psychology and African American Studies
Cancer Disparities, Translational Genomics, Qualitative Research, Behavioral Interventions, Community Based Participatory Research, Health Behavior, Health Equity, Implementation Science, Men's Health, Precision Lifestyle Medicine, Structural Racism as a Determinant of Health Availability:
FounderProfessorand Co Director of Racial Justice Institute
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DEREK M. GRIFFITH , PHD
Dr.dmg161@georgetown.eduDerekM.Griffithisa
Founder and Director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity
7 SEAN HUANG , PHD HCMP AssociateDirectorProfessor Dr.202sean.huang@georgetown.edu6875494SeanHuangisanAssociate
Huang’s
His
Management Education University of Michigan PhD, Health Economics University of Michigan MA, Economics National University of Taiwan BA, Finance/International Relations Expertise/Interests Health Economics, Healthcare Finance, Healthcare Markets, Long Term Care Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: August 2022
He teaches
Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy at Georgetown University. Dr. research focuses on the regulation and behavior of hospitals, nursing homes, and home health agencies domestically and internationally, including the relationship between a health care provider’s governance structure and the quality of care. academic pursuits also involve the application of corporate finance and industrial organization to health care delivery systems. Financial
Education University of California at Berkeley PhD, Health Policy Tufts University MS, Biomedical Science Dartmouth College MPH, Health Policy Dartmouth College AB, English Health Care Management, Organizational Behavior
Expertise/Interests Health Administration,
Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: August 2022
Dr. Hurley teaches Strategic Management for graduate students in the MHSA program and Health Care in America II: Introduction to Management and Leadership for undergraduate HCMP students.
8 VANESSA HURLEY , PHD Interim MHSA Director
Assistant Professor
Dr.202vh151@georgetown.edu6874209Hurleyisanassistant professor within the Department of Health Management & Policy in the School of Health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of organizational learning and quality improvement, with a particular focus on health care collaboratives and their role in elevating patient centered innovations. In addition to conducting research in partnership with the High Value Healthcare Collaborative, she has also collaborated with scholars at the UC Berkeley Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare. She previously worked as a health policy analyst for the New America Foundation and as a project manager and quality improvement consultant within rural and community health care settings across the Northeast.
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Previous executive experience includes vice presidency for Honda of America Manufacturing; founding faculty member and Associate Director of Applied Research at the Civitan International Research Center; and Acting Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at California State University. Jacobs’ extraordinary cross disciplinary and cross sector leadership has fostered innovation and improved systems. Her personal and professional activities emanate from crossing childhood cultural boundaries triangulating a colonized, missionized tribal history through pathways in education, business, and service. Strong cultural roots anchor and animate her work to advance the common good with practical abilities to do so. Dr. Jacobs is a scholar skilled in operations. She established enduring innovative models in business and education and sorted or refined programs in both. Dr. Jacobs has published numerous articles and chapters including “Bridging the Divide Between Genomic Science and Indigenous People” in the Journal of Legal and Medical Education, hosted a colloquium featuring the US Health and Human Service position statement on Personalized Medicine, and has testified before Congress. Her honors include ceremonial/commencement recognition at Heritage College on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Chang Gung University in Taiwan, Anhui University in China, and James Cook University in Australia. She has designed and implemented corporate safety, human resource, construction, and efficiency projects using best in class quality standards. Dr. Jacobs has presented at the Institute of Medicine, the American Statistical Association, EUWHO for medical students at the World Health Organization, and for wide variety of management meetings associated with health, engineering, and culture. She served as expert panel member for reports to shape policy for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Social Security Administration, and National Academy of Science. She chaired NIH study sections and consulted on the design and launch of process engineering and for imaging facilities. She has mentored students and fellows in many fields in places as representative as Wyoming, Texas, England, China, and Japan. Dr. Jacobs is long time member of organizations such as the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in to Science, work groups such as the International Group on Indigenous Health Measurement, and served on Boards ranging from Environmental Health and Safety to Reading is Dr.Fundamental.Jacobshas been involved with social entrepreneurship throughout her career. Her current scholarship and teaching on non profit governance incorporates the entire scope of a diverse and unique experience. Since her sabbatical at Oxford University, this body of work reflects deeper understanding of the British Charity Model that shaped the foundation used for US and International aid. She has pursed areas where harmony across non profit, public, and commercial sectors contribute to improving the human condition. In addition, her research is
JACOBS
BETTE , P HD Professor
Bettebette.jacobs@georgetown.eduJacobsisProfessor,Health Management & Policy; Distinguished Scholar and co founder at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; and a Fellow and Visiting Professor at Campion Hall University of Oxford. A Native American whose body of work spans community, academic, service, and corporate leadership, she is recognized for contributions in successful start ups, financial integrity, and interdisciplinary innovations. She served with distinction as Dean for the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies for 11 years overseeing unprecedented programmatic growth within the University.
10 informed by political theory, Jesuit Catholic values, and the Honda philosophy and focuses on the non profit sector as a primary vehicle for the common good. Education University of Texas PhD, Public Health California State University MS, Public Health California State University BS, Nursing Expertise/Interests Organizational Leadership and Governance, Non profit, Non Governmental and For Profit Models, Health Equity, Racial Justice, Policy and Programs as Instruments for the Common Good Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: August 2020
Asck806@georgetown.eduinauguralDeanofthe
KING, PHD, MHSC, FACHE
CHRISTOPHER
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Georgetown University School of Health, Christopher works collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to establish a world class academic destination for advancing health. He is also responsible for academic and operational leadership of the school which is currently comprised of three Departments Human Science, Global Health and Health Management and Policy representing more than 400 students and 78 faculty.
Prior to his role as Dean, he served as chair of the Department of Health Management & Policy where he provided visionary leadership and oversight of undergraduate degree in Health Care Management and Policy and a nationally accredited master's degree in Health Management & Policy.
As an associate professor, he teaches and contributes to scholarship on the creation of equitable systems of care within the context of national health reform goals. He works closely with public and private providers to bridge the gap between medical care and healthcare. Prior to joining Georgetown University, Christopher served as the first Assistant Vice President of Community Health for MedStar Health, a $6B not for profit healthcare system comprised of 10 hospitals in the Baltimore/Washington region. Accomplishments included planning, launching and managing a new corporate function designed to apply more rigor and evidence in community based planning, implementation and evaluation. He was also responsible for developing, testing and evaluating innovative approaches to integrate social factors in systems of care.
Associate Professor Dean of School of Health
Christopher is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and he currently serves as Secretary of the DC Hospital Association Board of Directors. He has also been an advisor for the DC Department of Health State Innovation Model, Adventist HealthCare's Center for Health Equity and Wellness and the Maryland Governor’s Wellmobile Program. In 2019, he was appointed a Commissioner for the District of Columbia Commission on Health Equity. In 2020, he authored Health Disparities in the Black Community: An Imperative for Racial Equity and most recently, his work on Race, Place and Structural Racism in the District of
Prior to his work with MedStar Health, Christopher served as a director for Greater Baden Medical Services, Inc., a Federally Qualified Health Center in southern Maryland. During his four year tenure, he managed federal grants, oversaw support services and secured more than $7M in public and private grants to promote health equity and improve the health of vulnerable and underserved populations. Through volunteer work, he has spearheaded regional efforts to heighten awareness of how racism, discrimination and implicit bias influence individual and population health. Christopher is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and has been a contributor to Healthcare Executive magazine. He has conducted health disparity and health equity presentations to national audiences. And as a former senior fellow of the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), Christopher represents an esteemed group of national thought leaders dedicated to transforming health care through research and education. His national investigations on screening and barriers to care among cancer survivors by race and ethnicity were published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and the American Journal of Medical Quality. His thought leadership around Black Lives and the Triple Aim has been published in the Journal of the National Medical Association.
12 Columbia was published in Health Affairs the nation’s leading peer reviewed journal on health, healthcare and policy. The Washington Business Journal has recognized him as one of the region’s top minority business leaders. Education University of Maryland PhD, Health Services Administration Towson University MHSc, Master of Health Science, East Carolina University BS, School and Community Health Expertise/Interests Health Disparities, Public Health, Racial Equity, Social Determinants of Health, Health Equity, Racial Equity, Systemic Racism and Health Outcomes Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: July 2022
Baker University
MPH
JOHN JD, Department Chair Associate Professor
Education Johns
Johnjdk32@georgetown.eduKraemeristhedepartment
Health, Survey Research Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment Last Updated: August 2022
chair and associate professor in Georgetown University's Department of Health Management & Policy, and he is also affiliated with the university's O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and African Studies Program. Trained in both public health and the law, his work focuses on the intersection of empirical evidence and public health policy. Substantively, he mainly studies women and children’s health in rural populations in sub Saharan Africa and road safety for vulnerable road users. Methodologically, most of his work analyzes complex sample survey data. His current and past projects include work with the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon initiative against women's cancers, the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria, and Last Mile Health. At Georgetown, John teaches undergraduate epidemiology and graduate quantitative methods. He also teaches a course on the intersection of democracy, rights, and health and a seminar on the 2014 2015 West African Ebola epidemic. Hopkins University MPH, Public Health University JD, Law/Public Health BA, International
Political Science Expertise/Interests Epidemiology, Global Health, Health Law,
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KRAEMER ,
Georgetown
Expertise/Interests Business Innovations and Entrepreneurship,
Education Uniformed Services University
MPH Georgetown
Ryungsuhr@georgetown.eduSuhbringsthree decades of executive management, financial, and organizational leadership experience and expertise and has been teaching at Georgetown since 2003, serving as Chair of the Department of Health Management & Policy from 2014 2019. He built and exited a middle market health management consultancy that led major transformation efforts for federal health agencies, directed public and private sector enterprise level modernization and organizational change initiatives, managed a commercial consulting practice serving the life sciences industry, and launched over a dozen successful businesses that have served government and private industry clients. Dr. Suh also served as an infantry and medical corps officer for 26 years with a diverse set of operational, special operations, and military health system responsibilities. He is a combat veteran who has deployed to multiple overseas locations to include service as a Task Force Surgeon during Operation Enduring Freedom, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. His military qualifications include airborne, ranger, jumpmaster, and flight surgeon. of the Health Sciences University McDonough School of Business MBA University Graduate Public Policy Program MPP Georgetown University School of Medicine MD, Medicine BS, Chemistry Health Care Management and Policy, Organizational AM PM
Transformation, Population and Public Health, Occupational Medicine Hours of Availability: Daily 7:00
United States Military Academy
EST, by appointment. Last Updated: February 2022
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Associate Professor
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Georgetown
15 A DJUNCT D EPARTMENT F ACULTY Sumegha Asthana Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University Saad Chaudhry Luminis Health LaShanda Cobbs OptumServe/UnitedHealth Group Greg Downing Holy Cross Hospital Peter Erwin Customer Value Partners Jennifer Ford Department of Veterans Affairs Sara Hejazi Tandigm Health Bernard Horak MITRE Fred Hyde Fred Hyde & Associates Kishka McClain MedStar Health Jason Ormsby Atlas Research Ruth Pollard District of Columbia Developing Familes Center Purva Rawal CMS Innovation Center at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Allie Reschovsky MedStar Health Maureen Schafer Philips Marshall Strisik American Kidney Fund Angela Thomas MedStar Health Research Institute John Wallenhorst Bon Secours Health System Kathryn Watson Maxor National Pharmacy Services Mimi Zhang Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Last Updated: August 2022