University of Central Florida

College of Health and Public Affairs
Department of Health Professions
​Health Care Administration Program

• Position: Visiting Assistant Professor
• Duration: 1996 to 2000
• ​Location: Orlando, Florida

Graduate courses taught include:

• Health Care Organization and Management I (HSA 6107): Study of health care organizations, including modem management, organizational structure, systems control, human performances, planning, and leadership.
  
• Health Care Organization and Management II (HSA 6108): Emphasis on planning, development, marketing approaches, and problem solving using computer methods.
  
• Principles of Managed Care (HSA 6126): The course will acquaint students with the components of managed care, contract stipulations, provider practice patterns, and financing aspects.
  
• Health Planning and Policy (PHC 6146): Review of the determinants of the revolution of the health care system in the United States; analysis of public health, preventive medicine, and therapeutic medicine in terms of quality, access, and cost; methodologies and issues in comprehensive health planning; and trends in health policy development.
• Case Studies in Health Law (PHC 6420): Health law including patient care, liability, malpractice, workmen's compensation, and legal responsibilities of health personnel.

Undergraduate courses taught include:

• U.S. Health Care Systems (HSA 3122): A survey of the economics, social, and political aspects of the health care system in the United States.
• Health Care Finance (HSA 3170): Budgeting and resource allocation related to health care agencies.
• Principles of Managed Care (HSA 4109): Introduction to the contractual, financial, and practice pattern components of managed care.
• Organization and Management for Health Agencies (HSA 4180): Organization and management of Health Care Agencies, including procedural applications.
• Health Sciences Research Methods (HSA 4700): Introduction to research design in the Health Sciences, including design, literature review, testing, analysis, and conclusions.
• Health Law (HSC 3640): Principles of law as applied to the health field, with special reference to health practices.
• Health Care Needs of the Elderly (HSC 4564): Overview of the physical and emotional needs of the elderly, including the institutional health care available.

University of South Florida

College of Public Health
​Department of Community and Family Health

• Position: Director of Evaluation, Florida Health Literacy Study
• Funding entity: Pfizer Inc.
• Description: The Florida Health Literacy Study investigated the effect of the Pfizer, Inc. Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension Disease Self-Management Program on blood sugar and hypertension outcomes in 14 community health centers in Florida.
• Duration of Position: 2001 to 2002
• Location: Tampa, Florida

Idaho State University

​Kasiska College of Health Professions
​Department of Health Care Administration

• Position: Assistant Professor
• Duration: July 2003 to May 2006
• Location: Pocatello, Idaho

Graduate courses taught include:

• Healthcare Law and Bioethics (HCA 625): Comprehensive coverage of legal issues and the ethical implications of the law as applied to regulation and licensure, health care financing. Medicare and Medicaid, health care reform, and other relevant current issues. 
  
• Managed Care (HCA 665): Introduction to, and analysis of, the evolving managed care industry. Select topics include managed care's relationship to traditional health care delivery models and the insurance industry; patient satisfaction and care delivery modes; clinical and managerial quality.

Undergraduate courses taught include:

• ​Healthcare Policy (HCA 340): This course investigates the formulation of healthcare priorities, the development of legislation, the implementation of legislative provisions through administrative action, and the modification of health policy within the context of the provision of services.
• Health Law and Bioethics (HCA 375): This course develops a roadmap to facilitate risk management in the provision of healthcare services. Issues addressed include regulation and licensure, liability, selected aspects of public programs, and ethical issues regarding death, reproduction, and research.
• Healthcare Finance (HCA 453): The application of financial management principles, practices, and techniques used in healthcare organizations. An understanding and analysis of how these financial tools are used in decision making and how they are integrated into the healthcare organization’s planning process.