The Department of Health Services Administration

W. Jack Duncan, Ph.D., is Professor and University Scholar in Management in the Graduate School of Management, Professor of Health Care Organization and Policy and a Senior Scholar in the Lister Hill Center for Health Policy in the School of Public Health, and Professor of Health Services Administration in the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He presently serves as Interim Dean of the School of Business/Graduate School of Management. Jack is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the International Academy of Management, and a Founding Fellow of the Southern Management Association. He has served as a Member-at-Large on the Academy's Board of Governors, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Academy's Foundation for Administrative Research, and as Chair of the Management Education and Development Division. He chaired the Academy's Centennial Celebration Committee in 1986 and the All-Academy Distinguished Educator and Distinguished Service Committee in 1991-1992. He is presently a member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Executive and several other management journals.  Jack served as President of the Southern Management Association (1985), as President of the Southern Allied Business Association (1985), and as President of the Southwest Division of the Academy of Management (1983). He coordinated the SMA Doctoral Consortium in 1995 and 1996 and has served as a faculty member in the Consortium for a number of years. As a Senior Lecturer in the John Sparkman Center for International Public Health Education he served as a visiting professor under the Center's sponsorship at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. He has also been a visiting professor at the International Business Institute in Switzerland and at Northeastern University in Boston. In 1986 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is presently a Visiting Professor of Management at the Medical University of South Carolina.  Jack is the President of a management consulting and proprietary research firm with clients in the South, Southwest, and Midwest.