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Dean G. Smith, PhD
Dean Professor, Health Policy & Systems Management 2020 Gravier Street, 3rd Floor |
| Degrees | Bachelor of Arts Economics - 1981 Doctor of Philosophy Economics - 1985 |
| Bio | Dean Smith is Dean of the School of Public Health at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and Professor of Health Policy and Systems Management. Prior to joining the LSU Health Science Center he was Professor of Health Management & Policy and Director of Executive Education and Life-Long Learning at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Health Management & Policy and Senior Associate Dean for Administration. He was also Visiting Professor in the executive programs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Colorado at Denver. Professor Smith was the first Health Insurance Association of America faculty fellow, working at Lincoln National Life. He later co-founded two HMOs and served as President and CEO of Good Health Michigan. These plans were acquired by Molina Healthcare Inc. and he served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. He also served as Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Public Health Institute, Vice-Chair of the Board of Visitors at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. He is committed to a line of teaching, research and service that provides a better understanding of the financial aspects of working with and working in health care delivery and financing organizations. He has published more than one hundred scientific papers and supervised more than fifty doctoral dissertations. He is Editor of the Journal of Health Administration Education, Associate Editor of the Open Journal of Medicine and serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Managed Care and other journals. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and his doctorate from Texas A&M University. |
| Selected Publications | SS Huang, RA Hirth and DG Smith. Managers’ Compensation in a Mixed Ownership Industry: Evidence from Nursing Homes. Frontiers in Public Health, 4:283 (December 2016). S Upadhyay and DG Smith. Sustained High and Low Profitability Among Washington Hospitals. Journal of Health Care Finance, 42:3 (Fall 2016). NW Carroll, DG Smith and JRC Wheeler. Cash Reserves and System Membership: Does System Membership Improve Not-For-Profit Hospitals’ Access to Internal Capital by Reducing Optimal Cash Balances? Journal of Health Care Finance, 42:3 (Fall 2016). S Upadhyay and DG Smith. The Impact Of Hospital Liquidity On Cash Conversion Cycle: A Study Of Washington Hospitals. Journal of Health Care Finance, 42:3 (Fall 2016). JM Harrison, M Jung, TA Lennie, DK Moser, DG Smith, SB Dunbar, DL Ronis, TM Koelling, B Giordani, PL Riley and SJ Pressler. Refusal to Participate in Heart Failure Studies: Do Age and Gender Matter? Journal of Clinical Nursing, 25:7-8 (April 2016). NW Carroll and DG Smith. Assessing the Healthcare Finance Faculty Shortage: Perspectives and Paths Forward. Journal of Health Administration Education, 33:2 (Spring 2016). DG Smith, X Xu and KR McCool. Managed Care, Office Systems and Medical Liability Risk. International Journal of Healthcare, 1:1 (August 2015). SJ Pressler, M Titler, T Koelling, PL Riley, M Jung, L Hoyland-Domenico, DL Ronis, DG Smith, B Bleske, S Dorsey and B Giordani. Nurse-Enhanced Computerized Cognitive Training Increases Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Levels and Improves Working Memory in Heart Failure. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 21:8 (August 2015). S Upadhyay, B Sen and DG Smith. The Cash Conversion Cycle and Profitability: A Study of Hospitals in the State of Washington. Journal of Health Care Finance, 41:1 (Spring 2015). NW Carroll, DG Smith and JRC Wheeler. Capital Investment by Independent and System Affiliated Hospitals. Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 52 (January-February 2015). DG Smith. Introduction to Healthcare Financial Management, San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education (2014). |
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