Health Care Faculty

Bruce Cooil has wide-ranging business and academic experience as a statistical modeler. He has worked with health-care firms, including HCA, Solucient, TeamHealth, Tennessee Oncology, and LIFETEST creating models for the delivery of more effective health care services, and to develop forecasts of mortality and morbidity rates. In the area of marketing research, he has worked with Ipsos Loyalty and AT&T. Bruce has also written and consulted on medical malpractice and automobile insurance claims and indemnities, and has developed predictive insurance models for AARP and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Mark Frisse is responsible for coordinating regional, state and national projects aimed at the application of information technology to advance patient care. Prior to assuming his position at Vanderbilt, he was Vice President in First Consulting Group's Clinical Transformation Practice working to advance quality and safety through the application of technology, process redesign, evaluation techniques, and evidence-based practice. Active in medical informatics for 20 years, Mark is the author of over 50 scientific papers, reviews, and book chapters on medical informatics.

Rangaraj "Ranga" Ramanujam is a leading researcher and consultant on the organizational causes and consequences of errors in high-risk work settings. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Medical Care, Journal of Patient Safety, Journal of Applied Psychology, and other journals.

Lawrence Van Horn is a leading expert on health care management and economics. His research on health care organizations, managerial incentives in nonprofit hospitals and the conduct of managed care firms has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Law and Economics and Harvard Business Review. He has consulted with government and health care organizations and has presented at numerous seminars and conferences sponsored by industry, government and academic institutions.

Tim Vogus joined the Owen faculty in 2004 and specializes in such topics as leading teams and organizations, as well as negotiation. Prior to his academic career, he was a business process analyst for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where he worked on competitive intelligence systems and multiple system implementations.

Jim Cooper was elected as youngest congressman in America—Budget, Armed Services, Energy & Commerce, Financial Services, and Small Business Committees. He authored the chief rival to Clinton Health Care. Jim recently won the 2006 Judge Edward R. Finch Law Day Speech Award, top award in an annual competition sponsored by the American Bar Association.

Keith Gregg is a Certified Licensing Professional with over 23 years of industry experience in high growth life science, healthcare IT, and disruptive information systems environments. He is an advisor to select venture capital, equity, and private investor groups; a member of several healthcare technology corporate boards; and an invited lecturer in the areas of corporate business development, growth strategy, healthcare technology, and finance.

Paul Keckley is a healthcare economist, researcher and policy expert whose 30 year career includes leadership roles in the private sector and in academic medicine. He was Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine and taught in the School of Medicine. Paul is presently Executive Director of Deloitte Center for Health Solutions in Washington D.C. and teaches health care landscape in the Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt. He is the author of numerous articles and three books including The Handbook of Healthcare Market Research, Hospital Physician Integration Issues and 99 Questions You Should Ask Your Doctor and Why.

Gregg Tarquinio is currently Vice-Chair Administration and Finance for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In 1999 he assumed a projected operational deficit and turned it into a profit of $1.6 million. He is responsible for the Medical Center's revenue and expense financial management and management of extramural research and teaching funds.

Noel Williams is President of HCA Information Technology & Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nashville-based HCA (Hospital Corporation of America). As an executive of the country’s largest hospital company and second largest healthcare IT provider, Ms. Williams leads a staff of over 3,000 employees across the U.S., including five data centers and fourteen division support centers.