Dansky to Chair Academy of Management's Health Care Management Division
Press Release - August 11, 2004
(University Park, Pa)- Dr. Kathryn H. Dansky, associate professor of health policy and administration at Penn State, was installed as chair of the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management during the Academy's annual meeting in New Orleans from August 6 to 11. Dansky will serve as division chair until the Academy's 2005 annual meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Dr. Kathryn H. Dansky
The Academy of Management is the leading professional association for scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. Founded in 1936 by two professors, the Academy has grown to become the oldest and largest scholarly management association in the world with more than 15,000 members from 93 nations.
The Academy's Health Care Management Division is dedicated to understanding the role of professionals and organizations in providing health care, both locally and internationally. Major foci of research by divisional members include: the performance of health care workers and organizations; public policy issues (access to care, competition, cost control and quality of care) and their implications for managing healthcare organizations; healthcare finance and marketing; and empirical or conceptual application of theory to the study of health care organizations, even on topics that might also fall within another division's domain.
Dansky has been a member of the Penn State faculty since receiving her Ph.D. in organizational behavior from The Ohio State University in 1992. Before that, she served as director of the Athens County (Ohio) Visiting Nurses Association; director of the Community Health Education Center at Hocking Technical College in Nelsonville, Ohio; a community health nurse with the O.E.O. Neighborhood Health Center in Miami, Florida; and a staff nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland), Vanderbilt University Hospital (Nashville, Tennessee) and St. Joseph's Hospital (Syracuse, New York).
Dansky's research focuses on home health care, quality management and telehealth. She is currently the principal investigator on a grant funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that explores the relationship between telehealth and the acquisition of healthcare knowledge by elders with heart failure, and whether changes in their knowledge levels translate to changes in behaviors and improved health outcomes. She has written or co-written nearly 30 publications and has also received funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Institute of Nursing Research and the Aspen Institute in support of her research.
In addition to her Ph.D. from Ohio State, Dansky has received her R.N. degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and her B.S.N. and M.B.A. degrees from Ohio University.
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Editors: Dr. Dansky can be reached at (814) 863-2902 or kxd9@psu.edu. For additional information, please contact Bill Hessert, director of college relations for the College of Health and Human Development, at (814) 863-4325 or swh4@psu.edu.