Before retiring, Sharon B. Buchbinder, RN, PhD was Program Director for the MS in Healthcare Management Program and Dean of the Brown School of Business and Leadership at Stevenson University. Prior to that, she was professor and chair of the Department of Health Science at Towson University and president of the American Hospital Management Group Corporation, MASA Healthcare Co, a health care management education and health care delivery organization based in Owings Mills, Maryland. For more than four decades, Dr. Buchbinder has worked in many aspects of health care as a clinician, researcher, association executive, and academic. With a PhD in public health from the University of Illinois School of Public Health, she brings this blend of real-world experience and theoretical constructs to undergraduate and graduate face-to-face and online classrooms, where she is constantly reminded of how important good teaching really is. She is past chair of the Board of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and coauthor of the Bugbee-Falk Award-winning Career Opportunities in Health Care Management: Perspectives from the Field. Dr. Buchbinder also co-authored Cases in Health Care Management (first and second editions).
Jon M. Thompson, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Health Services Administration Program at James Madison University. Dr. Thompson holds his Ph.D. in Health Services Organization and Research from the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University. He has significant experience as a practitioner, having served as a marketing and public relations administrator at a large, hospital-based health system, and as a consultant to various health services organizations.He is an active researcher, and has published widely and presented at national meetings on diverse administrative subjects including managed care, quality, hospital operational and financial performance, human resources and health care teams, and healthcare marketing. In addition, he has held leadership roles in several national professional health services organizations. He has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level in healthcare management.
