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Faculty

The chair of the Department of Health Administration and Policy is Dr. P.J. Maddox. Adjunct and Tenured or Tenured track faculty of the program include the following. Click on a name for more information.

Full Time Faculty

  • Andrew Carle, MHSA. Assistant Professor; Director, Program in Assisted Living/Senior Housing Administration. Professor Carle’s area of expertise is Assisted Living and Health Care Management.
  • William Cartwright, Ph.D.
  • Jack Hadley, Ph.D.
  • Tim Henderson, MSPH MAMC ; Assistant Professor. Mr. Henderson is the Acting Deputy Director for the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics.  Mr. Henderson specializes in health professions workforce and education financing.
  • Yiota Kitsantas, Ph.D. Dr. Kitsantas' expertise is in data mining, infant health and substance abuse in adolescents.
  • PJ Maddox, Ed.D. Professor and Chair. Dr. Maddox specializes in Health Systems Administration and Health Care Policy.
  • Mark Meiners, Ph.D. Professor; Dr. Meiners holds a Ph.D. in Economics.
  • Khalid Moidu, Ph.D.
  • Martin S. Perlin, Ph.D.; Healthcare Executive in Residence.
  • John Shiver, Master’s in Health Care Administration. Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Undergraduate Students. Professor Shiver specializes in Health Care Medicine.
  • Tony Yang, Ph.D.
  • Janusz Wojtusiak, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Health Administration and Policy. He also serves as the director of the GMU Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory.

Adjunct Faculty

  • Stephen Brown, MSBA Instructor; Professor Brown’s area of expertise is Health Care Financial Management.
  • Omar El-Hattab, MB.B.Ch., MS and PhD. of Public Health. Dr. El-Hattab has more than fifteen years of international experience in the USA, Egypt, and Kuwait in managing the implementation of complex medical information systems that need to meet the strictest standards of quality and reliability and to be used as a foundation of for quality health care delivery and public health service.
  • Nancy Freeborne, DrPH(c), MPH, PA-C, Adjunct Professor. Ms. Freeborne has worked as a Physician Assistant in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics for over 20 years. Additionally, she has worked as a sub-investigator in clinical research for the large-scale Women's Health Initiative trial and for smaller hypertension, cholesterol and oral contraceptive trials. She served as the Community Service outreach faculty member of George Washington University's Physician Assistant program and then as the Director of the ISCOPES Program, a community outreach program for medical, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner and Master's of Public Health students. She continues to teach Distant Education classes for GWU's Health Science Program.
  • Alan S. Goldberg, AB, JD, LL.M. Mr. Goldberg is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of New York, the District of Columbia, the State of Florida, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He concentrates in the practice of business, regulatory compliance, and tax law including the delivery of health care and information technology.
  • Elizabeth F. Hurd, MSN, RN, CPHQ, Adjunct Professor; Elizabeth Hurd is the Clinical Data Manager at a local community hospital. Professor Hurd has many years of experience in healthcare including Medical, Surgical, Critical Care and Chronic Pain patient care. She has held multiple management positions including Director of Orthopedics/Chronic Pain, and Director of Medical-Surgical Nursing. She is currently working in Performance Improvement with responsibilities in data analysis, team facilitation and project management.
  • Ashraf Ismail; Master of Pediatrics; MBB, MPH. Instructor. Dr. Ismail is an expert in Quality Management.
  • Marcy Osterhaus, RN, OCN, MS in Health Systems Management, Adjunct Professor. Professor Osterhaus specializes in the outpatient delivery of health care including cancer care services.
  • Tracey Perez Koehlmoos, Ph.D., M.H.A.; Adjunct Professor; Dr. Koehlmoos specializes in health systems research and health outcomes research.
  • Sanjeev Raman, MS and PhD. candidate in Information Technology, Adjunct Professor. Professor Raman has extensive consulting and work experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, and he has worked on IT projects for Bristol Meyers Squibb, Biogen Idec and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. His current research interests are clinical informatics, gene expression analysis and data integration.
  • Stephen Rothert, MS in Medical Biophysics and Computing, Adjunct Professor.
  • Mitchell E. Stashower, M.D. Dr. Stashower is a board certified, practicing Dermatologist with extensive experience in clinical and academic medicine in both the private and public sectors. He is the founder and director of The Clinical Skin Center of Northern Virginia in Fair Oaks.
  • Tom Sullivan; MD, MS in Health Systems Management. Instructor.
  • Sorina Vlaicu, MPH, PhD. in Public Policy, Adjunct Professor.

A partial list of faculty publications is available through Medline database at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed