Teaching Faculty
Douglas A. Conrad, PhD, MBA, MHA
Professor, Health Services
(Managed care; corporate finance in health care; risk and insurance)
William L. Dowling, PhD, MA, MBA
Professor, Health Services
Director, Certificate Program in Medical Management
(Strategic management of health care organizations; management and organization theory; managed care, the U.S. health system)
Mary Beth Foglia, PhD, MA
Clinical Instructor, Health Services
Ethicist and Ethics Evaluation Studies group member, National Center for Ethics in Health Care (VHA)
(Ethics)
Stephen A. George, MD, MBA, AMP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
President, Medvice, Inc.
(Entrepreneurship)
David Grembowski, PhD, MA
Professor, Health Services
(Evaluation, research design in health services; health service systems)
Phillip J. Haas, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Network Market Head, Northwest Markets, Aetna Life Insurance Company
(Health Services and Public Health)
Christian Helfrich, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor, Health Services
(Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development; Research Associate, Health Services)
Thomas L. Jackson, PhD, MBA, JD
Clinical Associate Professor, Health Services
(lean management, total quality, A3 process)
Aaron Katz, CPH
Principal Lecturer, Health Services
(Health policy, access, markets, rural health, social determinants)
Branko Kopjar, MD, PhD, MS
Associate Professor, Health Services
(Epidemiology, evidence-based health care planning, biostatistics, Prevention effectiveness, outcomes, quality)
Patricia C. Kuszler, JD, MD
Professor and Associate Dean, Law
(Health law)
David Lesperance, MHA
Clinical Instructor, Health Services
(Health care project management)
Anna C. Mastroianni, JD, MPH
Associate Professor, Law
(Ethical issues in health services; public health genetics)
David Masuda, MD, MS
Lecturer, Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics
(Medical informatics; information management)
Thomas R. McCormick, DMin
Senior Lecturer, Emeritus, University of Washington, Bioethics and Humanities
(Ethical issues in health services)
Thomas D. McWhinnie, MAT, MHA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Deputy Director for Education and Development, Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System
(Organizational dynamics; systems thinking; leadership)
Thomas E. Norris, MD
Professor and Associate Dean, Family Medicine
(Medical Management)
Kurt O'Brien, MHROD
Clinical Instructor, Health Services
Manager, Organization Development and Training, UW Medicine
(Team Leadership)
Dennis D. Pointer, PhD
Clinical Professor, Health Services
President, Dennis D. Pointer & Associates
(Management/governance healthcare organizations, market structure/dynamics)
Hector P. Rodriguez, PhD, MPH
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Health Services
(Influence of organizational, team, and physician/patient factors on quality and patient experience with health care.)
Sallie Sanford, JD
Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Law School
(Health law)
Dennis Stillman, MHA
Senior Lecturer, Health Services
(Health care financing; project management)
Jack Thompson, MSW
Senior Lecturer, Health Services
Director, NW Center for Public Health Practice
Faculty Associate, Health Analysis Program
(Public health practice)
Edward Walker, MD, MHA, MM
Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Cheryl M Scott/Group Health Cooperative Professor , University of Washington, Health Services
(Integration of mental health into primary and specialty care medical settings)
Carolyn A. Watts, PhD, MA
Professor, Health Services
Director, Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
Adjunct Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs
Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics
(Health economics; health policy)
William E. Welton, DrPH, MHA
Senior Lecturer, Health Services
Director, MHA Programs
(Management and
Leadership / Health Policy)
Kenneth D. White, PhD, MHA
Clinical Assistant Professor, Health Services
Consultant, Group Health Cooperative
(International health status assessment, patient satisfaction)
Thomas M. Wickizer, PhD, MPH
Affiliate Professor, Health Services
(Health economics; health services organization)
Brenda K. Zierler, PhD
Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
(The influence of care delivery systems on patient outcomes; clinical effectiveness)
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