TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Faculty in the health care management program at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration have received multiple awards from the Academy of Management’s Health Care Management Division.
Dr. Eric S. Williams, assistant professor of health care management, was awarded Best Paper for his manuscript, “Understanding Physicians’ Intentions to Withdraw From Practice: The Role of Job Satisfaction, Job Stress, Mental and Physical Health.”
Williams is a graduate of the University of Texas (B.A.), Purdue University (M.S.), State University of New York at Buffalo (Ph.D.), and the University of North Carolina (NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellow). Williams has published in a number of management and health care journals including, Journal of Management, Medical Care, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Journal of Family Practice.
He has made more than 25 presentations at national conferences and served as submission reviewer and session discussant. He also received Best Poster Award from the Association for Health Services Research and Best Empirical Paper from the Eastern Academy of Management. He is an active member of the Academy of Management, Association for Health Services Research, and Southern Management Association.
Dr. Jullet Davis, assistant professor of health care management, was awarded Best Paper based on a Dissertation for her manuscript “The Relationship of Nursing Facility Strategy and Structure with Performance.”
She is a graduate of Herbert H. Lehman College (B.S.), and The Pennsylvania State University (M.H.A. and Ph.D.). Davis was a National Institute on Aging graduate trainee from 1997 to 1999. Her research interests are long-term care management and organizational structures and the relationship of facility structures and financial strategies to outcomes.
Dr. Grant T. Savage’s manuscript, “Integration as Networks and Systems: A Stakeholder Analysis,” co-authored with Alison M. Roboski, a spring 2000 MBA graduate from The University of Alabama, was recognized as a top paper and will be published in the best paper proceedings.
Roboski is now employed as a consultant with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US LLC in Birmingham. Savage is the Richard Scrushy/HealthSouth Chair holder and professor of healthcare management. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut (B.A.) and Ohio State University (M.A. and Ph.D.).
Savage has written extensively on healthcare management issues in journals such as Health Care Management Review, Hospital & Health Services Administration, Medical Group Management Journal, and the Physician Executive Journal of Management. He has co-authored five award winning papers and published more than 80 articles, chapters, and proceedings. Savage also is a founding co-editor of the research annual, Advances in Health Care Management, published by JAI Press.
All three manuscripts have been offered opportunities to reprint their papers in the Advances in Health Care Management.
“Four years ago we selected healthcare management as an area of strategic focus for the department,” said Dr. Ronald Dulek, head of the management and marketing department. “This virtual sweep of the awards at the main national meeting demonstrates the effectiveness with which the strategic plan is being implemented.
“Teaching and research are intricately linked together. These awards not only bring prestige to the people receiving them but also to the department and, most importantly, to the students enrolled in the healthcare management program. Thus, many people ultimately benefit from these prestigious personal awards.”
In addition to the faculty accomplishments, an essay written by Julie Robinson, a senior in healthcare management, won second place in the prestigious American College of Healthcare Executives Hill-Rom Management Essay Competition.
The essay, entered in the undergraduate division, was titled, “Small, Rural Hospitals: A Fight for Survival.” For her work, Julie received a $2,000 cash award and presented her essay at the ACHE Congress in Chicago earlier this year.
The essay was written for her Survey of Issues in Health Care Management class, taught by Savage. A revised version of the paper (with Savage as the second author) has been accepted for publication in the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care.
The Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration was founded in 1919. It has been consistently ranked in the top 3 per cent of the nation’s business schools. The Techno-MBA program is ranked fourth by ComputerWorld, the MBA program is ranked 21st among regional universities for return on investment by Forbes Magazine, and the undergraduate program is ranked 45th by BusinessWeek among 1,500 business schools.
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Bill Gerdes, UA Business Writer, 205/348-8318