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» Health Care Administration NewsFaculty NewsSeptember 2009 Dr. John Lowe, chair and professor of health care administration, has been nominated for the Champion of Diversity Award by the Ohio State University Health Management Alumni Association in recognition of his contributions to the field of cultural diversity, especially with the development of the Certificate in Diversity Management in Health Care at Simmons; and also honored as the outgoing chair of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) at its annual meeting in Chicago in July. In addition, he has been appointed to the editorial board of the Health Administration Press in Chicago for 2009-2011 and participated in "Aligning Quality and Safety Goals with Strategic Organizational Goals: A Roundtable Leadership Discussion," at Massachusetts Hospital Association's Annual Meeting in Chatham, Mass., in June. Dr. Robert Coulam, research professor of health care administration, served as a panelist discussing "Don't Forget to Save Medicare: Competitive Pricing, Not Price Controls" at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., on July 17. The presentation was based on forthcoming book co-authored by Coulam, titled It'sTime to Bring Competitive Pricing to Medicare (AEI Press), part of the series "AEI Studies on Medicare Reform." In the book Coulam and his colleagues argues for replacing Medicare's complex pricing formulas with a truly competitive pricing system that would substantial savings. Dr. Coulam, with Associate Professor Gary Gaumer, published a paper on patterns of diversity in U.S. hospital management, in the spring 2009 issue of Hospital Topics. This paper represents the first published study of hospital management diversity using comprehensive national data. Dr. Coulam was also interviewed in a BBC-News.com article on the "Obama Approach to Interrogation," in which he discussed the negative effects of coercion. Dr. Gary Gaumer, associate professor of health care administration, was a member of a World Bank mission to advise the Kuwaiti government on priorities for reforming the insurance and financing systems for health care in that country. In July, Dr. Gaumer co-published an article in a special global edition of Health Affairs, titled "Donor Funding and Government Health Spending in Developing Countries." In early May, he returned to Iraq for a meeting with the World Bank, other major donors, and the Iraq Minister of Health to develop priorities for reengaging donor activities that will help strengthen that country's health system. The donors have been absent from the country since 2004, when Dr. Gaumer was last there. Dr. Gaumer is part of a three- member team from the World Bank, and his role is to identify priorities in the area of health system economics and financing. Dr. Alice Sapienza, Professor Emerita of health care administration, presented "Does the Biotechnology Industry Deserve a Bailout?" at NYU Polytechnic in Brooklyn, New York. |
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