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I N T E R v I E w Interview with Kyle L. Grazier, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor K yle L. Grazier is richard carl Jelinek endowed Professor of health Services management and Policy and chair of the Department of health management and Policy at the University of michigan (U-m), ann arbor, where she teaches courses in finance, insurance and payment systems, and advanced studies in healthcare management. She also is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the U-m medical School and is associate director of the university’s national Institutes of health clinical and Translational Science award Institute. Dr. Grazier has served as a grant review committee member for the agency for healthcare research and Quality, national Institute of mental health, national Institute of Drug abuse, centers for medicare & medicaid Services, and robert Wood Johnson foundation (rWJf) and other foundations. She is on the Technical advisory committee for the national committee for Quality assurance and is a member of the Leadership advisory Board for ascension health. She also is chair-elect of the board of directors of the commission on accreditation for healthcare management education (cahme) and a former director and treasurer of the association of University Programs in health administration. Dr. Grazier earned a master’s degree in engineering from the University of notre Dame and public health master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of california, Berkeley (Uc Berkeley). Dr. Grazier was the editor of the Journal of Healthcare Management from 2000 to 2010. Dr. O’Connor: What attracted you to the healthcare field and to an academic and research career in particular? Dr. Grazier: after finishing my master’s degree in engineering at notre Dame, I went to work for an engineering consulting firm. One of my projects required comprehensive research, so the company sent me to the national Library of medicine in Bethesda, maryland. I spent three days there, poring over journal articles, books, microfiche, archived documents, and other source materials that were not available outside of the institution. The library had everything I needed. It was exhilarating. I went back and wrote my report, and that’s when I started thinking about academe and research. I decided to pursue a profession that would allow me to ask the questions I was interested in answering through scientific research. That is what motivated me to earn a doctoral degree and to pursue an academic career. 80

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Journal of Healthcare Management - March/April 2013

Journal of Healthcare Management - March/April 2013
Contents
Interview
Equity of Care
Integrated Health Systems
Are Real Teams Healthy Teams?
Discrete Event Simulation for Healthcare Organizations: A Tool for Decision Making
Hospital Ownership and Community Benefit: Looking Beyond Uncompensated Care
How Satisfied Are Healthcare Systems with Their Ownership of Retail Clinics?

Journal of Healthcare Management - March/April 2013