RT Book, Section
A1 Burns, Lawton Robert
SR Print(0)
ID 1180026801
T1 About the Author
T2 The U.S. Healthcare Ecosystem: Payers, Providers, Producers
YR 2021
FD 2021
PB McGraw-Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264264476
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180026801
RD 2024/04/18
AB Lawton  Robert  Burns,  PhD,  MBA,  is  the  James  Joo-Jin  Kim  Professor,  Professor  of  Healthcare  Management,  and  Professor  of  Management  at  the  Wharton  School,  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He  is  also  Co-Director  of  the  Roy  and  Diana  Vagelos  Program  in  Life  Sciences  and  Management.  He  received  his  doctorate  in  sociology  and  his  MBA  in  health  administration  from  the  University  of  Chicago.  Dr.  Burns  taught  previously  in  the  Graduate  School  of  Business  at  the  University  of  Chicago  and  the  College  of  Business  Administration  at  the  University  of  Arizona.  Dr.  Burns  teaches  courses  on  healthcare  strategy,  strategic  change,  strategic  implementation,  organization  and  management,  managed  care,  and  integrated  delivery  networks.  He  has  analyzed  many  different  sectors  of  the  healthcare  industry.  He  completed  a  book  on  supply  chain  management  in  the  healthcare  industry,  The  Health  Care  Value  Chain  (Jossey-Bass,  2002),  and  is  also  the  lead  editor  of  the  major  texts  Healthcare  Management:  Organization  Design  and  Behavior  (Delmar,  2019)  and  The  Business  of  Healthcare  Innovation  (Cambridge  University  Press,  2020).  He  has  written  two  books  on  the  healthcare  systems  in  other  countries:  India’s  Healthcare  Industry  (Cambridge  University  Press,  2014)  and  China’s  Healthcare  System  and  Reform  (Cambridge  University  Press,  2017).  More  recently,  along  with  two  colleagues,  he  published  Managing  Discovery:  Harnessing  Creativity  to  Drive  Biomedical  Innovation  (Cambridge  University  Press,  2018).  He  has  two  new  books  forthcoming  in  early  2021:  Big  Med:  Megaproviders  and  the  High  Cost  of  Health  Care  in  America  (University  of  Chicago  Press)  and  The  U.S.  Healthcare  Ecosystem  (McGraw  Hill).