Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The James Joo-Jin Kim Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, and Professor of Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Director of the Wharton Center for Health Management & Economics. Obtained a Doctorate in Sociology and an MBA in Health Administration from the University of Chicago, and previously taught in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago and the College of Business Administration at the University of Arizona. Currently teaching courses on healthcare strategy, strategic change, strategic implementation, organization and management, managed care, and integrated delivery networks at Wharton Health Care Management department of the University of Pennsylvania. Over the past twenty-five years, analyzed physician-organization integration, named the Edwin L. Crosby Memorial Fellow by the Hospital Research and Educational Trust in recognition of this research. Published several papers on the structure and performance of physician networks, the market forces that shape the growth of group practices and investor-owned networks, and in the last 13 years, studying the healthcare supply chain. Publications include a book on supply chain management in the healthcare industry: The Health Care Value Chain (Jossey-Bass, 2002), focusing on the strategic alliances and partnerships developing between pharmaceutical firms/distributors, disposable manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, group purchasing organizations, and organized delivery systems. Most recently, serving as lead editor of the 6th Edition of the major text, Healthcare Management: Organization Design & Behavior (Delmar, 2011), and a forthcoming publication, India’s Healthcare Industry, Innovation in Healthcare Delivery, Financing, and Manufacturing (Cambridge University Press, 2014).