Spring 2023 Department of Health Management & Policy Faculty Bio Book

St. Mary’s Hall #230 3700 Reservoir Road NW Washington, DC 20057

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 J. King, PhD, MHSc, FACHE .......................................... 11

John Kraemer, JD, MPH ...................................................................... 13

Ryung Suh, MD ................................................................................... 14

Adjunct Department Faculty ................................................................. 15

Associate Professor rbf4@georgetown.edu

Dr. Robert Friedland has 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.

Education

The George Washington University - PhD, Economics

The George Washington University - MPhil, Economics

The George Washington University – BA, Economics

Expertise/Interests

Health Care Policy, Financing Health Care and Long-Term Care, and the Economics of Social Determinants of Health

Hours of Availability:

Currently on sabbatical, but appointments can be made via email and Zoom

Assistant Professor gg746@georgetown.edu

Dr. Gultekin Gollu is an 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.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison – PhD, Economics Bogazici University – MA, Economics Sabanci University – BA, Economics

Expertise/Interests

Health Economics, Health Data Analytics, Healthcare Policy Analysis

Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment

CAROLE ROAN GRESENZ , PHD

Professor crg70@georgetown.edu

Carole Roan Gresenz is jointly appointed in the McCourt School of Public Policy and the School of Health. 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.

Education

Brown University - PhD, Economics Loyola College in Maryland – BA, Economics

Expertise/Interests

Health Economics, Labor Economics

Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment

Professor

Founder and Co-Director of Racial Justice Institute

Founder and Director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity dmg161@georgetown.edu

Dr. Derek M. Griffith is a 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 peerreviewed 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

Expertise/Interests

HCMP Director

Associate Professor

sean.huang@georgetown.edu 202-687-5494

Dr. Sean Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management & Policy at Georgetown University. Dr. Huang’s 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.

His academic pursuits also involve the application of corporate finance and industrial organization to health care delivery systems. He teaches Financial 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

Interim MHSA Director

Assistant Professor vh151@georgetown.edu 202-687-4209

Dr. Hurley is an assistant 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 patientcentered 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.

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.

Education

University of California at Berkeley - PhD, Health Policy Tufts University - MS, Biomedical Science Dartmouth College - MPH, Health Policy Dartmouth College - AB, English

Expertise/Interests

Health Administration, Health Care Management, Organizational Behavior

Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment

Professor bette.jacobs@georgetown.edu

Bette Jacobs is Professor, 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. 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 Fundamental.

Dr. Jacobs has 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 nonprofit, public, and commercial sectors contribute to improving the human condition. In addition, her research is

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

Associate Professor Dean of School of Health ck806@georgetown.edu

As inaugural Dean of the 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 full-time and part-time 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 communitybased planning, implementation and evaluation. He was also responsible for developing, testing and evaluating innovative approaches to integrate social factors in systems of care.

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.

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

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

JOHN KRAEMER , JD, MPH

Department Chair Associate Professor jdk32@georgetown.edu

John Kraemer is the department 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.

Education

Johns Hopkins University - MPH, Public Health Georgetown University - JD, Law/Public Health Baker University - BA, Political Science

Expertise/Interests

Epidemiology, Global Health, Health Law, International Health, Survey Research

Hours of Availability: Meetings available by appointment

Associate Professor suhr@georgetown.edu

Ryung Suh brings three decades of executive management 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 serves as a Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and directs an incubator lab and social impact investment fund. He previously 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. He is the President-Elect of the American College of Preventive Medicine and has previously served as President of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, on the Board of Governors of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, on a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee, and in other leadership roles within organized medicine. He has served as a Senior Fellow with NORC at the University of Chicago, on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights State Advisory Committee, and as a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations. 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.

Education

F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University – MPH Georgetown University McDonough School of Business – MBA Georgetown University Graduate Public Policy Program – MPP Georgetown University School of Medicine – MD United States Military Academy – BS, Chemistry

Expertise/Interests

Business Innovations and Entrepreneurship, Health Care Management and Policy, Organizational Transformation, Population and Public Health, Occupational Medicine

Hours of Availability:

Daily 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM EST, by appointment

Sumegha Asthana – Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University

Saad Chaudhry – Luminis Health

Sonia Canzater -O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

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

Susan Kim – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Susan Kirsh – Veterans Health Administration

Kishka McClain – MedStar Health

Andrew Mulcahy – RAND Corporation

Jeffery Nadel – Department of Veterans Affairs

Jason Ormsby – Atlas Research

Ruth Pollard – District of Columbia Developing Families 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