Charles Barnett, MHA

 

Charles Barnett, MHA is chair of the Seton Healthcare Family Board and president of Healthcare Operations and chief operating officer of Ascension Health. Until recently, Charles J. Barnett served as president and CEO of The Seton Healthcare Family. In January 2012, he took a leave of absence from his Seton duties to oversee operations at all Ascension Health ministries. Barnett also has responsibility for Ascension Health's enterprise resource planning, IT, facilities and supply chain functions. Charles has more than 40 years’ experience in healthcare. Prior to joining Seton in 1993, he served as vice president and chief operating officer of Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. He was also senior vice president at St. Joseph's, Mt. Clemens, Mich.; and executive vice president at St. Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, IL. Charles began his healthcare career as an operating room technician in 1972 and earned a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from Xavier University.

 

Charles is a member of Texas State Sen. Kirk Watson’s Organizing Committee for the development of a medical school on The University of Texas at Austin campus. He has served as chairman of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, the Capitol Area United Way, Austin Partners in Education, Children’s Optimal Health and the Texas Catholic Healthcare Association. He received the Heart Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 2005 for his leadership during the massive influx of patients into Central Texas as a result of Hurricane Rita and was recognized by Ascension Health with their Access Leadership Award. He recently received a Bicentennial Medal from the Seton Legacy of Charity in honor of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, awarded for significant contributions in social services, education and healthcare. He was named 2009 Austinite of the Year by the Austin Chamber of Commerce, principally for his leadership role in establishing a partnership with The University of Texas System and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

Amy C. Edmondson, Ph.D.

Amy C. Edmondson, Ph.D. is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. The Novartis Chair was established to enable the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful business enterprises for the betterment of society. Edmondson's research examines leadership, learning and innovation in teams and organizations, and has been published in numerous academic and managerial articles. Her book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), emphasizes managing the activities that enable collaborative work across boundaries, rather than designing and managing stable teams. She is currently studying collaborative innovation in the context of the built environment, with a particular focus on projects related to smart cities and eco-cities.    

 

She has served on 29 doctoral committees and is the author of more than 25 Harvard Business School case studies, including cases on Arup, The Cleveland Clinic, General Motors Powertrain, Prudential Financial, Simmons Mattress Company, YUM brands, IDEO product design, and NASA's failed Columbia mission.  Her article with Anita Tucker, "Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change," received the 2004 Accenture Award for significant contribution to management practice. Edmondson received her doctorate in organizational behavior, master's in psychology, and bachelor's in engineering and design, all from Harvard University.

William C. Powers, J.D.

William C. Powers, J.D. is the 28th president of The University of Texas at Austin. Before taking office on February 1, 2006, he served as dean of the university’s School of Law, where he won recognition for recruiting a world-class faculty and attracting highly diverse and talented students.  One of the nation's leading scholars in personal injury and products liability, Powers joined the law school faculty in 1977 and has taught torts, products liability, jurisprudence, legal process, civil procedure, conflict of laws and contracts. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor and holds the Hines H. Baker and Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law.

 A native of Los Angeles, Powers received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. After graduating, he joined the U.S. Navy and was stationed on Bahrain Island in the Persian Gulf. Following his military service, he attended Harvard Law School, where he became managing editor of the "Harvard Law Review" and graduated magna cum laude in 1973. He taught at the University of Washington Law School before coming to The University of Texas at Austin in 1977.

He is the author of dozens of articles on tort law and legal philosophy and of several books, including “Cases and Materials in Products Liability” (with David Fischer, Michael Green and Joseph Sanders), “Cases and Materials in Torts” (with David Robertson, David Anderson and Olin Guy Wellborn) and “Texas Products Liability Law.” He is a member of the American Law Institute, where he was co-reporter for the “Restatement (Third) of Torts: Apportionment of Liability” and is co-reporter for the “Restatement (Third) of Torts: Liability for Physical Harm.”

Powers has worked as a legal consultant with the U.S. Congress, the Brazilian legislature and the Texas legislature. In 2001, he chaired a special investigation committee that examined the financial transactions of Enron Corp. The resulting report, which has come to be known as the “Powers Report,” and his subsequent testimony before Congress, gained national recognition.

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., MPH

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H. is the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and professor of Organization Behavior at the School of Public Health and Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley. He is also the dean of the School of Public Health at Berkeley. Dr. Shortell also holds appointments in the Department of Sociology at UC-Berkeley and at the Institute for Health Policy Research, UC-San Francisco.

 

A leading health care scholar, Dr. Shortell has done extensive research identifying the organizational and managerial correlates of quality of care and of high performing health care organizations. Dr. Shortell has been the recipient of many awards including the distinguished Baxter-Allegiance Prize for his contributions to health services research, the Gold Medal Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for his contributions to the healthcare field, and the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research. He and his colleagues have also received the George R. Terry Book of the Year Award from the Academy of Management, the James R. Hamilton Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives, and several article of the year awards from the American College of Healthcare Executives and the National Institute for Health Care Management. His most recent book (with colleagues) is entitled Remaking Health Care in America: The Evolution of Organized Delivery Systems. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and is past editor of Health Services Research. He is currently conducting research on the evaluation of quality improvement initiatives and on the implementation of evidence-based medicine practices in physician organizations.

Mary Velasquez, Ph.D.

Mary Velasquez, Ph.D. is professor, associate dean for research, director of the center for social work research, and director of the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Velasquez holds a master's degree in clinical psychology and a Ph.D. in community health science from the University of Texas Health Science Center-School of Public Health. For the past 18 years, she has been involved in the conceptualization, design, and implementation of research studies using the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change (TTM). Her area of specialty is the development and implementation of interventions using the TTM's stages and processes of change and Motivational Interviewing. Dr. Velasquez' work includes development of interventions in the areas of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, alcohol and other drug abuse, respiratory health, prenatal health, HIV prevention, and smoking cessation.

 

A recent emphasis has been on developing curriculum for teaching medical students and residents to use brief motivational interventions in medical settings. She is lead author on a stage-based treatment manual for substance abuse (Velasquez, Maurer, Crouch & DiClemente, 2001), and author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on using brief interventions to facilitate treatment adherence and promote behavior change in clients with a variety of health problems. Dr. Velasquez also has an extensive background in Motivational Interviewing and is principal investigator on several NIH and CDC-funded studies using this approach. She is an internationally recognized trainer in both Motivational Interviewing and the Transtheoretical Model, and is a founding member of the Steering Committee for the International Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

Buffy Allen, RN, MSN

Buffy Allen, RN, MSN is the director of Interdisciplinary Clinical Skills and Simulation at the Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge. She has been in the field of healthcare education since 2002, and has worked to make strides in the application and acceptance of patient simulation as a teaching tool for Interdisciplinary healthcare professionals. In her work at Seton Family of Hospitals and Austin Community College (ACC), Ms. Allen has been involved in the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative teaching strategies through the use of patient simulation. She has worked in a consultant capacity aiding in the implementation of patient simulation for many outside firms, educational institutions, and healthcare facilities. She has also been involved in promoting simulation training and careers in healthcare through community outreach programs, as well as through participation in several public relations events.

Ms. Allen has shared ideas with industry leaders such as Gaumard, Medical Education Technologies Incorporated (METI), and Laerdal’s design and development team, on simulation improvements, techniques, and other advances to enhance the use of patient simulation, and she has presented at the local, state, and national levels sharing ideas about innovative teaching strategies through the use of patient simulation. She has participated in research to evaluate the effectiveness of simulation and continuously seeks to further validate its place in education and training for all healthcare professions.

Urton Anderson, PhD, CIA, CCSA, CGAP, CFSA, CCEP

Urton Anderson, CIA, CCSA, CGAP, CFSA, CCEP is the Clark W. Thompson, Jr., Professor in Accounting Education at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. At McCombs he has served as department chair and associate dean for Undergraduate Programs. Urton received his Ph.D from The University of Minnesota in 1985. Urton's research has addressed various issues in internal and external auditing – particularly corporate governance, compliance, enterprise risk management and internal control. He has written four books and is one of the co-authors of the internal auditing textbook - Internal Auditing: Assurance and Consulting Services. Several of these books have been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese.

Professor Anderson is active in the Institute of Internal Auditors. He has been a member and chair of the Institute’s Board of Regents and twice chair of the Internal Auditing Standards Board (2002-2003 and 2007-2010).  In 1997 he was named Leon R. Radde Educator of the Year Award, by the Institute of Internal Auditors. In June 2006, the Institute of Internal Auditors recognized his outstanding contributions to the field of internal auditing by giving him the Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award. He currently serves as the chair of the IIA’s Committee of Research and Education Advisors and is on the Board of Trustees for the IIA Research Foundation. Urton serves on the board of directors for the Health Care Compliance Association and the advisory board of the Society Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Urton recently completed a year as an academic fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Diane Bailey, Ph.D.

Diane E. Bailey,  Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies technology and work in information and technical occupations. With an expertise in organizational ethnography, Professor Bailey primarily conducts large-scale empirical studies, often involving multiple occupations, countries, and researchers. She publishes her research in top organization studies, engineering, and information studies journals.

Professor Bailey has won teaching awards at UT Austin, Stanford University, and the University of Southern California. Her research has won best paper awards, a dissertation award, and an NSF CAREER award. Professor Bailey holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley.

Amy C. Edmondson, Ph.D.

Amy C. Edmondson, Ph.D. is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. The Novartis Chair was established to enable the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful business enterprises for the betterment of society. Edmondson's research examines leadership, learning and innovation in teams and organizations, and has been published in numerous academic and managerial articles. Her book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy (Jossey-Bass, 2012), emphasizes managing the activities that enable collaborative work across boundaries, rather than designing and managing stable teams. She is currently studying collaborative innovation in the context of the built environment, with a particular focus on projects related to smart cities and eco-cities.

She has served on 29 doctoral committees and is the author of more than 25 Harvard Business School case studies, including cases on Arup, The Cleveland Clinic, General Motors Powertrain, Prudential Financial, Simmons Mattress Company, YUM brands, IDEO product design, and NASA's failed Columbia mission. Her article with Anita Tucker, "Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change," received the 2004 Accenture Award for significant contribution to management practice. Edmondson received her doctorate in organizational behavior, master's in psychology, and bachelor's in engineering and design, all from Harvard University.

Kyle Lewis, Ph.D.

Kyle Lewis, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Management at the McCombs School of Business. She was a finalist for the Academy of Management's 2011 Best Paper Award for her research with George Huber titled, "Cross-understanding: Implications for group cognition and performance." She also received a McCombs Research Excellence Grant in 2010 for empirical research on cross-understanding, as well as numerous other awards. She is the incoming division chair for the Managerial and Organization Cognition Division of the Academy of Management and a past chair of the College on Organizations for INFORMS.

Current research interests include group and organizational learning, knowledge exchange, social cognition, social exchange relationships, implications of knowledge and knowing for strategic human capital development, selection, retention, and performance. She is also interested in knowledge-intensive industries, including high-technology, healthcare, and entrepreneurial settings. Lewis received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior and human resources management at the University of Maryland and her M.S. in organizational behavior and business strategy from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Luci Leykum, MD, MBA

Luci Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc is an associate professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She serves as division chief for Hospital Medicine and associate dean for Clinical Affairs in the School of Medicine. She joined the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio faculty in 2004, after serving on the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, where she trained.

Dr. Leykum is in the final year of a Career Development Award from the VA Health Services Research and Development program based on the application of complexity science to clinical systems, and has authored peer-reviewed papers relating to relationships, learning, sense-making, and improvising in primary care clinics and on general medicine inpatient teams.

Douglas Morrice, Ph.D.

Douglas Morrice, Ph.D. holds the Bobbie and Coulter R. Sublett Centennial Professorship in Business. He is also professor of Operations Management and the director of the University of Texas Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence, a company-sponsored center dedicated to developing research and teaching programs in supply chain management in the Red McCombs School of Business. He served as Information, Risk, and Operations Management department chair from 2007-2011. Dr. Morrice received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

His research includes the modeling and analysis of service operations, risk management, and supply chain management. Dr. Morrice’s research has received funding from SAP America under the University Alliance Research Grant Program. Additionally, he was a visiting research scientist for Schlumberger from 1996-1998. Dr. Morrice has over 40 technical publications and 2 patents. His research has appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, IIE Transactions, Journal of Production and Operations Management, and the Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

Dr. Morrice is an area editor for the Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, a senior editor for the Journal of Production and Operations Management, and an editor-at-large for Interfaces. Dr. Morrice served as a proceedings editor for the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference, the program chair for the 2003 Winter Simulation Conference and is currently an Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) representative and past-chair on the Winter Simulation Conference board of directors. He is a member of INFORMS and the Production and Operations Management Society. He has designed and delivered executive development programs on operations modeling and supply chain management for several organizations including Schlumberger, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Texas Instruments.

Violina Rindova, Ph.D., J.D.

Dr. Violina Rindova is the Ralph B. Thomas Professor of Business and the Ambassador Clarke Centennial Fellow at the McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. She is also a Fellow of the IC2 Institute of University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on the market and organizational processes through which firms build and maintain competitive advantage, create intangible assets, and discover and shape new market opportunities.

She has taught strategic management at the undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and Ph.D. levels on the faculty of University of Washington, University of Maryland, and The University of Texas at Austin. Her executive teaching experience spans executive groups around the globe, including France, Switzerland, Korea, and Japan. She teaches the Strategic Management course in the MEMBA program in Mexico City, and has recently developed an elective course on strategic innovation and business model innovation. She is a recipient of multiple grants and awards, including recent awards for Research Excellence from the McCombs School of Business (2009), the “Thought Leadership” from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management (2009), and the award for outstanding scholarly contribution from Strategic Organization journal (2012).

Dr. Rindova has written on a variety of topics related to the dynamic aspects of competitive advantage, the role of the media in shaping perceptions of firms, the accumulation of intangible assets based on such perceptions, and the processes through which firms create and pursue market opportunities. Her research on the role of the media in markets has been featured in the Boston Globe, The Economist, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Her case studies and articles have appeared in the premier management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization. She has also served as an associated editor for the top theoretical journal in management, The Academy of Management Review.

Huseyin Tanriverdi, Ph.D.

Huseyin Tanriverdi, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business. Dr. Tanriverdi's primary research areas are in corporate diversification, mergers, acquistions, and divestitures, information systems, and knowledge management. Current research projects include the role of complementary knowledge in diffusing IT innovations, the choice of information technology governance mode in multibusiness firms, and the roles of knowledge relatedness in risk-return relations of multibusiness firms.

Dr. Tanriverdi received the Joseph Paschal Dreibelbis Fellowship in Business in 2010 and won the Best Published Paper Award at the Organizational Communications and Information Systems Division, Academy of Management in 2006. He received his Ph.D. from Boston University.