Health Care 鈥� 麻豆频道University News Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:00:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Carl Schramm /faculty-experts/carl-schramm/ Fri, 06 Mar 2020 01:51:20 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=158576 Carl Schramm is a University Professor in the School of Information Studies at 麻豆频道University. He is the 16th person at 麻豆频道University history to hold the title of University Professor.

Schramm is an internationally recognized leader in entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth, and he comes to 麻豆频道following a decade as president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Under his leadership, the Kauffman Foundation grew into a global institution, becoming the largest private funder of economic research related to growth and innovation. Schramm initiated many efforts in education, spearheading the Kauffman Campus Program at 17 universities and establishing the first charter school in the United States to be owned by a grant-making foundation.

An entrepreneur himself, as well as economist and lawyer, Schramm founded and co-founded several successful companies in the health care, finance and information technology industries, including HCIA, Inc., Patient Choice Health Care and Greenspring Advisors. In 2007, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez tapped Schramm to chair the Department of Commerce鈥檚 Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economic Advisory Committee.

Among Schramm鈥檚 books are 鈥淗ealth Care and Its Costs鈥� (W.W. Norton for the American Assembly, 1987); 鈥淭he Entrepreneurial Imperative鈥� (Harper Collins, 2006); 鈥淕ood Capitalism, Bad Capitalism鈥� (Yale, 2007), with the economists William Baumol and Robert Litan, and now published in 10 languages; and 鈥淚nside Real Innovation鈥� (World Scientific, 2010). 鈥淭he Entrepreneurial Imperative鈥� and 鈥淕ood Capitalism, Bad Capitalism鈥� illustrate how less-developed nations can accelerate growth through entrepreneurship, while urging the United States itself to reinvigorate its own commitment to small business as the force that made it the world鈥檚 leading economy.

Schramm holds a doctorate in labor economics and industrial relations from the University of Wisconsin, where he was both a Ford Foundation doctoral fellow and a New York State Regents Graduate fellow. He also holds a law degree from Georgetown University.

]]> Thomas H. Dennison /faculty-experts/thomas-h-dennison/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:59:12 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=116750 Thomas Dennison is a Professor of Practice Emeritus of Public Administration and a Senior Research Associate at the . Tom is also the Director of Maxwell鈥檚 certificate program in Health Services Management and Policy, and Director of the . He has a broad, real-world perspective on health care systems, having served as chief executive officer of a hospital, administrator of a nursing home, and executive director of a network of ambulatory care centers. His teaching and research focus on the administration, financing, and delivery of health care in ways that promote and improve the health of both patients and communities.

Previously, Dennison served as the Director for PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising government and local agencies on health care delivery, with a particular emphasis on home health care, community-based services, and long-term care. He is active in current policy discourse as chair of the聽Onondaga County Department of Health Advisory Board. He is engaged with the health care delivery system as chair of the Visiting Nurse Association of Central New York, as well as chair of Partners in Franciscan Ministries, the parent of the health care and educational ministries of the Sisters of St. Francis.

Dennison earned his Bachelor鈥檚 degree in management from 麻豆频道University, a Master鈥檚 degree in hospital administration from George Washington University and a Doctorate in health planning and administration from Penn State University in 1987.

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