Master of Medical Management
FACULTY
Gene Beyt, MD, MS
Gene Beyt is an experienced senior physician executive, university faculty, consultant, author, and visual artist. He has served as a program director in internal medicine, a chief medical and a chief quality officer, a professor of medicine, a practicing physician, and a visiting scholar at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. There he co-edited the book Wisdom Leadership in Academic Health Science Centers: Leading Positive Change. Beyt’s journey in redesigning healthcare began with the Quality Management Network, serving as conference co-chair for two of the IHI’s National Forums. As faculty in healthcare effectiveness for the Louisiana public hospitals and clinics, he coordinated the organizational learning and leadership development initiatives, helping design recognized statewide population health and performance improvement programs, including an assessment of psychological capital in healthcare professionals following the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Beyt is co-founder of the non-profit Care Collaboratory. Visit Gene’s SPHTM faculty page.
Sherry Bright, MSPH
Sherry Bright is a life-long learner fascinated by the way things work – especially groups of people and organizations. A love of history and commitment to learning from the past has fueled her focus on making things better through others. Sherry’s expertise lies in the ability to bring individuals and organizations from diverse settings and viewpoints together to define common design challenges and align their efforts to make a human difference not only for the organizations but also for the communities they serve.
Sherry has lived and worked in many areas of the country, in small towns and major metropolitan areas, supporting large health care systems, critical access hospitals and physician practices, driving always for improved performance across multiple result areas. As a member of C-suites, leading marketing, strategy and process improvement, she worked with boards, staff, physicians, community leaders to envision the possible and create sustainable results. She has served as team member, lead and judge for Baldrige-based programs at national, state and regional levels as well as directly for the long-term care industry.
Sherry lives in western Colorado with her husband where they enjoy the beauty of the outdoors, hiking, biking, canoeing, and skiing.
Anne-Claire France, Ph.D., CPHQ, MBB, FACHE
Anne-Claire France describes herself as a happy learner. When she achieved her doctoral degree, her advisor wisely noted that the primary accomplishment was not so much that she was an expert in her field but that she could “learn well”; and to make the most of it. Her favorite way of learning well is to work with multiple perspectives and areas of expertise to bring innovative ideas to fruition.
Anne-Claire’s over 30+ years of healthcare experience include applied research, process improvement and working with healthcare organizations interested in becoming high reliability organizations. She has trained and coached Master Black Belts, Black Belts and Green Belts in Lean Six Sigma. Before founding Houston Health Innovations LLC in 2001, she held a number of leadership positions in healthcare organizations and has taught applied research, statistics, and psychology. In addition to certifications as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, in Health Care Administration, and as a Healthcare Quality Professional, Anne‐Claire holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado (Boulder), a M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School. She is also a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and has served on the Education Foundation Board of the ACHE Southeast Texas Chapter since 2014.
Anne-Claire lives in Houston, TX and Durango, Co with her husband, Larry, who continues to be a fan of happy learning as well.
Michael B. Guthrie MD, MBA
Michael Guthrie is executive-in-residence at the University of Colorado-Denver’s School of Business, program in health administration. He is also an executive coach, focused exclusively on physician leadership improvement. He leads learning collaboratives for health care leadership teams, boards of trustees and physician leader groups within organizations. He is known as a thought leader in physician engagement and physician relationship strategy for hospitals and health systems. Mike has been a practicing physician, medical director, chief operating officer, health system CEO and senior executive for a national health care alliance.
Mike is a frequent speaker for health systems and national organizations on physician leadership, physician organizations, team management and health care strategy. He has served on the editorial advisory boards for several national health care journals and has published more than 50 articles on health care management and physician leadership topics. He serves on the executive advisory boards for companies that provide the health care industry with information technology, business services and customer support.
Patrick Kneeland, MD
If Patrick Kneeland had a mantra, he might steal the words of artist Clyfford Still: “It’s intolerable to be stopped by the frame’s edge.” He revels in challenging long-held assumptions to facilitate the human(e) potential of individuals and teams. Dr. Kneeland is VP of Medical Affairs at Dispatch Health where he leads Advanced Care – bringing hospital level care to patients’ homes. He is an experienced leadership coach, speaker, facilitator, system-designer and a zealous destroyer of all of those silos everyone always talks about. He serves on the faculty of several groundbreaking national healthcare leadership movements including The Space/Something Awesome, Institute for Healthcare Excellence, and the National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare.
Previously, Patrick served as the Executive Medical Director for Patient and Provider Experience at UC Health, where he led the development of a system-level interdisciplinary patient and provider experience team and strategic blueprint. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and a founding faculty member of the University of Colorado’s Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety, and Efficiency (IHQSE). After completing training in internal medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, Patrick completed a fellowship in Academic Hospital Medicine where he focused on the transformation of clinical delivery systems. He is a certified Patient Safety Officer and has advanced training in user-centered design from Stanford’s d.school.
Patrick lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and kids where they engage the city, the mountains, and their people with curiosity and wonder.
Hugh Long, PhD, JD, MBA
Hugh Long trained in corporate finance, business economics, and law. He teaches health care fiscal management and payment systems in Tulane’s MHA degree program, and served as an adjunct professor of law at Tulane from 1994 to 2013. He specializes in the application of corporate finance techniques to nonprofit private-sector healthcare organizations and analysis of provider responses to Medicare and Medicaid payment mechanisms. During the adoption/implementation of Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System, Long served as a special advisor on health policy to former U.S. Rep. W. Henson Moore, and former U.S. Sen. David Durenberger. He was ad hoc advisor on health care financing to the health subcommittees of both the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate, and has testified before these committees. He served both as a ProPAC commissioner and a MedPAC commissioner, providing policy advice on Medicare to the U.S. Congress. Long was also on the Medicare Geographic Classification Review Board under three U.S. presidents, reviewing and modifying the geographic status of hospitals for Medicare payment purposes, and chaired the board for six years. Long is a past chair of the Governing Board of Touro Infirmary, a 300-bed acute-care hospital, part of the five-hospital LCMC System in New Orleans. He also serves on that system’s governing board and chairs its Clinical Excellence and Patient Safety Committee.
Read Pierce, MD
Read Pierce loves intersections that evoke paradox. As a history and chemistry major in college, he became fascinated by different ways of seeing, thinking, and being in the world—and how inhabiting a “both and” space, rather than selecting a singular point of view, can allow us to create more sustainable, whole, and productive communities and systems. Uncovering powerful questions that ask us hold and engage interdependent opposites are one of his favorite and most energizing pursuits.
Read is faculty at The Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Chief of Hospital Medicine, Associate Chair of Internal Medicine for Faculty Development and Wellbeing, and an enthusiastic clinical collaborator with the Design Institute for Health. He simultaneously holds faculty appointments at the Tulane University School of Public Health and University of Colorado, Denver School of Business. He is an experienced clinician, healthcare leader, coach, and facilitator who enjoys fostering transformation of organizational culture and complex clinical systems, with particular attention to the thriving of human beings working in those systems. His complete academic bio can be found here.
Lizheng Shi, PhD, MsPharm, MA
Lizheng Shi trained as a pharmacist (BS in pharmacy 1992, MS in pharmacy 1994) through Shanghai Medical University and Peking Union Medical College, respectively. He has also trained as an economist (MA in economics 1998, PhD in pharmaceutical economics and policy 2001) through the University of Southern California. He is the Regents professor and vice chair in the department of global health policy and management, and he serves as clinical faculty in departments of medicine (endocrinology) and psychiatry. He is the director for Health Systems Analytics Research Center (HSARC). He is a member of editorial board for Pharmacoeconomics. Dr. Shi’s current research interest includes health technology assessment and health care quality, access and economics. He is also interested in pharmacoepidemilogy with a focus on safety issues in medication treatment and health informatics to improve quality and safety of patient care. He has served as principal investigators (PI) and co-PI for more than 30 research grants and contracts from NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, and other public and private funding sources. Visit Lizheng’s SPHTM faculty page.
Charles Stoecker, PhD, MA
Charles Stoecker is a health economist interested in designing and analyzing policies that affect early life events. Dr. Stoecker’s work has explored the impacts of vaccination policy efficiency, air pollution regulation, and health insurance coverage on children’s health. His current research focuses on the economics of infectious disease including the impact of the Super Bowl on disease transmission and the links between scope of practice laws and health inequality. Visit Charles’ SPHTM faculty page.