Vanderbilt MM Health Care Faculty

Vanderbilt faculty bring expert insight and instruction to the classroom. They draw upon extensive experience in health care and business as well as insights from their cutting-edge research. Alongside renowned faculty, you’ll learn from health care industry leaders—a senator, policy experts, CEOs, entrepreneurs and health care practitioners—who bring daily industry changes into the classroom. From the faculty known for easy accessibility and their collaborative approach to teaching, you’ll gain knowledge of how business theory and health care delivery come together. 

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Germain Boer

Professor of Accounting; Director of Owen Entrepreneurship Center

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Germain Böer has initiated numerous innovative entrepreneurship activities at Owen, including an annual conference and student sessions with venture capitalists. Germain currently serves as an advisor to startup companies in the Nashville area and is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Strategic Finance.
Video: The Owen Entrepreneurship Center
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Paul Chaney

E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Accounting

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Paul Chaney joined the Owen faculty in 1984. His landmark study—which found direct correlation between public perception of an auditor’s reputation and a company's market value—received significant national news coverage in the wake of the Andersen-Enron debacle.
Video: Finance and Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
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Bill Christie

Frances Hampton Currey Professor of Management in Finance; Faculty Director, Executive MBA; Professor of Law

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Bill Christie’s studies of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s concluded that Nasdaq market makers were implicitly colluding to maintain artificially high trading profits at the expense of investors. His research resulted in sweeping reform of the Nasdaq, introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules, and a $1.027 billion settlement against the defendants. Bill won first prize for outstanding papers published in the Journal of Finance based on this research. He is a five-time recipient of the EMBA Teaching award and was ranked either first or second among star faculty in each Business Week ranking from 1992 through 2000.
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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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Luke Froeb

William C. Oehmig Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise

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Luke Froeb joined the Owen faculty in 1993 as an expert in the economics of competition policy. From 2003 to 2005, he was appointed Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, where government antitrust agencies widely used his merger models to predict anticompetitive behavior.
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Steve Hoeffler

Associate Professor of Marketing

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Steve Hoeffler is an expert in consumer products marketing, brand management and consumer behavior, including the marketing of "really new" (novel) products and the development of consumer preferences. He has also served a variety of marketing roles for NCR/AT&T and has consulted for Procter and Gamble, IBM and Fujitsu.
Video: Radically New Products
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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.
Video: The Health Care Industry

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Andy Leone

Visiting Professor of Accounting (University of Miami)

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Andy Leone is the Department Chair and Professor of Accounting at University of Miami. Prior to becoming a professor, he was the Vice President of Finance at Crompton Modutec. He is the Associate Editor for The Journal of Accounting and Economics. He was the 2005 recipient of the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Reseach Award. Andy was also listed as Simon School’s “Best Teachers” in BusinessWeek 2000.