Williamson Institute for Healthcare Leadership
Director
Since 2003
Ramesh K. Shukla, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Health Administration
Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical Campus
Grant House
PO Box 980203
1008 East Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23298-0203
804.828.5222 (V)
804.828.1894 (F)
Email Address: Shukla@vcu.edu
Personal link: http://www.had.vcu.edu/~shukla/
Associate Director
Since 1994
Karen N. Swisher, JD, MS
Professor
Department of Health Administration
Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical Campus
Grant House
PO Box 980203
1008 East Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23298-0203
804.828.5460 (V)
804.828.1894 (F)
Email Address: Kswisher@vcu.edu
Personal link: http://www.had.vcu.edu/~kswisher/
Former Leadership
Louis F. Rossiter, Ph.D.
Director of the Williamson Institute
1987 - 2000
Professor Rossiter was appointed to be the Institute’s first and “founding” director. He was instrumental in establishing the Institute as one of the premier centers nationally for health services research. Under his leadership, the Institute conducted the first evaluations of the Medicare and Medicaid experiments with managed care. Also, in collaboration with Project Hope, Professor Rossiter spearheaded the Institute’s designation as one of the few HCFA Health Research Centers in the nation.
Professor Rossiter was a very effective and highly rated instructor in the master’s and doctoral programs. He generated more than 50 journal publications on health economics and policy, including a highly acclaimed 14 volume series, entitled: Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, and he sole-authored in 2000 a book on Medicare reform. Professor Rossiter took a two year leave to serve as Policy Deputy to the Administrator within President Bush's Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) (1990-91) — which was a clear indication of his growing national stature. In 1992, the University appointed Professor Rossiter as Director of the Office of Healthcare Policy & Research, within the Office of the Vice President (1992-97) and he was appointed Co-Director of the newly formed Institute for Outcomes Research (1998-2000). He attracted a significant amount of federal and private funding, approximately several million dollars, to support research, students, and program development.
In March of 2000, Governor Gilmore appointed Louis F. Rossiter, Ph.D. to be Deputy Secretary for Operations in the State’s Department of Health and Human Resources.
Dr. Thomas T.H. Wan
Director of the Williamson Institute
2000 - 2003
After eleven years of researching and teaching at Cornell University and the University of Maryland, Dr. Wan came to VCU’s Department of Health Administration in 1981. He served as the Founding Director (1981-1982) and then Director (1982-1992) of the Department’s doctoral program in Health Services Organization and Research. During the early 2000, he served as the Director of the Williamson Institute. In 1991, he was named Interim Chair of the Department following Jerry Norville’s retirement, and in 1992, he was appointed the Arthur Graham Glasgow Professor and Chair of Health Administration.
Dolores G. Clement, Dr.P.H.
Associate Director of the Williamson Institute
1989 - 1994
http://www.had.vcu.edu/~dclement/
Dr. Clement is a tenured Professor in the Department of Health Administration on the Medical College of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of Preventive and Community Medicine in the Medical School at Virginia Commonwealth University. She was named Associate Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions of Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in August 1997. One of her major responsibilities as Associate Dean is the further development and implementation of a new, distance-learning, interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Health Related Sciences. It is a joint venture of all the Departments in the School of Allied Health Professions.
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