Dr Grant Savage will be joining us from The University of Missouri, School of Medicine where he serves as Health Management and Informatics Alumni Distinguished Professor. Prior to that, he served as the HealthSouth Chair in Health Care Management at the University of Alabama, Culverhouse College of Commerce.
Dr Savage received a PhD from The Ohio State University. For 26 years, he has been an exceptional teacher-scholar in healthcare management. He held appointments at Texas Tech, Alabama, and Missouri, as well as visiting faculty appointments at Heinrich Heine University (Germany) and Helsinki University of Technology (Finland). He is the author of 59 peer-reviewed journal articles and 3 books, along with hundreds of published technical reports, monographs, manuals, and practitioner articles.
Grant will be joining a group of faculty in the School of Business that is following in the exceptional legacy of Dr. Jack Duncan, retired Professor of Management and University Scholar, becoming active in healthcare research. Examples of our recent healthcare research activities include:
(1) Dr Eric Jack has been an active participant in the research grant entitled “Prescription Drug Care Coordination for United Mine Workers of America”,
(2) Drs Jack Howard and Barbara Wech are working with faculty in the School of Nursing on research related to several key Human Resource Management issues of working nurses,
(3) Dr Molly Wasko has been asked by several university-wide interdisciplinary research centers to assist in their strategic planning process,
(4) Our two new hires in Quantitative Analysis (Drs Xu and Huang), with extensive skills in quantitative modeling and data mining, have been invited to participate in the efforts of several highly respected UAB cross-discipline healthcare research centers, and
(5) Several School faculty members and the dean, with student participants, have been assisting in the designing of a business plan for a potential new medical practice entrepreneurial venture.
Dr. Savage will join us as Professor in the Department of Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods (MISQ), Co-Director of the UAB HealthCare Leadership Academy, and hold secondary appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. We anticipate that Dr. Savage (with vast healthcare management experience) will also be highly engaged in these research collaborations after he arrives in January.
