Speakers

Schwarz's research interests include healthcare supply-chain and operations management. He is editor of Operations Management Education Review, and serves on the board of directors of the Collaborative Commerce Standards Institute. He earned his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business administration at the University of Chicago.

Witz assumed the position of Regenstrief Center director in January 2006. He has 26 years of hospital administration experience, serving as president at St. Patrick Hospital and Health Science Center in Missoula, Montana and senior vice president and chief operating officer at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. He received his doctorate in hospital and healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota.

Before coming to Purdue in 1997, Lawley spent seven years as a manufacturing engineer for Westinghouse Electric Corporation and Emerson Electric Company. Lawley’s research interests include clinical scheduling, hospital patient flow modeling, pandemic response planning in public health, and proactive stent and fistula management for dialysis patients. He received his doctorate in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Daggy is a 4th year Ph.D. student with previous work experience as a statistician in the Division of Biostatistics, Indiana University, statistical consulting at Eli Lilly & Co., and statistical consulting for the School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University.  Her health-related research involves modeling the no show behavior of patients in community health centers.  She earned her masters in statistics at North Carolina State University.

Willis received her medical degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. While in private practice in Fishers, Indiana, she completed her MBA at the Kelly School of Business, Indiana University. Her clinical interests include preventive medicine and women's health. Her research interests translation research on quality improvement into practice.

Hagg is a certified quality engineer and certified Six Sigma black belt. Her research concentration involves adapting quality and continuous improvement methodologies and tools for healthcare industries. She has established a statewide network of faculty involved in quality improvement and implementation research. She earned her masters of science degree in materials science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and spent nine years at Intel as a process and quality engineer.

Loretta Marsh is a Registered Nurse with 23 years of varied nursing experience. She spent the majority of her career has been in the Emergency Department, and then became an Infection Control Practitioner at Community North Hospital in Indianapolis in 2006. She earned her BSN at Ball State University.

Rapala was previously the Director of Risk Management and Patient Safety at Clarian and is currently pursuing a doctorate of nursing practice at Purdue. Rapala is Director of the Indianapolis Patient Safety Coalition and a member of the Community Hospital Network Quality and Patient Safety Board of Directors. She earned her law degree at Indiana University, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Purdue.

Bingle currently leads the quality improvement and safety efforts for Community Health Network, which has received numerous awards for quality and safety from the Joint Commission, state of Indiana, Voluntary Hospitals of America, Anthem/WellPoint, Health Grades and Thompson (Solucient) list of Top 100 hospitals. He currently chairs the Indianapolis Patient Safety Coalition, of which he was a founding physician. Dr. Bingle was the first combined degree recipient of the MD/PhD program in medical genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, and completed fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

During his 15 years with Group Health's Center for Health Studies, Hindmarsh has managed federally funded research studies and various internal clinical improvement efforts. He has also directed the design and implementation of two of Group Health's population-based clinical improvement efforts: the Diabetes Roadmap and the Depression Roadmap. As part of that work, Mike and his colleagues created one of the country’s first registries of patients with diabetes. His current work involves design and development of a national dissemination strategy for implementing the Chronic Care Model.

Sand’s research is focused on promoting optimal functioning in older adults, developing metrics for determining whether a patient is functioning optimally, and developing methods for detecting whether individual dementia patients benefit from pharmaceutical therapy designed to enhance cognitive functioning. She has also contributed to the development of instruments to assess quality of life in persons with dementia, patient satisfaction and patient preferences for treatment.

Thomas’ research is concentrated on management of pharmaceutical services, pharmaceutical product and service marketing, health policy and economic analysis of alternative financing and reimbursement arrangements for pharmaceutical products and/or services.  He also is analyzing the impact of innovative pharmaceutical services upon healthcare outcomes and total healthcare expenditures.

Doebbeling’s research interests include the epidemiology of medical and psychiatric co-morbidity, the evaluation of medical services delivery to persons with mental disorders, and the delivery of mental health services to persons with medical conditions, including cancer and diabetes. She is actively involved in evaluating mental health services and policy developed at the insurer level, including both private insurance and Medicaid.

Peine’s research for the Regenstrief Center includes the impact of medical robotic technology on quality, safety and efficiency in healthcare. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, Peine worked as the manager of electro-mechanical systems development for Laprotek, a high dexterity, tele-operated surgical robotic system. He earned his doctorate in applied sciences from Harvard University.

Moskowitz is the former director of the Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises. His current research interests are in manufacturing and technology management, quality improvement, judgment and decision making, and expert systems applied to these areas.  He earned his M.B.A. at California Western University and his doctorate in management at the University of California, Los Angeles.