The Department of Health Services Administration

Gerald L. Glandon, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Services Administration. Dr. Glandon has had a distinguished career in research, health administration education, and academic administration. His primary research interests have been technology evaluation (cost-effectiveness of new drug therapies, assessing information technologies, etc.), the economic aspects of aging and aging markets, patient and physician satisfaction assessment and assessment of organizational performance. He has received numerous grants as principle investigator and co-principle investigator including funding from the National Institute on Aging, Searle Inc., Bureau of Health Professions, Illinois Hospital Association, John A. Hartford Foundation and Ortho-Biotech, Inc. He also has extensive publications in such journals as Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Medical Care, Hospital and Health Services Administration, and Health Services Research as well as numerous books and book chapters. Over the years, Dr. Glandon has kept his research and practice skills current by engaging in extensive consulting with academic health centers, external agencies and organizations. These activities have included process improvement, employee satisfaction assessment and reporting, litigation support in health care antitrust and wrongful death cases and nursing organization, quality and cost studies. In recent years he has worked extensively in international health with engagements in Albania, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. He has both developed and delivered management education in these countries and provided health care strategic analysis to Ministries of Health and to individual hospitals. Prior to coming to UAB, he had been Program Director of the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago.