Faculty

The Vanderbilt Health Care MBA Program provides students with opportunities to learn from and collaborate with researchers and innovators at the cutting edge of health care and biotechnology. Representing a combination of distinguished academic researchers, leading health care practitioners and business leaders, Owen faculty work closely with students to address this rapidly growing industry from strategic, economic, ethical and operational perspectives. These snapshots offer a glimpse into the program’s renowned faculty.


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Michael Burcham

Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship; President, Nashville Entrepreneur Center

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Michael Burcham has over 20 years of extensive experience in health care innovation, entrepreneurship, and startup venture coaching. He is a highly successful three-time entrepreneur–most recently President of ParadigmHealth, a $300-million disease management firm. In addition to his post at Vanderbilt, Michael serves as President of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.

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Bruce Cooil

The Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management

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Bruce Cooil has wide-ranging business and academic experience as a statistical modeler. He has worked with health-care firms, including HCA, Solucient, TeamHealth, Tennessee Oncology, and LIFETEST creating models for the delivery of more effective health care services, and to develop forecasts of mortality and morbidity rates. In the area of marketing research, he has worked with Ipsos Loyalty and AT&T. Bruce has also written and consulted on medical malpractice and automobile insurance claims and indemnities, and has developed predictive insurance models for AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Mark Frisse, M.D.

Faculty Director, Master of Management in Health Care; Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Mark Frisse is responsible for coordinating regional, state and national projects aimed at the application of information technology to advance patient care. Prior to assuming his position at Vanderbilt, he was Vice President in First Consulting Group's Clinical Transformation Practice working to advance quality and safety through the application of technology, process redesign, evaluation techniques, and evidence-based practice. Active in medical informatics for 20 years, Mark is the author of over 50 scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters on medical informatics.
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Nancy Lea Hyer

Associate Professor of Operations Management; Associate Dean of Academic Programs

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Nancy Lea Hyer is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management. Nancy earned her MBA and Ph.D. from Indiana University and holds a BS from the University of Richmond. At Owen, Nancy teaches executive and MBA classes focused on project management and process improvement. Nancy has also taught at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has won executive program, Executive MBA, and MBA teaching awards, and both school and university-wide awards for excellence in undergraduate education. She won the 2009 best paper award from the Journal of Operations Management for a study co-authored with a faculty member from Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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Michael Lapré

E. Bronson Ingram Associate Professor of Operations Management

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Michael Lapré is an internationally known expert on organizational learning curves. He is primarily interested in empirical research on improving organizational performance. Michael has been awarded the Shingo Research Prize, the Stan Hardy Award, Wickham Skinner Awards for Best Paper presented at the annual conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research at Owen.
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Rangaraj Ramanujam

Associate Professor of Management

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Rangaraj "Ranga" Ramanujam is a leading researcher and consultant on the organizational causes and consequences of errors in high-risk work settings. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Medical Care, Journal of Patient Safety, Journal of Applied Psychology, and other journals.
Video: Reducing Errors in the Health Care Environment
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Lawrence Van Horn

Associate Professor of Health Care Management; Executive Director of Health Affairs for Owen

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Lawrence Van Horn is a leading expert on health care management and economics. His research on health care organizations, managerial incentives in nonprofit hospitals and the conduct of managed care firms has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law and Economics and Harvard Business Review. He has consulted with government and health care organizations and has presented at numerous seminars and conferences sponsored by industry, government and academic institutions.
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Bart Victor

Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership

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Bart Victor joined the Owen faculty from the Institute for Management Development International (IMD), in Lausanne, Switzerland where he was Professor of Management and Director of the Program for Management Development. Prior to IMD, Bart was on the faculties of the University of North Carolina and the University of Nebraska. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Academy of Management and the International Association for Business and Society.
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Tim Vogus

Assistant Professor of Management

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Tim Vogus joined the Owen faculty in 2004 and specializes in such topics as leading teams and organizations, as well as negotiation. Prior to his academic career, he was a business process analyst for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he worked on competitive intelligence systems and multiple system implementations.

Affiliated Faculty

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Jim Cooper

Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management; Congressman for Tennessee's 5th District

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Jim Cooper was elected as youngest congressman in America—Budget, Armed Services, Energy & Commerce, Financial Services, and Small Business Committees. He authored the chief rival to Clinton Health Care. Jim recently won the 2006 Judge Edward R. Finch Law Day Speech Award, top award in an annual competition sponsored by the American Bar Association.
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Keith Gregg

Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management; Chairman & CEO, JRG Ventures

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Keith Gregg is a Certified Licensing Professional with over 23 years of industry experience in high growth life science, healthcare IT, and disruptive information systems environments. He is an advisor to select venture capital, equity, and private investor groups; a member of several healthcare technology corporate boards; and an invited lecturer in the areas of corporate business development, growth strategy, healthcare technology, and finance.
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Paul Keckley

Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management; Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health Solutions

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Paul Keckley is a healthcare economist, researcher and policy expert whose 30 year career includes leadership roles in the private sector and in academic medicine. He was Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine and taught in the School of Medicine. Paul is presently Executive Director of Deloitte Center for Health Solutions in Washington D.C. and teaches health care landscape in the Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt. He is the author of numerous articles and three books including The Handbook of Healthcare Market Research, Hospital Physician Integration Issues and 99 Questions You Should Ask Your Doctor and Why.
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Gregg Tarquinio

Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management; Chair for Finance and Administration, Vanderbilt Department of Medicine

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Gregg Tarquinio is currently Vice-Chair Administration and Finance for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In 1999 he assumed a projected operational deficit and turned it into a profit of $1.6 million. He is responsible for the Medical Center's revenue and expense financial management and management of extramural research and teaching funds.
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Noel Williams

Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management

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Noel Williams is President of HCA Information Technology & Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nashville-based HCA (Hospital Corporation of America). As an executive of the country’s largest hospital company and second largest healthcare IT provider, Ms. Williams leads a staff of over 3,000 employees across the U.S., including five data centers and fourteen division support centers.