Developed by renowned faculty from Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business, in collaboration with healthcare industry experts, the Master of Science in Healthcare Management places the study and research of healthcare management within a solid business framework – delivered 100% online in five-week course modules.
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Anjana Susarla is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Eli Broad College of Business. She earned an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a graduate degree in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management and a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Susarla’s research interests include the economics of information systems and artificial intelligence. Her work has appeared in several academic journals and peer-reviewed conferences, such as Academy of Management Conference, Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Information Systems Research, International Conference in Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science and MIS Quarterly. She has been a recipient of several best paper awards at international conferences and peer-reviewed publications.
Professor Susarla’s sits on the editorial boards of leading journals, serves on program committees of major international IS conferences and workshops and has worked in consulting and leading experiential projects with several companies. Her work has been quoted in several media outlets and websites, such as the Associated Press, Pew Research Center, Sirius XM, Newsweek, The Conversation, and Salon.
Greg Gulick currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Michigan State University College of Law and has served as an Assistant Professor with the Division of Public Health in the Michigan State University College of Medicine. His research focuses on the intersection of healthcare, law, and healthcare financing and access issues, law and technology, and global health issues. He has taught and developed courses in mHealth, eHealth in public health, public administration, telemedicine, health law and health care fraud and abuse. He has also published several articles on telemedicine and the law and contributed a chapter on the subject of telemedicine and public health to a textbook on nutrition and public health.
Professor Gulick is also an attorney with extensive experience in the healthcare and health industries, working with Fortune 50 insurance companies and large health systems on regulatory compliance, healthcare policy matters and transactional matters. He specializes in federal and state healthcare reform issues (such as the PPACA), employee benefit statutes and regulatory compliance and has an interest in international health issues and comparative health systems. He currently works as an attorney for a health care organization in Michigan. In addition to a law degree, he also holds Master’s degrees in Health Administration and Business Administration.
Dr. Jeffrey Cohu is a Professor of Practice in Strategic Management with the Eli Broad College of Business. His research interests and professional expertise include strategic management, entrepreneurship, international business, human resource management, non-profit management, fundraising strategy, learning organizations, micro-financing, compensation systems, workplace testing, expatriate selection and training and development. Holding several advanced degrees and certifications, Dr. Cohu is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business and the Society of Human Resource Management.
Outside the classroom, Dr. Cohu heads his consulting group and has an active lifetime of service in third-world humanitarian and economic development operations in many countries, including Guyana, Panama, Haiti and other Caribbean islands. He also serves on the board of several non-profit organizations.
Kirt Butler is an Associate Professor in the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management specializing in international and corporate finance and global strategy. Professor Butler’s research has been profiled in Time and Money magazines and on the CNN and CNBC websites and has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Money and Finance, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of the College’s Withrow Teacher/Scholar Award and several Excellence in Teaching awards in Finance. Professor Butler also is the author of the best-selling textbook Multinational Finance (6th ed. 2016).
Michael Rip, PhD is the Founding Director of MSU’s Master of Science in Healthcare Management program, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management in the Eli Broad College of Business. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Intelligence Program in the School of Criminal Justice. Previously, he was the Founding Director of the Program in Public Health in the College of Human Medicine. His research interests include critical thinking and innovation, and how critical thinking can provide a foundation for High Reliability Organizations (HRO) to improve patient safety and minimize error in healthcare settings. Dr. Rip’s current research involves studying the deliberate de-medicalization of healthcare facilities as a weapon in the military strategy of the Syrian conflict. Along with a research colleague, Dr. Nishanth Arulappan, he is developing a ‘medico-health’ diplomacy model for application in conflict zones around the globe to improve the population health.
In addition, Dr. Rip is the author of nearly 50 peer-reviewed articles and two books: The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare, and Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow. He recently served on a number of governing boards and executive committees, including The Ascension Michigan Market Board, the Michigan Public Health Institute, the Michigan Local Public Health Accreditation Commission and the Greater Flint Health Coalition. Dr. Rip has visited some 36 countries and values international collaboration.
Ranjani Krishnan, PhD is the Ernest W. & Robert W. Schaberg Endowed Chair in Accounting at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management. She teaches accounting in the Executive MBA, MBA, PhD, and executive education programs. Professor Krishnan’s research focuses on managerial accounting, cost behavior, and performance measurement. She is also working on issues related to health cost, health quality, and public policy. Her research has been published in several journals, including Academy of Management Review, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Contemporary Accounting Research, Information Systems Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Management Science, andStrategic Management Journal.
Professor Krishnan is the recipient of the 2015 Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 2013 Best Paper Award of the Journal of Management Accounting Research, 2012 Management Accounting Section’s Greatest Impact on Practice Award, the 2006 Notable Contribution to the Accounting Research Award from the American Accounting Association, the 2005 Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award, and the 1999 McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics. She received the University Teacher Scholar Award (2002), Broad College Withrow Scholar Award (2006, 2012), and the Executive MBA Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013 – 2015 and 2017. She is the recipient of the 2018 Beal Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University.
